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The biggest thing that has ever lived on Earth… is a tree? Hard to believe, but it’s true. Travel with me to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado to go inside the most massive species on our planet, and learn what unique and special evolutionary adaptations let them get so big.
Thanks to Dr. Jeffry B. Mitton (UC-Boulder) for sharing his years of research into giant quaking aspens and for telling us where to go see such pretty fall colors
References:
Mitton, J. B. & Grant, M. C. Observations on the Ecology and Evolution of Quaking Aspen, Populus tremuloides, in the Colorado Front Range. 9 (2021).
Mitton, J. B. & Grant, M. C. Genetic Variation and the Natural History of Quaking Aspen. BioScience 46, 25-31 (1996).
Grant, M. C., Mitton, J. B. & Linhart, Yan. B. Even larger organisms. Nature 360, 216-216 (1992).
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You simply wood not beleaf how big the biggest thing on Earth really is. Enjoy this intreeguing video!
🍄READ THIS BEFORE YOU LEAVE A COMMENT ABOUT THE FUNGUS 🍄: Lots of people are commenting that the large networks of underground fungus (Armillaria ostoyae) in Oregon should actually hold the title. I figured this would come up and should have discussed it in the video. Pando and other aspen stands are measured in dry mass, which is the mass of all the wood and tissue if you took out all the water. The numbers for the "Humongous Fungus" are wet mass, because fungi are mostly water. If we compared only the dry mass of aspens and fungi, the aspens come out way ahead. I had a long discussion with our tree biologist sources about this very question, and the TREES WIN for mass. The fungus does win for covering the largest area though, even if it doesn't have nearly as much dry mass.
Haiiiii
You better beleaf it because it will stick around for a long time
I thought some of the mycelium networks were the largest organisms.
Nice aspens
this is literally a technicality style of win these trees arent even one percent of the are of the fungus lmao
My takeaway from this is: dying is really an unnecessary inconvenience that stunts your potential.
Not wrong
Sigma male Aspen grindset
Maybe your individual potential. But by not dying future generations are stunted. Future generations will have mutations that make them better. Species that do give way to their future generations will run circles around species with extremely long generations.
@@CarFreeSegnitz
You do realise that humans basically kinda stopped evolving genetically through natural selection like thousands of years ago and instead we focused on evolving our shared pool of knowledge that can help us survive and adapt to insane environments.
Tell me who is the first multicellular organism that decided to go to space and came back alive ? Spoiler: even the best genetics possible would never just naturally give you that ability.
We are in an age of collectively-driven informational evolution, a kind of evolution so superior to plain genetic natural selection that it actually gave us the capability to just modify genes ourselves and skip over the entire natural evolutive process in a blip of time.
You are much more than your genes. You are so much more than your body. You are a greater entity that grew inside that body starting from a blank slate with subtle genetic overtones. You are a intricate mosaic of information collected over time from the environment around you, especially other people around you and society in general.
In our situation, death really is an inconvenience. Having to spend a fifth of your life learning the same things as your parents and grandparents and so on is an insane burden. Not having enough time in your life to save all of your ideas in a place where others could find them is a greater burden. This forced deletion, this immense waste that has to happen because our genome can’t magically keep up with our modern needs... death... for us people it is truly beyond unnecessary, it is harmful. We have medicine, the vast majority of us (even those who would otherwise be particularly weak on their own) can live long enough to reproduce. Our knowledge and control over our environment completely negated the natural evolutive pressure our prehistoric ancestors felt every day and waiting for immortality to appear naturally through mutations in people is not a feasible method because it would take ridiculously long. The solution is simple in principle: when nature doesn’t give us something we try to engineer it. And “engineer it” we indeed do.
Sooner or later we will no longer need to copy and remix parts of ourselves into the brains of the next generations in order for us as a society to stay alive and evolve. Sooner or later we will no longer need to spend our time and energy with the production of new meat bodies and the intricate knowledge transfer that happens after that. We just need a bit more time to figure ourselves out.
but Thanos...
For everyone who is thinking: “wait, isn’t there a fungus in Oregon that’s larger?” It depends on what you mean by “largest.” Just like both LA and Jacksonville can claim to be the largest city in the USA (NYC with ~8.4 million people, Jacksonville with 875 square miles of area), the Humongous Fungus covers a larger area but the Pando Aspen grove has much more mass of living tissue.
(Edit: for inexplicable reasons I originally used LA for my example instead of NYC, dunno why I was thinking LA was bigger, but I fixed it)
Nobody claims that LA is the biggest city in the US. New York has more than double that at roughly 8.5 million
Typical America always claiming something is biggest.
Don't say worlds biggest if your only including America
@Gabriel Mendoza22 when people say largest lake in an area, I rarely find anyone considering the depth. That's an afterthought.
Context is key
@@juliaf_ Lake Baikal, 1642m deep, in case you were wondering. It's also the oldest in the world and largest in Asia in terms of surface area.
But thats only if you remove H2O from that mass, otherwise the fungus likely is largest (by mass)..... I think theres a great @minuteEarth episode about this...... th-cam.com/video/vWAA-SrrFUQ/w-d-xo.html
At the end its not just about how they measure up, but how you measure them
(of course "living tissue" specifically xcludes H2O, but hey, the more context the better)
Update: Posidonia australis or ribbon weed is the new largest organism, covering 200 square kilometres (77 sq mi) off the coast of western Australia.
Previous largest:
Largest organism by mass: Pando (6,000,000 kg)
Largest organism by area: Honey fungus in the Malheur National Forest in Oregon, U.S. (8.9 km^2 or 2,200 acres)
Largest organism by breadth: Posidonia oceanica, a marine plant in the Mediterranean (15 km)
Largest organism by genome size: Pieris japonica, a rare Japanese flower (149 billion nucleotides)
The Humongus Fungus has an estimated weight of 7500-35000 ton making it more massive then Pando.
Almost no matter how you define "largest" Pando never wins over the OHF, Oregon Humongous Fungus.
If you calculate dry weight (no water content) the Pando weigh 3300 ton and the OHF weigh 1500-7000 ton, the Pando wins in the lower estimate of OHF. But as the video states the Pando in wet weight, so must all the competition do.
pieris.
largest human: your mom
@@henrik.norberg Mass and weight are not the same thing. Pando has the largest amount of living tissue. The fungus does cover more land area, so there is a lot of room for debate, but Pando does fall under the definition of 'largest' in several regards.
@@dqw4w9wgxcq32 Ok, please elaborate on the difference of mass and weight here? As far as I know both organisms live on earth with 1G and are neither accelerating or near a black hole where relativistic effects would matter.
You can tell it's an aspen because of the way it is!
Been waiting for this
I was going to say it no one else did 😂
@@besmart how to tell from male and female trees 🌲
That's pretty neat g dang it
i was only in the comments to find this
Ok I’m a big cinematography nerd and the shot composition in this video is amazing!
Thank you! The scenery made getting beautiful shots easy
Excatly, it is so beautiful to look at, the colors or something, its a masterpiece.
I know the contrast between the colours and the drone shots as well
@@besmart you look 😎 with glasses joe
@@besmart so they're are male and female trees 🌲😏🤔
"You're probably ASPEN yourself. ... Pretty unbeLEAFable." The dad jokes are back!
And they're worse than ever! 😄
I'm going with the fungus, you see I'm from Oregon too.
I accidentally sat on my biro and now I have an asspen. :(
It’s too clever to be a dad joke. And you didn’t fart.
Unbeleafable
Lucky for us, the largest thing on earth is a fun guy
I don't get it
@@AR_Animates Neither do I
@@rishin5622 but we still like it
@@TheReal_Popming I still don't understand
fun guy (fungi)
First, I finally knew what the video would be about before watching it.
Second, I love coming back to this channel for the unabashed dad jokes.
The immune system of these aspens must be very interesting. They are genetically identical clones so if a pathogen is able to attack one tree it should be able to destroy the entire forest cause they are the same tree. This means they can do something very interesting that can stop the spread of infection throughout the organism very successfully. Like genetically identical bananas come under extreme threat when exposed to a pathogen which can harm one member, so what's helping the aspen?
That's my question too
Also if the tree gets killed, how does the root system survive?
That's why most successful species have diversity to promote adaptation. Aspen probably won't last long term for this reason. However blights can wipe out whole tree species anyway..
great proposal! We should really be studying and sampling this for medicine. I'll take a note for my future experiment idea submission website.
Check out “Entangled Life” by Merlin Sheldrake. He talks about how networks of underground fungi might aid in this. It’s such an interesting read, he’s a bit trippy though!
It sounds like that swamp forest in Avatar The Last Airbender, everything is connected.
Yay
It’s literally where James Cameron got the idea
@@MUrules2014 wrong avatar bro hahaha
Like I know what you're saying is correct but old mate was talking about the nickelodeon show
Other forests are interconnected too, but instead of interconnected root systems they're connected through incredibly large and complex mycelium systems in the soil that the plants use to communicate and share nutrients :)
This is why I love living in western Colorado. This place has so many natural wonders that it's hard to ignore
Imagine how many it used to have before civilization struck.
I want to visit Colorado one day, the nature is just so beautiful
I recently spent three days backpacking in early Fall deep Aspen forests in the southernmost part of the range: The Chiricahua Mountains of SE Arizona. They are doing well after taking over the range after ~90% burned hot a decade ago.
so basically an Aspen Tree is like the Mushroom, or Flowering part, of the *actual* aspen organism that lives underneath
No, because the tree part is what collects the energy the entire organism needs.
The actual mushroom is like the flowers of the tree.
Joe, can you please do an episode on the Ebony tree? It's a critically endangered species of tree I found out about while visiting Mauritius. It has a super interesting story and I'd love to hear your take on it.
I'm from Mauritius and I have not heard of this tree! Would love to learn about it from IOKTBS
Ebony is pretty common in india. They just aren't registered properly.
Hey, I've heard of that tree. That's the tree that black people like for some reason.
@@SFVYachtClub oof
There's a lot of critically endangered trees, quite sad. Even natural fraser firs, Christmas trees, are endangered.
It figures. Even trees have huge families in Utah.
IF this pandemic were to continue any longer and I were to keep eating. I would have turned into the largest living thing literally.
Hahaha I gained 15 pounds
@Eastern fence Lizard lol truth be told it started with me having a burger after finishing editing my yt videos as a reward then I started making 2. Then soon I was craving more e all the time I have started working out thought lost 6 pounds so far.
@@AlexeJade I had gained about 25 I am decently muscular person and ate good amount while working out the work outs stoped at some point and boom I bloomed.
This just brings me more wonder and awe to what's on this planet. So cool.
I gotta appreciate the drone shots in this video, they were Spectacular!
Immortal Jellyfish: Finally, a worthy opponent
Thumbnail: This thing is HUGE
Me an office fan:
That's what she said!!
"That's what she said!" was around in Junior high schools for a *long* time before The Office was ever dreamed up, including the original UK version.
"Inside the largest living thing on earth"
Eveyone: Don't say it no don't say it
Me: _YOUR MOM_
Joe mama
Nice Iwas not the only one who thought this
thank you joe biden
I immediately thought this
*Joe mama
The commentator's name is Joe
I love that line above which aspens don't grow, so surrounding peaks all have the same bald tops.
Just a side note - doesn’t it look like a really strong invasive species? I mean - yes, aspens there for a long time and technically they’re not invasive. But look at it - it is immortal, it takes a lot of space for itself and gets advantage of fires and avalanches to spread instead of other trees. Sounds like really dangerous thing for any ecosystem
I know right i was in aww and terrified both at the same time thinking about it possibilities i imagined ..
If it drives other trees to extinction thats because they aren't good enough. Evolution in action.
As a Canadian, I'm not so sure that climate change will end the Aspen reign so fast, up here the Aspen is well spread across all Canada with the exception that it have an hard barrier up north: the permafrost. As climate change progress and we lose more and more areas of permafrost, we will see Aspens spreading further than ever toward the north. Seeing Aspens spreading in Nunavut will be a bad sign for our climate, but a good sign for Aspens I guess...
Yeah I agree that trees like Aspens are probably well spread and fast growing enough already that they can shift further up North easily enough.
Birches are doing something similar in Europe but they are prolific seed spreaders. It's sad to see them disappear from forests where I live, but they'll be fine in the long run.
Lose is a verb that means “to fail to win, to misplace, or to free oneself from something or someone.”
Loose is an adjective that means “not tight.”
@@kellydalstok8900 typos happens 🤷♂️
Some areas will get wetter, and aspens should be fine there. But areas like mine are getting drier. I live in Las Vegas btw. And yes we do have aspens up at Mt. Charleston in certain elevation ranges. I'm not sure if they can survive drier conditions, and we are one of the areas that will most definitely get drier with climate change, as we have been the last 20 years.
"Picture the largest things that have ever lived on our planet..."
-Your mom
"200.000 units are ready, with a million more well on the way"
"you're probably aspen yourself..."
alright, have a like
"This thing is huge"
And other words, that you'll never hear your life
“I’m surprised your mum isn’t on this list!”
9 year olds…
This is an aspen! You can tell it's an aspen tree, because of the way it is... How neat is that? That's pretty neat
1:19 he sounded quite proud about that one
The largest living organism that I ever heard of was a gigantic underground fungus growing out somewhere in the western USA.I believed that it covered over a 100 square miles underground,friends.So this video about a tree being the largest living thing is a real surprise to me,my friends.
And all this time I thought it was my brother's ex-wife! (ba-dum psht!)
yeah it covers a wider area of the ground but is less massive (weighs less). also it doesn't grow as tall - so it likely takes up less 3-dimensional space. so yeah it just depends how you want to define "large"
Isn't it a bit incorrect to call the trees "clones" if they're all sprouting from the same root? Aren't they jsut one really big plant with lots of stalks that sprout up out the soil?
You are right
This is just excellent. The visuals and the information, plus your usual great presentation. Thank you from England.
Aspen is basically "immortal".
Human: hold my beer.
Am I doing the comment right?
No what the hek
Crazy I'm worried about humans continuing to exist. We claim to be stewards of earth, and think we can kill everything and survive. Complex and varied life is essential to us being us. seems like we are failing a group project in a pool we're half the group won't stop pissing and pooping everywhere, while saying it's their right to do so, all the while refusing to change the water for the sake of everyone. My transition to civilian life has been a rough one, and I can only hope for strength for those I love.
@Ray Marshall ..I feel EXACTLY the same way .. EXACTLY !
The earth, and life will go on. We may not, but I doubt even with our worst excesses we could kill everything. And once we’re gone, what’s left will start again. I suspect if people understood we’re not ‘saving the planet’ by changing our behaviour, we’re saving ourselves, they might be a bit more pro-active about it. But probably not. Our Dunning-Krueger civilisation will be a tragedy for eternity. Maybe without anyone to tell the story.
@@julianmorrisco I'm not sure how you believe this makes it more encouraging. Literally everyone claims that they're going to save you: politicians, economics, scientists, astronomers, religious cults... nobody believes they're doing wrong. I'm even literally hearing bitcoin minners claim that they're saving the planet. I think you should focus on what makes the planet better now, as opposed what will make it better in another thousand years. The reason people focus on the ecosystems is because those are the things we can alter within a single lifetime.
really cool to see some FPV footage in there!!!
Hey Joe, I met you right after you filmed this and took you and your buddies up the Via Ferrata in Telluride this September. A very memorable day for obvious reasons, ha. Watching this video to educate my clients more about aspens and how amazing they are; people love it. Embarrassed to admit today is my first time checking out your channel, but glad I've found and it excited to check out some more cool stuff. Keep it up! -Ashley
Iconic Sequoia 'Tunnel Tree' Brought Down By California Storm
What makes me wonder: If they always clone themselves over and over again, for like 15000 years or so. Do they still have the same genome, the same DNA. Do they change and mutate, or how did they over the course of the evolution.
I have recently seen a documentary that claimed that many trees in mixed-species forests do many of the things you basically alleged are unique to aspens (such as sharing nutrients through connecting their roots)...
I've heard the same. It's a relatively new discovery and worth more attention. But the difference is that these aspen trunks all spring up from the same root and are genetically identical clones.
Yes, other trees can communicate and share nutrients, but they do so with help from fungus that grows around their roots. Nature is truly amazing!
When did he claim it’s unique to Aspens? He just said they’re connected to each other and share nutrients.
Yeah most other forests communicate and share nutients through means of the large mycelium networks spanning the area of the entire forests themselves, there are definitely lots of other interconnected root-system organisms but the mycelium technique is more common and in some cases more effective (since genetic variations as opposed to identical clones make a species more likely to survive disease etc)
Fun to see you in my area! I was just there a couple of weeks ago making a video for my channel (nothing like the quality of yours!)
Love this.
(I spoke too soon, commented before you said you were actually not at Pando :) )
I was just talking about Pando today! I'm from Utah, just 90 minutes from it. Utah has so many claims to fame, and I love it! Great place to be from
Utah. The state so square that when they tried to improve their street cred, they cut another square out of their square?
Yeah, I know, rectangles, but the joke works better with squares.
What about mushroom mycelium?
See my pinned comment
@@besmart your pinned comment is wrong
the fact that this was posted on my birthday kind of makes me much interested in these trees. This will be included on my future designs as a reference, thank you so much!
5:52 I like how during the last ice age, northern Alaska was just chillin', glacier free...
The living human biome that lives beyond just one human, one region or one time
Great video, I've learned. However, I feel that the term "self-clone" is kind of misleading, because I think the term "clone" has a nuance of "making an identical yet separate copy of one's self". So, if we consider an Aspen forest "a" thing, then there is no "self-clone" but only "the growth of oneself". An aspen forest recovers after wild fire likes how a gecko regrows its lost tail.
BTW, based on how Aspen grows and spreads, i.e. having stems growing from the spreading root and the main function of those stems (absorbing resources from outside), I feel the stems act just like our intestinal villus.
Especially seeing as some plants do actually make separate clones of themselves through root fragments. He can't just call one thing by the name of another related thing; words have meaning.
Like mushroom roots. Reminds me of the Torterra in Detective Pikachu, a living moving forest.
So is relative evolutionary vigor the reason why not all plants grow like aspens?
Update: Posidonia australis or ribbon weed is the new largest organism, covering 200 square kilometres (77 sq mi) off the coast of western Australia.
Pango: I have been enjoying your videos ever since I connected to the internet. This has been my favorite!
i have a question. I have (at this point) 7 trees in my yard that are all from the same plant. As branches fall out (this specific plant breaks off branches pretty easily), i just grab them and plant them somewhere else. They grow up to be their own trees, and grow their own flowers. Do they count as one individual or are these just clones, but became distinct when they fell off?
They're... cultivars?
Gum trees? :O
As an aussie we're all painfully aware of how easily eucalyptus branches break off, but you're making me think maybe I could have multiple new trees in the next 5 years :O
It would be great if educators started depicting tree root structures correctly. They have a plate root. Think wine glass 🍷 on an upside-down round platter. 🍷 = 🌳 and platter = roots.
This is beyond beautiful. I initially learned of this place from a question on QI (Quite Interesting), a British game show. Four comedians and host filter through interesting facts based on the alphabet. Really fun, very interesting and I feel like I have actually learned something, much like this channel.
So, Pando, with more than 40,000 stems is only a little more than 3 times the size of General Sherman? That makes General Sherman even more impressive, that a single organism is as big as somewhere around 13,000 individual trees spread out over 30 football fields.
For a far more in depth look into this and how trees live in general I highly recommend the book "The Hidden Life of Trees" by Peter Wohlleben. It's a surprisingly good read and full of interesting things that I had no idea about.
thank you
book "The Hidden Life of Trees"
As a person who has a fear of trees, knowing aspens could “move” up or down a mountain to see their ideal environment sends horror through my mind! 🙀🙀🙀
Just think, in a forest of aspen, you ain't in a forest but in a tree the size of a forest
@@diablo.the.cheater oh geez! That’s worse!
I love the perspective from a biology and an evolutionary view. Keep up the good work.
I just had an encounter tonight, smoking (I know, bad habit). 10 feet away, there was a rabbit or a similar mammal. Although I could see him or her breaking lunch to look around when I exhaled or moved, he or she stayed the entire time. I was also able to walk away without bothering this animal.
I remember most animals to be more skittish and run away at the first sight of us. But it makes me wonder, is it adaptation to us (we rarely hunt anymore)?
This reminds me of a scifi novel where a fungus takes over an entire planet. I wonder if the universe actually holds stuff like that around. One entity that tries to take over the entire world.
2:32 what...? Why are you measuring in football fields? How many miles or kilometres it is 😞
But the largest organism on earth is a fungus
Honey fungus I believe
By area, but it weighs nowhere near as much. Sorry, fungi fans
@@besmart wow thanks! ❤️🍄🌲
@@besmart what a stupid take the mushrooms are on a micro organism scale you cant compare it with a fuckin tree a single apsen will weigh more than kilometers of mycorrhizae but the fungal network is farm more impressive and advanced
@@besmart but thats only if you consider clones the same organism. Cause with the fungus you can debate its one organism.
As someone with SAD, I can relate with the Aspen.
My favorite tree. I used to live in Colorado and aspens are everywhere up there in the mountains. Now I'm back in California and they're one of the things I miss most about living out there.
Californians are a plague to Colorado, thank you for returning.
I can't imagine the absolute fear the scientists had when they noticed that this was a single organism and said: "Holy f**k..."
@Eastern fence Lizard Never had one fall on you eh?
I have not either, but I have been stabbed by the spike ball of a locust tree when I had an overly vigorous backswing with a hatchet gathering dry wood.
@Eastern fence Lizard I learn something new every good day!
I don't think people who are afraid of the unknown tend to become scientists.
@Eastern fence Lizard This implies mammoths are still alive.
I know they aren't I was joking.
A single mushroom is actually the largest organism on earth and its underground… and it is also our ancestor
yeah it covers a wider area of the ground but is less massive (weighs less). also it doesn't grow as tall as the aspen(s) - so it likely takes up less 3-dimensional space. so yeah it just depends how you want to define "large"
Fantastic video. I will check out the Aspens next time I'm out west. Thanks.
Those trees win the poplarity contest.
Does suffering from spontaneous fits of intelligence count as being smart?
I've strung a few fits together and bam. I became a honor grad.
Then turn right around and accidentally get my tongue frozen to the metal surrounding the glass I was licking during the a winter storm....
Getting through school takes intelligence, not licking metal in a snowstorm takes wisdom.
@@2MeterLP I didn't take Newton's first law of motion into account
An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
Bus slowed down but my tongue didn't and left a streak from the center of the window all the way to the scene of the stupid...........
@@lknanml And not licking bus windows takes basic human decency.
@@2MeterLP Ok. This has gone past letting it play out.. So just in case we are not playing with a troll or two it was a joke. I'm in the military and we regularly use the window licker line on people who like to prove Darwin is alive, well and watching and to date has never been said to explain someone who actually got caught licking windows...... LOL
@@2MeterLP But what if they're BOTH my dump stats!?
He looks chilly. We should let him back in 😂
Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!
Amazing aerial footage guys!
Omg I found it right now this is epic
My daughter was sad when I told her the Tree of Life in Animal Kingdom wasn’t actually alive. Then in second grade she wrote a book about palm trees because we live in Florida. She got first place in the county a big first place blue ribbon. Of course I still have it.
great video and amazing landscapes
What beautiful scenery. I only kinda passed through Colorado when I was there back in 2012, really must revisit it properly someday. Love the awful puns btw!
ok SAD got me, scientists can be perfectly funny/sad sometimes
I wonder how long the researcher who coined that acronym spent writing it :p
FALSE: the latest organism is the Humongous Fungus in Malheur National Forest
Depends on what is meant by the term “largest.” For the Aspens they mean “largest mass of living tissue” and for the fungus they mean “largest surface area.” It’s like how both LA and Jacksonville are the “largest” city in the USA; LA has the most people (~4 million) but Jacksonville covers the most area, 875 square miles.
@@jpe1 Thanks. Was about to say this regarding the use of the word largest, but ya best me to it.
Honestly, this video is way subpar compared to his normal videos. It shouldn't be "largest", it should be "most massive"... and a few contradicting statements to boot.
Extremely disappointed this time around.
@@jpe1 Ah good point. I guess he was basing his comparisons in-video based on mass.
See my pinned comment
@@besmart Interesting, the mobile app doesn't show pinned comments at the top! Sorry I missed it and added to the hundreds of similar posts
would’ve been the greatest “your mom joke”
There's an Aspen tree on my walk around the block that I stop and put my hand on it's trunk, sending a mental intention of love & positivity to ALL the Aspens connections. I'd like to think I (as very tiny human) can consciously pass love/thanks/goodwill and growth through miles, states, etc. Just something I do that makes me feel connected on a larger range.
Hey, love the channel. I have a small request though... in Minneapolis there is a room as recorded as the quietest room in the world. I think it's in negative decibel like -9 .. and thay the silence cause madness. The longest anyone stayed was 45 mins. Would love to learn more and why silence is so maddening . Thanks!
Veritasium has a video on the subject
7:06 Stop picking on grazing animals. We need more grazers, they help the soil and the plants. North America used to be full of Buffalo and the land was better because of them. The problem is not grazing or the grazers, the problem is how we manage the grazing. Fencing and feedlots ruin land and soil. More free grazing and natural migrating of herds is the only way to return balance to the land. I know it's popular to blame cows for our problems, bad cows, but they might in fact be one of the greatest solutions. Even without climate change, land without grazers or with badly managed grazing is not going to stay healthy for long and is the cause of most desertification. Happy land needs happy grazers, so enjoy your Happy Meal and stop picking on cows.
brilliant video as always . keep them coming please
"A hundred football fields"
Ahhhh... 'Murica
"It covers an area about the size of 100 football fields." Americans will measure with anything besides Metric.
It’s unclear whether he meant soccer or American football; however, it doesn’t make that much difference when rounding to 100. It works for both and for all of us.
N.B.: While I have no interest in either game, I’m aware of the size of each field.
😂😂
The video is about the largest organism on earth, but it doesn't bother to give us the actual size? "100 footbal fields"? Get real. They could at least lut the size in the notes.
So basically Rick gave up on Operation Phoenix way too soon.
Aspens prove that cloning based rebirth is the most efficient and effective way to gain pseudo immortality. It’s a massive advantage and allows you to out compete all of the life forms around as you survive the metaphorical fires and avalanches by hiding safely underground until it’s time to shoot back up, the lone survivor. The winner. Alone.
Yay… ?
i am an amature but u have a doubt , so if the clone themself how do they evolve? Evolution won't happen if they clone themself again and again ,so a simple disease or a pest can kill the entire group of aspen right ?
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Love the vest, Joe!
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Popular science channel counts with "football fields". What, why?
What else? Pounds, foots, inches...
But how many space shuttles is it
imo its the Oregon fungus because it actually is one organism connected and communicating chemically throughout its entirety. I don't believe that to be the case with the Aspen trees. I do know the conifers in the temperate rain forest of the Pacific Northwest grow independently, yet are able to communicate with each other because of the fungus that surrounds their roots, helps with nutrient intake, and acts as the "Pony Express" between them as the single living, interconnected organism that it is.
Why were you calling the stems clones? They're all the same organism, I don't call my pointer finger a clone of my ring finger, or one of my hairs clones of all my other hairs.
Hmm...weird... This doesn't look like ur mom
9/10 for effort 👌😆
I've been to Pando. It's so cool to look at and imagine how large it's root system would be.
Not sure about the States but in British Columbia, aspen and other broadleaf species are considered “pest” trees and aerially sprayed with herbicide to make room for more fir tree plantations.
Uniquely adapted by evolution. Almost like it was created to be exactly this way.
Precisely! It’s *like* it was created, but of course it wasn’t, it evolved.
@@jpe1 If it walks, swims, flies and acts like a duck, it's probably a duck.
Still measuring in football fields?!? 🤦♂
I used to do something similar with Mary Jane back when I was growing it. Screen of green!!
Thanks for the video!
“This here is an aspen. You can tell that it’s an aspen because of the way that it is”