MinuteEarth Explains: Stuff That...Isn’t

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In this collection of classic MinuteEarth videos, we find out that lots of what we thought we knew about the world around us isn’t quite right.
We originally created the videos in the “MinuteEarth Explains” series for another project. But we know that lots of people right now are looking for really good online educational content - and something to take their mind off current events - so we decided to release them here as well. We’d love to know what you think, so leave us a comment below!
These are the episodes featured in this compilation:
0:11 - This Is Not A Bee
• Is it a bee, a wasp, a...
2:23 - This is Not A Pine Tree
• This Is Not A Pine Tree
5:00 - What Makes A Dinosaur?
• What Makes A Dinosaur?
6:46 - Our Definition For “Moon” Is Broken
• Our Definition For “Mo...

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[@greensteve9307]

And now for something completely different, Number 10: The Larch. The Larch.

[@probablynotyou9286]

Why are the stinging species holding spears

[@somepotato1743]

probably not you Because spears are sharp and stingers need to be sharp to sting you

[@probablynotyou9286]

@@somepotato1743 all melee weapons are sharp I think it could also be because spears stab

[@stephensykes2901]

Lol I thought dat the bee,, I thought of was a June bug😹😹😹

[@aidanforcetwo3592]

Bees: *Have yellow and black stripes* Wasps, Flies, and Moths: WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN!

[@Anonymous-it5rd]

😂

[@iamjustadumbanimatorthatha2170]

No kidding lmno

[@spectacularsceptile3879]

but which evolved first?

[@bazoo513]

:o)

[@bazoo513]

@@spectacularsceptile3879 Some of the stinging or poisonous ones. It doesn't make sense to be so conspicuous unless you are either dangerous (or otherwise inedible) or try to be mistaken for such.

[@Daro-Wolfe]

“This isn’t a pine” Me, a Minecraft player: it’s a spruce..

[@StainedBrain]

A true intellectual.

[@Alvionalx]

Hahahahahahah How about what dark oak in real life is?

[@jonathansauceda589]

@@Alvionalx thicc tree

[@miguelmorbius2250]

@@Alvionalx its oak but from the hood

[@christophermccurry8039]

Me, a true intellectual, it's a tree.

[@AlecDenholm]

09:12 "When should we stop calling something a moon?" When Obi-Wan says it's a space station.

[@guillermojrboy3292]

Q: *So is it "coffee with milk"? Or "milk with coffee?"* Me (an intellectual): *I'll know it when I see it.*

[@gibrinmjsankara2971]

my theory is that it depends on what you pour first. if you pour first the milk then it's milk with coffee no matter the ratio

[@missseaweed2462]

@@gibrinmjsankara2971 Wouldn't that be like saying it would be "sugar with tea" if you put the sugar in first?

[@mastertofu]

I mean, it depends on the ratio. More coffee is "coffee with milk", more milk is "milk with coffee" and if they're the same then it's just "coffee and milk/milk and coffee"... or you could just call it "coffee and milk/milk and coffee" all the way

[@missseaweed2462]

@@mastertofu So what you're saying is like if you have a ratio of 1 to 1/4 of coffee and milk, it would be read as 1 and 1/4 as a combined unit instead of 1/4 and 1. So it does depend on whichever has a larger mass or amount in relation to the other.

[@user-mc2el1fi8w]

@@missseaweed2462 u probably mean 3/4 and 1/4. Because 1 has to be a certain amount. If u say the containers Volume is 1 u put in 1 + 1/4 of the containers volume in the container?... lol And besides that... if u add 1/4 to 1 you have 1/5 milk 4/5 coffee. Edit: And yes... in common language the garnish is named second. (i´d like to eat meal with supplement)

[@Xanade]

"Hi! I'm Emily from MinuteEarth!" "...or am I?" *intense learning music starts*

[@ThomasCipriani]

Maybe she's howtobasic

[@yaklin104]

God damnit vsauce, stop making me think

[@columbus8myhw]

Hey, VSauce! Michael here…n't!

[@manikas77]

Hey Vsauce, Emily here

[@ithinkpaulmightbehavinastr8878]

I also started hearing vsauce music

[@csheadtrip]

"Imagine a Bee" me: thinking of the letter 'B'... ohhh.

[@bohdanpyzh2712]

🅱

[@Alvionalx]

🅱️

[@AwesomeCreatorBen]

🅰️

[@IdaeChop]

🅱️

[@IdaeChop]

If we changr the B into P, it becomes PPAP... Yes that's an old meme

[@falconfeathers4281]

5:10 “This is not a dinosaur... but it used to be.” Me: Yeah because now it’s dead....... Wait-

[@NeroIML]

The video about pine trees was really interesting for me because English isn't my first language and I thought "pine tree" was a term for the whole Pinaceae family. In my native language (Swedish) we have a word for the whole type of tree with needles instead of leaves; "Barrträd". "Barr" is our word for the needles on a pine, fir, spruce etc. and "träd" is "tree", so it basically means "Needle trees". And I thought "Pine tree" was the English version of that. Thank you for clearing it up for me :)

[@bubblinebee]

It's probably late for you but for anyone else who stumbles upon this the closest English equivalent is 'evergreen'. This technically refers to any tree where the leaves don't fall off in the winter, but in normal conversation is typically used for needle-trees.

[@LincolnDWard]

@@bubblinebee or "conifer"

[@Persun_McPersonson]

Colloquially, "pine tree" is used for the whole Pinaceae family, so you could consider "pine tree" to have multiple definitions; this is kind of like how "classical music" refers to both a specific era of western music aswell as a larger set of eras mushed together, or how "weight" variously refers to either mass or the force of mass under gravity. As the other two replies pointed out, there are terms for the colloquial usage of "pine tree" that removes ambiguity.

[@elgatitodraven7501]

​@@Persun_McPersonson the thing is more about the fact that there's no names for what in english is called spruce or fir, there's only "pine" for all of them, it's not a "coloquial name for all evergreen trees", it's like some cultures have multiple names for what in english is called only snow, and they treat each name as a different thing the original comment was just trying to say how they thought in english, like many other languages, there's only one word for all of them and pine would be that word

[@Persun_McPersonson]

@@elgatitodraven7501 I wasn't detracting from the aspect of their comment that referred to their own language, just expanding how the term is used in English, as it's not completely straightforward.

[@GumaroRVillamil]

Missed opportunity for including the death star in the non-moon category

[@Merlincat007]

Damn, that would have been a good one!

[@leechyfruit4464]

That's no moon, it's a space station.

[@teratrillionz]

Leechy Fruit joking or woosher

[@muichirotokito9246]

Dayum

[@muichirotokito9246]

Although Leechy Fruit is right.

[@juggernaut1011]

0:56 just realized thats cgp grey, and brady haran. Im certain minute earth is fans of the hello internet podcast now

[@matheusazevedo3138]

juggernaut1011 omg, I was so focused in the Pokémon that I haven’t even noticed it

[@connorjohnson7834]

The Buzz with CGP Grey

[@claymeistereu]

Henry from minutephysics is a friend of theirs. I'm sure some of the team listen to Hello Internet too.

[@eltimbalino]

Well spotted! And the logo on cgp grey's mug looks a lot like the Nail & Gear logo too.

[@claymeistereu]

@@eltimbalino It's actually Grey's own logo.

[@Theeduckie]

The “bee” puns during the bee section were unbelievable. (Hey dumbasses, adding an extra e to unbelievable is overkill and you ruined my stupid joke)

[@arianadiego3709]

Theeduckie it is un-bee-lievable how many wanna-bees there are...

[@tristanrylan]

@@arianadiego3709 bee quiet

[@Yes-cx3ye]

They were very unBEElievable

[@therandomraddish7281]

Be quiet, you arent funny, honey

[@missirrelative6131]

What a beeautiful array of puns

[@magena120]

“Imagine a bee” Me a Minecraft player: ah yes, flying block that likes flowers

[@catfish552]

"It's not as black and white as it looks" Well no... it looks pretty grey, really.

[@elmikeomysterio5496]

Grey is literally just black and white.

[@reyhanjoger2512]

@@elmikeomysterio5496 grey is just dark white

[@yousseftarek9964]

Reyhan Joger or light balck

[@nishatlamisaathoi9076]

There's a Grey area with moons

[@clmoon2151]

and at 0:55 you could say it's quite Brady too.

[@LuinTathren]

7:09 Kudos for showing the hexagonal cloud structure on the poles of Saturn. That was a very nice detail.

[@teddyjorgenson9056]

I got real nervous for a second when they were about to explain how to separate people based on how they look

[@ProfessionalBugLover]

who wants to join me in the bad posture family

[@WildBluntHickok]

Oh god do I really have to move in with the Conan O'Brian lookalike people?

[@AnnoyingNewsletters]

@@WildBluntHickok that depends on whether you have a uni-brow 😉

[@AndrewMaller-qy8mo]

I think I'm in the bad posture family fr fr bruh

[@carriehaines3277]

When it got to the dinosaur part I was just like *"Oh yea this is my time to shine"*

[@mekafinchi]

Off the top of my head, I’d say that for an object to be a moon it must - orbit its parent body such that the barycenter is inside the parent body (or some maximum percent from the surface) - have a stable orbit around its parent body - meet some minimum size, probably a percentage

[@TheScarvig]

i can agree with that, though it is possible to fully describe all these criteria by looking at the barycenter alone: 1. its easy barycenter inside one of the bodies 2. barycenter is not allowed to get too far away from the parent body. i dont know if you can define a barycenter for unstable orbits, but if it has one it probably shouldnt be wandering around too much 3. barycenter has to have a minimum distance from the center of the parent body. that would automativally exclude bodies that are way too small compared to their parent. and maybe just to make it clear we should add that the bodies themselves should primarily orbit a star, to exclude moons around moons around moons and stuff like twin asteroids

[@wallabra]

Mercury?

[@ResandOuies]

Size could be "big enough to be sphere". And may add "cleared it's orbit so no similar sized object share it. Would exclude all of the ring objects nicely I'd think.

[@monmon1741]

A celestial body that orbits it’s parent body so that the barycenter is inside the parent body and has a core.

[@TheScarvig]

@@ResandOuies werent these the requirements for a planet?

[@amonkeywall]

"Douglas Fir's closest cousin is actually..." Kristoph Fir

[@LuinTathren]

Bah dum tss

[@elmikeomysterio5496]

I don't hate you, I'm actually borderline impressed.

[@firstnamelastname3182]

@The Almighty Ninja I thought it was Spruce Bringsteen.

[@falconfeathers4281]

THIS MADE ME UGLY LAUGH AT 2AM

[@Evan-gw5pi]

Bah dum chhh

[@dreamwolf7302]

"These are not all dogs" Wrong. The first one is a Forest Dog, the second is a Fluffer Floof Catdog, and the third is a Savannah Dog of Death.

[@dreamwolf7302]

@@robertjansen6019 you should try this thing called a sense of humor. As for my name, its based on the name i was given by my Tribe at my Coming of Age, so yeah, its actually kind of important to me.

[@brianisme6498]

Dream Wolf omg, he was also joking

[@vinala67]

uuhmmmm... uhhhh... is this a wooosh or...... just a normal misunderstanding of a joke???...

[@maudblue8234]

Mm

[@serowisd]

No they are not 1. Sabrina wolf 2. Spotted jackal or jakel 3. Wild dogs

[@asneecrabbier3900]

"if you already speak french" me: Oui, oui, baguette

[@menameta4036]

8:26 im just thinking how disney missed a opportunity to call Pluto's girlfriend charon

[@Luxalpa]

Disney's Pluto has been created in 1930, but the moon Charon has only been discovered in 1978.

[@tonyviesca6776]

In terms of myhtology wouldnt add up ither because Charon is Pluto's servant not spouse, persephone wouldve been a cool ass name tho.

[@burnttoast6974]

Jonathan Williams when gods can be created from sea foam or pure thought, I don’t think that’s a very big issue

[@KindredBrujah]

@Jonathan Williams "Sharon" isn't though.

[@estoniaman]

@@tonyviesca6776 cool "ass" name indeed :D . When I read it in two languages I know I get the meaning: "ass phone".

[@jollychew9733]

Day unknown of quarantine: Starts to lose trust in nature

[@elmikeomysterio5496]

You shoulda learned that pre-day1. Ijs

[@jeffwillsea6757]

What about the narrator "Emily?"She didn't seem so sure of herself anymore and who knows, ALIEN!! XD

[@vale3242]

I hate that this was made a year ago

[@kal-muzel875]

How are you in your journey now?

[@dungeonsanddragons7334]

I imagined a minecraft bee

[@happyhippoeaters4261]

There are really only three things. Something Nothing Change Everything else is actually just a mix of these three.

[@ProfessionalBugLover]

nothing doesn’t exist

[@happyhippoeaters4261]

@@ProfessionalBugLover that's kinda the point of nothing.

[@lilyfhonazhel2675]

@@ProfessionalBugLover it wouldn't be nothing if it exists

[@obinnanwakwue5735]

0:55: Hey is that a Beedrill?

[@Coop838]

I think its CGP Grey and Brady Haran....

[@ravinsaber]

Yes

[@natyistherobloxdude4800]

yEs

[@Flowey_the_Goober]

yes

[@UnPuntoCircular]

yeS

[@ShawnRavenfire]

Monty Python taught me how to spot a larch from quite a long way off.

[@amkarkare96]

The Spanish inquisition

[@bernatgarcia6348]

I was looking for this comment :') NUMBER ONE: THE LARCH

[@conanichigawa]

@@bernatgarcia6348 Number 2... The Larch.... THE LARCH!

[@erraticonteuse]

I've learned how not to be seen.

[@MrDDiRusso]

"That's no moon!"- Obiwan Kenobi.

[@sdude5538]

I know its not a moon when my traveling companion doest says, "Thats no moon."

[@sandersonstunes]

What are you hiding "Emily"?

[@jeffwillsea6757]

I must share this bad pun. I'm sorry Christo-Fir.

[@Andres.Guzman]

Two huge "moons"

[@rottenpoet6675]

@@Andres.Guzman man...I cant look away....I need it on orbit around me....

[@ucitymetalhead]

@@Andres.Guzman yeah I noticed that immediately but didn't know if i should say anything.

[@pesterenan]

That great *AuNT* pun really got me. XD

[@randomizer8267]

Qual o delta-v da formiga?

[@MotoCat91]

As an Australian, I was always super confused growing up when people on tv said "ant" while referring to relatives. Here it's pronounced the same as "aren't" but with no emphasis on an r obviously

[@laurenellison7592]

@@MotoCat91 I agree I'm British so it doesn't work.

[@fireriffs]

That's only because she, like most Americans, pronounce aunt wrong. There's a U in there for a reason. An ant is an insect, an aunt is a person and they are not pronounced the same. For the record, I'm American and I pronounce it correctly.

[@burnttoast6974]

fireyf it’s called dialects

[@curlyfryactual]

"but they're not dogs" me, who calls everything from bears to river otters a dog ( ͡❛ ᵜ ͡❛)

[@epauletshark3793]

What about beardogs and riverdogs?

[@-infinite-2907]

Most important lesson learned: Wasps are bald.

[@cascas9656]

And have a cleaner and brighter yellow not like bees. And they're jerks.

[@UnderstandingCode]

6:41 comedy heaven

[@Hobbyrepubliken]

I had no idea that English speakers didnt seperate pines and spruces in their Day to Day speech. Call a gran (spruce) a tall (pine) in northern Europe and people will look at you funny

[@champs1127]

Republiken lots of english speakers live in climates where these trees don’t grow

[@jespoketheepic]

I've only just now, from looking it up because of this comment, found out that "fir" is not the same as "fyr" in Danish. "Fyr" is the word for pine, while what English calls a "fir" is relegated to being a subgroup of "gran" (which mainly refers to spruce, like above).

[@thesteaksaignant]

In French we also separate pin (pine) from épicea (spruce) but I'm sure many city people mix them up. Solution: you can't go wrong with conifère (all trees that grow cones)

[@thepuksu]

@@thesteaksaignant in Finnish also people seperate them by eather kuusi or mänty but all trees with needles can be called havupuu.

[@Victoria-dh9vb]

Tbh, we call them evergreens when speaking generally.... Though that doesn't necessarily make sense since there are plenty of "evergreens" that don't stay green over the winter, or in some cases don't even keep their needles

[@ultrio325]

"You probably imagined something with yellow-black stripes..." No, I imagined 🅱

[@ranjaniciyer]

I really love this format. Very educational but not typically paced like other videos. Good job guys :)

[@JohnCena8351]

The first video is pretty much showing the difference between the chad bees and the virgin wasps. Bees have a good thick head of hair while wasps are balding.

[@The.RandomTube]

This might be my favourite Minute Earth video!

[@spikypichu]

Me stopping at the one minute mark thinking I saw something I recognized: *rewinds and sees CGP Grey* "Yep, time to post this in the comments now."

[@M.Datura]

This is essentially just a clarification of four things that people often categorise together because we need simplification. No person is able to know and "correctly" categorise everything, and in truth I think the real important thing would be for people to know that they simplify, and that everyone around them simplifies things, categories and understandings of things, all the time, simply to function, and that as such, it's okay to be "wrong" about things, because, as we know, no person can know everything, no matter how hard we try or want to.

[@WhichDoctor1]

That ant pun physically hurt me! I knew there was a reason I like Emily :p

[@matheusazevedo3138]

Elion the text itself is good, but I really dislike the girl saying it

[@samo4648]

There's two reasons I like emily

[@niccoplamoniakadir]

Your name is alMOONst the saturm=same

[@jurian0101]

Some day some time, Emily from MinuteEearth and Emily from the Brain Scoop should hang out.

[@batheandrelaxinmyshit6344]

Are you implying that they are lesbians?

[@mystii8134]

Let me shit on you no just that they should talk and like hang out as friends.

[@alveolate]

maybe both "Emilys" already do!

[@knaltor]

I'm gonna say it: I enjoy these longer montage type videos more than the regular content. Even if it just repeats what I've already seen.

[@dagkyco8152]

“To be or not to be that is the question”

[@user-lw4vi4oy2d]

"To bee or not to bee that is the question'' Get it right wasp

[@andrewgutmann9432]

MinuteEarth: “Imagine a bee.” My stupid brain: “ThEre’S a BeEeEe?!”

[@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat]

Is this a reference to Nintendocaprisun? I'm not sure...

[@jonahhickman8354]

@@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat nah it's a vine

[@michaelwintermantel9127]

One of my favorite things is that bees are actually a type of wasp! So are ants! Wasps have an immense diversity of forms that many people might not think of as wasps. And most do not sting!

[@arta.xshaca]

And they (wasps...) are all sawflies!

[@NoisqueVoaProduction]

Dinossaurs are one of the most interesting family trees I know. For some reason, the "dinossaur" family is everything that is descendant from earliest common ancestor between the triceraptops and the modern bird. Another example that is not a dinossaur is pterodactyl (funny how they look like birds and fly, but triceraptops are closer-related with birds than pterodactyl are).

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

Yeah, but pterosaurus are still close relatives to dinosaurs. Also interesting brachiosaurus is closer related to birds than triceratops.

[@jlw35cudvm]

It’s “Eric the Half a Bee!” I knew all that Monty Python would come in handy eventually

[@PhilBoswell]

"How to recognise different trees from quite a long way away. Number one: the Larch."

[@SciFactsYT118]

Random fact: Starfish can re-grow their arms. In fact, a single arm can regenerate a whole body. ⭐⭐

[@NoorquackerInd]

I know this from that episode of Spongebob

[@the_choseperson4415]

What happened to Patrick!?!?

[@aH00man]

I just learned that last week.

[@valoaras9729]

but it cant grow from anywhere. if you take a peice from its edge it will die. to grow it needs to have a part of a thingy that is at the middle of the starfish that actualy make the starfish generate (sry for bad english)

[@waltervanbrunchem2462]

@@valoaras9729 it's not that bad

[@MushOfShrooms]

Or were birds Ornithoscelida? ( See the newspaper in the description ) this took forever for me to pause at the right time and read it. 6:29

[@andremilledge5579]

I love these videos. The delivery, the music, animation and the Pokemon reffernces not to forget all the puns!

[@Dorfjunge]

I never understood how people could mix up wasps and bees all the time..... have they never been outside as a kid? To me this is like not being able to distinguish between a pigeon and a seagull.

[@yazito21]

Welp...you know how today's society works nowadays, right?

[@thearmyofiron]

I've never seen an actual bees or wasps irl

[@Misto_deVito6009]

Yeah

[@pianissimo7121]

as a kid i lived outside, but had very little attention span, I didn't care what I saw as long as I could play with it, so naturally everything is a butterfly for me, until..... that one dreadful day....... no its too painful to remember ;(

[@99999bomb]

3:38 Minecraft was right all along

[@marcofilho]

I can't stop staring Emily, she really has a lot of charismatics expressions

[@itskaelric6036]

"Imagine a bee." me, who imagines things without colors due to being a sketch artist: oh yeah color

[@JS-pk8gv]

Me after learning what pine trees actually are: now I know everything

[@jimcharamis6903]

5:35 I Immediately sat up right

[@crimsonraen]

These are all really great videos, thanks so much!

[@SidKnight]

The "moon club" animation had me rolling! 🤣

[@arturomanuelreispons9440]

so if i rip a pine's needle of one of the grups with 5 it will have 4 and be no longer a pine MUhahahhahaha

[@starcraft2own]

Well the problem is, you're going to have to do it with 51% of all the needle groups, such evil requires a lot of dedication to depine a pine.

[@cmelton6796]

@@starcraft2own It's been 10 months and quarantine continues, depining a pine tree sounds like a fun day tbf

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

"Beelieve it or not" pun points for you. Also I like that blue banded one, so pretty

[@abyssiniaempire8672]

why are you on every channel i watch

[@randomguy263]

@@abyssiniaempire8672 Right!?

[@keketski5430]

The amount of bee puns are immaculate

[@handshoesandhorsegrenades1848]

The trees especially are something most people know from at least adolescences because we actual have nearly all (if not all) of the trees talked about, down in South Carolina

[@IdaeChop]

What did you do with the REAL EMILY!!?!?!

[@fugnignafer5812]

"They're all members of the family Pinaceae" ... you mean the pine family of trees?

[@michaelfarnsworth1405]

I was hoping someone would have already said this.

[@JohnnyHikesSW]

No, that’s not what they mean actually, just because pines are the namesake of that family doesn’t mean every member of that family is a pine, that’s like saying if your last name is Johnson that means your first name is John

[@jaysmitty4543]

@@JohnnyHikesSW Exactly! Hence the term "true pines". There are a lot of animals and plants in families like this that have "true" members that are the namesakes. But not being the namesake doesn't mean you're not in the family.

[@friedfish69]

You stop calling it a "moon" when you pull your pants back up.

[@richardgray9284]

The bee puns throw me into a blind rage.

[@Alphabet576]

9:40 potter stewart mentioned

[@jp4431]

2:04 me: gets stung once It's time to begin my master plan to eradicate all insects that look like stingy stripey bois

[@cascas9656]

Please only Wasps. I hate em

[@ezrakornfeld8436]

I already knew all the stuff except for the trees and I watched it for the satisfaction of knowing others know the right things

[@PsychoSocialCreation]

Pines are super complex! Thanks for breaking it down so interesting! Pictures are amazing

[@Chronologicalowl]

WAIT SO YOU'RE TELLING ME I WAS STUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE FOR 2 HOURS BECAUSE OF A MOTH

[@blubobbie]

I had to Google it, but I imagined a "Agapostemon" Also, I knew Christmas trees weren't pines!

[@bunty1583]

5:40 Simple. They aren’t a Conan O’Brien lookalike if they have a unibrow.

[@ujaanchatterjee5694]

Oh My God Those bee puns just friggin murdered me

[@TheZelluloid]

Emily has the most soothing voice, I love it

[@dumb_metalhead7367]

Omg The puns are awesome! And love the new "style" of making videos! Keep up the goood work guys! I really enjoj watching your work :)

[@JeffDM]

After a few minutes of explaining “not pines”, “member of pineceae (pine family)”, so... pines?

[@TetraSky]

I remember seeing one of those white/blue bee and when I talked about it with a teacher not long after, she basically said I was insane and that there was no such thing... (this was before the year 2000, not many had computers to look stuff up)

[@goldenroses606]

Thank you, Emily

[@samvictor6084]

How many moons does the Earth have? MinuteEarth: "Well-" QI Klaxon: I'm about to end this man's career.

[@zym6687]

>How many moons does the Earth have? Me, an intellectual: The blue whale

[@technoimperialist9509]

This is the last video of the Silver age of MinuteEarth

[@meganstevenson9330]

I'm kinda freaked out that there is a wasp near me now 😂

[@oliviamalerich462]

I’ve pet so many bumble bees without getting stung. They’re just the best thing in the world I swear...

[@epauletshark3793]

I had a bumble bee sting me under my thumbnail once...

[@Jaaxfo]

Number 6: The Larch The Larch

[@randomguy263]

The last thing you'd want in our winter forest is a tree that drops its needles, but as it turns out, that might be what you get. Allegedly it drops its needles in the fall but that's even worse.

[@violinscratcher]

And now to something completely different!

[@woah-dude]

Nice work as usual. Thanks for your content

[@ComXDude]

"That's no moon." -Obi-Wan Kenobi, renowned astronomer

[@Cowoman]

If common birds are descendants of the dinos, can I call my flock of chickens a flock of tiny dinosaurs ? I like to imagine that I'm taking care of teeny tiny feathery T-Rex 🐓=🦖

[@DavidChipman]

Actually, more like Raptors, not Rexs.

[@kirknay]

closer to velociraptor, and about the same size. Jurrassic Park used megaraptors.

[@mrjoe332]

Yes.

[@devalphamon7289]

@@kirknay velociraptors were actually about the size of large turkeys, the jp raptors were based on deinonychus.

[@simoneangeliquemaloney3990]

You just gotta believe

[@magickpalms4025]

Emily is so amazing 😭

[@hedwiliette]

The orbiting animation is AMAZING!!!!! I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL❤️❤️

[@stvp68]

Good video as always, but a special shout out to the moon segment, which had really effective animation-nice work!

[@hunkbol6154]

OMG Emily |￣ω￣|

[@frostyusername5011]

IKR

[@MonographicSingleheaded]

Yup ☺️☺️☺️❤️

[@gaidencastro9706]

0:54 I didn't realize that CGP grey worked with MinuteEarth.

[@Aetohatir]

He doesn't. It's more like an Easter egg.

[@diosmiomango]

Thanks for this video. My 5 year old has enjoyed this very much and learned a lot. I hope you guys keep uploading such videos for little children!

[@danielyusukeshimizu8802]

I actually knew the differences in pines and firs because I’m japanese. 松(matsu) means pine, but the song “oh Christmas tree oh Christmas tree” becomes “momi no ki, momi no ki” because もみ(momi) translates to fir.

[@fishypaw]

I like Emily, or whatever she's called.

[@matheusazevedo3138]

fishy paw man, I reaaally don’t like her. I don’t know what it is, but something about her seams wrong/out of place. Maybe it’s the way she seams to impersonating some character inside of been herself

[@djmaya3d]

@@matheusazevedo3138 . Her speech style is very minute earthy but her mannerisms just seem so put on.

[@fishypaw]

@@matheusazevedo3138 Well, I don't like Marmite.

[@pelegsap]

Obligatory "That's no moon"

[@rodrigocontrerasmartinez3143]

I just wanna say love your kinda dad puns :) great content, I'll be waiting to see new stuff, when the quarentine is over. Stay healthy ^.^

[@Catsarecool155]

Minuteearth:imagine a bee Me: imagines the letter B Minuteearth: you probably imagined something with black and yellow stripes Me: