Cause his attempt at the German guttural r sounds more like the light French guttural r that is almost a velar fricative than the gargling German one that's trilled and pronounced deeper with the uvula and also he's overpronouncing the syllables in a way that gives it more of a French melody than German one lol
It starts sounding German and ends sounding French, and my brain shortcircuits. Every time he says that it sounds wrong in my head. Very wrong. Great topic though.
For a french canadian that speaks german, it sounds german to me. Very good pronunciation Michael by the way. Some words in german sounds more french than real french. Like Restaurant, büro or orange.
@@KodakYarr first it started out German with a thick American accent and then drifted more and more towards a French accent. At any rate it was a heavy accent all the way through but in this case it sounded somewhat nice. At least not almost unintelligible to a German speaker as is often the case with English speakers trying to pronounce German words... ^^'
@@cursedGalataea Do you mean the instrument of observation affecting the experiment or the eye of the beholder. If no sentient life in the universe exists, does universe exist? Of course it does how else would we come into existence. So no a sentient being observing something doesnt change the outcome in any way. Were not elemental gods who can force our will onto matter. We need tools for that. Loop that and i guess both are correct sigh.
Unfortunately, he didn't end with it. That would have been hilarious. I'm convinced he had to repeat the word a lot until he felt comfortable with it - so he insisted on using it as often as possible. I'm not complaining about that :-) Ceterum censeo: Lampenflora :-D
"Thousands of years old" is quite an understatement. Some of these paintings date back 30,000 - 42,000 years, perhaps even longer. These art pieces are the only remnants of a society long forgotten, almost as though it were from another world altogether
I have done smaller cave tours where the tour guid would flip the switch to turn on the light during the tour, lower tech and fewer chances for false positives
Yes, make the cave greener to get rid of the lampenflora. The difficulty is that some of these plants and bacteria can survive on just 0.02% of sunlight, so maybe just minutes per day. There are videos on here where some science dudes took house plants and stored them in a room without light or water for 3 months straight and there were still a couple hanging in there. Not even shutting down the cave in the “off season” will completely solve the problem but it certainly would be better than nothing.
For A second I thought your factory produced moss/lichen/algae, which could be an interesting business idea, growing and potentially genetically modifying mini ecosystems to be sold as a product.
I died a little bit more every time he said it. Hearing it once or twice is funny and then it turns into a needle under a nail. Its by fahr not bad, but the onslaught was to much
Perfect if he was speaking German. English has loads of loan words, but if we changed our accent for every word with foreign roots it would become an incomprehensible jumble. His pronunciation is affected and not correct English.
Or just schedule visits and use a good old fashioned lightswitch. Also use nearly pure green light that is useless to plants. And only use white lighting when color perception actually matters.
Motion activated lights are relatively new, compared to when some of these caves were set up with tourist lights, but it can be done. Unfortunately, some caves see a continuous stream of visitors from early in the morning until late in the evening, making the effort moot. For those areas, a different approach is needed.
Funny that you can tell roughly which area of Germany the person that Michael heard pronounce lampenflora is from based on that swallowed r he's using!
I don't know if that's true. Native English speakers just have a hard time pronouncing any German 'r' sound, just like native German speakers (and basically any non-native English speakers) have a hard time pronouncing English 'r' sounds.
I don't understand why he's trying to say it in German anyway, it's a loanword, and directly translated to English it looks almost identical and just splits into two: Lamp Flora. So why on earth he's trying that R there is beyond me...
@@RhodianColossus Especially since even pronouncing the full "lampenflora" in English sounds reasonably close to the German pronunciation to be recognizable.
This. Since radiation exposure is such a danger in space and certain planets, being able to grow plant based food whilst shielded away from the sun will be critical. It could be the way of the future, not biodomes like we see in movies but instead caves deep underground.
Thar concept's been around for ages. It's not uncommon practice at all even for home gardeners to be growing seedlings or indoor plants under fluorescent lights
We found a cave in a creek bluff back when I was a teen and to this day the only people who've seen it was my brothers and son. It has calcite formations that will make your jaw drop but they are so fragile we knew they'd be destroyed with a rush of trampling feet.
That sounds like an experience of a lifetime. My family found a cave like that when I was a little girl. Only the cave we found wasn't private or hidden. It was a bit damaged, but utterly gorgeous. It was one of my first experiences with crystals. And it left a lasting impression. I dream of seeing something like that again.
@@anyascelticcreations I'm so old and fat I can no longer slither in the opening but my son plans to show it to his son and daughter and get me some pictures. The light bouncing off the crystals turned it into a cave of diamonds. Very fragile diamonds that could be shattered with a finger flick.
I'm going to 2nd the call to record if you can. Also, probably good to eventually notify some conservation group, even if just in one of your wills once you're no longer in a position to watch over it yourself. Really cool find though!
This video "fell from heaven" as we say in my country. I'm a teacher about to teach (in a couple weeks) about how our activities change ecosystems. This is just a great example. Thanks, SciShow team. ❤️
Dunno if I'd call it a french accent. That's a German R with the same vowels I hear from anglophones all the time. That said, French and American accents (unless it's a really heavy stereotypical southern accent) sound pretty similar.
to me as a native german speaker, the way he pronounces the r definitely sounds like a french accent. but I guess it depends on what languages you're used to hearing
household motion-sensing wall switches have been around for decades. hook em up to relays energizing light relays for the caves. prolly save a ton on electric bills too.
Wish we would have motion detectors for street lights too. Light pollution is awful and it is a waste of energy Yeah, I know it is said to be a crime deterrent, but if it startles most people when a light goes on. If a light is on the whole time some one is there, seems like it would still deter them. Maybe have brighter lights in crime prone areas with longer light times, buy it could be done.
Something that might alleviate the problem and also be cool would be if they gave people flashlights instead of having everything lit up constantly It would prevent growths because there wouldn’t be enough sustained light to let plants grow, and you could probably sell it to people as an “adventure experience” or something lol There’s obviously some safety concerns if someone’s flashlight goes out, but as long as the paths are well marked I don’t think it’d be an issue
I remember in Altamira, in Spain, they had to make a COPY of the cave in real size, 1:1, relatively close to the real cave, so they could bring the visitors there and close the cave for researchers only. Maybe these plants were part of the problem.
Allowing ONLY helmet mounted lights with specific light frequencies might be a good idea. Only a small, relevant part of the cave gets illuminated for a small amount of time with minimal range of wavelengths.
Crazy unnecessary as well. He's never not used the anglicized pronunciation of Einstein. Why not? Why fixate on one instance. Might as well do a video using proper native pronunciations of all non-English words. Go whole hog.
They could just do a cycle of lighting. A month or so with no light at all, then a few months of light, then no light for a month, etc. Would that work? Obviously might not be the most marketable solution but better than nothing
There are also the fact that red and blue lights outside of the usable spectrum for plants could be used and the atmospheric light they would combine to make would be a dim white light. That likely wouldn’t support any plant life
I really like your intro and outro music and hope you never change it. Too many youtube channels have very loud and jarring music that are too drawn out.
Because of the damage, Lascaux cave has been closed to the public for a few years. An authentic replica was built next to original for the public to tour.
Proper caving is so much fun. I did a good amount with Boy Scouts, including spending the night in a cave, and it was one of my favorite things to do. If you haven’t tried it I highly recommend.
I adore your absolute dedication to correct German pronunciation. You could have switched to "lamp plants" (which is fun to say,) but you are not one to take the easy path!
...Plants that have adapted to grow specifically on artificial light seem to be a good candidate for tweaking for use on space ship oxygen generation.....
You'd think, but not necessarily. We can make lighting of whatever color we want, so metabolism/unit weight, ease of care, and utility of the plant material grown out of the CO2 are more important factors. Another way to think about it for long-term habitation is that if you can grow all the food a crew needs on board, you will take care of all of the CO2 produced as you will have set up a closed carbon cycle from air to plant to food to human to air again.
I'm aware we use electrolysis to generate oxygen in space ships. As you're aware, though, that requires energy. I was thinking of a more passive solution, using energy that's *already* generated, and utilizing it as opposed to letting it go to waste.
@@WolfgangDoW Also pretty wasteful to do with water since plants do it for free and space mining is going to give a huge amount of oxygen given that rock is on average over 50% oxygen mixed with lithophile elements
I went into a cave, i could notice that small flora growing in front of lamps, now this vid appeared, telling me that science had been studying what i just saw.
Or do as they did at Lascaux, close the real caves (only open to conservationalists and scientists) and make a good replica that’s open to the public ☺️ Espessially if it’s art people come to see, formations might be more tricky to replicate. Art is usually only found on a relatively small area of the cave system.
Could they use artificial red light, instead of artificial white white? Red light preserves our night vision and might not be enough energy to support the photosynthesis of the plants and other organisms.
As a person who speaks multiple languages regularly, I struggle a bit when pronouncing foreign words. When speaking english I want to 'anglicize' non english words. When speaking another language, i want to use all the phonemes and intonations of that language when bumping into english words. I'm not sure why, if it's instinctual, or that the other languages often have adopted english words expressed with native pronunciation. It makes it interesting to hear you mix in more german pronunciation of lapenflora. It also makes some of the topics like appropriation and offensiveness of pronunciation a bit more .. mm ... raspy. Anyways, mild tangent, enjoying the vids !
One I went to in WV had all the lights OUT - there were switches on the walls for the light that the guide knew location of. He turn them on just long enough for folks to see what he was talking about - them turn the off... he said to keep algae and moss from growing. At the deepest point - he turned off while we where standing there to give us the Idea of how complete light-deprivation felt. Was pretty cool.
Seams like the easiest solution would be turn off the lights. Come back in a week or so and you are left with a bunch of dead plants. Whenever there are signs of the issue starting anew you can either deal with it immediately, or turn the lights off again! (Best solution is to leave it undisturbed, but caves are cool so that's never going to happen lol)
I'm missing one preservation strategy here. In caves where they have the option to take another route, they often also prepare several routes, and rotate to the next one when growths are detected.
@@dithy I thought it was quite good for someone who does not speak German. He was unable to pronounce the "R" like German speakers do, but that is really hard and has to be trained if you do not speak German natively.
In French when this problem occurred (or was observed) for the first time in Lascaut cave, we use the phrase "la maladie verte " the green disease. Lampemflora was a German word created later and has entered the English language dictionaries.
When I did the Historical Tour in Mammoth Cave, the guide in front would turn the lights on for the upcoming section, and the guide following would shut them off after we passed. Only a few places stayed lit.
I noticed at the Jewel caves in south Western Australia that dust and fibres from peoples clothes has collected on the stalagmites and stalactites. It was changing the direction the green to sideways and crooked (on a very small scale)
just alternate years or months for visitors, one year/month lights on for visiting season next year/month lights off for the plants to die out that started to grow
@@eljanrimsa5843 no no it sounds like it is already growing over art so I figured they are tracking its pace of growth carefully and whatever the rate is you set a schedule that would not allow its growth to encroach on anything - yea preserving the art & cave ecosystems is the priority/goal
But he really shouldn't be. Flora is from Latin, not German, and the word exists in almost a dozen languages as exactly "Flora". English speakers pronounce that Latin derived word a certain way, and Germans pronounce it a different way. Since it's not German, he really should be pronouncing it the way English speakers do.
@@lordgarion514 Actually it's a German word, as it consists of two words glued together, which is a very specific trait of the German language. Because it is used in an unaltered form, I consider it appropriate to pronounce it like this. But you could still call the whole thing "lamp flora" and pronunce it the English way entirely.
@@lordgarion514 He said it was coined in Germany. Or do you, perhaps, think that there are not Latin influences on the German language? Not to mention, English doesn't pronounce words originating in Latin properly anyway. Or Greek. Or French. Or Norman. Or Dutch. Or the Celtic languages. Or the Germanic languages. Etc.
1/3 of the comments: complaining about the way Michael pronounces "lampenflora" 1/3 of the comments: loving the way Michael pronounces "lampenflora" 1/3 of the comments: "So the pot plants in my closet are lampenflora?"
@@ЕбатьШвецию the sci show could involve other media to get extra views from that media while informing viewers of scientific ideas that would be harder to find relations with... and I like tortoise
Now, look, I understand that you are trying to respect the German language when you say Lampenflorgwa, but please, for the love of beer and sauerkraut just Anglicize it to Lampenflora… It’s okay… I give you permission… please stop… please…
Find a local dad. Tell him he is in charge of the light switch. Problem solved.
As long as he doesn't have daughters. Brighter than the sun if they go into the cave😂😎
Hahaha! Hilarious!
Maybe this is where all the dads are disappearing too when they go get milk
Or mom. My husband is terrible remembering to turn lights off. Lol.
Truth! XD
Drink a shot every time he says lampenflora
lol Poor guy...
@@LuinTathren wjzif foenskzn. Dmekdn!
LampenfloGRGRGa* 😂
🥴
Alcohol poisoning isn’t cool
I feel like every time Michael says "lampenflora", he somehow sounds more and more French Canadian xD
Cause his attempt at the German guttural r sounds more like the light French guttural r that is almost a velar fricative than the gargling German one that's trilled and pronounced deeper with the uvula and also he's overpronouncing the syllables in a way that gives it more of a French melody than German one lol
Sounded more German than French to me
It starts sounding German and ends sounding French, and my brain shortcircuits. Every time he says that it sounds wrong in my head. Very wrong. Great topic though.
For a french canadian that speaks german, it sounds german to me. Very good pronunciation Michael by the way. Some words in german sounds more french than real french. Like Restaurant, büro or orange.
@@KodakYarr first it started out German with a thick American accent and then drifted more and more towards a French accent. At any rate it was a heavy accent all the way through but in this case it sounded somewhat nice. At least not almost unintelligible to a German speaker as is often the case with English speakers trying to pronounce German words... ^^'
"Address the root of the problem." I see what you did there.
When observation alters the outcome…
Lol that would be always 😊
Whoa was that a reference to Heisenberg's uncertainty? Or Schroedinger's cat?
I see what you did there
@@cursedGalataea Do you mean the instrument of observation affecting the experiment or the eye of the beholder. If no sentient life in the universe exists, does universe exist? Of course it does how else would we come into existence. So no a sentient being observing something doesnt change the outcome in any way. Were not elemental gods who can force our will onto matter. We need tools for that. Loop that and i guess both are correct sigh.
Nice reference
In conclusion, the word 'lampenflora' was said
As a German this had me dying all throughout the video :D Hilarious.
Most likely lampenfohjä
Unfortunately, he didn't end with it. That would have been hilarious.
I'm convinced he had to repeat the word a lot until he felt comfortable with it - so he insisted on using it as often as possible. I'm not complaining about that :-)
Ceterum censeo: Lampenflora :-D
It's like the "meow" scene from Super Troopers, only with Lampenflora.
Why do I feel like Michael has a new favorite word....
But Brawndo’s got what plants crave, it’s got electrolytes.
I came to the comments looking for this exact comment and I was not disappointed.
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Exactly what I was thinking when he said that!
I was going to put that but since it's already here I don't need to
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Easy, all visitors should wear night vision goggles
Still requires light bro. Its either light intensifying or thermal
You can’t look at a cave painting when it’s bright green and barely visible
It's all fun and games until someone brings a flashbang
@@fookyu1621 Night Vision potions don’t though.
@@Blaineworld this is facts but the state of California says they cause cancer
"Thousands of years old" is quite an understatement. Some of these paintings date back 30,000 - 42,000 years, perhaps even longer. These art pieces are the only remnants of a society long forgotten, almost as though it were from another world altogether
"30,000 - 42,000 years" is literally thousands of years... -_-
@@numberpie tens of thousands - not just like 9000 or so
@@nickm8179 So what you're saying is... it's over 9000?
@@nickm8179 tens of thousands is a subcategory of thousands, so both is correct
@@Rebius but thousands sounds more like 3,000 to 4,200 that their actual age.
If I only had a dollar every time he said "lampenflora".
You'll have 32 bucks
@@user-ov2fc5sd1e which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened this many times
@@user-ov2fc5sd1e more than I got.
Just tell visitors they can take a few plants back with them as souvenirs, duh.
That's genius!
Best suggestion yet!!! Besides closing down the caves for a while
"And that's how lampenflora infested our home"
LOL!
As a German, I can say that your pronounciation of "lampenflora" sounds adorable.
Sounds like motion detectors and timers, similar to security lights might be a good start.
I have done smaller cave tours where the tour guid would flip the switch to turn on the light during the tour, lower tech and fewer chances for false positives
Yes indeed how is this not a solution?
Little Pink Bowser Mammoth Cave: front guide turned the lights on, rear guide shut them off, each section.
Yes, make the cave greener to get rid of the lampenflora. The difficulty is that some of these plants and bacteria can survive on just 0.02% of sunlight, so maybe just minutes per day. There are videos on here where some science dudes took house plants and stored them in a room without light or water for 3 months straight and there were still a couple hanging in there. Not even shutting down the cave in the “off season” will completely solve the problem but it certainly would be better than nothing.
Spoken like a true electrician.
Michael: ...because deep, underground habitats are missing that one crucial thing that all plants crave...
Me: Brawndo?
Better have electrolytes
Never seen plants grow out of a toilet
If you didn't say it, I would have.
Brawndo has what plants crave!
It has Electrolytes.
Lampenflorrrrra
When German words are said with a French R
It's a delightful phoneme.
still better then speak French with a German R 😉😉😉
@@SzkockiOgrodnik there is more than one German R tho...
german has a spanish r in the south and a french r in the north
I keep hearing Lampenfloha
I’ve got some moss/lichen/algae in my factory that grows on the concrete under a fluorescent bulb, with no natural light…
For A second I thought your factory produced moss/lichen/algae, which could be an interesting business idea, growing and potentially genetically modifying mini ecosystems to be sold as a product.
Did you name it? Official mascots need names
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Oh, no no… I’m fairly sure if it wasn’t on the other side of the wall from our product, it’d
be an OSHA violation, lol.
@@RandomEvoTimes I'm lichen this idea
As a German I must compliment you on your pronunciation of Lampenflora! It's perfect!
That "r" could use some work
@@mathyoooo2 not really. It's spot on
I died a little bit more every time he said it. Hearing it once or twice is funny and then it turns into a needle under a nail. Its by fahr not bad, but the onslaught was to much
Perfect if he was speaking German. English has loads of loan words, but if we changed our accent for every word with foreign roots it would become an incomprehensible jumble. His pronunciation is affected and not correct English.
You have no idea how much i appreciate the pronunciation of "Lampenflora"
Are motion detecting lights not the obvious standard for caves?
Thiy will do the job in caves with just a few visitors per day, but not in caves with many hundreds or even thousands of visitors per day.
Or just schedule visits and use a good old fashioned lightswitch.
Also use nearly pure green light that is useless to plants. And only use white lighting when color perception actually matters.
Motion activated lights are relatively new, compared to when some of these caves were set up with tourist lights, but it can be done. Unfortunately, some caves see a continuous stream of visitors from early in the morning until late in the evening, making the effort moot. For those areas, a different approach is needed.
What if bats trigger them?
Or better still, make replicas of the caves like they did in France with the caves of Lascaux.
Funny that you can tell roughly which area of Germany the person that Michael heard pronounce lampenflora is from based on that swallowed r he's using!
I don't know if that's true. Native English speakers just have a hard time pronouncing any German 'r' sound, just like native German speakers (and basically any non-native English speakers) have a hard time pronouncing English 'r' sounds.
Was is a Saxonian? Cause it sounded awful
I don't understand why he's trying to say it in German anyway, it's a loanword, and directly translated to English it looks almost identical and just splits into two: Lamp Flora. So why on earth he's trying that R there is beyond me...
@@RhodianColossus Especially since even pronouncing the full "lampenflora" in English sounds reasonably close to the German pronunciation to be recognizable.
Edit "are" to "area" please! I had to read the beginning of the sentence like five time before I understood it when I looked at how it ended again.
on the other hand...seems like it could be used in some manner in space and indoors for climate control.
This. Since radiation exposure is such a danger in space and certain planets, being able to grow plant based food whilst shielded away from the sun will be critical.
It could be the way of the future, not biodomes like we see in movies but instead caves deep underground.
They didn’t discover it because of the caves. This plant has been around for decades and it has been studied before. So there is no other hand ;p
It's called a greenhouse..
Thar concept's been around for ages. It's not uncommon practice at all even for home gardeners to be growing seedlings or indoor plants under fluorescent lights
I love German also, "Life uh...finds a way."
"Das Leben, ähm... findet einen Weg"
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We found a cave in a creek bluff back when I was a teen and to this day the only people who've seen it was my brothers and son. It has calcite formations that will make your jaw drop but they are so fragile we knew they'd be destroyed with a rush of trampling feet.
That sounds like an experience of a lifetime. My family found a cave like that when I was a little girl. Only the cave we found wasn't private or hidden. It was a bit damaged, but utterly gorgeous. It was one of my first experiences with crystals. And it left a lasting impression. I dream of seeing something like that again.
@@anyascelticcreations I'm so old and fat I can no longer slither in the opening but my son plans to show it to his son and daughter and get me some pictures. The light bouncing off the crystals turned it into a cave of diamonds. Very fragile diamonds that could be shattered with a finger flick.
@@patrickdurham8393 make sure they record a video because it sounds awesome
I'm going to 2nd the call to record if you can. Also, probably good to eventually notify some conservation group, even if just in one of your wills once you're no longer in a position to watch over it yourself.
Really cool find though!
@@ErtugrulK Unfortunately we found it in the pre-cellphone days but I'm sure my son will get video.
Why that's bad? Sheeeeiiit, ya got me, I'm in.
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This video "fell from heaven" as we say in my country. I'm a teacher about to teach (in a couple weeks) about how our activities change ecosystems. This is just a great example. Thanks, SciShow team. ❤️
Your country is not germany, isn't it? I'm curious if this saying do exist somewhere else.
Michael: "The German word..."
Michael, with a French accent: "Lampenflora"
I was hoping I'm not the only one thinking this 😂
Dunno if I'd call it a french accent. That's a German R with the same vowels I hear from anglophones all the time.
That said, French and American accents (unless it's a really heavy stereotypical southern accent) sound pretty similar.
to me as a native german speaker, the way he pronounces the r definitely sounds like a french accent. but I guess it depends on what languages you're used to hearing
It might not be German, but it’s also not French 😂
@@emilejetzer7657 Might not be a French accent. But it's more like how an American would do a French accent.
There are plants that don't require sunlight whatsoever called parasitic plants. Just felt the need to say that since it wasnt mentioned in the video.
Cuscuta is the bane of many farmers lives
Technically speaking ure right, but the hosts of these parasitic plants are regular plants and they definitely need light
they need it just not directly
Parasitic plants parasitize other plants, so they still need light.
"Whatsoever."
You cut the light to their hosts and they wouldn't exist. Still very dependent on light, just indirectly.
household motion-sensing wall switches have been around for decades. hook em up to relays energizing light relays for the caves. prolly save a ton on electric bills too.
Wish we would have motion detectors for street lights too. Light pollution is awful and it is a waste of energy Yeah, I know it is said to be a crime deterrent, but if it startles most people when a light goes on. If a light is on the whole time some one is there, seems like it would still deter them. Maybe have brighter lights in crime prone areas with longer light times, buy it could be done.
The way Michael keeps the German pronunciation throughout the video is impressive
The pronunciation is sadly awful. On the upside it's hilarious to a native speaker and he didn't do the rather offensive shouty-thing.
Annoying as well.
Now you're telling me plants crave light? I thought they crave Brawndo, because it has electrolytes!
So if a meteor hits or Yellowstone goes off or nuclear winter we know humans will survive
What are electrolytes? Do you even know?
@@CaptainMisery86 you do realize that my quote is a pun from Idiocracy?
@@Squirrelsquid my comment is also a quote from that
@@CaptainMisery86 Then I didn't remember the film well enough.
him saying lampenflora made my day 16% better
For the comedic relief?
That's significant:)
Nobody:
Not a single human soul:
Michael: *L A M P E N F L O G G U H*
Something that might alleviate the problem and also be cool would be if they gave people flashlights instead of having everything lit up constantly
It would prevent growths because there wouldn’t be enough sustained light to let plants grow, and you could probably sell it to people as an “adventure experience” or something lol
There’s obviously some safety concerns if someone’s flashlight goes out, but as long as the paths are well marked I don’t think it’d be an issue
I remember in Altamira, in Spain, they had to make a COPY of the cave in real size, 1:1, relatively close to the real cave, so they could bring the visitors there and close the cave for researchers only.
Maybe these plants were part of the problem.
0:20 Brawndo, it's what plants crave. it's got electrolytes.
Should I remove the torches from my Minecraft caves to protect the local eosystems?
depends how much you care about fungus growth and hostile mob appearances I guess :D
Allowing ONLY helmet mounted lights with specific light frequencies might be a good idea.
Only a small, relevant part of the cave gets illuminated for a small amount of time with minimal range of wavelengths.
Every time he says that word another part of my soul dies.
its horrible
Just imagine it with a Southern drawl, "LAEIM-p'n-flow'-rah."
Crazy unnecessary as well. He's never not used the anglicized pronunciation of Einstein. Why not? Why fixate on one instance. Might as well do a video using proper native pronunciations of all non-English words. Go whole hog.
Reminded me of this every time he said it.
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Every. Damn. Time.
same, and I don't even speak german
As a German I loved your pronunciation of Lampenflora!!
Take a shot of alcohol every time lampenflora is said 🥃 🥴
im ded
Aaaaand now I'm drunk🥴
This is how you give hundreds of people alcohol poisoning
Thank-you to everyone who makes these videos! This is one of my favorite channels. 😎🤘
Two lampenflor(s) walk into a bar...
One says I feel like I'm dying...
The other says I'll order Light.
They could just do a cycle of lighting. A month or so with no light at all, then a few months of light, then no light for a month, etc. Would that work?
Obviously might not be the most marketable solution but better than nothing
There are also the fact that red and blue lights outside of the usable spectrum for plants could be used and the atmospheric light they would combine to make would be a dim white light. That likely wouldn’t support any plant life
@@themotions5967 You've got it backwards. Plants reflect green light, they need red and blue.
Me: Please, say it again
Michael: Lampenflora
Me: Best video ever
I really like your intro and outro music and hope you never change it. Too many youtube channels have very loud and jarring music that are too drawn out.
Looks like someone really likes saying "Lampenflora". And honestly, who wouldn't?
I love the way you pronounce that word... "lampenflora"...
Because of the damage, Lascaux cave has been closed to the public for a few years. An authentic replica was built next to original for the public to tour.
Proper caving is so much fun. I did a good amount with Boy Scouts, including spending the night in a cave, and it was one of my favorite things to do. If you haven’t tried it I highly recommend.
Periodically turn off the lights for a month at a time during the off-season.
And use green lights in uninteresting pathways since plants can't use it for photosynthesis. (Some technicalities apply, but generally speaking)
But how will they train during the off-season in complete darkness?
@@fraliexb We don't
I adore your absolute dedication to correct German pronunciation. You could have switched to "lamp plants" (which is fun to say,) but you are not one to take the easy path!
...Plants that have adapted to grow specifically on artificial light seem to be a good candidate for tweaking for use on space ship oxygen generation.....
You'd think, but not necessarily. We can make lighting of whatever color we want, so metabolism/unit weight, ease of care, and utility of the plant material grown out of the CO2 are more important factors.
Another way to think about it for long-term habitation is that if you can grow all the food a crew needs on board, you will take care of all of the CO2 produced as you will have set up a closed carbon cycle from air to plant to food to human to air again.
We can already make oxygen on spaceships without plants too, via electrolysis
I'm aware we use electrolysis to generate oxygen in space ships.
As you're aware, though, that requires energy.
I was thinking of a more passive solution, using energy that's *already* generated, and utilizing it as opposed to letting it go to waste.
@@WolfgangDoW Also pretty wasteful to do with water since plants do it for free and space mining is going to give a huge amount of oxygen given that rock is on average over 50% oxygen mixed with lithophile elements
Extra points for the pronunciation of 'lampenflora'
Take a shot every time he says "Lampenflora".
Note: Your liver might not survive the ordeal.
Liveugh*
Shot of water
Stay hydrated
@@WolfgangDoW Who drinks water in 'shots'?
I’m both entertained and impressed by his pronunciation.
I’m not German, but from Bergen, Norway, and we use that “german r” as well.
I went into a cave, i could notice that small flora growing in front of lamps, now this vid appeared, telling me that science had been studying what i just saw.
Or do as they did at Lascaux, close the real caves (only open to conservationalists and scientists) and make a good replica that’s open to the public ☺️ Espessially if it’s art people come to see, formations might be more tricky to replicate. Art is usually only found on a relatively small area of the cave system.
The one thing that all plants crave @0:20.
Brawndo!!! Duhh, not water like out of toilets.
The Thirst Mutilator!
Lampenflora- flora that grows from lamps. Wow, incredible! Who would have thought that’s what it meant 😂
Cool episode! And it was fun listening to Michael pronounce lampenflora. I assume he did it well. 👍
0:00 You are rocking the new intro. Love it.
"Turning them off when they are not needed."
I was today years old as human when I realize that. Yeah!
This high level runescape slayer creature lore is interesting
Lampenfloha. Very interesting,
The German prononciation is on point!
No, it is not, it's horrible.
@@richardjones2455 take it from a guy called "Richard Jones" to criticize his pronunciation. It's perfect.
Could they use artificial red light, instead of artificial white white? Red light preserves our night vision and might not be enough energy to support the photosynthesis of the plants and other organisms.
Wouldn't green be better?
4:50
As a person who speaks multiple languages regularly, I struggle a bit when pronouncing foreign words. When speaking english I want to 'anglicize' non english words. When speaking another language, i want to use all the phonemes and intonations of that language when bumping into english words. I'm not sure why, if it's instinctual, or that the other languages often have adopted english words expressed with native pronunciation. It makes it interesting to hear you mix in more german pronunciation of lapenflora. It also makes some of the topics like appropriation and offensiveness of pronunciation a bit more .. mm ... raspy. Anyways, mild tangent, enjoying the vids !
he pronounced Lampenflora so perfectly
One I went to in WV had all the lights OUT - there were switches on the walls for the light that the guide knew location of. He turn them on just long enough for folks to see what he was talking about - them turn the off... he said to keep algae and moss from growing. At the deepest point - he turned off while we where standing there to give us the Idea of how complete light-deprivation felt. Was pretty cool.
That was a pretty good switch into a German accent when saying "Lampenflora"
Seams like the easiest solution would be turn off the lights.
Come back in a week or so and you are left with a bunch of dead plants. Whenever there are signs of the issue starting anew you can either deal with it immediately, or turn the lights off again!
(Best solution is to leave it undisturbed, but caves are cool so that's never going to happen lol)
Just call it lampflora, dude. It's the direct translation, and it sounds a lot better.
I appreciate the pronunciation
damn i'm anoyed by how you say 'lampenflora' with a french 'r'.
Is that what that is? I thought he was clearing his throat.
@@TWX1138 almost the same
Is there a difference between french and german R?
@@BurnInHell7 do the french roll their Rs?
Should’ve said it right once then used the English version
I'm missing one preservation strategy here. In caves where they have the option to take another route, they often also prepare several routes, and rotate to the next one when growths are detected.
kudos for sticking with that german pronounciation
I couldn't watch the whole video because of this 😅
He does a gut job!
his pronunciation isn't exactly german
@@dithy I thought it was quite good for someone who does not speak German. He was unable to pronounce the "R" like German speakers do, but that is really hard and has to be trained if you do not speak German natively.
It felt weird to hear him jump out of English for that one word all the time :D But yeah, good effort (sounded more like a Dutch R than a German one)
They should totally add this in the 1.18 update for Minecraft and make it so glow-lichen grows slowly onto nearby blocks when a lamp illumunates it XD
He’s totally flexing each time he successfully articulates “lampenflora”. 😅
In French when this problem occurred (or was observed) for the first time in Lascaut cave, we use the phrase "la maladie verte " the green disease. Lampemflora was a German word created later and has entered the English language dictionaries.
Should I give the stink eye to my house plants that are thriving with artificial light?
Just yell bad words at them and they'll stop growing.
"Plants growing in caves might be bad because they block what tourists came to see".
Words of a true modern human
As a German its so weird to hear him say Lampenflora but his pronunciation is actually really good :)
When I did the Historical Tour in Mammoth Cave, the guide in front would turn the lights on for the upcoming section, and the guide following would shut them off after we passed. Only a few places stayed lit.
I see these types flora to be very useful for when we have to go underground.
I noticed at the Jewel caves in south Western Australia that dust and fibres from peoples clothes has collected on the stalagmites and stalactites. It was changing the direction the green to sideways and crooked (on a very small scale)
Im a moss man
Sand man is where its at
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@@TWX1138 more like bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum Mr. Saaaand maaaan wont you bring me a man
I’m about to binge watching this channel 👍🏾
lampenflauhgha.
The “Lampenflora” German pronunciation was so satisfying ✌️
just alternate years or months for visitors, one year/month lights on for visiting season next year/month lights off for the plants to die out that started to grow
you mean you want to periodically allow algae to grow over your cave art?
@@eljanrimsa5843 no no it sounds like it is already growing over art so I figured they are tracking its pace of growth carefully and whatever the rate is you set a schedule that would not allow its growth to encroach on anything - yea preserving the art & cave ecosystems is the priority/goal
Absolute commitment to the pronunciation!
Every time he says “lampenflora” it sounds like he’s speaking a different language
Because he is! Lol
Duh.
But he really shouldn't be.
Flora is from Latin, not German, and the word exists in almost a dozen languages as exactly "Flora".
English speakers pronounce that Latin derived word a certain way, and Germans pronounce it a different way.
Since it's not German, he really should be pronouncing it the way English speakers do.
@@lordgarion514 Actually it's a German word, as it consists of two words glued together, which is a very specific trait of the German language. Because it is used in an unaltered form, I consider it appropriate to pronounce it like this. But you could still call the whole thing "lamp flora" and pronunce it the English way entirely.
@@lordgarion514 He said it was coined in Germany. Or do you, perhaps, think that there are not Latin influences on the German language? Not to mention, English doesn't pronounce words originating in Latin properly anyway. Or Greek. Or French. Or Norman. Or Dutch. Or the Celtic languages. Or the Germanic languages. Etc.
Love the new intro and loving the long hair
I think you’re allowed to say lampenflora without a bad German accent.
1/3 of the comments: complaining about the way Michael pronounces "lampenflora"
1/3 of the comments: loving the way Michael pronounces "lampenflora"
1/3 of the comments: "So the pot plants in my closet are lampenflora?"
Video on tortoises? Or pop culture themed like Avatar the last air bender?
What…?
@@ЕбатьШвецию pop culture themed videos like star wars or anything that has to do with culture or society.
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@@reconpuffin I know, it’s just so random
@@ЕбатьШвецию the sci show could involve other media to get extra views from that media while informing viewers of scientific ideas that would be harder to find relations with... and I like tortoise
1:48 "But, we can't see in the dark !"
People with night vision effect : *I don't see such weaknesses*
Now, look, I understand that you are trying to respect the German language when you say Lampenflorgwa, but please, for the love of beer and sauerkraut just Anglicize it to Lampenflora…
It’s okay… I give you permission… please stop… please…
That Hank Greene Dialect is on point my guy