No Forests on Flat Earth 🚫🌲

[@EmmaThorneVideos]

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[@anuruksuriyaarachchi3988]

Emma, could you please give me your email address cause I really wanna send you something? Something I wanna share.

[@meej33]

Oh, no, another great creator lost to Raid Legends of the Grift...

[@avery-u1w]

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[@stickyrubb]

@@meej33 If you like Emma, you should remind yourself of the fact that she is earning a lot more by inserting skippable ads into her video. Some creators have explained they earned triple or quadruple the amount of money by doing a 2 minute ad read. I'm glad she got Raid to sponsor her, as this might reduce stress and/or pressure to meet certain quota. I'll leave it at that cuz I don't want to speak on her behalf.

[@ectogambit]

At least its not Hero Wars.

[@yyzhed]

"Wikipedia is bullshit...... let me read from Wikipedia to explain my worldview"..... what, my dude? Just, what?

[@Garrettmoron]

WIKIPEDIA IS THE GREATEST SOURCE OF INFORMATION WE CURRENTLY HAVE!

[@SpoopySquid]

​​@@Garrettmoronsad _Encyclopedia Britannica_ noises

[@Garrettmoron]

@@SpoopySquid They’re both good.

[@davidioanhedges]

@@SpoopySquidEncyclopaedia Britannica was my Wikipedia growing up ... but it does have many more errors than Wikipedia ...

[@joehemmann1156]

Wikipedia is a great starting resource that can get you the basics of almost any subject accurately. It does have a problem with the more advanced concepts, though, because the more cutting edge something is, the less published work there will be to refute the inaccuracies of an article. If you're looking for a deep dive on an advanced topic, you should probably look elsewhere. It should also be publicly funded. The fact that this amazing repository for so much human knowledge has to beg its users for money occasionally to keep the lights on is sad.

[@amtep]

Funny how They covered up an entire nuclear war, but did preserve the Bible unchanged

[@Amira_Phoenix]

My thoughts exactly

[@khosrow]

@@swedmiroswedmiro1352 fundamentalist Christians usually believe their version to be unaltered.

[@cindykammerzell3937]

So many people believe the Bible is the last word. However I Believe it has been used to manipulate people.

[@jd01665]

Actually I understand they rewrote the bible as well. It's the Whole Lie by Baal instead of Holy Bible now. Check out Who is YHWH by Isreal Anderson.

[@TuneTamasha]

there are hints of nukes in india too

[@pembrokeshiredan]

Does this mean the Knights Who Say Ni were already in a Shrubbery?

[@FowlsNest]

Criminally underrated comment

[@davidarmstrong3564]

We are no longer the Knights who say "Ni". We are the Knights who say "Ecky, ecky, fetang , zink, boing, aheeee."

[@eric2500]

NIIIIIIII- WUM!

[@larryk731]

I see a small forest (technically an undeveloped park in my town) every time I drive outside my development. Maybe I'm just seeing things.

[@segue2ant395]

Asking the real questions.

[@rwandaforever6744]

Funny thing...this science. There is a reason we do not have trees that grow higher than those Sequoioidea. There is a physical limit of how high a tree can get and that is between 100-120m. And it is rather simple: Trees get their water (and within it their nutrients) delivered via a system of "pipes". This transportation system consists of the Xylem (bringing water up from the roots to the top) and Phloem (distributing water within the tree). This is powered by evaporation. The whole transportation system is one large uninterrupted column of water. Water vapor is leaving the leaves through the stomata in the leaves, pulling more water from the Xylem to replace what has been lost and also to get to the nutrients that have been brought up from the roots. But water weights a bit. And to pull up water, you need a corresponding force. The maximum limit of this force is reached at about the height of those giant trees. While there are more than just the physical forces at work (there is also ionic pumps and osmosis and whatsnot), they are doing most of the literal lifting. If a tree would grow higher, it's upper parts would not be able to get water and thus would not grow. The column of water would be interrupted and the flow would stop. And this is not a thing any plant could overcome by some genius mechanism. They already overcame A LOT with genius mechanisms to get this high. This is the limit. There never was and never will be a 200m high tree and surely no Ygdrassil-like world tree with the base of a mountain and several kilometers in height. Not in this universe with those laws of nature. We can barely get enough water up the pipes of high building so the tenants on the upper floors can shower. And we have pumps!

[@xXKisskerXx]

yea its.. amazing that GRAVITY effects all things... and limits certain things... like my ability to jump over mountains. Darn gravity. You'll also notice the ancient giant trees - don't have many branches on the way up to the top. Instead they just have leaves out the top like palms - because that's all it could afford to grow with the limitations.

[@zoyonara]

Oh but you assume that the ancient silicon trees required water. How foolish

[@dracorex426]

Unless trees evolve hearts.

[@timolynch149]

Pipes.. that's how the internet works according to some US senator! And there are forests and trees in Active Directory. So.. the forests are the internet. Or something.

[@TheEnoctoro]

This comment is the dumbest thing I've red this year by far

[@tobiasmeerdink5023]

If this guy is so freaked out about the hexagons in Devil's Tower, he's gonna flip his shit when he finds out about bees

[@DavidSmith-vr1nb]

Or Giant's Causeway.

[@tibitzu365]

🤣

[@CAPSLOCKPUNDIT]

BEEHIVES ARE SATAN'S HONEYTRAP

[@DEZROK369]

bees showing intelligent structure? like a tree is intelligent designed? or like random lava flow??

[@laranadesign4764]

WITCHCRAFT!!! 😂

[@Endless_Spirals]

23:10 "Since we can no longer trust anyone..." I'm going to start by not trusting him.

[@andreipetrovv]

Probably you should listen to better translation, which is available in youtube for 6 years. I've no idea who actually adviced Emma to watch this terrible version of translation. Originally it's a text article, out of which Emma only randomly cherrypicked some quotes which may make much less sense out of the context of the article. And actually it has nothing to do with flat Earth (yes, no FLAT in original caption or in text), and you can listen to an ADEQUATE and FULL translation if you search this on youtube: "There are no forests on earth! (English dubbed)"

[@ShintogaDeathAngel]

@@andreipetrovv the concept of there being no forests on earth is ludicrous, regardless of whether it’s framed by a flat earth context or not. The quality of the translation is irrelevant if that’s really what’s being posited.

[@guytheincognito4186]

@@andreipetrovv If you think this ramble even in its original paper is et all merited, you’re a massive fool. 🤨

[@zooblestyx]

"The absurd is invented to hide the truth." The best summation of conspiracy theory thinking I've come across.

[@eljison]

Thanks! Even the short clips of this video were hard to watch. Our Baphy plushy sends his love!

[@johnflesner8086]

If the Earth was flat cats would have knocked everything off the edge.

[@sherlockwho5714]

Exactly

[@computerrepairguy]

Well…that’s why there’s no forests on the flat earth.

[@ronrolfsen3977]

What do you think happens in the Barmuda triangle? Damn cats.

[@President_Starscream]

How do we know they haven't?

[@Raketenclub]

also if there would be a dome, birds would have picked it and all oxygen would have gone long ago.

[@claveworks]

‘Devils Tree’ calculation: To estimate the height to diameter ratio, I looked at three areas/kinds of tree. 1. The Redwoods of California - about 16.5 x height/diameter. 2. The Eucalyptus of Australia - about 25.0 x height/diameter. 3. Various Amazonian trees - up 29.5 x height/diameter. I chose a conservative value of 22 as my ratio. The Devils Tower is 386m tall with the top platform being 90m x 55m. I assumed erosion, so took 90m as my tree diameter. So 90m x Ratio of 22 = 1980m tall for the top half. Add 386m for the base = 2366m total height of the ‘tree’ Calculation of Volume = about 60 million cubic metres. Calculation of Weight = about 180 million Tonnes. So… we are supposed to believe (deep breath for Imperial conversion) That a stone tree 7,762 feet tall, with a weight of 396 billion pounds just fell down and vanished? I sort of rest my case (lol)

[@victoriafelix5932]

Yep: it fell down ... and it can't get up!

[@johnflesner8086]

I have the honor of not understanding a word he is saying.

[@eddymonies8302]

You’re not missing much.

[@thetypingape2073]

I too am lost.

[@TaylorSwiftIsGod]

Don't feel bad. HE doesn't understand a word he is saying either!

[@SarastistheSerpent]

Same lol

[@piratetv1]

I understand the words, but his sentences confuse me.

[@wizardsuth]

OP: "Trees more than 30m tall no longer exist." 6:41 Shows a photo of the base of a much larger tree.

[@andreipetrovv]

That's just because Emma randomly quotes a very long article, if you follow an entire narrative it makes much more sense to you.

[@hedgehog3180]

@@andreipetrovv I highly doubt that.

[@ShintogaDeathAngel]

@@andreipetrovv if it boils down to “forests don’t exist on earth” there’s no point even looking at it, because forests clearly do exist so writing an article about them not existing is batshit crazy.

[@guytheincognito4186]

@@andreipetrovv No it doesn’t. 🤦‍♂️

[@gordmain5370]

I had a friend that would always say "I did a 360 on my feelings about...." It drove me crazy. He could be a teacher at mud fossil university.

[@brandex2011]

MFU?

[@desperadox7565]

Like all the people who say "I could care less". And I'm not even a native speaker.

[@tiryaclearsong421]

​@@brandex2011 You don't want to know. But the Sir Sic channel spends a lot of time rebutting it in case you are curious. Those and the Earth am pyramid video are my favorites for a good laugh.

[@Culpride]

If they said "I did a 420 on my feelings about...." I'd totally get what they were rambling about ...

[@VelaiciaCreator]

Tbh it could be a clever way to say you haven't changed your mind about something, to see if they catch on.

[@robertbevins5961]

He doesn't understand it, doesn't want to understand it, and therefore... checkmate science!

[@katzbird1]

I can’t wait to watch this video on how flat earthers care so much about conservation and climate change and how they’re fighting against deforestation.

[@meantweetsandcheepgas946]

You'd think that they'd be more concerned than the average person since they think we are in a closed system.

[@SamJNE122]

@@meantweetsandcheepgas946 If there really is a massive wall of ice surrounding the -planet- plane, sea level rise will be even worse than we think!

[@PerspectiveEngineer]

Tune in to the older videos from "cool hard logic" He did a nice I want to say 10 part series on bat shit crazy. Enjoy

[@therealpbristow]

@@SamJNE122 If the ice wall melts, won't sea level fall rather dramatically? =:oo.

[@ShintogaDeathAngel]

@@therealpbristow if flat earth is covered by a dome (as at least some flat earth conspiracy theorists claim) and it’s sealed around the edge (just speculation on my part, I must stress) then the water wouldn’t have an edge to run off.

[@Sxcheschka]

At 9:09 the picture shown is a painting by the amazing Polish Nightmare artist, Zdzisław Beksiński, and the name of the piece is, Untitled. He never titled his pieces, guy's art is absolutely amazing, I highly recommend checking it out.

[@zacharysieg2305]

If there are no forests on earth, then WHERE THE HELL DID I GO CAMPING?!!

[@alexalbuquerquerodriguesal108]

You're a paid actor, because that makes sense.

[@zacharysieg2305]

@@alexalbuquerquerodriguesal108 Oh boy, they paid off my entire boy scout troop? How come I never got a check?

[@alexalbuquerquerodriguesal108]

@@zacharysieg2305 It's the corporations, man. Taking our souls, our rights, making us work as paid actors without payment, It's very different from before when we had the GUPAL, Global Union for Paid Actors and Liars, now corpations crack down on our struggle for living wages and shit.

[@AccidentalNinja]

A shrubbery.

[@RevelationsPrimo]

Hollywood Special Effects """""trees""""""" See, you were actually kidnapped and brainwashed, being fed a dream/simulation a la Total Recall and what you **thought** was a concentrated camping experience was actually you being held in a **concentration camp** Probably owned by FEMA or something

[@jonnowds]

“Who’s doing the mining?” He TOLD you: “Our MASTERS!” C’mon, Emma, try to keep up 🤪🤣

[@MonkeyJedi99]

Who cut down these trees leaving the stumps that are somehow not the lava cores of ancient extinct volcanoes? And where did the axes and saws go?

[@andruloni]

classic master behavior

[@vforwombat9915]

i am your master. i order you to do whatever you want to do.

[@Error4x5]

​@@MonkeyJedi99 The Smithsonian Institute took them all. They're stored in crates, in a gigantic warehouse, next to the bones of giants, the Arc of the Covenant, Bigfoot, UFO bodies and everything else people say existed but have zero physical evidence to prove it.

[@andreipetrovv]

Probably you should listen to better translation, which is available in youtube for 6 years. I've no idea who actually adviced Emma to watch this terrible version of translation. Originally it's a text article, out of which Emma only randomly cherrypicked some quotes which may make much less sense out of the context of the article. And actually it has nothing to do with flat Earth (yes, no FLAT in original caption or in text), and you can listen to an ADEQUATE and FULL translation if you search this on youtube: "There are no forests on earth! (English dubbed)"

[@Procrastination87]

I'm convinced, we're all dwarfs living in a giant mine.

[@Syrph.]

Diggy diggy hole?

[@jamesrule1338]

The Diggy Diggy Hole song is now stuck in my head.

[@OldGeezerstoolbox]

Isn't that basically the plot of the classic horror movie "Phantasm"? Dead earth bodies being stolen and compressed/modified to act as slaves, mining stuff on some other planet with weird gravity, while back on earth to keep it all hidden a flying chrome ball stabs spikey bits into the brains of pesky intruders...give or take. OMG, it's actually a documentary!

[@darkhobo]

Basically a Dwarf Fortress that's gone on too long. Our only hope is they patch out carbon emissions.

[@brandex2011]

What if we're all delusions living in a giant mind?

[@PansyPops]

I’m studying environmental management at a college level at the moment. Gonna send this to my friends in the class, I’m sure they’ll appreciate this.

[@DrewTrox]

1:04 Confirmed: Emma is a Wood Nymph. Someone edit the lore on the Wiki.

[@pattheplanter]

I would guess one of the Epimeliades, guardians of apple trees and goats.

[@EmmaThorneVideos]

What I wouldn't give for a wiki page that is exclusively filled with the 'emma is a forest sprite of some kind' theory

[@graduallyatheist-l7p]

​@@EmmaThorneVideosyou're the ideal being. Praise Emma!

[@ironic_ant]

On the one hand, my know-it-all-ishness would like Emma to know that "butte" is pronounced "byoot". On the other, I'd like her to continue pronouncing it "butt" because that's charming as heck.

[@CAPSLOCKPUNDIT]

Let's please avoid mocking our host for her pronunciation of English language words. 😋

[@sarahr8311]

Ok, but "butt" is objectively funnier. I am fine with people laughing when I pronounce their words in unintentionally silly/dirty ways, and I think it's fine to have a good- natured giggle when someone says "butte" as "butt"

[@kiwitrainguy]

Butte is pronounced "beaut" (as in beautiful).

[@andreipetrovv]

@@CAPSLOCKPUNDIT I most likely have the same native language as the reader (which is Russian). And I confirm that his English pronunciation is awful, same for grammar and accuracy of translation. But the point is he's not an author of the text. The text is actually an article, originally in Russian, and it's rather long, audio version is about 1 hour. It makes much more sense if you read full article or listen to an adequate translation which exists on youtube for many years. You can find in searching this on youtube: "There are no forests on earth! (English dubbed)". And disclamer, NO flat Earth is originally mentioned, I don't know why someone distorted and original title.

[@Szriko]

@@andreipetrovv I mean he literally explains it in his voice in the video. Maybe you should be careful before you accidentally fall out a window.

[@johnsensebe3153]

I saw a cloud that looked like a bunny once. I now live in fear of giant, flying rabbits. Also, I'm glad someone finally had the courage to call out breathing. In, out, in out - it's so _boring!_

[@bunnykiller]

have no fear I am here.... fear not the bunny

[@johnsensebe3153]

@@bunnykiller Have you seen what a bunny did to King Arthur's knights?!

[@bunnykiller]

@@johnsensebe3153 yes, hence my nickname and an unfortunate night on I -10 in Texas... bunny should have zigged instead of zagging

[@brianm959]

Oh no! The giant bunny cloud is the worst portent of doom.

[@jongkittae]

8:22 "hooligan meteorite" is officially how i will be answering "what causes craters?" from here on out thanks

[@graduallyatheist-l7p]

Darn those delinquents!

[@yep_2431]

Since we can no longer trust anyone I vote for not trusting this guy first

[@ssgtmole8610]

🤣🤣🤣

[@vroommoorv1540]

That petrified forest finally solved a mystery that's been clawing at my mind since I was young: what did the Flintstones do with the wheels from their cars once they weren't useful any more.

[@gargoylesblade]

The red wood trees he shows and says doesn't exist anymore more, do exist still and are that huge. I live 30 minutes away from them, called big trees park.

[@BrickNewton]

Can you please hug one next time you see one and say that we still believe in them

[@gargoylesblade]

@@BrickNewton of course

[@daveg2104]

And we have some big trees in Australia. Sadly not as many as we should have - all that timber. Not to mention "accidents" by forestry workers. Some of them seem to be very careless with fire. Current tallest tree in Australia is a mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans) in Tasmania named Centurion at 99.8 metres/327.4 ft, so not quite a centurion, at least in metric. Depends on how long ago it was last measured.

[@gargoylesblade]

@daveg2104 the red wood sequoia are about 380 ft tall and around 29 ft in diameter. We are fortunate here that they are protected, otherwise people would have cut them down.

[@daveg2104]

@@gargoylesblade Yes, I know of them. Magnificent trees. Mountain ash forests are pretty impressive too, although not many people know of them outside Australia. They are the second tallest growing tree species in the world (and the tallest flowering plant). We don't know how tall they can grow though, but a tree was measured at 112.8 metres (370 ft) by theodolite in 1880 by a surveyor, George Cornthwaite, at Thorpdale, Victoria (the tree is known both as the Cornthwaite or Thorpdale Tree). When it was felled in 1881, Cornthwaite remeasured it on the ground by chain at 114.3 metres (375 ft). It's just a shame the biggest specimens were cut down.

[@veronicaravello-arceo]

For the tough words, hopefully this is useful if you didn’t go find this out already. Chalcedony: (12:32) it goes “Cal-SAID-oh-knee” Lignin: (13:11) LIGG-nin. There’s no ng sound like in gong or thing. Lahar: (13:43) [you said this one just fine, I just had to look this one up for those of us silly beans who had no clue what this is.] Butte: (15:55) no it is not a butt. It’s a BYUT. Like cute but switch the C for a B. I went back in the video to find these, so I hope this helps!

[@wendyheatherwood]

Emma just out here on the internet trying to gaslight us into believing she's not actually an ageless forest spirit who decided to join human civilisation after discovering KZbin on a phone dropped by a clumsy hiker.

[@EmmaThorneVideos]

[sweat]

[@therealpbristow]

@@EmmaThorneVideos Your secret is safe with us. We'll only ever publish it on Wikipedia, and like the man said, everyone knows that's all bullshit. =:o}

[@adub_from_253]

Field Trip, Field Trip, Field Trip!! Don’t forget you permission slips! 😄

[@gornser]

If you make a video about it, it will be a business expense for sure

[@CouchAlien]

These flat earthers are silly little guys

[@dennishaladyn8205]

Some flat earthers claim that Australia doesn't exist none of them are Australian, though

[@NZSpides]

@@dennishaladyn8205Sadly there is flat earthers resident in Australia. 😞

[@dennishaladyn8205]

@@NZSpides Do they believe that they exist?

[@JW-mb6tq]

Flat Earthers are my absolute favorite internet entertainment. Kinda like watching fail army. You are not watching to see the guy on the bike stick the landing, but just the opposite.

[@SIartibartf4st]

​@@NZSpidesMitchell is one of them. Morons...

[@stephenconnolly3018]

Now I know why I keep finding bears in my toilet. There is no forests.

[@anainesgonzalez8868]

I feel really bad for flat earthers. It makes me really sad that they are not able to know some thing they seem really really interested in. They are way more interested in geology, cosmology, physics than the average person

[@anainesgonzalez8868]

@@bruderdereintagsfliege3327 that is just being a human

[@simontillson482]

I’m not sure ‘interested’ is the right word. Sounds like they’re more afraid of, baffled by and want to refute these awful ‘scientific ideas’ so that they’ll go away and stop hurting their poor little braincells.

[@anainesgonzalez8868]

@@simontillson482 I do not agree

[@garyk1334]

😂

[@desperadox7565]

Not really. They don't want to hear the answers, they just want to feel special.

[@Chasardous]

The Devil's Tower actually has a nifty story about how it was formed in native lore, and the ridges were formed by bear scratches

[@wintergray1221]

I freaked out when I first read that because I had a recurring nightmare when I was little where I was being chased by a raging mad bear and had to climb up a super tall and steep cliff to escape. Of course, the Devil's Tower story doesn't include a circus being at the top, but it was still eerily coincidental 😅🤣

[@ratgirl34]

17:32 I’ve been to Devils Tower and the sheer size of these things is unreal. There were a couple climbers when I was there, just specks towards the top. How can anyone think this is a tree stump is beyond me. If you actually go to the place, the parts that make the ‘root’ shapes towards the bottom are mostly columns that have already fallen off. Every season change takes a few more down from erosion.

[@meantweetsandcheepgas946]

200 million years is a lot of season changes

[@MonkeyJedi99]

Oh yeah? Then explain the reason the outer space aliens chose it as a place to meet humans!

[@teaurn]

Giants Causeway or Fingal's Cave - also examples of the same thing... Trees, my big fat arse!

[@ratgirl34]

@@MonkeyJedi99 It’s a great parking spot for their ships obviously. Lol If they want to use it again they better come soon!

[@ratgirl34]

@@meantweetsandcheepgas946 Indeed. It used to be quite a bit wider.

[@stefkukla8533]

Unlike a Ferrari, I'm pretty sure a rock doesn’t have working parts.

[@triadmad]

If you can't arrange a visit to Devil's Tower, perhaps a visit to a similar, closer, but much shorter, landscape can be made. The Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland was formed in much the same way.

[@pattheplanter]

I visited when I was 6 and still have weird memories of it.

[@ElementalWhispers]

I instantly thought of Giant's Causeway. Which was made by and for giants, of course. No other explanation.

[@kinoko5566]

You should absolutely do a cross over with American geologist KZbinrs where you check out some of our national parks.

[@janus1958]

I actually live in a forest for about 7 years. My parents bought a house that was the only one on a mile long connecting road that cut through a section of 10,000 acre tract of forested land owned by a logging company. ( Why the house had been built there in the first place is a story on its own.) Our nearest neighbor was 3/4 mile away in one direction, and miles in another. An elk trail passed within a 100 yards of the house. I've been to Devil's tower, as well as a number of other US national monuments and parks. This guy is so typical of his type; anything he can't immediately grasp or is outside what he wants to believe is labeled BS. It's never "Hmm, this seems odd, I wonder if I am missing something." And don't tell me that volcanoes aren't real. I lived some 40 miles from Mt Saint Helens when it went active, and got a memento in the form of 10 stitches from the aftermath.

[@EmmaThorneVideos]

Oh my gosh!! That sounds terrifying

[@davidratliff-vn7cz]

Hello Emma, love your work. I binge-watched a bunch of your videos this weekend and almost all of them were prefaced by an ad for Hallow, the Catholic prayer & meditation app (complete with free prayer!).

[@mjjoe76]

Guy seems to be an example of why the phrase “touch grass” came about.

[@VultureSkins]

He sounds like he’d have a grand time touching grass, I hope he does lol

[@mjjoe76]

@@VultureSkins Right! Get some vitamin D and fresh air and maybe a little exercise too. Touch grass for your mental and physical health.

[@rolfs2165]

But don't you know, it's not grass, it's magmatic melt! 14:49

[@therealivydawg]

I'm allergic to grass.

[@whilwheatonIII]

​@@therealivydawgtouch hypoallergenic foliage

[@CollectiveSin]

For a video only 26 minutes long, listening to this guy felt like an eternity. I almost bailed out, but I'm glad I stuck around to catch the Futurama reference. That put a big smile on my face.

[@kiwitrainguy]

24:18 Nice👍

[@StooDogg]

Exclanimation Mark sounds like a superhero name? Everything is now stones. In the words of Bob Dylan: 'Everybody must get stoned?'

[@Snuggles_the_Unholy]

Great idea. Mark's superpower is he yells everything he says.... I'M GOING TO PEE NOW! HOW ARE YOU, DAMNIT! I LIKE DONUTS, MF!

[@NeutralDrow]

Exclanimation Mark is a perfectly frantabulous name!

[@MeekandMe]

Im convinced this was originally supposed to be a D&D adventure that got taken too seriously

[@fostena]

Being a GM myself I must admit I was "tickled" by it. A post-giants world, there may be something to it... there's still the issue of "why hide it?", though. If I were to write such a setting, it would either be one where the humanity is completely oblivious to the history of giants, or one where it is a well-known historical fact. The only reason for the conspiracy that comes to my mind is that if the dissemination of such knowledge would somehow bring the giants back.

[@OnASeasideMission]

Emma, I love the way that you can sit and listen to this gibberish. I try to live up to your shining example. PS. I graduated in geology, and I struggle to remember every bloody mineral.

[@johndavis-cf5wf]

The buy bull negates (disproves)itself.

[@80cardcolumn]

I couldn't stand to listen to his nonsense for more than a few seconds before I had to skip ahead.

[@jiubboatman9352]

The Giants causway in Ireland and the island of Staffa (Fingals cave) are made of exactly the same type of columnar bassalt and they are 130km apart. That is a big-ass tree.

[@anarchords1905]

Damn. I was just about to say the same thing. You beat me to it by 25mins there.🙂 I was musing, maybe they think Fingal's cave is a huge hole in the tree, made by a massive dinosaur woodpecker. Or monster termites😱.

[@fepeerreview3150]

6:50 California was my birthplace and the great Redwood forests in the north have to be experienced. There are no words to describe them. These are the last of the primeval forests that were of immense height and expanse. When he says we have no forests he's talking about compared to what we have lost. I entirely agree with him on that point. 15:25 the rest of what he's saying is nonsense.

[@NauerBauer]

"God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, and avalanches; but he cannot save them from fools" John Muir

[@lillia5333]

Puny god!

[@DrachenGothik666]

I've been to Muir Woods & yeah, it was a heck of an experience. I feel at home there. It's the most psychologically calming place I've ever been to. All the tension just went out of me while I walked the Cathedral Of Trees. I'm an atheist & I have to say, that was the first time I felt anything like religious awe. I live in a National Forest. The trees aren't as huge, but it's still lovely.

[@xXKisskerXx]

"there are no words to describe them" - 2 things.. you just gave a description of the impressiveness, and "huge, impressive, gorgeous, unworldly, fantasy inspiring" - i just described them with words.

[@kiwitrainguy]

I have a theory that the reason people feel so good/calm/mellow in a forest is because of all the oxygen given out by the trees. The opposite is in a city with all the cars using oxygen and giving out carbon dioxide making people feel irritable/grumpy/aggravated.@@DrachenGothik666

[@michaelrichter9427]

"…it all hinges on this global conspiracy…" *UN*hinges, ITYM.

[@simond.455]

16:54 You didn't get to the Eyjafjallajökull part. 😆 Grand Canyon must be a quarry because it looks nothing like a quarry at all. And trees are not trees because they look like trees. What? I mean... actually... what? 🤪

[@E_MO_TION]

I've been to Devil's Tower, and one thing I think you dont get from pictures is how big it is. There are parts of the columns that have fallen off that are the size of school busses

[@Amira_Phoenix]

Nature is so majestic 😍

[@mdug7224]

😮I have walked through sooooo many imaginary places with friends! I've even tripped over nonexistent roots of imaginary trees!

[@TooFarSouth-qn3bk]

Thanks for making the silly content Emma! I will be camping the Baphy pride plushie, hoping one day it won't be sold out, because that plushie is so freakin' adorable!

[@everything_is_illuminated619]

I use to work as an assistant teacher so I had summers off and spent one living in my car and visiting most of the national parks in the US! It was marvelous!

[@joseph96345]

"With black jack and hookers..." LOL. I've never before heard anyone use that Futurama reference. Hail Bender!

[@graduallyatheist-l7p]

I'll make my own heaven. It'll have blackjack and h00k3r$!

[@tofersiefken]

I live in the Alaskan panhandle, the Tongass National Forest is in my backyard, and I hike there with my dog frequently. I often record videos of myself playing my ukulele in the forests on my hikes.

[@MinionofNobody]

I think the flat earther response would be that you are just part of the conspiracy. Maybe you are an evil AI who has been programed to keep the flat earthers under the thumb of the globist elite. You get the picture.

[@kddicks5115]

Fellow Alaskan here!👍👍 it’s hard to believe there are no forests when you’re from the great northern wilderness, eh?🤣🤣

[@lillia5333]

It's just shubbery😂

[@tofersiefken]

@@lillia5333 Of course, anything small enough to be cut down with a herring can't be a real tree.

[@martinconnelly1473]

I would love a flerf to come up with a viable explanation for their "local" sun resulting in those long days and short nights you must get in summer.

[@segue2ant395]

Please bring back the heavy-metal screeching-guitar "Gongle Time" gag. It's such a mood. It makes me feel like a rock-star every time I'm forced to concede I don't know something.

[@fepeerreview3150]

13:17 lig - nin ... it's sort of the 'glue' that holds wood together when the tree is alive.

[@CraigJudd]

More like "lignin deez nuts", amirite?

[@miaisdrawing5509]

I just wanted to chime in and thank you again for always adding proper subtitles. ❤

[@nicksykes4575]

I've got several aerial photos of Versuvius erupting in 1944, that my father, who was a photo reconnaissance pilot, had from WW2.

[@EmmaThorneVideos]

That's awesome

[@r1madbrit]

Devils Tower is amazing and strikingly weird. I rode a Yamaha R1 around America in 2008 and visited the site. That and the Grand Canyon are well worth a 'field trip'.

[@sunburstbasser]

Well! That was certainly a thing. I currently live in the Black Hills. If you ever do make a field trip out here, I will be your personal tour guide.

[@fepeerreview3150]

20:20 Strange that we have no historical records of this nuclear war between 1780-1815. I've read memoirs by people lived at that time, such as Goethe and Beethoven. They made no mention of such a vast catastrophe.

[@JesmondBeeBee]

I assume he's referencing the Year Without a Summer, which happened in 1816. It was caused by the catastrophically huge eruption of Mt Tambora in 1815 putting so much crap into the atmosphere it dropped the temperature worldwide for months. I should have known there'd be conspiracy theory around it. 😩

[@josh.the.geekorium]

Not only that, the bible survived this period and we can trust that it's historically accurate in ways we cannot trust more modern written histories?

[@austin.luther]

If you do a field trip to the US to see some cool nature stuff, I recommend Luray Caverns in Virginia. It's a really cool cave network that has an interesting feature of having had a pipe organ made out of it. When you go in on tours there is an organist playing the...cave. It's so cool! And you can even buy CDs in the gift shop of famous pieces that were played on the cave organ!

[@EmmaThorneVideos]

That's so cool!!!

[@trekkiejunk]

"Butte" is not a "BUTT." It's probably a US-UK misunderstanding, but it is pronounced "Byoot."

[@taveren1466]

I don't care what the word says, I'm saying butt!

[@pattheplanter]

In English English we have the word butt, pronounced butt, meaning a hillock or mound. One of 14 uses of butt as a noun. An emmet-butt is an ant-hill. It derives from the same French word.

[@cobrasys]

I think you're underestimating Emma's desire to make a joke about the word. 😉

[@DavidSmith-vr1nb]

​​@@pattheplanter also an earthen backstop for archery and/or rifle ranges. Probably one of the other 13.

[@therealpbristow]

But a butt can also be a beaut. =:o}

[@davidioanhedges]

Columnar hexagonal jointing ... aka the giants causeway and the Island of Staffa ...

[@darthlordkamisennin5620]

I can believe that there are no forest on flat earth. I mean, all that water falling off the sides of flat earth and all, it sounds like a dry place. 😂😂

[@irrelevant_noob]

Maybe the water gets renewed from all those "fountains of the deep"? ^^

[@darthlordkamisennin5620]

@@bruderdereintagsfliege3327 that's "disc earth", totally different from "flat earth" but close to "3rd earth".🤣🤣

[@xXKisskerXx]

i just wanna know on the 'flat earth' what keeps the ice wall around it from being pusshed off by the tremendous amount of water pressure of the oceans pushing against them? I mean.. surely after a few million years a crack would form and some of the ice wall would fall off.. right?

[@irrelevant_noob]

@@xXKisskerXx there's nowhere for it to be pushed off into, since the firmament/dome encloses the whole thing. ;-) PS What million years, it's only been a few thousand. 🤪

[@johnhavel7685]

It is fair to say that trees used to be bigger but they were definitely not these mesas and such. I often think about how much it sucks that the eastern forests of the US have been devastated since colonization and even many of the western forests. I’ve read that it was relatively common to see trees 10ft in diameter and 200+ feet tall in the eastern forests prior to the massive deforestation that occurred during the initial colonization period by Europeans. It’s one of the things that makes me really want to go out west to see the redwoods and sequoia and giant western red cedars and Doug firs that are all 200-400 ft tall. Tallest trees I’ve seen by me are around 70-100 tops and mostly only a few feet in diameter unless they are multi trimmed in which case sometimes you’ll see ones that may be around 6-7 ft across occasionally. Very few are more than a 200 or so years old while out west there are trees like the redwoods which are 2000 years old older than Jesus and in the western deserts there are bristlecone pines that are 5000 years old older than the biblical flood or the pyramids. Blows my mind you also have that clonal colony of quaking aspen in Utah I believe that is covers hundreds of acres and is estimated to be as an organism around 80000 years old if I’m not mistaken. It’s truly amazing. The size and age of some of these ancient old growth forests and they are awe inspiring to see however they were never the size of entire mountains and mesas or volcanic remnants like devils tower or monuments park

[@kokkeibunni07]

Many people don't realize just how LESS North America has gotten. All of our big mature trees, gone. All of the natural raging rivers and rapids, diverted or dammed. We used to have flocks of birds so thick they blocked out the sun and created their own clouds. Gone. I wish I could have seen our world even a couple hundred years ago, I bet it was gorgeous.

[@johnhavel7685]

@@kokkeibunni07 me too it saddens me when I think about it

[@kiwitrainguy]

I've heard of buffalo/bison heards on the Great Plains that would take someone three days to ride through on a horse back in the 19th century.@@kokkeibunni07

[@DarthMaui]

My takeaway: don’t fear content creation because this exists. It can never be as bad as what this person made. Ok…. I can do this!

[@Amira_Phoenix]

Cool profile name

[@renatocorvaro6924]

Two things. First, great video. "No forests"? Like, c'mon. I've been inside a forest. Where do you live that you have never seen a forest in person? Second, I accept that this is your job and that you need sponsors to make anything resembling a decent income, but I sincerely hope you find something better than Raid. It is exemplary of all the problems with the mobile gaming industry. Love your stuff and I'll keep coming back always.

[@EmmaThorneVideos]

Appreciate u

[@wraitholme]

A student of the school of "It looks like a thing, therefore it is that thing". I'm sure he's going to find mountain ranges that look like dragons next, if he hasn't already. I think that's the usual progression.

[@HansPeter-hx5dx]

So if i see a cat, its not a cat? You must be very clever.

[@wraitholme]

@@HansPeter-hx5dx You're twisting my meaning quite a bit there. On purpose, perhaps? It's more like "Just because it _looks_ like a cat, doesn't mean it _is_ a cat." I once saw Barney the Dinosaur in the clouds, but I never came to the conclusion that he's an air spirit.

[@HansPeter-hx5dx]

@@wraitholme He wasn't talking about clouds though, his main argument was, that magma would never form a structure like the Devils Tower, Giants Causeway and all the other basalt columns he mentioned. His explanation makes way more sense, if you think about it logically and apply Occam's Razor.

[@wraitholme]

@@HansPeter-hx5dx Sure, lets apply logic and the razor, shall we? Well, firstly the Razor fails as it's intended to to decide _temporarily_ between two otherwise equal competing arguments, and the idea of giant trees at that scale is so fundamentally stupid and violates so many principles of biological history, biochemistry and basic materials physics that it's not even _close_ to being equal, let alone competitive. But lets set that aside for the moment and ask a few more questions. To start with, where's the rest of the ecology that these trees would necessarily exist within? Where are their competitors? Where are their root structures? Where are any signs of their growth mechanisms, like how they would move nutrition around their infrastructure? What possible sort of process could result in them being turned to stone? Why on earth would they grow so incredibly huge when there is zero evidence of any competitors that they'd need to outgrow? And your/his argument has a fundamental flaw... it's entirely possible that magma extrusions _can_ form such towers. Geologists just argue between _actual_ competing processes to decide on which sophisticated process really happened.

[@HansPeter-hx5dx]

​@@wraitholme You said alot, without saying anything. Keep it nice and tight and come directly to the point: How would magma form a hexagonal structure? I can't think of any logical way possible, after observing how magma behaves. Enlighten me please, and you win the argument.

[@duanewilkinson9739]

What the heck was that Emma 😂 This video had me literally scratching my head … not your usual excellent reaction and facial expressions but the Flat Earth video itself …. It’s absolutely bizarre and unintentionally hilarious , keep up the great work Little Ducky

[@salyx]

The 1816 nuclear winter was because of a volcanic eruption. Good gods, this is wild.

[@pattheplanter]

As a lover of alternative history fiction, I would like to read about the past where Frankenstein was written because of the aftermath of a remarkably clean nuclear war. Perhaps Alexander von Humboldt was evil in that leg of the trousers of time and turned his genius to weapons of mass destruction.

[@salyx]

@@pattheplanter I am so here for this.

[@KalebCorvid]

​@@pattheplanter"leg of the trousers of time" is such a good line tho? Hope you don't mind if I start using it

[@pattheplanter]

@@KalebCorvid I stole it from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, I would love more people to use it.

[@KalebCorvid]

@@pattheplanter you know, you'd think I would have recognised it. But I'll definitely add it to my lexicon now

[@PinkyJujubean]

My favorite thing is when someone posts something that mocks flat earthers and then they show up in the comments to "debate" people (show everyone how smart they think they are). They honestly have no idea how ridiculous they actually are. They know people laugh at them but they can't possibly comprehend how loud theyre being laughed at. If they knew what they actually look like to everyone else theyd probably hide in a closet out of sheer embarrassment

[@theDane70]

It’s normal because all the trees are blocking his view so he can’t see the forest....

[@Amira_Phoenix]

Underrated

[@LukeKendall-author]

"Spunkledork"? Brilliant!

[@pencildragon1961]

"Never make fun of people for mispronouncing a word. It means they learned it by reading." - anon Butte is pronounced like "beauty" with out the ee at the end.

[@pattheplanter]

Like the Australian word "beaut".

[@wintergray1221]

Me with lich, quay, and collegium. Apparently they are not leech, kway, or koleejum.

[@mrmr446]

You made me imagine youngling Emma running with the wild ponies of the New Forest until adopted by the Spunkledork clan.

[@fasggasgasdf]

Be proud of being a boy, don't try to be someone else!

[@francuzik-wj4mc]

True i don't know why he keep's pretending to be "sHe"

[@EmmaThorneVideos]

Excuse me I'm a Silly Lil Guy

[@portlavacaboy]

I tried really hard to follow this guy, Emma, but I was unable to penetrate his thick accent. You should get a medal for your effort.

[@friendlyneighbourhoodsteve4087]

That was bonkers. And fossils made of opal are amazing! If you're not familiar with opal, it can be really beautiful. It's quite 'random', so every piece is unique. Black opal is my favourite. 💜

[@anna9072]

The thing that I’ve noticed about flat earthers and other science rejectors is that they’ll say “how does this work?”, and then when you tell them they say “no, it can’t work like that.”

[@evilbob840]

"Devil's Tower is a butt!" lol

[@lloroshastar6347]

I do love that they use science when it suits them, and then completely dismiss science when it's no longer of any use to them.

[@jobrown95]

"Crooling process" The grueling cooling process

[@oldmanlearningguitar446]

It would be funnier if this type of arrogance mixed with misunderstanding wasn’t so incredibly common across so many issues.

[@dahlinthefiend]

I'm really surprised to find out that my small city paid to have a holographic projection of trees surrounding the area. Seems expensive.

[@johnmcclure40]

I'm still hung up on the idea of a secret nuclear war. Of all the things that you can't keep a secret, that would probably be at the top.

[@arctic_haze]

A special shout out to you for the Futurama Moon casino joke. Another job well done! 🤖

[@brandex2011]

@ 8:18 I have actually been to the vortex that made 'hooligan meteorite 50,000 years ago.' I did not know that it had originally been a City of Aryans - and neither did the curators of the City of Aryans. (At least they did not admit it.) They did tell us about the 'hooligan meteorite' though they didn't call it by that name. During that same family trip, we also visited the famous Petrified Forest. I was a kid just starting a rock collection, and some of the stray bits had been agatized but those bits were fairly rare. Mostly they were just interesting because they were various colored minerals. In any case, I rolled up the legs of my jeans to make little cuffs and scuffed my feet as much as possible without making a scene. The sign outside declared that taking even a small piece was illegal, but... Anyway, it was a good thing that I hadn't managed to kick anything into my cuffs, because they shook me down when we left. Oh well. I had no idea they were wise to kids like me. Bullies! I laughed when I called them 'Petrified Forest Rangers' - in my head. I guess I couldn't see the trees for the forest! We never got to Devil's Tower, but had I known that it's a landing strip for UFOs and/or UAPs I would have insisted like Roy Neary. BTW, Devil's Tower just had a walk-on at the end. This was a really fun one, Emma. Thanks.

[@r.michaelburns112]

Ah, the classic "I don't believe it so it can't be true" argument, a.k.a. the Argument from Incredulity. But I LOVE the whole "secret nuclear war" idea. That's fabulous. Also, visit Devil's Tower. It's awesome!

[@bobhale7302]

I was in Quito in 2000 when the nearby volcano Pichincha erupted. It only kicked out a lot of steam dirt and ash but it was pretty scary as the whole city was under about a foot of fine white ash, so either volcanos are real or the Ecuadorian's have Spielberg levels of special effect capabilities.

[@kiwitrainguy]

Oh it's amazing what Hollywood special effects can do. Just look at that World Trade Centre thing in 2001 Sept.11th, totally convincing.

[@hermannehrlich4922]

This video is not an irony, I know Russian and I can tell that the author of the video is most likely Russian-speaking by his accent, and this kind of conspiracy is popular specifically in the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet. There are entire channels on KZbin with hundreds of thousands subscribers, where they talk about giant trees, canyons as quarries of ancient civilizations, ancient abandoned cities that look like microcircuits, and much more.

[@limbsjones]

"i'ts a butt"!!! hahha so juvenal, and yet so funny!!!!

[@twanfox]

Devil's Tower is a phenomenal experience to go see, as is all the Black Hills, really. Been several times and it never ceases to be entertaining, and that's without even being a rock climber.

[@robsquared2]

Perfect, this is absolutely true. So since there are trees here, the earth is not flat.

[@lucienhdgs]

i remember seeing this conspiracy the first time a decade ago, it was funny af but the best example of 'it looks like this and that is more important than any evidence'. it seems to have expanded quite a bit since then

[@wizardsuth]

One reason there are many fossils of shark teeth is that they have multiple rows of teeth and shed old ones regularly as new ones grow in. This greatly increases the number of teeth sharks produce.

[@anna9072]

Also, tooth enamel is one of the toughest substances in nature, and will survive long after every other part of the body has returned to dust.

[@deanallen927]

Thanks for keeping the fight against stupidity going. Some of us are getting too tired to continue.

[@Hairs7]

Love your videos Emma, although your question was who is doing the mining and why?... but not who was doing the nuclear bomb research and testing in the 1800s ! Haha... love it.