The 5 Wildest Lakes on Earth | Compilation

[@SciShow]

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[@RosiePosey5150]

I love hanks voice so much. I actually have a playlist of all his Scishows. I don’t understand why. I love falling to sleep to documentaries but now I just listen to him. He does so much that I never make it to the end. Literally videos I haven’t gotten to cause I fall asleep so well. Music doesn’t work. I think it’s how he explains stuff as well. I’m really stupid.

[@cannedmusic]

108c, isn't that the temp of fresh McD's Coffee?

[@mdh.3421]

The Lost Sea was really neat. Do a show on that lake

[@Micamicamico]

Cant believe you didn't include natron and Baikal

[@clemarusjr]

Does it contain viruses?

[@maia1906]

Hot sticky tar pit: exists Some sort of bacteria: it's FrEe ReAl EsTaTe Meanwhile the roses in my garden die if the pH isn't exactly 6.514, the planets aren't aligned and Capricorn's horoscope isn't looking good

[@ChristmasLore]

In my village, almost everyone, including my landlord, grows roses (among many other flowers and fruits), and no one cares about the soil... probably just lucky. There are several places in the area well-known for the dark brown or straight black rich soil.

[@krn0z.741]

This commwnt is absolute gold

[@eisflamme2438]

@@ChristmasLore They are probably wild Roses. Special Roses are very demanding

[@MJ.The.Scholar]

Best comment 😂

[@annagulkova6203]

Same here with my house plants! While old piece of cabbage in the fridge keeps blooming

[@dashamm98]

In the Jacuzzi of despair, I wonder if any rich person with a submersible has thought of bringing jars of cucumbers down there to create the world's most expensive pickles?

[@felixhenson9926]

don't give them ideas!

[@genericasianperson6405]

It'll probably be poisonous

[@someoneyoumightremember6630]

Futaloli good

[@scottydu81]

@@someoneyoumightremember6630 Jesus Christ, we’re just talking about a guy who owns a private submersible. You wanna kill him for that?

[@unculturedswine5583]

@@scottydu81 i mean if it gets to that point, he did kinda deserve it

[@Tiki7391]

That brine pool under the ocean is straight up Goo Lagoon from Spongebob.

[@user-xk3zf2yj5r]

I was just thinking that same thing

[@earlofwickshire5416]

I figured Jacuzzi of Despair was at the former home of Jeffrey Epstein, who most certainly did not kill himself.

[@memomorph5375]

The creator of SpongeBob, Paul Tibbits, was a marine biologist!

[@steve29384]

memomorph was it not stephen hillenburg

[@Lichen8404]

Rest in peace Stephen Hillburg

[@Painted_Owl]

I can literally watch this topic all day. Like, a highly active volcano made of ice?? Come on, that is so interesting!! You'd have to worry about getting fried and freezing away all at the same time 🤯

[@awesomelyshorticles]

I love how anytime biologists find weird life theyre like "so maybe THIS could be aliens"

[@MissingRaptor]

And it never is 😜

[@S8tan7]

I mean, it's as good a guess as any Now they just need to get big enough so that we can clap them alien cheeks

[@Baliken100]

That's not what he said

[@donovantheplayboy599]

Underrated comment

[@naconaco1]

@@MissingRaptor if it happens here why wouldn't it happen in the almost infinite planets we have?

[@residentpossum4705]

Yo, I'm from Trinidad, just left last year Learning more about pitch lake is cool! We always heard about it, and you can go visit it super easy (people lose slippers CONSTANTLY) but you never heard too much about the science side etc Hell I've never actually heard of fossils being pulled out, or well anything going on with studying it. So hearing stuff like this is super cool! Another Trinidad and Tobago fun fact: I believe we have the largest variety of hummingbirds in one place. I thinks it's something like 24 different kinds? I know Trinidad is a huge tourist spot for bird watchers (also hummingbirds are violent its wild)

[@Chonts]

I'm from Tobago and I agree, hearing the science side about pitch Lake is really interesting

[@Paislywalls4767]

S.E. usa here. I always thought of Hummingbirds as little warriors, then I learned, in Mexico, they think the hummingbirds are re incarnated warriors ☺️ ...I always laugh when I find my thoughts coincide with others. 🕊

[@katnumn]

They're little balls of raging, territorial floofs

[@synonymous1079]

Also, wollaston lake: the largest lake to naturally drain in two directions in the world.

[@typacsk]

Interesting! Isa Lake, in Yellowston NP, was the only one I knew of, but it's small enough to throw a stone across. (Not that you should; national park and all.)

[@twocvbloke]

"Explosive degassing" - Yep, I'm familiar with that phenomenon........ :S

[@Gam3B0y23r0]

"I'm gonna degass you explosively" is a menacing insult as well...

[@hurley9772]

Why did everyone go just now? Oh, Uncle Barney just had an explosive degassing

[@st3althyone]

I’m painfully aware of that phenomenon, I go through it several time a day. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@LindaGailLamb.0808]

😖 _"Honey, I blew up the toilet !!"_ 😁

[@aaron4ism]

Prince : why don't you purify yourself in the waters of lake Minnetonka

[@VyktriBell]

"Game.....Blouses"

[@user98xp]

And then Prince served them pancakes. What a guy.

[@xxxMusoukaxxx]

omfg i love this

[@johnnysays9629]

HAAAAHAHAHAHAH

[@howdy4504]

"lightning doesn't strike the same place twice" lake maracaibo would like to know your location

[@iluvyurbles]

Lighting never strikes the same place twice! The Empire State Building: Don't you belive it

[@LindaGailLamb.0808]

I like to watch thunderstorms.... I'd love to live by Lake Maracaibo. If it weren't for all the tropical mosquitos... unless all that lightning fries the little buggers? Hey, I can dream.... 😁

[@vinnysworkshop]

@@LindaGailLamb.0808 Well, good luck living in Venezuela with all of that political and economic downturn.

[@tired1923]

“a regular microbial journal” I love the implication that there’s 1. several microbial journals 2. enough to establish the baselines for what a regular microbial journal is 3. some non standards microbial journals and 4. that the astrophysics journal qualifies as a non standard microbial journal

[@DoodlesintheMembrane]

Love these almost daily uploads. As a educational content creator - these are so inspiring

[@orochimaruginju6868]

Cool I have a new channel to binge :) see ya soon

[@tavdy79]

You guys need to do a video on lakes Monoun, Nyos and Kivu, Africa's exploding lakes.

[@jovetj]

I thought Poison Lake would be mentioned in this.

[@Era1391]

Meanwhile scientists on Enceladus: "This might help us to understand life in our planet, and beyond. For example, Earth - the most probable planet to contain life in our solar system. . "

[@erinyes3943]

Enchiladas.....

[@mashrien]

22:17 Video game law states; you can find some special lava boots and swim down to the bottom, find a secret passage and a small room with a treasure chest, probably containing a trident that allows you to breathe underwater

[@hellcat1988]

Imagine if we had a way of capturing the energy from the lightning hitting Catatumbo. That would be one hell of a renewable energy source.

[@schuylerpablico8300]

NO one is brave enough to build one there lol. I imagine it to be a lightning rod that connects to a capacitors then discharges into homes as needed then to batteries for excess then into the ground

[@2838103]

The fun part is that Zulia (the state that contains Catatumbo) is without electrical power 3/4 of the day everyday if not more. All because the horrible management of the Venezuelan government wrecked the Guri hydroelectrical powerplant which is powerful enough to power the entire country and some more. TL;DR: Even if constructing such structure to father catatumbo's energy, the Venezuelan government would manage to render it useless in no-time.

[@freedapeeple4049]

Distributing the power would probably be a problem. That's why there isn't a giant solar energy farm in the Gobi desert.

[@Dark0neone]

@@freedapeeple4049 wat. What part of renewable did you miss?

[@jackal8176]

@@Dark0neone renewable just means it's infinite without causing damage to the environment. You still have to distribute it to people using wires and substations.

[@wisp5570]

So if life is ever found in the Dallol pools, what would they be called? Halophiles, thermophiles, or acidophiles? Would they just be classified as all 3, or would a new category be made? I’d assume the former, but hoping for the latter.

[@dylaneverett4586]

They're usually referred to as polyextremophiles. I.e. able to survive multiple (poly) extreme environments. We already know about a few, but organisms that handle salt + acidity + temperature extremes all at once are quite rare.

[@DaimyoD0]

@@dylaneverett4586 I thought they said no halo-acidophiles had been identified yet? Obviously a ton of thermophiles are also halophiles or acidophiles.

[@BillyDrakePianoMan]

Dallolophile?

[@zeabeth]

A couple months ago they found super tiny microorganisms in there. Archaea

[@adnanmicahchips2842]

Wisp Polyextermophiles already exist, they’re organisms that can endure multiple stresses, usually 2. Since Dallol pools have a combination of Acidity and Salinity at the same time; that no life supposedly endures, we can call those organisms Haloacidophiles. Don’t worry, that type of name combination does exist; Thermoacidophiles or Haloalkaliphiles are real designated names for real organisms. If you’re keen on calling it all three, then Thermohaloacidophile works too.

[@rebbecachunn]

The Jacuzzi of Despair can also be found just outside Princess Buttercup's castle.

[@tobirama11senju]

I want to see the Catatumbo Lighting, hope Venezuela’s situation gets better to one day see it.

[@sanchitagolder]

what happened to Venezuela?

[@nzoththedeepwatcher1616]

@@sanchitagolder uhh basically an economic and societal collapse from an economy dependent on oil

[@danielalberto3754]

mystery person And.... a completely inept and repressive socialist government. The United Arab Emirates are just as dependent on the price oil but is not a complete basket case as is Venezuela.

[@tobirama11senju]

Sanchita Golder basically, socialism.

[@2838103]

@@nzoththedeepwatcher1616 the colapse was imminent could be seen years before the oil prices dropped, some people has predicted the colapse of Venezuela's economy and society as early as 2006. All because of the horrendous governing, which by being socialist, has impact un every level of venezuelan society.

[@Kj16V]

Hank: "Pitch Lake is made of oil." The US : [Heavy breathing] "We've found terrorists in Pitch Lake. Better invade."

[@jameso1447]

Oil wars are about controlling oil supplies and making people poor. Just like global warming fiction. There is more oil in the USA than in the middle East, but here they use laws to prevent us using our own property to our benefit. Environmental alarmists are slavers, socialists, and fascists.

[@anonymousceleb1148]

@@jameso1447 Christ, you really went for the delusions. Do you think that all the biological organisms that human civilizations have been killing, the same organisms that regulate chemicals and gases that will go into the atmosphere when they don't have ecosystems to be cycled in, will have no impact whatsoever on atmospheric/climatic conditions that are directly impacting weather and temperature patterns? If not, you are a moron, there's nothing you can say that debunks that, you would be going against biology, not even just scientifically, but the fact that we are biological organisms and we know that's how it works, you are going against physical reality.

[@blackcitadel37]

Pitch lake needs some freedom

[@jameso1447]

@@anonymousceleb1148 You don't know the first thing about biological matter. Lesson #1: The quantity of oxygen (photosynthesis product) in the atmosphere indicates flammable matter totaling 2.18E+18 kilograms. All flammable matter - both living and dead - on Earth's surface total merely 0.05% of that. Virtually all living matter is subterranean.

[@Nafinafnaf]

Time for a war..

[@porakiyadraekojin3390]

I'd imagine it'd take a lot of energy and resources for a bacteria to be a halophile, acidophile, and Thermopolis all at once. You'd need to reinforce your proteins so that they don't loose their shape, be able to store or prevent protons from entering your body to still mess with proteins, and you'd need to be able to keep water inside while also protecting your proteins ones again from magnesium and calcium in the salt.

[@Astrochellie]

I love when you guys make these compilations! Your voices are so soothing and the content is so interesting I fall asleep easily. You guys should think about voicing audiobooks!

[@TrixiHill]

Soothing?! I'm so distracted I can't pay attention. I keep turning the volume down

[@mommywithnokidsss]

Absolutely! Honestly, I’ve had a crush on Hank forever, so I can listen to him all day 😇😂

[@karinscott1241]

Great video. Also: Lake Superior: The lake which is actively trying to kill you. No matter where you live.

[@itsjustme8947]

I live in Tennessee and while outside in my back yard one day, Lake Superior jumped from behind a bush and pulled a knife on me!! If it weren't for my dogs, well.......... Point is: You speak TRUTH!! 🙂

[@otterspotter]

I live in Michigan. Very near to it. Not sure why you suggest it is trying to kill anyone. I have been there, swam there, it's actually some ridiculously beautiful landscape. But perhaps you meant the storms? Yes, Lake Superior can generate storms that put some of the worst ocean storms to bed. One of the few inland lakes that can create literal tsunamis. One of my favorite folk bands has a song about the sailors who have been killed on Lake Superior. It can get incredibly violent, and has killed a lot of people.

[@DawnDavidson]

@@itsjustme8947 😂😂😂

[@ssgoko88]

my name is lake! Everyone i know thinks thats a little weird. Get me on the revised list, my people will get in touch with your people.

[@silvussol8966]

What a weird Lake... it’s only partially made of water... and it moves around, talks, and posts comments and stuff. Definitely unusual behavior for a Lake, so it should be on this list.

[@rivitraven]

The gulf of mexico has so many dead zones that it's INSANE. There are numerous hypoxic zones from algal blooms and the current is not strong enough to kick up sediment to provide nutrition for an ecosystem The bottom brine pools are just a bonus.

[@Nelkson]

I was born in Maracaibo. You can see lightnings far south of the city almost every night.

[@colemanlikes3947]

SpongeBob was right about underwater lakes.

[@IQzminus2]

Spongebob was created by an animator that has a degree in natural resource planning, with a focus on marine resources, and spent years of his life just working with educating about and working with marine life. So even though the show is pretty out there and not too concerned with laws of physics or any form of logic, there are quite a few things that sort tells you that someone who knows a lot about and loves sea life had a hand in the creation of the show. Like only someone who is that into sea life would think that having their main character in a sea themed tv-series for kids should be a sea sponge. I don’t think that would be any test audience or board of a tv networks first choice for sea creature, but yeah did SpongeBob work out amazing. Sponge bob looks like a washing up inorganic sponge now, but he started out drawn more like as a realistic sea sponge.

[@HashiNuke]

But what about underwater fire

[@HashiNuke]

@Matt Fors Never had and possibly never will.

[@CeeJayThe13th]

Just want to note that the underwater lake in SpongeBob was "Goo Lagoon"

[@thatmeme1360]

walking on the beach Bradda Doot Doot Doot

[@jamesfarrell8339]

This was fascinating. One of my favorite sci show videos. Great job.

[@321DEATHPUNCH]

I love the compilation format, please keep up the good work!

[@musicobsessive123]

yeah.... i really appreciate that they dont just edit together a bunch of clips and call it a day... they give each bit context in between, and the overall theme is broad enough to be interesting while staying specific enough to make sense

[@otterspotter]

"These creatures are on the edge of instant death, so maybe give them a break." Can do, Katie! I will never again speak ill of the near-instant death, no sunlight, borderline toxic animals that are out there. They make my life feel like a total cakewalk.

[@MWSin1]

50% salinity. That isn't salt water. That's wet salt.

[@North_West1]

Touché

[@ZeoViolet]

The instant I read "La Brea Tar Pits" my mind went back to this old, OLD comic that had a guy tugging on a troublesome, weary elephant, saying "It's the tar pits for him!" and, millennia later, some kid seeing the retrieved carcass of the elephant says, "Daddy, he looks tired!"

[@commandercaptain4664]

16:38 How this hasn't become a planetary environment in a _Star Wars_ movie is beyond me. This is what all those "sky portals" in superhero climaxes try to convey. I tell you... something's coming into our world from this place.

[@bellezavudd]

Your time stamp took me to a Beatles advertisement I guess every movie could use a Beatles song in their environment. 👍

[@christopheb9221]

0:38 stefan 0:44 stefan's twin (very different voice wonder why) sounds like stage voice then his real voice

[@NeroNyte]

Recorded at different times, so slight changes in the settings of recording equipment or even things in the room can change how it sounds, or of course just over time changing how he talks a bit

[@Gwilfawe]

I appreciate your astute auditory observations

[@baumi8125]

Yeah I was so weirded out by how different his voice sounded, so then to check that his voice is actually different in another video kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHaTgmNtZ7F6btU

[@Gam3B0y23r0]

@@baumi8125 Stephan is also known by "Man of fifty-eight voices"

[@Extrasolar84]

Same with Olivia talking always in high pitched voice aka question mode way in the beginning of her job. Now she finally improved her voice tonality thank God.

[@nmeenle2031]

Every time i hear abt something that could "save the environment" im just reminded how none of it will ever compare to holding those poluting the environment accountable.

[@nmeenle2031]

Not that im against finding new methods and solutions, its just we will get nowhere when corporations and people are freely allowed to pollute and ravage the planet for money, why would they allow us to save the earth if destroying it is more profitable?

[@thefreakmachine]

This was a Royal Rumble of SciShow hosts! Nice job.

[@oliviagreen7423]

I just got a mental image of Olivia elbow dropping Hank😂

[@Typexleta.]

Fun fact there is a lake one hundred feet under the summit of mount rainier in the ice. It is only accessible by the ice caves at the summit and it is the highest lake in the U.S.

[@fabrisse7469]

U.S. or lower 48?

[@Belajipo]

Do the disbelievers not realize that the heavens and earth were ˹once˺ one mass then We split them apart? And We created from water every living thing. Will they not then believe? Holy Quran 21:30

[@gumonmyshu]

@@fabrisse7469 Washington State.

[@kellyanneree3252]

@@Belajipo We who? Who created heaven and earth? I don't believe there is a "we" in the facts! God Almighty spoke it in to existence! Per the Holy Scriptures! There is a stern warning from scripture about anyone "adding to the words of this book". Read it in revelation, last page! Then take heed! The unholy book you are quoting... TAKE HEED. TIME IS SHORT!

[@Belajipo]

@@kellyanneree3252 its plural of respect, there is no multiple gods, only 1 god

[@LoveTrueMusic1]

3:25 Hey Stephen, would you mind sharing this info about how salt works to Jillian Epperly? I'm pretty sure Jilly Juice is not too far off from one of those Ethiopian salt pools

[@markpennie5454]

Wow...... I live in Trinidad so this was surreal learning about the Ptich Lake from you guys. Fun fact, the location of the village where the Ptich Lake is found in Trinidad is called.....La Brea. That's a weird coincidence.

[@DarkTouch]

Brea is spanish for tar or pitch.

[@wybornebasil]

@@DarkTouch so the la brea tar pit is 'the tar the tar pit' lol

[@UrbanGardeningWithD.A.Hanks14]

Mono Lake in Cali, the magnetic lake and the upside down lakes in Cameroon that turn over and release vast amounts of CO2 are interesting as well.

[@crystalgoddess4085]

No mention of Lake Natron in Tanzania? It's a lake of blood red water that is not only hypersaline, it is extremely alkaline with a pH of 10.7 (Water's natural pH level is around 7) and it is quite hot at around 41 degrees Celsius (106 Fahrenheit). To make this lake weirder, direct contact with skin will cause the water to eat away at your skin and muscle, eventually killing you. On top of that, animals that die within the lake's caustic waters end up calcified by the cocktail of minerals in the water, making them look like macabre statues.

[@thatinsectguy]

Please do a video on relation between locusts swarms and climate change. So many people don't know the connection between the two.

[@felixhenson9926]

I'd like to know about this!

[@rogerszmodis]

There are Great Lakes around Michigan but none in Michigan.

[@kregadeth5562]

Michigan “owns” part of the lake tho.

[@logank444]

As I'm from michigan you have insulted me and I'm taking action to get you off youtube forever

[@ACuriousTanuki]

Michigan does not fully enclose any great lakes (no state does) but contains parts of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Erie.

[@guinevereeastes8519]

@@ACuriousTanuki afraid you have this one wrong. the great lakes are all connected, however michigan lake is completely within the borders of michigan state, the only one of the five great lakes to be completely within either of the two countries involved

[@justmindset]

@@guinevereeastes8519 Is it? I'm looking at google maps, and it seems like lake michigan is also within the borders of Wisconsin and Illinois (and a little bit of Indiana).

[@idadood2278]

Stefan and Hank have such similar voices that the only reason I could tell the two apart at 11:08 is because he literally said that it was going over to Hank.

[@zachjollimore4339]

"One of the great lakes in Michigan" *Angry Canadian Twitching*

[@scottydu81]

One of them is literally called Lake Michigan lol

[@RRR101]

@wulpurgis the one that’s almost fully in the U.S. is Lake Superior

[@aarontoussaint8364]

@@RRR101 what?

[@monhi64]

Hey man one of the Great Lakes is entirely within Michigan (obv Lake Michigan) and then there’s one more lake that’s only half in Michigan. If he’s referring to lake Michigan that’s the only way to say it, can’t even say it’s on the border since it’s not

[@billybbob18]

Oyster mushrooms can be used for oil cleanups. They thrive in oil or deisel fuel. They turn hydrocarbons into carbohydrates.

[@cassandramorris5144]

"In the Jacuzzi of Despair, the water is 4x saltier than the surrounding ocean." #relatable

[@randallpetroelje3913]

Could use some of of the asphalt to patch the roads were I live 😂🤣. Thanks again for your show.

[@liquidminds]

You can hope the microbes get sentient and move there on their own... more likely than authorities doing anything at least.

[@michaelscottoriginal]

The Dallol lake is where Gordon Ramsey throws away salty risottos and overly sour food

[@eyuin5716]

10:40 The Cassini Mission ended back in 2017 when the orbiter plunged into Saturn.

[@michaelathens953]

I actually suggest looking up video of fish and other animals coming in contact with the jacuzzi of despair. There are quite a few and it's mind blowing to see how fast they go into shock.

[@ROTTERDXM]

great video, didn't know about any of these! I like this longer-form content.

[@space-raider-system5828]

This is Lake Lao-gai in the earth kingdom erasure

[@emilymorano2923]

I just returned from a trip to lake Laogai... it's a wonderful place...

[@UnkillableMrStake]

@@emilymorano2923 I hope it was very relaxing

[@scottydu81]

There is no war in Ba Sing Se

[@b.lonewolf417]

1:29 - "Toxic gases coming out of cracks" Yes, I am immature.

[@snowgrave2475]

Ha! Nice

[@AllDayBikes]

11:58 realiezd Hank's shirt is actually bubble wrap print, I want one man, I want one!

[@rabarbuto]

"The Jacuzzi of Despair" lol brilliant!

[@krystalreverb]

Let’s not get lost with mount erebus and remember that the other mountain on Ross Island is called Mount Terror.

[@shiftyjesusfish]

"Explosive Degassing" 24:28 otherwise known as "Volcano Farts"

[@pamelamays4186]

Lava Bomb. Yet another cool band name inspired by Sci Show. 🌋🌋🌋🌋

[@TrineDaely]

Might have been good to mention that at ground level (as opposed to the upper atmosphere) ozone is a pollutant and component of photochemical smog.

[@tylerhloewen]

How did Lake Baikal not get on this list? It has possibly the most unique population of creatures of any lake on the planet, and there's not even a good explanation for how a lot of them got there!

[@theajshortman]

These compilations of video's is great !💙

[@GreyTalus]

Digging the longer format 🤘

[@coal9205]

5:12 is it bad that the first thought to go through my brain was "I wanna drink it"?

[@susanmazzanti5643]

Does this brien pool have anything to do with the three salt domes in extreme south Louisiana? I don't think any of them produce salt now but two were mine in the mid 1950s. One produced Morton salt and the other Jefferson Island salt.

[@Weirdoid]

How about a video on the only known natrocarbonatite volcano?

[@kiritugeorge4684]

Question, if a human were foolish enough to drink or even fall into the waters at Dallol, Ethiopia, what would be the negative effects on their bodies?

[@Articulate99]

Always interesting, thank you.

[@Thetealeaf1984]

Imagine being desiccated by seawater. Jacuzzi of despair, is aptly named. I've not even gotten to experience the ocean, let alone a body of salt water. So It's beyond my ability to even comprehend.

[@lioneljohnpilcher204]

Thank you for the information, I love learning incredible new things. I love learning about chemical reactions

[@mal9369]

I wonder if that constant lightning can be harvest for energy. It would be a lot of energy generated completely for free.

[@gamemeister27]

I imagine the problem with lightning is making equipment that can actually handle those surges.

[@colesherrill7472]

@@gamemeister27 youd need some SERIOUS cap banks to hold the surge and distribute it in a manor that can use or store it for later. I'd say for as many surges as there are, itd be a monumental electrical engineering feat.

[@hamstsorkxxor]

In addition to what other comments have mentioned about the difficulty of storage and capture, lighting does not actually contain that much energy. Yeah, they have can have millions of amps and billions of volts, but the lightning is very short lived, so actual transfer of charge and energy is fairly mediocre. Tl;dr Lightning has lots of Watts, but not a lot of joules and Coulombs.

[@mal9369]

@@hamstsorkxxor Yeah, I knew that an individual bolt doesn't have that much energy, but I thought maybe the sheer volume of strikes on the lake might make up for that. Time for some math. Okay, according to Windpower engineering and development, a blot of lightning carries between 5 kA and 200 kA, and 40 kV and 100 kV. Ill take 100 for each just for simplicity. Watts = A * V, so W = (100 * 10^3 A) * (100 * 10^3 V), so W = 1 * 10^10 W, or 10 billions Watts. Assuming the lightning strike takes one second, that 10^10 Watt/seconds, which divided by 3600, gives us 2.7 * 10^6 Watts/hour, which is what energy used by a household is typically measured in. They said that approximately 1.2 million strikes hit the lake each year, so I will round that down to 1 million. This gives us 2.77 * 10^12 w/hr for a year, assuming you can capture all of the lightning strikes and assuming 100% conversion efficiency and storage ( I know that's unrealistic, but this is just for the sake of the math). Assuming an average hour will consume 48,000 w/hr per day, that's 1.8 * 10^7 w/hr per year for a single house. Dividing our yearly average of (2.77 * 10^12)/(1.8 * 10^7) gives us... 158,548.9 houses worth of energy generated per year, approximately. That's a lot of power! It looks like the average 500 mW coal powerplant generates 3.5 * 10^9 kW/hr, or 3.5 * 10^12 w/hr per year! Although the lightning lake generates a lot of energy, it looks like it would still be less efficient than a plain old coal power plant. And that's assuming an unreasonable efficiency at capturing and storing the energy. That's too bad, it seemed like such a good idea :/ Hopefully all my maths are mostly correct!

[@AaronShenghao]

The most probable way to harvest lightning is recycling the heat generated by it. The only issue is you can't predict where a lightning will land (unless you came from the future, but reality is, it might won't land on the same place again...)

[@toataile6450]

I hope there's somewhere on earth very similar to Dilal, but safe for swimming, I want to spend time in such a place so strongly

[@Technocolor00]

Jacuzzi of Despair sounds like a great name for metal band

[@hubertseidl93]

I'm glad that, as you've seid, cassini is still around. I thought that the mission was endet. I need to look up the new results.

[@Saphia_]

I wonder if it's possible, if we know the composition of Titan's sludge and if there's not life already living in it, to drop some of our sludge bacteria in it and see if that bacteria survives and evolves there.

[@proletar-ian]

2:15 somebody on the SciShow team must be a Twin Peaks fan

[@nashvilleriveraquinio6432]

2:39 12:26 I love that you used Celsius instead of Fahrenheit.

[@julianshepherd2038]

Plus, it is 2020

[@SilverAlex92]

As a Venezuelan, I refuse to believe any other explanation besides "Black magic fuckery and/or an ancient curse" for the Catacumbo Lightning.

[@velvetunderground9835]

In a major plot twist, no intelligent life was found anywhere on earth...

[@jodysales2362]

Ohh. Buuurrrrrnnn.

[@omggiiirl2077]

Especially not here in the USA...Look at us!

[@aztecklover69]

😂😂😂

[@A._is_for]

I've been here for more than thirty of your rotations and haven't found any, they said I could return home when I made contact...I've been had (to use one of your expressions)

[@velvetunderground9835]

Wansom sou 😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@christianheichel]

I wonder if there's any way to harness the power from all that lightning?

[@quincy9908]

Awesome names. Lava Lake and Lighting Lake The Pitch Lake is cool aswell

[@roblnorton]

In layman's terms, basically a grandeur bubble of Magma proportions, that literally shape our landscape through tectonic plate shifting. 👏 amazing...

[@thirdyearronin]

so if we put a sea cucumber in the Jacuzzi of despair, does it become a sea pickle?

[@brianjohnson5699]

She’s my favorite sci show anchor

[@Shaden0040]

There must be brine pools in the mediterranean as well since it too once dried out and bece a salt flat.

[@diegoreckholder945]

Ok, ok, the pickle animation actually made me laugh out loud 😂😂

[@maolcogi]

Just put an electricity collector thingy at that lake and collect all those succulent strikes of 1.21 jigawatts! xD

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

So if you go to Dallol, you're gonna feel *hot hot hot!* Nature's super salty jacuzzis. Also, 9:25 Pickle Rick is that you

[@quincy9908]

More like Pickled Mr. Krabbs

[@skybluskyblueify]

9:25 There's a Rick and Morty joke somewhere in here.

[@chloeorr9880]

Pickle crab lol

[@OuttaMyMind911]

21:25 It is beautiful. It's also Emerald Bay in Lake Tahoe.

[@tamberjune]

Such a cool video!

[@jacobopstad5483]

17:56 Why does that cloud look like Yoda?

[@M3Power666]

What about tartigrades? They seem like they can survive in those environments.

[@anomiceleven]

Interesting video... was kind of hoping for Spotted Lake in Canada, though.

[@norielsylvire4097]

All other scientists: *trying to know how is it possible for continuous lightning strikes to occur on Maracaibo lake* Me: *calculating the profitability of using the lightnings to produce energy*

[@AaronShenghao]

9:00 I saw a video where an eel swam too close to it and died on camera...

[@isokehatfield201]

I wonder if the protein that causes mad cow disease can withstand those lakes in Ethiopia seeing how they are already flattened or unfolded.

[@GreenHotDogz]

9:18 made me laugh way harder than I should have

[@CathLaPoire]

yeah, poor crab :'(

[@carolynm9638]

Great info. Thanks