MinuteEarth Explains: Water

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In this collection of classic MinuteEarth videos, we take a look at one of Earth’s most critical - and unique - features.
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:
0:25 - Where Did Earth's Water Come From?
• Where Did Earth's Wate...
3:05 - Why Are There Clouds?
• Why Are There Clouds?
5:46 - Why Do Rivers Curve?
• Why Do Rivers Curve?
8:31 - UPSIDE-DOWN Rivers On Mars?!
• UPSIDE-DOWN Rivers On ...

[@MinuteEarth]

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[@everybodyclapyohands]

fIrSt!!!1!1!1!11!!111!! iM sO eArLy!1!!1!1!1!11!!!

[@FrostMoon_WoF_WarriorCats]

Uummmhhhhhmmmm

[@xSaucecode]

The last segment about meandering rivers is one of my favorite videos to come out of this channel. It's such a delightfully simple way to say "And that's how we know Mars used to have rivers."

[@Rhea_North_2026]

I am only 12 and I watch all minute earth videos because on day I want to be a vet or a sciencetist. ❤️

[@Sciencedoneright]

Good luck buddy ;)

[@Blueapples514]

Why

[@artistahoy9103]

“The story goes like this,” Me: No need to tell me, I watched “the history of the world i guess” by Bill Wurtz. I know *everything.*

[@D3M0LI5H3R98]

the sun is a deadly lazer

[@redicendia1355]

not anymore, theres a blanket

[@roy04]

now the animals can go on land

[@aprill8361]

*Have babies*

[@xiaoqing2846]

Learn to use an egg

[@parrrful]

i cant unsee that mars river being a ridge instead of a valley after that google maps optical illusion

[@axolotl2631]

Poyo!

[@foxdragon4430]

Hi

[@_.rainydays._]

*can't

[@Raulxz]

@@_.rainydays._ who cares

[@_.rainydays._]

@@Raulxz I am honestly astonished, and kinda upset with myself, that my previous comment was only posted 9 months ago because I don't like it-

[@YourAverageGamerPC]

10:09 that transition was so clean, hats off to the animators of these videos

[@kennethleblanc5984]

I really like this format of getting to see Emily. She has a very good presentation style in front of the camera and I like the more personal touch it adds to the succeeding voice/illustration part of the video.

[@tessl8984]

Boobas

[@johnny5isalive2020]

Yeah I think she's hot too! Then I found out she's pregnant dang it, tricks me everytime!

[@Bruhman-tf6io]

Y'all wildin

[@SciFactsYT118]

Random fact: Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor: the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993. 🛰

[@LuigiCotocea]

Wait same message like at bright side 😳

[@Vic_Lit344]

Wow that's not random that's a fun fact!,thanks for telling us that😁👍

[@randomgooy7456]

F

[@izu_ma]

Wait I didn't even know that lmao thanks mate.

[@mrayrick7631]

I see you at every vidoe

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Weather update, those rocks might have had water inside them and now there's hot steam in the sky

[@tuesdaywithanh]

Weather update, it's raining

[@ahmadsuleman9045]

SEVERE FLOODING ALERT

[@wadduck67]

Volcano Alert

[@nishigahara8617]

@@wadduck67 THAT'S LAND!

[@roy04]

something's alive in the ocean

[@mung_pi]

Looks at title : *Minute Earth Explains Water* My brain subconsciously : *Water, Earth, Fire, Air...*

[@lovell8983]

Long ago, all four nations lived in harmony...

[@rakaroring6374]

But it all changes until the fire nation attacked.

[@TheUglyGnome]

Illuminati!

[@izu_ma]

But Illuminati defended itself.....

[@katgor42]

*And then the fire nation attacked*

[@robertnichols2283]

I love ❤️ it when Emily hosts.

[@Breathingdeeper]

Robert Nichols I was thinking the same thing

[@goofygoober7248]

SIMP

[@fluffyghar]

Mhm

[@_pruna]

What's her instagram?

[@abdulazizbature2615]

Me too

[@dragonboii7361]

The google earth rabbit hole is actually a rabbit hill

[@stormysamreen7062]

I see what you did there. That was clever.

[@dragonboii7361]

@@stormysamreen7062 You are to kind sir.

[@martindikov6665]

Hahahahaha🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Really clever

[@swiftyoooo]

NONONONO O O

[@peaou]

Good one : ))

[@danishk768]

The fact that she has the same hairstyle and clothes. Anyway, her expressions are fabulous. Love it when she speaks!

[@zappababe8577]

Sometimes I just stop and think how incredibly useful water is. We need to keep hydrated in order to be healthy, it's a very useful solvent into which a great deal of things can be dissolved. It's obviously great for cleaning our bodies and our environment. Oil doesn't mix with it, so if we use soap, that provides a slippery layer on top of our skin which allows dirt and germs to be rinsed off and taken away from our skin, leaving us nice and clean. It's like this amazing chemical substance that we need all the time for so many uses.

[@Bunny501]

3:38 Atmosphere doing sick-ass vape tricks

[@include-bit]

tornado trick

[@unison_moody]

I love this format. It changes in flow and topic just at the right moment and you want to keep watching.

[@Ace-Maverick]

This warms my little atmospheric science heart ... 😊. I especially enjoyed the animation of the atmosphere creating clouds and the H2O molecules trying to hold on to each other!!

[@shuxin2695]

I agree , it's so cute!

[@BlueImation]

Water in a nutshell: *Not making sense* 👍

[@utetopia1620]

"Water in a nutshell" Me: "Heroes in a halfshell"

[@larkinslides2479]

Not complaining just curious why Emily is always the one explaining these collections also love your videos so much!!!

[@nickathans78]

Lulu Bunnie Probably because she is extremely cute and has a nice voice

[@lokivanni2500]

Lulu Bunnie Maybe because she sounds like an actual teacher. Ms Emily legit makes me feel like I’m back in school 😂

[@zach11241]

Minute Earth but it’s 11x as long and 100x better than expected (and expectations were already high)! Love this channel!

[@sagacious03]

I love these long compilations! Thanks for uploading!

[@thepug991]

I’ve seen all these before but I still watched this to remind me everything

[@Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access]

Water be like: *Water noises* There, I explained water

[@sm79165]

water go blub blub

[@eggman5345]

water go blurblrburburbl

[@estherffff]

Just Some Bigfoot With Internet Access you described water :)

[@protongamin4544]

4:20 I love that hidden "OH NO".

[@TG-Maverick22]

I always learn something from a MinuteEarth video! we need more videos every week please!

[@ilghiz]

Wow, I like this format where you collect previous vids under one subject : ) You guys are cool 👍

[@Feeluck]

as always, this was refreshingly intelligent, fun and interessting. thank you so much for your effort and research, its really appreciated! :)

[@rishabhmayank]

Thanks a lot Minute Earth. Your videos are anticipated too much during this lockdown

[@cageybee7221]

3:39 even the atmosphere has corona now

[@xiaoqing2846]

Wait that means OH SH*T

[@punjokes932]

Ruh roh raggie Corona is now air-born.

[@r1zynn998]

R.I.P musk rat! 😭

[@devshishsonar6891]

I love when Emily hosts

[@dakshsaroha7447]

Learnt so much with just one video. Very informative. Thanks!

[@neelabissoon640]

This video is amazing looking for video to watch during these times.

[@ngiorgos]

09:05 I don't know why, but I also have a very hard time seeing this image as a ridge. If I focus at the river, my brain insists it is a valey and that the source of light is from the lower right. That is strange considering we are so used to the lighting be from the upper left The funny thing is I have no problem seeing it as a ridge when I turn it upside down. What's wrong with me?

[@robinsparrow1618]

"the length of the river curves is about 6 times the river's width" so like 2*pi? like tau?

[@alhassanali4829]

Nah, 6.28

[@TheFlutterQueen]

@@alhassanali4829 More precisely, 6.28318530717958647692528676655900576839338750211

[@squibble311]

i doubt τ has anything to do with this but sure

[@ambrosxa]

π

[@mklik4]

I just got hooked to this channel. This is crazy good stuff

[@Iearnwithme]

Really liking this format of videos!

[@seijocoku2266]

01:34 okay, that was weird.

[@morreamanha]

what was wierd?

[@bshivam2001]

@@morreamanha The breathing. Probably made a lot of viewers breathe manually there.

[@anusawant]

Oh ok

[@manzijoel5224]

Everyone asking when or why is water, but noboby aking how is water. 😪🌬

[@Omar_ayach]

It's wet

[@TheyCallMeHacked]

@@Omar_ayach well that's the question : Is water wet?

[@vasudevraghav2109]

@@TheyCallMeHacked actually it maynot be wet..... It is a discussed in a Seeker channel video..... Look it up

[@randomguy263]

@@TheyCallMeHacked Well, what does it even mean to be something? Does that have to be an intrinsic property of the substance or can it be extrinsic? And do we only define water as liquid water or de we also include ice and vapor (and plasma, technically, I guess, and a shit ton more of different states)? And if we do include ice and water vapor they're only really wet because they turn into liquid water when they btouch your skin, so I think it's fair enough to say that only water in its liquid form is wet, which is true for a lot of stuff.

[@TheyCallMeHacked]

@@randomguy263 I wouldn't even consider liquid water to be wet. It all depends on the definition of "wet". To me, something to be wet means that it has liquid water in or on it such that water is in a minority. Therefore a cup is not wet, but full, but a towel is wet. Though water is water so it can't have itself in or on itself and surely not in minority...

[@sshetty623]

2:59 Emily, isn't it the other way around. It takes the sky to make the water blue. Sky's blue due to reighley scattering, which in turn makes oceans blue due to reflection. Correct me if I'm wrong here..

[@MrT------5743]

The water vapor in the sky AND water in the ocean scatters blue wavelengths slightly more. That is due to Rayleigh scattering. That is why at sunset you start to see the reddish colors coming through cause the blue is all scattered out and only red shifted wavelengths remains to be scattered. So water is the reason for the blue sky and blue oceans.

[@Bubbalubagus]

We love Emily

[@luongmaihunggia]

SIMP

[@lokivanni2500]

redstone craft guy Why do you keep throwing around the word simp so much? Complimenting someone doesn’t automatically make you a simp. You do personally have something against Emily?

[@AP-yt]

redstone craft guy you again? It’s not love in romantic way weirdo

[@Sciencedoneright]

Why did you leave the MinuteEarth team, Emily?! We miss you

[@PashaSiraja]

It's been a while since I watched a video and learned so much new information out of it, thank you! :D

[@Dckinggambo_real]

THANKS FOR KEEPING MY SANITY IN THIS QUARANTINE

[@wintersfan]

Trying To Figure Out What's Upside Down Or Downside Up Will Make Your Brain Inside Out

[@stevenXCV]

I'm dehydrated after watching this.

[@yes.me.98]

I really love your videos! There is so much to learn… damn am I excited 😍

[@IvyRedwood]

This and “Human Evolution” are my favourite compilations

[@EzequielSchwartzman]

Clouds just look way more fascinating now, thanks! How is the phenomenon at 4:16 actually named?

[@MrT------5743]

Thermals is the term most hang-gliders call the rising warm air. It then causes air movement laterally across the surface as wind too.

[@siyacer]

Washing my hands with water while watching this.

[@sodiboo]

Thank you, before watching this i had no idea what water was, but now i know what water is - Thank you!

[@Moock91]

Extremely interesting, especially the inverted erosion part

[@duchi882]

If I could get to choose an Element to bend like in the Avatar: The Last Airbender I would choose Water Bending

[@billybob9495]

Earth bending is my favorite. Imagine bending metals.

[@hebl47]

I'd go for Fire bending, provided there's no upper limit on the fire's temperature. That way I could help with nuclear fusion!

[@axolotl2631]

Fire bending

[@finethenruz]

Earth because id like to scuplt dirt

[@xrefed]

Air so I can get to work quickly not needing to waste time choking them or wasting bullets

[@nickathans78]

I haven’t read it yet so I’ll say it. Emily is very cute and explains things so well. Thank you!

[@toastbrot21016]

Wow, thanks for this video! It was a pleasure to watch and learn :)

[@fordsfords]

This was an extra good one! Thanks!

[@achanwahn]

Emily being cast in a movie would be played by Katie Holmes

[@rottenpoet6675]

Who fell in love with Emily?

[@czypauly07]

guilty .... love that little moment of sass when she holds the signs up

[@Tony-nl6pf]

@@czypauly07 omg right

[@someonesomeone1262]

No one lol

[@michaelzeller2542]

simp

[@fredgotpub871]

Who is Emily ?

[@paulbork7647]

Thanks. The river length divided by the direct distance for a mature river is not only essentially the same, but pi.

[@achanwahn]

Ok. That inverted river is neat& imma have to look that up

[@cassandraponteres274]

Water

[@mottys1053]

First! Also, hydro homies!

[@nesddyx7634]

I agree

[@Eg-gs1pi]

ROUND?!?! I thought Earth was dinosaur shaped!!!!!!!!!

[@AP-yt]

BEST COMMENT EVER!! LOL 😂

[@sallycd5026]

Mann. You guys are Amazing!

[@monka-monk5118]

Me during school: 😐 Me during this: 😆😁😄

[@sauravsarkar419]

Emily is so damn cute ... her voice too ... child like and soothing at the same time .

[@aidanforcetwo3592]

Sun: Exists Water: *Guess I'll evaporate*

[@akzbanana9133]

I can get into the flow and can sprinkle some details and erosion some theorys :)

[@sarathchandravikas8062]

This is mind blowing...ma"am! Thankyou

[@coomertwitchclips7162]

Couldnt keep my eyes off emily 👀

[@paddlesaddlelad1881]

feels like watching porn

[@luongmaihunggia]

Simp

[@AP-yt]

K this is weird, some people mean it in less of a weird way but this is.. wrong.

[@AP-yt]

paddlesaddlelad , .... why?

[@include-bit]

​@@paddlesaddlelad1881😦

[@TheFuturistTom]

I've been watching Minute Earth for years. I liked their videos. That is why I decided to create my own Channel 👍🙂

[@XizheCheng]

I'll save this vid for my future kid. It's so well-done

[@paigeolfert3382]

There's a nature park/camp ground at a river near where I live called Ox Bow park.

[@zardzewialy]

What a stunning woman... and also a good edutainment video, but that's just an added benefit of watching Emily :P

[@paulbork7647]

zamaszysty Let’s appreciate her for who she is and what she s doing and not how she looks.

[@pXnTilde]

@@paulbork7647 why not both

[@zardzewialy]

@@paulbork7647 Sure, she was my favorite voice long before we saw her on one of the videos anyway. :)

[@archenema6792]

What looks like an ocean to us is just a condensation layer like sweat on a glass of lemonade.

[@kerengarcua8259]

Grover?

[@phantomkiller_xx_soulsnatc9353]

very very good video, I'm liking it. Will, there be any minute physics in the near future?

[@redoktopus3047]

Is that a "my rollercoaster" by Kimya Dawson reference in the beginning! 😄

[@nabeelkhan7506]

I want to know what happened to the beaver family

[@arismeinardllemit7568]

Musk Rat*

[@worldwithcuriosity148]

i commented first for the first time I love minute earth but I will see the video tomorrow because I have to sleep

[@barksaggressively]

No u werent first but nice

[@NoorquackerInd]

When a video initially uploads, the comments appear well after they've been commented. I got here 2 seconds after it was uploaded and the comments were empty, but it said that the video has 20 comments. A refresh was all that's needed to show them all. You lost, but so did nearly everyone

[@LiterallyEly]

Goodnight

[@samuelhopely4853]

I don't care what the other yahoos say, you're first to me champ. : )

[@morreamanha]

congratulations!

[@korasoup]

Earth: I'm the only planet that has water. Gliese 581c: Excuse me?

[@Caleb.Williams]

im glad im here before this video pops up in peoples recommendations in a few years

[@Adomas_B]

Remember memes that were like: Me is thirst Need to consume *W A T E R* big thank but who gave water?

[@krishnaprakash2155]

Hey Vsauce! Michael here

[@paddlesaddlelad1881]

yea... good times

[@isolationnationn]

“Technically it takes water to make the sky blue”... what?

[@marctanti390]

Water vapour?

[@alog4701]

@@marctanti390 Reflection

[@cageybee7221]

it's kinda weird but it has something to do with the reflection of the oceans and oxygen i think

[@austinnelsen2396]

Yes. Water molecules in the atmosphere are chiefly responsible for the light scattering that results in our blue sky.

[@ghislainbugnicourt3709]

@@cageybee7221 No it's the opposite : the ocean is blue mostly because the sky is blue. The sky is blue because light from the sun is diffused by the atmosphere, and blue is much more dffused than other colors, which also explains why the sun is red when close to the horizon (other colors are diffused before reaching your eyes). I'm not aware of what role water plays in that diffusion by the atmosphere. To be clear, liquid water also diffuses blue light, but the atmosphere does it first.

[@Kittysara-yq4ll]

Omg I love ur work!!!!!!!!!

[@theojames2581]

It’s actually, “Omg, I love your work!”

[@helmann9265]

One of My favorite channels on KZbin 💥🥳

[@PsychoSocialCreation]

Water is so magical! 💦💦

[@PsychoSocialCreation]

Definitely!

[@uxleumas]

10th

[@oldacc24]

when it says 1 minute ago:

[@timthetincan6782]

When the comment says 9 hours ago

[@zaptrap4802]

when the comment of @@amiyavatsa says 11 hours ago:

[@squibble311]

when the comment of @@zaptrap4802 says 3 months ago:

[@squibble311]

when the comment of@Demospire says 3 hours ago

[@sharky11711]

This is amazing

[@user-qh9ft7lh8o]

Love your videos

[@jovanmirkovic95]

8:34 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

[@katgor42]

*Horny teenager here*

[@include-bit]

hor(ny)mones?

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

It’s gonna take a lot to drag me away from you. There’s nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do. I bless the rains down in Africa

[@vedantbandagale5984]

Dafuq

[@Gsjsji_jwjsbs]

Outstanding explanation

[@kenbobca]

Good look'n teacher. Thank you for this video.

[@whatthefunction9140]

HydroHomies Our time has come

[@Alexander-is9jo]

I was looking for this comment. Stay hydrated everybody

[@ransetruman2984]

she is so cute

[@sciencifier3232]

Simp😆😆😆😆😆

[@ransetruman2984]

mock away🌊

[@AlexDincht]

Oh, the Mars surface picture. Part of that had to do with half the crater being croppedo out, but I was so sure the riverbed was inlaid that my brain automatically turned the crater into a protruding, dome-shaped formation without me even realising it consciously until I saw the broader picture.

[@yassinehadd1835]

thank you guys

[@eucalipto042]

Emily!!! Can you give me a heart??

[@crake9510]

W A T E R

[@ElpidiojrRubio]

I know right

[@apolosibose2182]

I feel like ive seen this video before Old minute earth videos compiled into 1 video

[@reidflemingworldstoughestm1394]

Thanks for explaining water, Minute Earth.