Nothing More Beyond: The Strait of Gibraltar
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ต.ค. 2021
- "Nothing More Beyond" said the Ancient Romans of this 9-mile (14km) wide channel between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. We dive into the geography and history of the Strait of Gibraltar, and how the world has been shaped by this small stretch of sea.
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MOst interesting tidbit in this to me is that Mediterranean literally means "Sea in the middle of the land"
Glad I could teach you about it, and right at the beginning too!
@@SignoreGalilei I missed that. Then I read the comments. 'Middle-Earthen' Sea. Yep. That is what it says.
I knew that but was blown away to discover Gibraltar comes from Arabic Jabal Tariq 😮
If it werent for the spanish it would probably be named the white sea based on ottoman naming convention
@@Svensk7119 as a spaniard i only ever realized mediterraneo means between lands when i was studying german and saw the word "mittlelandesmeer" and went whoah
actually stunned this video don't have more views. very well made and informative!
Very well made video, deserves so much more views
How this doesn't have 100,000 likes I have literally no idea
Thanks!
A tunnel is tough since the two continental plates make it very unstable
Japan has some pretty long fixed links despite the earthquakes but it would add to the expense.
Submerged floating tunnels are one construction method for building tunnels in areas with high seismic activity. The tunnels themselves need to be fairly flexible to deal with tides.
The only problem is that they are much more prone to damage from shipping, and Gibraltar is one of the busiest shipping areas in the world.
A tunnel would be a phenomenal waste of money. Engineers love to make them but it doesn't make it worthwhile. Good thing Spain and Morocco are poor enough they can't afford such an arrogant attack on the Earth.
@@thomassnider6691 oh shut up
True. He missed that one.
Quite informative article, enjoyed it very much for it's historical content. Thx.
You're welcome!
The Romans would regain control of both sides after Justinian's Reconquest. Otherwise, it is an excellent video.
Didn't know that Justinian got that far, thanks for sharing!
Justinian conquered the southern part of Spain (what's now Andalusia) and the Mediterranean coast, while the rest of the peninsula stayed under Visigothic control.
Thanks a lot
Cracking video. Thank you ❤
You're welcome!
the Tanger-Med port in Morocco was the 27th busiest port in the world in 2020 .. (Algeciras port in spain was 34)
Yep, Algeciras had more traffic in 2019 but Tanger-Med surpassed it in 2020.
Thanks for this! (though a bit slower would be helpful). It would be great to hear an equivalent summary for other important straits, like e.g. Bab el Mandeb between Ethiopia and Yemen at the southern end of the Red Sea. Also, when was the Strait of Gibraltar first crossed by hominins - either early Homo Sapiens or Neanderthal, or both? Cheers.
You're welcome! I do have just the video series you describe on my channel - look for my playlist "Strait Talk".
As for your question, I've read that ancestral human species (before either H. Sapiens or H. Neanderthalensis) could have crossed the strait when it was narrower around 1.4 million years ago with their descendants dying out or migrating back to Africa when the climate cooled. I haven't been able to find a specific date for Neanderthals or Homo Sapiens crossing the strait specifically though.
@@SignoreGalilei Thank you! I'll be checking it out. Cheers!
I believe the dollar sign comes from a shorthand form of "Pesos" where the PS eventually became $. It took a while for the US to adopt this symbol, before the British pound sign £ was used on American bank notes.
I have heard that as a possible origin of the $ sign also. I couldn't find any pictures of American banknotes with the pound sign on them though - do you know of any?
@@SignoreGalilei have a look at the period between 1775-1789 with the Continental Congress, I'm pretty sure those notes had £ on them though I could be wrong
The pictures I can find of them online just have the word "dollars" written out. I might just be missing one with the £ sign though.
No, it’s a snake, and the line makes it a Masonic symbol.
Good thing the americans had that revolutionary war, to break away from the british and their outlandish ways and taxes.
Great info, super speaker, a ton of perfect images... but way too fast. Pausing at any particular image is maddening. You must have worked your butt off to find and compile all your visuals. Please let us appreciate them properly.? 😊 ❤ 🎉
You completely missed the Moors who crossed the straight to take Spain and Portugal
The Moors was what the Spanish and Portuguese called the people of the Umayyad Caliphate, which I mentioned at 2:41
So humans leaving Africa made it to Australia and America before they got to Iberia?! Incredible.
Neanderthals and modern humans coexisted in Iberia for a while, not sure on the exact dates for each place.
I doubt that is true. Most likely havent found evidence in ibera yet.
In fact human species were living on both sides, both Iberia and Morocco/North Africa There is evidence for this.
Who TF really knows. None of us were there.
@@JohnSmith-rk6jy - you don’t need to witness something to know that it happened derp lol
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Great spot for a hydro electric facility. No water flows out of the Mediterranean.
There's been some proposals for that. It would be a crazy huge project though.
I visited Gibraltar in 1967
Cool!
The EU should create a new designation for countries outside of Europe that still get most of the benefits and requirements of EU membership, and they should offer that for Maghreb countries. If it works out well for both sides and improves relations, the EU should offer the same relationship to Turkey, the Caucasus region (Georgia), and the Levant.
Similar ideas have been proposed, don't know if any of them will catch on though.
Dutch East India Company & Greyhounds of the Sea. Cutler
How much cotton grows in Scotland eqypt? Absolutely none. Pam
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Black man been through that 500,000 thousand years ago
The Pillars of Hercules was a better name.
It is a pretty cool name
A tunnel would get bombed quick.
Why would that happen? I imagine Spain and Morocco would want to keep such a large project secure, if it were to be built.
i wonder what do u mean abt that
It’s difficult to except what you say when you talk as a toddler using their imagination to tell a story.
Well, that's certainly a description. I think that's just how I sound reading a script, but what do you think I should do differently?
@@garyb6219 We all make that one! My now ex had to remind me off it, and she isn't really a reader. And wasn't.
The truly hard one was affect and effect.
@@SignoreGalilei 1- slow down a bit 2-memorize your script and imagine that you are telling this story from your memory to your best friend like if this is something you are excited about and you are eager to share it with your good old friend
@@drybalsky Thanks for the tips - they sound good for public speaking in general. I've been reading from the text because these scripts are fairly long and I don't want to make factual mistakes because I memorized poorly, plus memorizing takes a lot of time.
I wouldn’t take this criticism seriously if I were you. You could slow down a bit but your narration is clear and easy to understand. I don’t think you need to memorize scripts, I bet almost no one does that and It’s better for factual accuracy. Great video!
I just struggle with millions of years talk cmon man you know that shits not accurate
There are plenty of observable facts in nature, both on the Earth and elsewhere in the universe, that can't be explained if the planet is only a few thousand years old. There are places all over the world, called unconformities, where layers of rock have been tipped on their side and then topped with new layers going perpendicular to them. You just can't get that kind of rock formation without millions of years to work with.
Don't be a dumb ass. Learn some effing science.