The Time It Rained For Over a Million Years

[@Martial-Mat]

Pah, we live in Britain, that's a normal English summer!

[@nickinskeep]

Sounds like a s*** hole

[@waynekeenansvideos]

Indeed, tis but a light shower, no brolly required.

[@laughingman3777]

Indeed. Britain is stuck in the past.

[@ChrisKatsu-]

Eventually it’s cold enough it turns to snow before it warms up again and repeats

[@jhapethlloydciron3185]

As filippino, its just a annoying drop of water

[@ZynBlackCurrant]

One of the wonders of the world: Glasgow. Even if it's clear and sunny, the ground is still wet.

[@captainhaddock6435]

[insert joke about weather in Britain]

[@TurnOntheBrightLights.]

Yes we call that Seattle

[@doomguy2000]

5:43 "That time that it rained for over 1 million years" sound like an anime title.

[@CasualClassical]

I’ve been waiting for a video on the carnian pluvial event!

[@ugoeze7360]

I’d be hydroplaning like crazy in my 97 Toyota Corolla.

[@kuarifu]

Our planet is indeed fascinating... 🎉

[@WilliesGarden]

When you talk of our crust making a single page in the thickness of Earth, probably because I do a lot of gardening, it reminds me of 98% of all the Earth's food is grown in the top 5 inches of soil, leaving a little room for of course trees.👨‍🌾

[@gravitational193]

Thank you Alex.

[@astrumspace]

Thank you!!

[@neilbrideau8520]

Sums up my winter in Vancouver perfectly.

[@42pirhanas]

I think i’s been raining for over a million years in most parts of Wales?

[@A7XB3X]

Perfect I can watch this to get me off to 💤😴

[@tommym936]

Britain to this day is still experiencing the carnian pluvial episode. It has rained here for more than a million years easy.

[@William-B]

Astrum: 4:39 DART Mission: Am I a joke to you

[@maronnyflood-land9009]

Thank you for explaining things better then my geography class.

[@landline1010]

It's like living in Devon

[@DrToonhattan]

Last time I was this early, God was still looking for the light switch.

[@beardedroofer]

I was following along, and actually understood most of what you were saying, until you mentioned the release of massive amounts of carbon. Your explanation was that rivers of magma found immense coal deposits and started burning them, releasing huge amounts of carbon in the atmosphere, which jump started the earth's rain cycle. I get it, but where did the coal come from?

[@duudsuufd]

From millions of years before I guess.

[@ThatEdyGirl]

You made my day! I learned so much including 3 new words. Thank you. Never ever stop leaning. I am 64 and I do mange to learn SOMETHING NEW EVERY SINGLE DAY!! NAMASTE

[@WilliesGarden]

Love this. Shows the importance of saving our Rain Forests that are disappearing faster every day from dictators in charge of them.

[@MAGABeard]

And how do you save your rainforest? Super glue your hands?

[@WilliesGarden]

@@MAGABeard I don't support dictators or cults. Maga can only exist in America because America is the only country without legislation against cults. But times can surely change maga boy

[@topsecret1837]

@@MAGABeard Says the guy who super glues maggots to his beard and only doesn’t look weird because it’s the week before Halloween.

[@MAGABeard]

@@topsecret1837 descriptive imaginative reply. Believe "climate change" Hysteria keeps you in check.

[@S0L12D3]

@@MAGABeardshutup mason

[@wisdomleader85]

15:55 I think you meant "Uh...life, uh uh uh uh uh...finds a way..."

[@dakodahuber]

Very interesting that this comes from what is now western Canada as that area today sees some of the most precipitation (yearly average) on earth

[@mlgodzilla4206]

Trust me, I was there. It was really wet. It was like a 30 rainstorms a month.

[@rainbowbutterflyfan]

I was there too! Are you sure it was only 30 a month? I could’ve sworn it was 24 a day

[@ImSoDamn3vil]

​@@rainbowbutterflyfan I was a single cell organism at the time, but that single cell retained the memory that it rained 60 times per hour occasionally.

[@mrgeno4682]

Yeah me too, I got stuck in FL😂

[@mygodisyahweh8634]

LoL

[@SchwiftySamsara]

Ah thanks bro I wasn't quite grasping how wet it was but I get it now so thanks for that information

[@egillskallagrimson5879]

What I still I'm waiting in a Carnian pluvial event video is an explanation on how the animals manage to survive and thrive if the majority of water sources got contaminated by acid rain pouring continuously? Plants kinda I get it there's always a tough resourceful type able to thrive in the most crazy conditions and can filter lot's of stuff but how Herrerasaurus could expand if many water bodies and river were subjected to all this acid rain? do paleonthologist propose any solution?

[@Lemon10.5]

I would have loved that ngl

[@josephcovino9697]

Sounds like you accepted some bucks from Sokkoss .

[@HuhHa-pm8fc]

Overground and Victoria Line cancelled for a million years..

[@peteroverall3058]

And noah thought he had it tough😂😂😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@classifiedsecret6383]

"It's raining cats and dogs. I just trod in a poodle." Groan. Joking aside, another great vid. Well done, Alex. Keep up the great work. Cheers

[@emreyurtseven23]

Loved the LOTR book analogy for the thinness of the crust instead of the classical apple peel.

[@dsmccolgan]

Same 😊

[@Eric.T.Cartman]

Imagine listening to Raining Men from the Pointer Sisters repeating over and over for a million years…

[@peteroverall3058]

Hell on earth😂😂😂

[@Metallica4Life92]

I'd rather not

[@Rambam1776]

I thought that was the weather girls

[@michaellinderman8635]

Calm down there Satan

[@CasepbX]

I would have jammed sticks in my ears after 5 mins

[@PaleoChan-ir1rh]

I love your presentations! Your voice always has a smile in it, so its like listening to a really smart friend talk ^_^ Thank you!

[@Tom-hb4un]

Anyone else see something interesting at 4:06?

[@rohanmurray-carrington2907]

If a butterfly flapping its wings could cause a tornado, then wouldn't it be that something like that would have been inevitable as something as subtle as a butterfly flapping it wings would have come along sooner or later?

[@Stalkerrob20]

Lord of the rings is now my favourite unit of measurement lol

[@dsmccolgan]

This video is sooooo nice ❤ The script, the presentation/editing, and of course Alex' wonderful and soothing voice. A joy to watch!

[@fritz46]

A million years is a long time. No individual living at that time would have noticed anything wrong. It was a very slow change, much slower than for example the coming and going of glacial periods. Even humans would just happily live without anyone except maybe some scientists being aware that there is a big change ongoing.

[@Blackwataa]

Pulled this theory outta yer astrum

[@stevenburgess2856]

Meh it hasn't stopped in Wales yet 😅😊

[@faenethlorhalien]

Wow, imagine your umbrella after that. Just in tatters, barely holding by a thread.

[@Argumedies]

Its because of those dinosaurs and their gas-powered cars and trucks

[@matclairoux]

You have much to learn, much much.

[@thirstyCactus]

I thought the fall of CO2 was primarily due to ocean life, like algae, not land-fairing plants.

[@veikov7766]

Right on time for a bedtime story😅

[@philchambers3418]

Goddamit, I bloody knew I shouldn't have put the washing out...

[@noelht1]

That time I went to the Lake District two weeks when I was 14, it rained for 1 million years

[@albinscott]

Boy, and I thought that "Nine million rainy days" was a lot! 😉

[@DeclanRydzel]

"I've got news for you... size does matter." devastating.

[@TheForeignGamer]

Your passion for the topics you discuss is evident in every video. Thank you for sharing that passion with us.

[@bericky16]

Hi Alex

[@greg.peepeeface]

The coolest thimg, is that we assume NHI would have our lifespan, but imagine if they observed the Earth for 4.5 billion years, and they were able to document everything from the formation till now. That would be the most epic tale ever, and if we have got to hear the last 100k y;ears, that alone would be mind boggling.

[@garyw8824]

I live in the UK a million years of rain is light work

[@guidobolke5618]

Isn't the butterfly effect an illustration for non-linear systems? And when your pose the question "if a bufferfly can do X, what does a huge eruption do?" isn't that with the assumption of a linear system?

[@gengar1187]

Excellent video, tho points off for the ceratopsian graphics lol

[@Taketimeout3]

That time round i guess Noah released an early flying archasaur from a correspondingly bigger ark.

[@Kevan808]

That would truly suck.

[@noahingram2120]

I love how on the day Gandalf told Frodo it was 10am (October 24th), Alex used the scale of the LoTR books as to show how small the crust of the Earth is

[@Voiceofagodtwo]

Alex your voice is so smooth, you should definitely consider making some audiobook

[@theobserver9131]

Play Astrum playlist. Don’t look at the screen. YW.

[@fritzelly7309]

It's amazing to think that so many species have lived and disappeared on this planet and will do so in the future and we wonder is there life out there - one has to believe life will spawn whenever given the smallest of chances. We, humans, are the result of a devastating event in a single page in Earth's history

[@jamesgrover2005]

But still.. it was better than the boring billion

[@advocatefortruthlibertyand5803]

THIS IS NOT A SCIENTIFIC CLAIM! THIS IS A RELIGIOUS FAITH-BASED CLAIM! PLENTY OF SCIENCE OUT THERE BUT THIS IS NOT IT!

[@Andrew-is7rs]

Sounds very much like a British summer to me ....

[@nd_0176]

When the world was the UK for a million years

[@stephendaly5795]

16:42 i carry my money in my sock

[@finalbag858]

further and farther are two different words.

[@Usnveteranstacker]

I was there… let me tell you, it was moister than an oyster

[@dee_w784]

The more I learn about our geologic history, the more it looks like someone was conducting experiments on our planet. Ok, I'll go away now. 😢

[@thepoggedchampion]

makes me curious how big some waterfalls got

[@PrimeRooster]

With H2S, if you can smell it..... it is too late...

[@martingreen5439]

"Fossil" fuel burning before the formation of fossil fuels...? How does that happen?

[@CharlesTheClumsy]

I feel as if I've seen this title on another video before.

[@okantichrist]

Don’t dragonfly larvae live under water for years ?

[@TheOttomann64]

Great presentation! Thx for sharing.

[@TheEryk03]

Climate change is amazing! Long life climate change!

[@WilliesGarden]

Carnian Pluvial 2 million year period. ✅️⛈️🌳⛈️ Pangeas Rainforest event

[@tinymidged]

I say earlier videos from you and there the audio quality or how you speak is much more pleasant.

[@MonsterTrucker5748]

how do we know this really happened just wondering

[@akashmohan999]

So the whole world turned into Seattle?

[@DBFIU]

Still not as bad as South Florida

[@polarisnorth4875]

Rained for a million years? Scotland then?

[@robsin2810]

God was watering his garden.

[@terminusfinity009]

average canadian winter

[@thirstyCactus]

The Earth giveth, and weird space rocks taketh away.

[@Lightningchase1973]

I think the major reason for CO2 rebounding fast was even not plant live, but geologic too, hyper drive weathering = hyper drive CO2 sequestration by mineral chemistry.

[@markperry5975]

Rained for a million years, meh average weather here in Wales 😂

[@DuelScreen]

There have been 5 supercontintents. They occur on a cycle. This has been definitively proven by studying the thickness of Earth's crust in a recent paper.

[@kryts27]

The butterfly effect is more or less a myth. Weather and climate are a conflagration of effects. Not to a draft from flapping butterfly wings.

[@Zuluknob]

Sounds like England.

[@rickitynick4463]

The wetter the better!.

[@keeganpretorius847]

Surprised the "astrum real fans are you here" bot hasn't arrived yet

[@WilliesGarden]

You had me at 230 million. What a period!!

[@sebastianschubert7945]

Isn't this PBS eon?;)

[@TedToal_TedToal]

Well, that's quite interesting. However, I didn't hear any evidence that the rain actually was continuous for 1 million years.

[@joenickell6323]

Yeah right......

[@andymouse]

Met.

[@richardblight1658]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 😂

[@rwarren58]

Superb work! Relaxing, fun, enjoyable, informative algorithm 😅

[@vlada]

Damn global warming 😂

[@keftethegreek3004]

Number of dinosaurs with depression went 📈📈📈📈📈📈

[@skougi]

woot woot. biofilm earth! people really do get the scale of the planet/tectonic plates wrong. The diagrams we use to teach it don't do it justice. I first heard this described as "three sheets of paper on a beach ball." it's something like 70-700 km to a ~6300 km radius. all known (provable) life exists there.., as a film on the surface of the earth. thanks for posting!