The son of the sister was a way to guarantee the bloodline. The man's wife may have a child of another man, but you know the sister is the child of the same mother and her son is definitely related to the man.
@ninjabluefyre3815 before paternity tests, there was no way to guarantee that a man was truly a child's father. However, you can always be sure of a baby's mother, because... well, it comes out of her. No ambiguity there 😅 Therefore, if a brother and sister come from the same mother, then that man can be absolutely certain of a blood relation between himself and his sister's children, because the most secure way to follow a bloodline is through its women.
What's extra funny is that if El Dorado was a real city, we'd instead have a myth about an entire country made of gold. And if that were real, we'd instead have a myth about an entire continent made of the stuff off in the pacific, which would probably fuse with the Mu/Lemuria/Atlantis myths. Because that's the thing about greed: It's never enough when you find what you're looking for. Just ask any billionaire.
29:05 Airier if you want to get Red’s take on ocean exploration I recommend watching her video on Atlantis. She does a really great explanation of the Atlantis myth’s evolution down through the millennia and Blue’s thalassaphobia is hilarious.
The "dumping a Lot of presious metals in the economy and lowering their value" actually happen with all the silver the Spanish mine out of Bolivia. They use all that silver to built a fleet to conquer England only to loss said fleet, the only thing they got out of it was masive inflation.
So as a couple people mentioned, Red has done Atlantis (and Yu-Gi-Oh gets mentioned in it). But also, Blue has done a few videos on architecture, just explaining the history behind some incredible buildings, so if you wanna geek out more on history and architecture, I recommend checking out (the most recent was on the building that inspired the royal castle for Asgard in the MCU).
About the Dimonds. Dimonds that are mined are worthless, industrial equipment uses artificial diamonds wich are better than mined Diamonds in every way.
That being said, De Beers puts a lot of effort into convincing consumers that natural diamonds are inherently superior to synthetic ones for jewelry, in order to maintain the artificially-inflated value of their product. Which they also put incredible effort into maintaining a virtual stranglehold monopoly on, and only release a certain tiny amount of new diamonds into the world market per year in order to maintain the illusion of rarity.
It’s not even just diamonds, gemstones as a whole seem to have artificially inflated prices and values. I vaguely recall reading, for school, about I think sapphires in Madagascar.
27:15 after a quick Google search, the entire platinum supply they are talking about may only have been a few kilos. Still worth a WHOLE lot of money today but, in my opinion, small enough to get lost in the vastness of the ocean and even small tides and currents probably moved enough sand on the bottom to bury it. P.S it also depends on how deep in the ocean it is. Remember, oceanic recovery is EXTREMELY expensive and you have to have the money before hand to DO the expedition in order to get the platinum.
beyond even all that there is something called marine snow which is detritus formed from anything that rots in the ocean. Marine snow has a habit of burying things and making them unfindable under a thicccc layer of muck and slime. P.S. Not to mention the tectonic plates shifting around and moving things and we don't even know all the potential monsters that could lurk in the deep
The main reason platinum was not valued in the past was because of how much harder it was to refine than gold. The technology to smelt platinum did not become commonplace until 20th century.
The Native South Americans were literally making jewelry and decor out of it alongside gold for centuries. Did you means the Europeans couldn’t do it, or does “refine” mean something else?
Lake Guatavita isn't a volcano - it's a really big sinkhole, currently believed to be what was once a salt dome that got breached by surface erosion. Also, relatively little platinum was in fact dumped, and was later retrieved while dredging the area it was dumped for platinum, since they dumped it in the river estuary nearest to the platinum mines, which was itself a valuable mining location for platinum once it became valuable.
"As someone who geeks out way too much about history..." I'm confused- there's such as thing as geeking out TOO much about history? How is that possible?😁
Funny factiod(not ha-ha funny, but the other kind): Spain looted so much silver from the Americas that they destroyed their own economy, which led to France and England becoming much more dominant in the Caribbean and North America, because they wound up focusing on other more profitable trade goods, like beaver pelts and sugar. One a side note, it was the Conquistadors who were the ones responsible for introducing chocolate to the western world. Chocolate at the time was a bitter drink mixed with ground up spicy chili peppers that only his ranking members of the Aztecs and their esteemed guests would drink, it was rumored that Montezuma would drink multiple cups of it a day. The chocolate drink, known as Cocaolatl, was believed to bring health and long life.
2:38 Machu Pichu is, in fact, in the Andes of Peru and is a beautiful city. If you do manage to get the money for it, I highly recommend it. And the hike really isn't that bad. I managed to do it in the '10s and I haven't been been in shape since the early '00s. 9:54 Eh. The whole "people in olden times were always drunk" thing is a bit of a myth. While it's true that water on ships often had alcohol mixed in (btw, this is where the word "grog" comes from), it was rarely very much at all and not really enough to get you even buzzed. After all, drunk crew are likely to screw things up and get themselves or their crewmates badly injured.
23:02 I asked the same thing and looked it up... It really is actually the same guy. The city is named after him because he established the Roanoke Colony a.k.a. The Lost Colony as it was one of the first settlement attempts in NC, but It was mysteriously abandoned with the fate of it's 100+ settlers unknown.
Platinum is super valuable, not just because it is good for electronics (if I remember correctly silver actually has the best properties for electronics.) but also because it is an insanely useful catalyst in chemistry.
As for capturing voyager for the gold, the asteroid belt has billions of timees more gold at distances that would be a billion times cheaper to retrieve. Delta V is expensive
4:03 If they had only one sister even if that sister were younger than them she would still be their oldest sister. Anyway, uncle to nephew is also not entirely new. Russian Rota System was also somewhat similar. 6:01 That's not about Gold not decaying. Like, Iron also doesn't corrode in space. It can't oxidize if there is no Oxygen (putting something in space, with no air, in a stable orbit or on the surface of someplace airless is essentially the most perfect way to preserve a lot of materials). Use of Gold in space is because of it's excellent reflective properties. 11:09 There is pretty much no American territory that was British/English and then French. Usually it was French and then British. (There are sone islands in the Caribbean that do fit that description with the exception of not having been US territory iirc. There was also British West Florida that then became Spanish and then American.) 23:10 Sir Walter Raleigh (so the same dude as in the video) had founded the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke in the region. 25:00 Platinum is also commonly used for medicine (bone protheses, mostly). Also, a lot of "precious" materials are precious because they are (or were) rare. Not actually because of anything intrinsic. 25:30 Most people would probably think it was silver (or perhaps some other metal vaugely silverish metal like stainless steel). The whole Platinum thing with the Conquistadors requires one to first be able to tell that something is or isn't silver and for them to not know about Platinum. Someone who can tell than decorative object that looks like silver isn't actually silver would probably be able to tell that it was platinum.
Sorry for the lack of timestamps, but my computer glitched. It's unfair to compare lakes with oceans in terms of how quickly they drop off. Oceans have this thing called the Continental Shelf around their edge. Lakes generally do not, and thus can drop off MUCH faster. Unlike Gold, Silver and Copper (the three best metallic conductors of electricity, with silver being best, gold most corrosion resistant and copper cheapest,) Platinum isn't that highly prized for electronics. On the other hand, thanks to it's catalytic properties, it and other Platinum Group Metals are VITAL for the construction of Catalytic Converters, a mandated component of all motorized vehicles. Considering just how many cars are on the road, you can see just why the material is in such high demand...
I could maybe see someone in the future trying to capture the Voyager probe for its immense historical & scientific value, but there are much better & richer sources of gold out there in the cosmos. I recently read about the existence of a nearby large asteroid that's made of enough gold to make everyone on Earth a multi-billionaire or something (at least at the current market value of gold, as due to the basic economic laws of scarcity gold would then become next to worthless if THAT MUCH of it were suddenly added to the market).
You also need to consider the cost/reward ratio of such an endeavor; the cost of actually finding & capturing the Voyager probe so far into the future would far outweigh the material value of its gold-plated components (its *total* value as an intact priceless relic of human space exploration, however, might be just enough for such an endeavor to break even)
I talk a few times about the what if history of what if Columbus died before reaching the Americas, they probably would have turned around but someone else would have found it eventually since it was heading that way anyway
The voyager probe is probably safe. By the time we could get that we would definitely have asteroid mining, and that will likely make so much gold that even for greedy people voyager would be ... I just remembered what video you are watching, and what part of the video you are on. No, you were right, someone would make the mistake of thinking it is a useful quantity even after all that.
Given how tales about _"a city where they dump a bit of gold in the lake every few years"_ shifted over time into tales about *"a gigantic city made entirely out of gold!!!"* , i can totally see how some future conspiracy theorists could morph _"the voyager has a few gilded parts"_ into *"there's a planet-sized probe floating in space that's completely made out of gold!!!"* .
Atlantis was Disney. El Dorado was not Disney. Also, that scene was from the DCU Atlantis in the Aquaman movie. Decent movie. Not as good as the first Wonder Woman maybe, but it was fun and had decent action. No, it is the Andes, they're a South American range. That is an odd choice of mix tape. I've had this what if idea of what would happen if the Polynesian sailors had reached the Americas and linked up with the Icelandic sailors who beat Columbus to the punch. Two cultures with proud sailing traditions and innovations, one masters of the vast emptiness of the Pacific, the other masters of European rivers. Meeting up in Central America around Panama and interacting with native nations. American Vets weren't nearly as nasty. That's why a one way trip of a wild goose chase into the god damn Amazon jungle doesn't seem as bad as not covering medical bills and psych help for injuries and other problems acquired by serving this often callous nation. Sir Walter rejected from college is a trip. By jove let's go! Yes, I remember the Christmas video. I remember reacting to it. I actually shared that Tex video with my folks. Don't forget the force multiplier and long range harasser that was the influx of European diseases. It is lucky some of those artifacts were platinum, as many gold and silver artifacts were melted down. But they didn't want the platinum for its own sake, so they wouldn't be interested in slagging those artifacts. Yes. About 400 years ago, a staggering supply of platinum was dumped off the coast of Spain, and has likely been scattered by ocean currents, so pursuit of it would be exorbitantly expensive, if even profitable at all. One of the biggest diamond mines you've probably never heard of is the Mir Diamond mine in Russia. Look it up on google maps. And why yes, that giant hole is hungry. Particularly for helicopters. Downdraft and all that.
One of the ridiculous things about finding those lost cities nowadays is how much of the stories about those cities origins are wrong. 🤔 That’d make for an interesting movie plot. Or something to bring up IN a movie. _In Africa, looking for ancient city_ Character 1: “Don’t we have a map? Like, for King Solomon’s diamond mines or something.” Character 2: “Don’t be ridiculous. Even if we did have something like that, it’d be based on a lie because King Solomon never came down here.” Character 1: “WHAT!? But all the stories!” Character 2: “Those stories were written based off of the journals of ‘Great White Hunters’ who went stomping all over Africa looking to put trophies on their walls, ended up accidentally stumbling across ruins of ancient cities, and immediately said the ruins were because of random Greek, Roman, European, or Biblical kings who came wandering down from further North.” Character 2 (sarcastic): “Now, which is more likely? That some random-ass white guy _‘brought civilization to the natives’_ because *obviously* the local Africans couldn’t *possibly* have been smart enough to make cities themselves? Or that the natives *did* make all those cities and a bunch of racist morons couldn’t wrap their heads around such a simple concept?” Character 1: “……….oh.”
Since you mentioned Atlantis (that movie you’re probably thinking of was Disney btw), Imma share some info: I distinctly remembered Red doing a video on Atlantis long before this one about El Dorado so I went and double-checked if it was classified as a Miscellaneous Myth rather than a Legend Summarized. Turns out that nope, the Atlantis video _is_ Legends Summarized, Red evidently just forgot to put it in the playlist. Do what you will with this information I guess.
Well, if we've gotten to the point where we can fly out and recover Voyager, we'd have _so much gold_ that a _penney_ made of pure gold would be worth more than the gold its made from.
About the ocean floor being unmapped: We do not need to. By definition, mapping out a place meaning you send down either a person and a camera to take a picture of it. We can see from satelites that 99.9% of the ocean is just dead water with all the cool stuff being around land.
Mapping out the entire ocean would be both time consuming and LUDICROUSLY expensive as you would need to send down a camera to basically every 2 square feet of the ocean floor. Satellites show us what is down there already; a bunch of dead space with the occasional reefs and underground geology.
lol my video stalled after you paused the part of Red explaining what spain did with the platinum and I wasn't looking at the screen so I thought you were so stunned you went silent for longer
@AirierGames - I don't think anyone will ever try to capture Voyager. The cost to do so will not be repaid by the relatively small amount of gold. Also... Airier says, "They not do the smart..." my thoughts: "Sounds like the Inner Sphere!"
12:28 pollo (pronounced poyo) is "chicken". Pulo (or rather pulir) is "to polish". Considering your tone after saying it, I'm assuming you were actually thinking about puto, which is a curse word that can mean any number of things, but is usually translated as either b*tch or f*ck.
Little Spanish tips: H is mute. Unless it's a "ch" or a "sh", H is never pronounced, it's for the ✨aesthetic✨ and some grammar rules XD. "Pollo" is pronounced "PAW-jaw". The Span "o" is always an Eng "aw", and "ll" is always a "yo, yo-yo, jaw", a strong sound. If you do a soft English sound, you'd only write one L in Span. Red has beautiful pronunciation down to the soft "r" sounds :3 Hope these tips help someone.
I don't think it's a crater. I think they dropped the water depth by SEVENTY-FIVE FEET and it hasn't had enough time to come back from that. It may be in a rainforest, but that lake was probably not originally filled from only a couple centuries worth of precipitation.
Nope, Raleigh NC is named after this same guy. He got up to a lot of shenanigans over the course of his life, mostly involving being a privateer who fucked with Spanish ships for fun and profit
I travel quite a bit. The ONLY places I ever see true bartering is in poor coastal fishing villages. Haggling is just about everywhere; from car dealerships to Nile "Pirates" that debate price with you over the side of the cruise ship. Currency trading is a.... previous empire thing. i e. The USA, Britian, France, Spain, Netherlands, Japan, China, etc. BTW, I love hagglers. You give them a respectful fight and they will often be an ally in the area. Stories for later.
Platinum is rarer than gold exponentially, and is actually better in almost every aspect from a use perspective, plus its gorgeous. But yup, they had no idea that it was anything but “bad silver” and often scrapped the platinum while ruining the gold they dug out of it. Any timetraveler worth their salt would go slap them SO hard Well, that and beat them to the plague trick There are even rarer metals worth even more that were treated far worse however, rip so many resources over the years… like yttrium that they used to throw in fires during ceremonies for the flame effects, and is so rare that it makes you weep for platinum price instead… rip best conductor in the world
12:29 Pollo does mean chiken, but that's defenitly not how you pronounce it, spanish is my first lenguage and i didn't recognize what were you trying to sai until you clarified in english
People laughing at the conquistadors taking expeditions on rumors are forgetting that this is a largely unexplored continent where factual intel is very hard to come by. It's easy to forget in our mapped out interconnected world that for most of human history word of mouth was the means of information spreading, and discerning what was real or not wasn't easy. Add to the fact that there are STILL uncontacted tribes in the Amazon, and you get just how difficult mapping out the continent was.
The thing you mentioned at the end of the video. The thing about trading what they value and what you value. Congratulations you just figure it out one of the major methods of generating New wealth. Because not only do you prophet, they also propheted. This is why the idea of money and wealth being a fixed pie. Is completely inaccurate. If person A has thing that person B values, and person B trades person A something that he (B) doesn't value so much that person A also values. Then congratulations person A&B have both come out of this exchange with more wealth. I understand this does not always workout this nicely. But the main idea here is simply to show that wealth is something that expands and changes depending on people's personal value of things. Wealth is NOT one big static pie that can only be cut up into more slices and distributed in different ways. It is fluid, dynamic, and changing.
This is why the dumb idea of time travel robberies is dumb, when you could time travel and trade what was worthless then for next to nothing or in this case with Platinum just offer a cheap dumping service
The son of the sister was a way to guarantee the bloodline. The man's wife may have a child of another man, but you know the sister is the child of the same mother and her son is definitely related to the man.
That... makes a lot more sense than I thought it would.
I don't think I'm smart enough to understand how that makes sense.
@ninjabluefyre3815 before paternity tests, there was no way to guarantee that a man was truly a child's father. However, you can always be sure of a baby's mother, because... well, it comes out of her. No ambiguity there 😅
Therefore, if a brother and sister come from the same mother, then that man can be absolutely certain of a blood relation between himself and his sister's children, because the most secure way to follow a bloodline is through its women.
What's extra funny is that if El Dorado was a real city, we'd instead have a myth about an entire country made of gold. And if that were real, we'd instead have a myth about an entire continent made of the stuff off in the pacific, which would probably fuse with the Mu/Lemuria/Atlantis myths.
Because that's the thing about greed: It's never enough when you find what you're looking for. Just ask any billionaire.
Meh, we already have asteroids made out of such stuff.
@@Bezaliel13have you heard of the solid gold star core yet?
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Nope, but might be a good example.
There's a quote from a Conquistador who's name I can't remember. "We Spaniards have a sickness that only gold can cure."
@@TheAsylumCat Except it's more like treat, with a rapidly developed drug tolerance requiring stronger doses.
29:05 Airier if you want to get Red’s take on ocean exploration I recommend watching her video on Atlantis. She does a really great explanation of the Atlantis myth’s evolution down through the millennia and Blue’s thalassaphobia is hilarious.
You were right. The Andes are in South America. The alps are in Europe.
The "dumping a Lot of presious metals in the economy and lowering their value" actually happen with all the silver the Spanish mine out of Bolivia. They use all that silver to built a fleet to conquer England only to loss said fleet, the only thing they got out of it was masive inflation.
The Spanish had a chance to become the dominant power in Europe and wasted it racking up debts in religious wars while they inflated their currency
So as a couple people mentioned, Red has done Atlantis (and Yu-Gi-Oh gets mentioned in it). But also, Blue has done a few videos on architecture, just explaining the history behind some incredible buildings, so if you wanna geek out more on history and architecture, I recommend checking out (the most recent was on the building that inspired the royal castle for Asgard in the MCU).
Ah yes, Blue and his love of Renaissance Italy in general and Venice in particular. Also Athens and DOMESSSSS.
@@gokbay3057 So many domes.
@@gokbay3057he is a die hard Meditophile.
About the Dimonds.
Dimonds that are mined are worthless, industrial equipment uses artificial diamonds wich are better than mined Diamonds in every way.
That being said, De Beers puts a lot of effort into convincing consumers that natural diamonds are inherently superior to synthetic ones for jewelry, in order to maintain the artificially-inflated value of their product. Which they also put incredible effort into maintaining a virtual stranglehold monopoly on, and only release a certain tiny amount of new diamonds into the world market per year in order to maintain the illusion of rarity.
It’s not even just diamonds, gemstones as a whole seem to have artificially inflated prices and values.
I vaguely recall reading, for school, about I think sapphires in Madagascar.
27:15 after a quick Google search, the entire platinum supply they are talking about may only have been a few kilos. Still worth a WHOLE lot of money today but, in my opinion, small enough to get lost in the vastness of the ocean and even small tides and currents probably moved enough sand on the bottom to bury it. P.S it also depends on how deep in the ocean it is. Remember, oceanic recovery is EXTREMELY expensive and you have to have the money before hand to DO the expedition in order to get the platinum.
beyond even all that there is something called marine snow which is detritus formed from anything that rots in the ocean. Marine snow has a habit of burying things and making them unfindable under a thicccc layer of muck and slime. P.S. Not to mention the tectonic plates shifting around and moving things and we don't even know all the potential monsters that could lurk in the deep
Even if they were just a few kilos, the fact that they used it to counterfeit gold is akin to killing mosquitoes with cannonballs.
7:36 this is the Gold Museum in Bogotá; I’ve been there when I visited some relatives and it’s absolutely spectacular
Actually Atlantis the lost empire was Disney
The main reason platinum was not valued in the past was because of how much harder it was to refine than gold.
The technology to smelt platinum did not become commonplace until 20th century.
That recently? I actually had no idea about that. 😯
The Native South Americans were literally making jewelry and decor out of it alongside gold for centuries. Did you means the Europeans couldn’t do it, or does “refine” mean something else?
@@Levsa399Purify it.
Like how we've had steel for over a thousand years but it was only until relatively recently that we got modern steels.
Sir Walter Raleigh was credited for industrializing Tobacco and that is his Carolina connection.
Lake Guatavita isn't a volcano - it's a really big sinkhole, currently believed to be what was once a salt dome that got breached by surface erosion.
Also, relatively little platinum was in fact dumped, and was later retrieved while dredging the area it was dumped for platinum, since they dumped it in the river estuary nearest to the platinum mines, which was itself a valuable mining location for platinum once it became valuable.
"As someone who geeks out way too much about history..." I'm confused- there's such as thing as geeking out TOO much about history? How is that possible?😁
I'm just as confused. How can one geek out too much about history, especially over the craziest badasses in history?
@@b3rz3rk3r9ever heard about the crew of the USS Johnston? If so, Saraghiri probably could use a lookl
Geeking out over architecture. So your Blue's target audience for his Italian cities videos lol. Florence, Venice, etc.
Funny factiod(not ha-ha funny, but the other kind): Spain looted so much silver from the Americas that they destroyed their own economy, which led to France and England becoming much more dominant in the Caribbean and North America, because they wound up focusing on other more profitable trade goods, like beaver pelts and sugar.
One a side note, it was the Conquistadors who were the ones responsible for introducing chocolate to the western world. Chocolate at the time was a bitter drink mixed with ground up spicy chili peppers that only his ranking members of the Aztecs and their esteemed guests would drink, it was rumored that Montezuma would drink multiple cups of it a day. The chocolate drink, known as Cocaolatl, was believed to bring health and long life.
Which, considering the health benefits of unsweetened chocolate and chili peppers, might have had something to it.
2:38 Machu Pichu is, in fact, in the Andes of Peru and is a beautiful city. If you do manage to get the money for it, I highly recommend it. And the hike really isn't that bad. I managed to do it in the '10s and I haven't been been in shape since the early '00s.
9:54 Eh. The whole "people in olden times were always drunk" thing is a bit of a myth. While it's true that water on ships often had alcohol mixed in (btw, this is where the word "grog" comes from), it was rarely very much at all and not really enough to get you even buzzed. After all, drunk crew are likely to screw things up and get themselves or their crewmates badly injured.
"I should edit that out." *Forgets to edit it out*
I love this, keep up the good work!
23:02 I asked the same thing and looked it up... It really is actually the same guy.
The city is named after him because he established the Roanoke Colony a.k.a. The Lost Colony as it was one of the first settlement attempts in NC, but It was mysteriously abandoned with the fate of it's 100+ settlers unknown.
They were save by natives who they then integrated with if the genetic discovery recently is anything to go by
"barter" economies are more accurately "barter credit" (or barter-gift) economies, that rely on IOUs and gift to fill in any gap in direct trade.
Platinum is super valuable, not just because it is good for electronics (if I remember correctly silver actually has the best properties for electronics.) but also because it is an insanely useful catalyst in chemistry.
Was El Dorado real?: Yes!
Did it live up to the hype? Nope!
As for capturing voyager for the gold, the asteroid belt has billions of timees more gold at distances that would be a billion times cheaper to retrieve. Delta V is expensive
4:03 If they had only one sister even if that sister were younger than them she would still be their oldest sister.
Anyway, uncle to nephew is also not entirely new. Russian Rota System was also somewhat similar.
6:01 That's not about Gold not decaying. Like, Iron also doesn't corrode in space. It can't oxidize if there is no Oxygen (putting something in space, with no air, in a stable orbit or on the surface of someplace airless is essentially the most perfect way to preserve a lot of materials).
Use of Gold in space is because of it's excellent reflective properties.
11:09 There is pretty much no American territory that was British/English and then French. Usually it was French and then British.
(There are sone islands in the Caribbean that do fit that description with the exception of not having been US territory iirc. There was also British West Florida that then became Spanish and then American.)
23:10 Sir Walter Raleigh (so the same dude as in the video) had founded the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke in the region.
25:00 Platinum is also commonly used for medicine (bone protheses, mostly).
Also, a lot of "precious" materials are precious because they are (or were) rare. Not actually because of anything intrinsic.
25:30 Most people would probably think it was silver (or perhaps some other metal vaugely silverish metal like stainless steel).
The whole Platinum thing with the Conquistadors requires one to first be able to tell that something is or isn't silver and for them to not know about Platinum.
Someone who can tell than decorative object that looks like silver isn't actually silver would probably be able to tell that it was platinum.
Sorry for the lack of timestamps, but my computer glitched.
It's unfair to compare lakes with oceans in terms of how quickly they drop off. Oceans have this thing called the Continental Shelf around their edge. Lakes generally do not, and thus can drop off MUCH faster.
Unlike Gold, Silver and Copper (the three best metallic conductors of electricity, with silver being best, gold most corrosion resistant and copper cheapest,) Platinum isn't that highly prized for electronics. On the other hand, thanks to it's catalytic properties, it and other Platinum Group Metals are VITAL for the construction of Catalytic Converters, a mandated component of all motorized vehicles. Considering just how many cars are on the road, you can see just why the material is in such high demand...
You’d like the history and architecture stuff Blue does on OSP
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I could maybe see someone in the future trying to capture the Voyager probe for its immense historical & scientific value, but there are much better & richer sources of gold out there in the cosmos. I recently read about the existence of a nearby large asteroid that's made of enough gold to make everyone on Earth a multi-billionaire or something (at least at the current market value of gold, as due to the basic economic laws of scarcity gold would then become next to worthless if THAT MUCH of it were suddenly added to the market).
That's assuming rational decision-making on the decision maker's part. Somebody would be stupid enough to try it for just the gold.
You also need to consider the cost/reward ratio of such an endeavor; the cost of actually finding & capturing the Voyager probe so far into the future would far outweigh the material value of its gold-plated components (its *total* value as an intact priceless relic of human space exploration, however, might be just enough for such an endeavor to break even)
I talk a few times about the what if history of what if Columbus died before reaching the Americas, they probably would have turned around but someone else would have found it eventually since it was heading that way anyway
I think you would absolutely love Blue's video on Minoan Grease. It has everything you say you like.
The voyager probe is probably safe. By the time we could get that we would definitely have asteroid mining, and that will likely make so much gold that even for greedy people voyager would be
... I just remembered what video you are watching, and what part of the video you are on. No, you were right, someone would make the mistake of thinking it is a useful quantity even after all that.
Given how tales about _"a city where they dump a bit of gold in the lake every few years"_ shifted over time into tales about *"a gigantic city made entirely out of gold!!!"* , i can totally see how some future conspiracy theorists could morph _"the voyager has a few gilded parts"_ into *"there's a planet-sized probe floating in space that's completely made out of gold!!!"* .
Well, when I do stupid or forgetful things... "i can do the think"
Atlantis was Disney, not Dreamworks. And The Road to El Dorado is one of my favorite movies!
Atlantis was Disney. El Dorado was not Disney. Also, that scene was from the DCU Atlantis in the Aquaman movie. Decent movie. Not as good as the first Wonder Woman maybe, but it was fun and had decent action.
No, it is the Andes, they're a South American range.
That is an odd choice of mix tape.
I've had this what if idea of what would happen if the Polynesian sailors had reached the Americas and linked up with the Icelandic sailors who beat Columbus to the punch. Two cultures with proud sailing traditions and innovations, one masters of the vast emptiness of the Pacific, the other masters of European rivers. Meeting up in Central America around Panama and interacting with native nations.
American Vets weren't nearly as nasty. That's why a one way trip of a wild goose chase into the god damn Amazon jungle doesn't seem as bad as not covering medical bills and psych help for injuries and other problems acquired by serving this often callous nation.
Sir Walter rejected from college is a trip. By jove let's go!
Yes, I remember the Christmas video. I remember reacting to it. I actually shared that Tex video with my folks.
Don't forget the force multiplier and long range harasser that was the influx of European diseases.
It is lucky some of those artifacts were platinum, as many gold and silver artifacts were melted down. But they didn't want the platinum for its own sake, so they wouldn't be interested in slagging those artifacts.
Yes. About 400 years ago, a staggering supply of platinum was dumped off the coast of Spain, and has likely been scattered by ocean currents, so pursuit of it would be exorbitantly expensive, if even profitable at all.
One of the biggest diamond mines you've probably never heard of is the Mir Diamond mine in Russia. Look it up on google maps. And why yes, that giant hole is hungry. Particularly for helicopters. Downdraft and all that.
One of the ridiculous things about finding those lost cities nowadays is how much of the stories about those cities origins are wrong.
🤔 That’d make for an interesting movie plot. Or something to bring up IN a movie.
_In Africa, looking for ancient city_
Character 1: “Don’t we have a map? Like, for King Solomon’s diamond mines or something.”
Character 2: “Don’t be ridiculous. Even if we did have something like that, it’d be based on a lie because King Solomon never came down here.”
Character 1: “WHAT!? But all the stories!”
Character 2: “Those stories were written based off of the journals of ‘Great White Hunters’ who went stomping all over Africa looking to put trophies on their walls, ended up accidentally stumbling across ruins of ancient cities, and immediately said the ruins were because of random Greek, Roman, European, or Biblical kings who came wandering down from further North.”
Character 2 (sarcastic): “Now, which is more likely? That some random-ass white guy _‘brought civilization to the natives’_ because *obviously* the local Africans couldn’t *possibly* have been smart enough to make cities themselves? Or that the natives *did* make all those cities and a bunch of racist morons couldn’t wrap their heads around such a simple concept?”
Character 1: “……….oh.”
Since you mentioned Atlantis (that movie you’re probably thinking of was Disney btw), Imma share some info: I distinctly remembered Red doing a video on Atlantis long before this one about El Dorado so I went and double-checked if it was classified as a Miscellaneous Myth rather than a Legend Summarized. Turns out that nope, the Atlantis video _is_ Legends Summarized, Red evidently just forgot to put it in the playlist.
Do what you will with this information I guess.
Well, if we've gotten to the point where we can fly out and recover Voyager, we'd have _so much gold_ that a _penney_ made of pure gold would be worth more than the gold its made from.
So this is where GW got inspired for Thunder Warriors.
About the ocean floor being unmapped: We do not need to.
By definition, mapping out a place meaning you send down either a person and a camera to take a picture of it.
We can see from satelites that 99.9% of the ocean is just dead water with all the cool stuff being around land.
Mapping out the entire ocean would be both time consuming and LUDICROUSLY expensive as you would need to send down a camera to basically every 2 square feet of the ocean floor.
Satellites show us what is down there already; a bunch of dead space with the occasional reefs and underground geology.
@@CommissarMitch For rational people, sure/ But there's always people who want to do it because no one else has.
@Airier Oh absolutely true. As we have seen in the past few years: money makes people do dumb shit.
@@Airier but what I am saying is that we do not need to map the ocean floor because we already know it is just dead seabed.
Just a little heads up: Tex & BPL will release the Hunchback video on 26th of August.
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platinum & gold now valuable in microchips huh ok
Speaking as a brazilian, we have a lot of things hiden things around here
Dj peach cobbler has an interestion video on when the spanish first got to the new world in his video on november 8th, 1519.
Chicken is "Pollo" 😅
Yes. The word I definitely said per TH-cam standards. 😶
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6:47 It would not be Airier video without a "cut" that has been left in 😂
edit. 31:41 Hey, he enjoyed giving. (sharing?)
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lol my video stalled after you paused the part of Red explaining what spain did with the platinum and I wasn't looking at the screen so I thought you were so stunned you went silent for longer
Emperors new groove
Bear in mind that modern alcoholic drinks are much stronger than what people drank for most of history.
[Looks at Miller]
That is a depressing concept. Although makes sense. Probably similar to adding iodine to water you need but are not sure of. 🤔
@AirierGames - I don't think anyone will ever try to capture Voyager. The cost to do so will not be repaid by the relatively small amount of gold.
Also... Airier says, "They not do the smart..." my thoughts: "Sounds like the Inner Sphere!"
12:28 pollo (pronounced poyo) is "chicken". Pulo (or rather pulir) is "to polish".
Considering your tone after saying it, I'm assuming you were actually thinking about puto, which is a curse word that can mean any number of things, but is usually translated as either b*tch or f*ck.
Little Spanish tips:
H is mute. Unless it's a "ch" or a "sh", H is never pronounced, it's for the ✨aesthetic✨ and some grammar rules XD.
"Pollo" is pronounced "PAW-jaw". The Span "o" is always an Eng "aw", and "ll" is always a "yo, yo-yo, jaw", a strong sound. If you do a soft English sound, you'd only write one L in Span.
Red has beautiful pronunciation down to the soft "r" sounds :3
Hope these tips help someone.
I don't think it's a crater. I think they dropped the water depth by SEVENTY-FIVE FEET and it hasn't had enough time to come back from that. It may be in a rainforest, but that lake was probably not originally filled from only a couple centuries worth of precipitation.
i work in a museum and i can tell you there are often a lot of ?s even if you have a lot of evidence there are always ?s
Nope, Raleigh NC is named after this same guy. He got up to a lot of shenanigans over the course of his life, mostly involving being a privateer who fucked with Spanish ships for fun and profit
20:22 🤣🤣🤣
I travel quite a bit. The ONLY places I ever see true bartering is in poor coastal fishing villages. Haggling is just about everywhere; from car dealerships to Nile "Pirates" that debate price with you over the side of the cruise ship.
Currency trading is a.... previous empire thing. i e. The USA, Britian, France, Spain, Netherlands, Japan, China, etc.
BTW, I love hagglers. You give them a respectful fight and they will often be an ally in the area.
Stories for later.
El Pollo Loco!
No, your instinct was correct Andes are South America.
I'm... not used to being right about things. This is weird. O.O
Platinum is rarer than gold exponentially, and is actually better in almost every aspect from a use perspective, plus its gorgeous. But yup, they had no idea that it was anything but “bad silver” and often scrapped the platinum while ruining the gold they dug out of it. Any timetraveler worth their salt would go slap them SO hard
Well, that and beat them to the plague trick
There are even rarer metals worth even more that were treated far worse however, rip so many resources over the years… like yttrium that they used to throw in fires during ceremonies for the flame effects, and is so rare that it makes you weep for platinum price instead… rip best conductor in the world
12:29 Pollo does mean chiken, but that's defenitly not how you pronounce it, spanish is my first lenguage and i didn't recognize what were you trying to sai until you clarified in english
TH-cam compliance is a B, but sometimes I do respect it (before realizing I was still swearing in English 😅).
People laughing at the conquistadors taking expeditions on rumors are forgetting that this is a largely unexplored continent where factual intel is very hard to come by. It's easy to forget in our mapped out interconnected world that for most of human history word of mouth was the means of information spreading, and discerning what was real or not wasn't easy.
Add to the fact that there are STILL uncontacted tribes in the Amazon, and you get just how difficult mapping out the continent was.
Yes multiple try to get that present
No words can express how much I *HAAAATE* -France- Spain right now!
The gold doesn't tlanslate to el dorado
El oro is The word for the gold
You feel our pain. People be dumb.
I mean technically Dorado is not gold but the color of gold in Spanish, so the translation would be The Golden instead of The Gold.
The thing you mentioned at the end of the video.
The thing about trading what they value and what you value.
Congratulations you just figure it out one of the major methods of generating New wealth. Because not only do you prophet, they also propheted.
This is why the idea of money and wealth being a fixed pie. Is completely inaccurate.
If person A has thing that person B values, and person B trades person A something that he (B) doesn't value so much that person A also values.
Then congratulations person A&B have both come out of this exchange with more wealth.
I understand this does not always workout this nicely. But the main idea here is simply to show that wealth is something that expands and changes depending on people's personal value of things.
Wealth is NOT one big static pie that can only be cut up into more slices and distributed in different ways.
It is fluid, dynamic, and changing.
Did you really say Atlantis was from DreamWorks? Oh that hurts............Atlantis was Disney
Great video!
Bro frogot to edit at 8 minutes.
This is why the dumb idea of time travel robberies is dumb, when you could time travel and trade what was worthless then for next to nothing or in this case with Platinum just offer a cheap dumping service
The stupid tend to live longer
Let me be possibly the 11th person to day this but the animated atlantid movie was by disney, not dreamworks.
there is gold tp it is real!!!!
El dorado wouldn't actually mean the gold it actually means the golden the gold would be el oro
Future you did not edit at 8 minutes
6:10 No! They will not get Best Boi.😠
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Sound like clown fish
Really? A whole video about it not being real, and that's your video title?
Reaction content is the lowest form of "content"
haha FIRST!