Incredible Places on Earth that Shouldn't Exist

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[@clayton9136]

Hello there can you please enunciate. I can barely hear 80% of your content.

[@timothycivis8757]

Very cool sponsorship !

[@bandito1234]

we should start with bringing birds back in the first place cats can wait a bit longer i adore cats dont get me wrong but we got enoug of them in europe and the way to save the planet is that everybody needs to pitch in and do their part not only a select few that get payed by the masses and make fancy video's you can watch on your phone witch in turn destroys this planet. just saying

[@kirdot2011]

@@clayton9136 or even talk more equally... his drops from high to low pronounciation in terms of volume are really annoying and makes it that much harder to understand

[@latenighter1965]

FIRE YOUR EDITOR. We, as in myself and many others, DONT LIVE IN UNITATED STATES!!!!.....How many times in the past 3 years have I sent you messages about this type of stuff? too many to count, and they still arent fired? LOL

[@deadsevenmick5697]

In his next video, Simon will explain the process in which states become Unitated.

[@myflippinggoodness8821]

It's amazing how one typo can spark so much joy

[@reppepper]

Hire a proofreader, Simon.

[@Denny_7782]

United?

[@Grassy_Gnoll]

​@@reppepperI think you mean a proofraeader.

[@Overfloable]

"Incredible places on Earth that shouldn't exist"... Simon's true to form here. Could this have been intentional?

[@thejudgmentalcat]

Yellowstone Park is, in fact, in the Unitated States 😂 ...Simon needs to feed the Blazement staff more

[@cynthiaherbst3909]

Or up their cocaine..uh coffee rations 😂

[@Techstriker1]

I was like" Huh, I've never heard of... Wait a second".

[@deementia6796]

There's a Geezer in the Unitated States, according to Simon.

[@IvanTheVandal]

Can't blame him. After all, he grew up in the Unitated Kingdom :P

[@ianpdavis]

You live and learn...

[@OttoCrossheart]

Hi! Mexican here, and i actually had enter the Cave of Crystals once in 2009. It was through a special permit for an international event that i was working as staff tho. They only let you enter to the "window" that is a kinda the door of the cave, and is behind an actual wind to protect the area from the rest of the world and protect you from the heat, the heat is really a thing, in only 30s of being there you start sweating buckets like never you had before, also, a warning, most of phone cameras get fogged because any humidity gets condensed in any glass or cold surfaces so... not good for trying to take good picures of the crystals inside...

[@proto-geek248]

The Cave of Crystals is just crazy. The precise geological conditions involved, makes me wonder what other bizarre treasures await future discovery. And what of other worlds in our solar system, such as The Moon, Mars, Venus, & Titan? What convoluted structures have formed in those places & beyond?

[@just_kos99]

I was amazed when I saw the guy on one of the crystals. Till then, I thought they were maybe hand to arm sized.

[@n0username0n]

The main reason you dont want to be in that crystal cave in mexico without a cooling suit is also because your lungs end up being the coolest place in the cave and the water in the air starts to condense inside your lungs and you slowly start to drown

[@WhuDhat]

he also said the air was acidic, sounds like a blast

[@izaac1312]

Damn.

[@Murcans-worship-felons]

Sounds like a board game.

[@glennallen496]

4:43 The UNITATED States? That's located in Norath Amarica, right? Just south of Cananada?

[@Bronco46tube]

Amazing places! Wish we could have seen more of that Finnish rock. We never did get to see the tree. The bit on Yellowstone in the "Unitated" States was interesting, and probably unintendedly funny.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

0:35 - Chapter 1 - Uyuni salt flat bolivia 2:10 - Mid roll ads 2:40 - Chapter 2 - Giant's causeway northern ireland 4:45 - Chapter 3 - Grand prismatic spring unitated states 6:20 - Chapter 4 - Cave of the crystals mexico 8:35 - Chapter 5 - Kawah ijen volcano indonesia 10:40 - Chapter 6 - Kummakivi finland 12:15 - End roll ads

[@doclewis8927]

* United States Though to be honest, our country is getting...shall we say "less smart" so it may eventually be the "unitated states" or "untied steaks" which has a much better taste to them. Sorry...I haven't slept more than a few hours this whole week. Thank you for time-stamping the segments. It is appreciated.

[@keirfarnum6811]

@@doclewis8927 Don’t worry. The rest of us aren’t sans such sleep and some of us are thinking the same. You are not alone.

[@marieseaman7855]

​@@doclewis8927they spelled it exactly like it's presented to us on screen, leave them alone 😅

[@gavinm2183]

Love that you left in “unitated” 😂😂

[@sopek1427]

Unsung hero we thank u

[@joylox]

There's a really cool balancing rock in Atlantic Canada where it looks like if the wind blew too hard, it would topple into the ocean! It's a large pillar, and for it to be standing upright, overhanging the edge of a cliff, is pretty impressive. It's on an island called Long Island in the Bay of Fundy if anyone is curious.

[@ryand2529]

Nobody is curious.

[@AnotherPointOfView944]

@@ryand2529 I was. And I looked it up on Wiki. Wow. Thanks joylox for sharing 🙂

[@MapleLeaf21]

@@ryand2529I was

[@thehun1234]

There was one in Namibia before it fell down in 1988. It was called Finger of God or Mukurob as known by the locals. I had seen it a few years before it collapsed.

[@MeMe-su7wq]

there is another on the path to wineglass bay in tasmania, also:)

[@beatrixdobson4795]

The cave of crystals looks like the Fortress of Solitude

[@victormontes7007]

Way warmer thou

[@Andy-4342]

All hail the Unitated States, the capitol of which is Fry, the currency is the tot, and the staff at Sideprojects is just a little baked. 😆

[@johntakolander8613]

About the heat in "The cave of chrystals": Here in Finland a comfortable sauna temperature is about 80-90 degrees Celsius! So a measly 58 degrees Celsius is a cold sauna.

[@User-435ggrest]

Yes, the sauna needs to be around 80°C. And the outside should be maybe - 30, with cold water to jump into, or even better. A pile of snow😂 Voi, kaipaan Suomea 😊

[@xyz7572]

*Earth:* * makes cool thing in unexpected place * *Humans:* “UNACCEPTABLEEEEE!!”

[@matt4694]

Went to Ijen last year. The walk down was pretty dangerous and filled with people and the poor workers had to walk carrying heavy sulphur whilst weaving between tourists. Our guide said he'd witnessed 1 person fall on the slippery rocks and another fell in the blue fire both to their death

[@danelynch7171]

So you contributed to that directly? Cool cool.

[@matt4694]

@@danelynch7171 yeah because clearly all backpackers know this information on a low English speaking island prior to the hike 🙄 thanks for the comment hero

[@danelynch7171]

@@matt4694 "but I didn't know" will be super comforting to the "poor workers" family when they slip and die because you just had to go see the sulphur mine... And when your guide said "let's go see a sulphur mine.", You didn't have any questions about safety?

[@matt4694]

@@danelynch7171 🤦‍♂️ this is too dumb to even respond to. Good luck to you sir 👏

[@danelynch7171]

@@matt4694 yeah bro. Try to stay out of people's way when they are doing dangerous work. 🙄

[@RainingAnarchy]

4:43 Who was eating crisps while working😂

[@esracoon]

anyone know what the music is starting at 8:27 (the volcano)

[@nuucha]

At least they are not Untitled States 😂 4:41

[@Picklemehweenr]

THis is one of the most interesting channels ever, Thank you sir

[@Jaysin412]

The cave of crystals is basically like being inside a gigantic geode from what ive read and looked at in pictures

[@mattiemathis9549]

4:50 Technically, to be a geezer, you have to be old, the faithful part is up for debate.😂😂😂

[@mattseman5682]

Might want to double check the title card for Grand Prismatic Spring. Thanks for the awesome video!

[@smstnitc]

UNITATED STATES? 😂

[@mr.joshua6818]

I saw that too 😂

[@clayton9136]

You have a dictionary in your hands and still manage to be an absolute imbicile

[@the_waziir7488]

We must unitate for the greater good!

[@Caleb1874ya]

It’s like U.S. but you can’t go there….ever

[@aborch7]

Makes me want potatoes 🥲

[@razzle1964]

I’ve been to the ‘Giants Causeway’. Don’t remember much about it. We’d first visited the nearby Bushmill’s distillery & got very shit-faced on the many free samples.

[@Wolfepup23]

Eastern WA is covered in basalt columns, exposed during floods. Super awesome.

[@sjones143]

'Geezer" got me. Excellent video as always.

[@mercuryvincent6796]

Simon disregarding the legend of giants is the most Simon thing ever 😆

[@harveyaku1692]

Love the work Simon, keep it up!

[@sammybarrera]

Is he back or are they burning through his vids?

[@MikeBaxterABC]

The Uni-Tated States ... I've always wanted to go there!!! :)

[@bombproofrazor]

Speed week at the salt flats are always a blast

[@TheRattyBiker]

I saw a "Free Documentary" about mining sulphur and I think it was from that lake - hard work for pennies and if you slip and fall in the water its pretty much game over!

[@evan5935]

It was definitely the result of giants and trolls throwing rocks at each other because I find that explanation hilarious 😂

[@IgorEngelen1974]

I've seen them do it in the Lord of The Rings movie 🙂

[@villepore7013]

It was a pretty common myth, as most of Finland has large numbers of these big rocks spread around thanks to the giant glacier that covered tge area, which is why they got the name hiidenkivi, translating to troll's stone. Kummakivi just happens to have been deposited in that luckily position.

[@evan5935]

@villepore7013 i like history like that! It is always neat to hear the rationalizations of older civilations with regards to natural occurences around them 😄 😄

[@DoubsGaming]

gotta say those crystals are something else. I thought those where the stuff of movies. Absolutely incredible.

[@Miramax4253]

What’s the music piece at 8:30? That staccato singing in Latin?

[@roberttdaniels3857]

Love all your episodes Symun. I wasn't the best in geography when in school, all those years ago, but where exactly is the Unitated states?

[@Valerie-mz4et]

The Giants Causeway is beautiful! And the story is great too, reminds me of Paul Bunyan and babe the blue ox creating the Great Lakes.

[@chrisj8822]

Hey Simon.... Geezer played bass in Black Sabbath. A geyser (pronounced guy-zer) is found in Yellowstone National Park.

[@marxmaiale9981]

Check Spelling at 4:42

[@mikenovember9688]

I can’t wait to travel from the Unitated States to the Unitated Kingdom…

[@eggsngritstn]

The prismatic spring is awesome.

[@MrPhantom453]

"Giants throwing rocks at each other": Definitely true!!

[@carddamom188]

That sounds sooo gay...

[@MrPhantom453]

@@carddamom188 Your point being??

[@wakankinyan]

The one-two punch of Unitated States and "geezer" about killed me

[@LieutenantDangleBerries]

At ~$12/ton, I’ll glad pay $150 to have one of those 12 ton crystals Amazon Prime shipped to me.

[@Vorwen]

“Unitated” I spat out my drink. 😂😂😂

[@micahrowe]

I showed this video to my wife. She asked if Superman was there?

[@Tesfai777]

I’ve been wanting to go to salar de uyuni for a minute now goated it ended up in one of the goat’s videos

[@lucus01]

We also have columnar basalt here in Washington!

[@brianarbenz1329]

Hi from the "Unitated" States 4:42 ... And Old Faithful is a geyser, which is pronounced "GUY-ser." Here, "gee-zer," is a slang term for an old person. Maybe it is pronounced gee-zer there in the _Unitated_ Kingdom.

[@respectbossmon]

Worry not. It's some small revenge for letting them pronounce aluminum wrong for so many decades and giggling about it for all this time. ;p

[@labrat256]

Eh, it's fine. Simon's English and knows how to speak it.

[@respectbossmon]

@@labrat256 Oh great, another dictionary to buy! ;p

[@Cosmodjinn]

4:40 Happy to live in the Unitated States

[@MacVerick]

The Unitated States, right next to Cananida and Mexixco

[@EyesOfByes]

4:42 Did Sam sneeze while editing? Unititittititited…

[@Ice_Karma]

4:41 "Unitated States", huh? 🤣

[@marcbeebee6969]

Good timing factboy

[@the_lone_photographer]

Really went out there with the music in this video 😂

[@jasonpaints]

Unitated States? Love to go but can't find it on a map. Literacy is a wonderful thing.

[@LoneTreeAdventures]

Come to the Salt Lake City area in Utah for the same salt flat experience 👍

[@ilai7893]

Similar to the Indonesian place, Taiwan also has a pretty cool spot with blue flames called 出火 in Kenting (where natural gas is forever coming out from the ground and burning as a blue flame, but it's safe to visit).

[@tiki_trash]

That sounds beautiful.

[@AndyJarman]

The Tasman Peninsula near Hobart in Tasmania also has hexagonal columns, the same as the Giant's Causeway. The Cliffs formed by these columns can reach 1,000metres high though. Many are vertical drops.

[@drewrubtheMando]

Just curious...where are the Unitated States? :D @4:43 Funny typo.

[@joylox]

At first I read it as "uninitiated," and I knew something didn't look right.

[@enlilofnippur8409]

12:02 Is that a wire fox terrier standing beneath the balancing rock?

[@cheifDeisel]

I simultaneously want to try and topple that stone and would feel absolutely horrible if I succeeded 😅

[@olencone4005]

A pair of former Boyscout troop leaders toppled a similar formation in Utah some years ago, a hoodoo formed by erosion. It had stood for 150 million years, withstanding everything Nature could throw at it... but two rednecks was all it took to end it :( In their video, they were cheering and high-fiving and just overflowing with joy at their accomplishment.... but that glee didn't last long enough to reach the trial tho, where they were ultimately fined thousands of dollars each.

[@AntSimpson]

Great video however the background music is too loud in places..

[@dannymac6368]

FKJ’s performance on the Uyuni salt flat is absolutely sublime. It’s like he’s floating on a cloud.

[@tiki_trash]

Who is FKJ?

[@ilai7893]

Definitely want to go to #1, that's been on my list for years.

[@francescosirotti8178]

Do it. I've been here this summer, it's an incredible place. You'll need some acclimatization, since it's at 3800+ meters. Also it's very cold: at night it's -5/-10C and almost all of the hostals aren't heated. Totally worth it: Bolivia is wonderful.

[@EAWanderer]

07:13 - A foolish mine worker died there after he tried to chop off a crystal to bring home for himself It pinned him and he died of heat stroke and/or possible drowning. -Drowning? - Ask me and I shall explain how

[@thewatcher8773]

“Geezer” Old Faithful??? 😂😂😂.

[@Kraakesolv]

Ah, the old faithful geezer in the Unitated S of A.

[@jrmckim]

My brother in law got to go into the crystal cave for some kind of work he was doing. He's highly certified in fire and rescue and was training in different caves. Hes been a saturation diver and worked with satellite relays for nasa. So im not sure why he was training there. He was allowed to take a few pictures and even brought back a hand size crystal for my son. He talked about the crystals being the size of trailer houses.

[@BeautifulKittenOfLove]

Still using the lint brush I sent you I see...good man.

[@nanoglitch6693]

UNITATED! 🥳

[@sergioreyes298]

Thanks for showing us stuff from the Unitated States...

[@jetfowl]

That balancing rock looks like the Heundeulbawi rock in front of the Buddhist hermitage in Soraksan, South Korea...

[@lmnatez5099]

Grand Prismatic Springs in the UNITATED States? I believe it's spelled United...

[@AltonV]

Nah, it's another country he's talking about 😆

[@ET-vj4vz]

I've seen similar feature as the Giant's Causeway on Mt. Canlaon, in the Philippines...

[@HighDraDWG]

He will succumb to immense pressures

[@sth.777]

Fingal's Cave is actually on the island of Staffa, which is an entire island of Basalt pillars... and if you go there, wear good hiking shoes, or you're likely to be "Staffa'd" (it's a known thing... broken bones et al).

[@steffenschiller3189]

4:42 - "Unitated States" - where is that?

[@Nasir3623]

“Was placed there when giants and trolls were throwing rocks at each other”. Me: just like the internet.

[@JonKloske]

Fingal head in Australia also has basalt steps, and a few hours inland is Girraween national park which has way better and bigger balancing rocks than the one in this video.

[@Joat2]

4:43 Unitated States?

[@GeoffryGifari]

Is it possible that there is still an even more outlandish chamber near the crystal cave, waiting to be found?

[@kennkeck1963]

The crystal caves scientists with cooling suits had ¾hr. That was maxing the human body to the max.

[@thehitnah]

Song at 3:35 please ?

[@PitboyHarmony1]

Dudes ... 4:42 ... and actually read it. Apparently, the Grand Prismatic Spring is in the Unitated States. ... seriously, that got by both editing and QC ... but how?

[@rhonafenwick5643]

Alongside Kawah Ijen, the Tanzanian volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai is also one that deserves special mention. It's the only known volcano that erupts carbonatite lava, which is liquid at such low temperatures that it doesn't glow in the visible spectrum and is so runny that some people mistake it for a mud geyser. New Scientist has a good little KZbin video on it :)

[@enlightendbel]

Anyone know where the Unitated States are? I'd love to visit :p

[@just_kos99]

One can see these basalt columns in eastern Washington, too. A geology professor I watch on YT even dropped his hammer between two of them! A long time later, someone got a strong magnet, lowered it down and retrieved it for him. The guy said there was nothing but dry sand at the base of the columns!

[@danielfox9461]

Simon's gonna have to spring for an editor, in one day he's labeled an element BISMUTO and located a spring in the UNITATED STATES

[@joshmiller7870]

In California we have this big balance rock called Globe rock. Worth checking out. Near North Fork Ca I think.

[@zacretzer]

Ahh yes the famous geezer of Yellowstone. They don’t call it “✨Old✨ Faithful” for nothin’ don’t ya know!

[@brucefreadrich1188]

Please tell me that is just Simon and not a whole British thing like aluminium vs aluminum.

[@paulherman5822]

​@@brucefreadrich1188Sorry, not just Simon...

[@zacretzer]

@@paulherman5822 no shot that’s just how y’all say geyser I refuse to believe it. Geezer is totally *also* a word in England so how are they the same even with the accented vowels?!🧐

[@paulherman5822]

@@zacretzer Y'all? I'm from the US. I just read. Explain that both mispronounce the Latin American word "jaguar." 😁

[@deementia6796]

@@zacretzer So the bassist for Black Sabbath has been Geyser Butler all along? Damn!

[@ecocodex4431]

4:44 Love living in the Unitated States

[@chezsnailez]

@4:44 Unitated States?

[@Anonymous-rd5ew]

So what happened to the video about the free energy motor???

[@pawpatina]

Now do one about what the Unitated States are...??? 4:44

[@franklynyeager1325]

I love this channel I've seen every video

[@AlexG-dt3gn]

editor i see you putting snow over stuff you pulled from the internet so you don't get dmca-ed lol

[@DavidMiller212]

4:44 where??

[@Rasputinska]

As a Finn I love it that when Finland gets mentioned it is about a goddamn rock. Not a mountain, a salt plane or a mysterious cavern. Just a pretty strange rock 😂

[@OG_Agrivar]

Where, precisely, are the Unitated States?

[@zenmaster24]

4:43 unitated states?