"The Land That God Had Forsaken" | National Geographic

In the middle of California's Mojave Desert, there's more than 3-million square miles of desert sand, barren landscape, and scorched earth, known as Death Valley. But despite its extremes there is life there.
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[@simongreenaway3984]

Always remember to bring some Stimpaks and watch out for Deathclaws on your way to Las Vegas!

[@gaywoman420]

Simon Greenaway New Vegas*

[@usssanjacinto1]

Watch out for deathclaws!

[@retho4160]

+usssanjacinto1 I've lived in the Mojave Desert all my life and only just recently discovered deathclaws (not irl though).

[@retho4160]

***** They are from a game. Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas. They are giant monsters that kill your character if you aren't careful.

[@vvdjzbsjsjsj1555]

usssanjacinto1 xD

[@Reymii]

just get out your (GRA) Anti Material Rifle with explosive ammo.

[@andrewsmith3257]

And Radscorpions

[@cecar77]

One of the harshest environments, yet one of the most beautiful

[@nub9688]

I'm asking myself how the hell the Native Americans survived that type of environment for millennias. I guess if there's water, there's life.

[@Toomuchbullshitt]

@@nub9688 they travel from place to place, remembering the important water holes to visit.

[@suhasop4919]

Perfect for Patrolling

[@amedeothebest]

Travelling at night from LA to Nevada, stopping at dusk in Barstow while the hot wind blowing seems capable of burning your skin. Priceless.

[@bowlofarthritus]

Imagine how the construction crew felt building that road

[@piuscalvinus]

they almost wish for a nuclear winter

[@keirov3249]

I love how this comments section is just Fallout NV

[@williamrivera3116]

wack

[@littlechumstick9816]

Patrolling the Mojave desert almost makes you almost wish for a nuclear winter

[@maforo85]

Can you stop trolling every mojave desert video with the same comment. Its annoying.

[@brianadams8825]

maforo85 but it makes me wish for a nuclear winter.

[@Reymii]

CyanBlue Ave, True to Caesar. hold your tongue, wastrel. Degeneratea like you, belong on a cross.

[@anarkhiya551]

Reymii hes still annoying

[@Reymii]

@@anarkhiya551 hold your tongue, wastrel

[@aroundnabout4290]

I would avoid the casadors if I were you

[@sneedfeedandseed2410]

casadors gave me PTSD

[@poundtacos4006]

They are the worst!

[@raidennaz1590]

Finish the old world blue DLC and buy your courier a riot shotgun. Cazadors are a joke afterwards

[@Mephilis78]

Coyotes, rad geckos, rad scorpions, Deathclaws and other desert denizens - National Geographic

[@CBeavr]

Patrolling the Mojave desert almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

[@sneedfeedandseed2410]

ave! true to caesar!

[@mashedavocado7686]

Ave true to Caesar

[@caraccident5357]

Ave! True to Caesar!

[@7oldmen]

Ave! True to Caesar!

[@LuisLopez-wj9kd]

Ave! True to Caesar

[@taichitao85]

the legion can count on that :D

[@Rheinwald]

We won't go quietly

[@isecream]

Bull and Bear over the Dam, at each other's throats... but a light from Vegas? Ball spinning on the wheel, more than two at the table. Placing bets. All lose in different ways. A dam of corpses, towns of corpses, scattered across the sand. But whose in what shares? Even the dealer doesn't know. Forecast: A rain of blood will flood the desert and not purify it.

[@basportsfan325]

I was just thinking about my time at fort irwin and i had to type up the Mojave desert on youtube to check it out. When i went to the desert we were constantly doing training. All my fellow soldiers could not stop bitching about the desert and kept complaining that California sucks and how they thought the whole state looked like this. I on the other hand was dissapointed how i had lived in California for 19 years,and had to join the army to get put in a desert for 3 months to find the true beauty of something that was only about 6 hours away from me. The days were amazing watching the sun hit the brown desert, i saw giant cliffs wondering if they had eyes what all they had seen its whole life, at night on patrol hearing the coyotes call each other and gazing at the beautiful stars. Needless to say at the end of the 3 months a lot of my comrades were bitching how they had to go to Irwin, I couldent shut up about how awesome the place was. So thank you great Mojave you truly left your mark on me.

[@ericrenquist6494]

The desert is an awesome place

[@marcowulliampopirers2216]

so u were from the NCR? xd

[@Joe_334]

There is an endangered species of tortoises, in the Majove desert, especially in an area a few miles from Death Valley. The mountains were beautiful, There were often shooting stars, out at night. The climate is dry, and it just so happened to rain in that desert, for only one day that I was there.

[@donaldschmenk4345]

I wanna live in the mojave during winter, so nice, beautiful, quiet, it's amazing...

[@pacificexplorer6601]

Donald Schmenk Been there. Done it. It's amazing .

[@isecream]

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

[@stebmex]

I live in the Mojave desert Palmdale it gets really cold in the winter! It’s nice the deserts around are beautiful

[@Toomuchbullshitt]

@@stebmex depends on where you are. Higher elevations are colder and can snow while lower parts can still be very warm during the winter.

[@stebmex]

@@Toomuchbullshitt it’s cold in the winter in lancaster and palmdale it snows here and there but it can get in the single digits sometimes if it doesn’t snow but it has warm days too

[@charliedallachie3539]

Used to live there in southern CA in the 90s. You could fry an egg on your cars hood. 120 wasn’t uncommon in the summer. The Mojave is big though, Death Valley specifically there was the German family that totally vanished there.

[@GoreTorn16]

I used to work out in Death Valley near Stove Pipe Wells where temperature reach 150 F during the summer! Amazing desert! I would defiantly go back again.

[@williamc2678]

I’ve lived near Joshua tree all my life and no joke there are always tourists walking around death valley

[@pollyanna3091]

If you can see closely in the video there is a fire gecko

[@lindaeve2758]

I love this but we need an updated version now!!!! The Mojave is so fascinating we need more 🤩🥰

[@TravisWJFwannaB]

Thanks for the video. I love watching these.

[@laal6456]

You did a SUPER job wrapping things up, and I’m not just saying that because I have to.

[@lindaeve2758]

You're lying right 😭😂

[@courtcourt2]

I’ve drove through it. It’s beautiful

[@zjw1494]

It's beautiful. Really.

[@moalawsi5743]

I'v been there ,,its scary ,temp was around 118

[@SubparPanda]

I watched something on PBS about death valley,it was really interesting :)

[@eldavo6227]

Almost wish for a nuclear Winter seeing this

[@xthatoneguyx]

129 degrees!?!? dang... thats hot!

[@kikiperales95]

I love the views!

[@RickStaffordcartunes]

Forsaken?...thought it was beautiful.

[@fleckx]

They say the devil is beautiful.

[@owenboulet3176]

the dry mercyless expanse of the mojave desert

[@Peterahonsifitness]

It's where they made that movie holes

[@heroknaderi]

Interesting

[@HenryTheBoilermaker3rdYear]

129!!! Good lord!

[@steeb8053]

But blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit” (Jeremiah 17:7-8

[@patrickwagner8564]

yeah because having las vegas just to the east isn't enuff

[@ncrtrooper201]

“New” Vegas

[@HeyYaKnow]

I went to NTC in the Mojave back in 2007. It reached 127 degrees one day.

[@popmolly5803]

so this is where the mars rover is.....

[@ryanmax-grappler8654]

Its not harsh they got a phone pole every ten miles

[@kilawattkidd]

I heard a rumor the Mojave Desert was hot!!!!!!!

[@digitaleventhorizons]

OMG REALLY?

[@paytonl3485]

No way link me to your source

[@charleslee1960]

I heard a rumor that people complain

[@JoeNJ1]

Technically places like Philly is God-forsaken...the desert would be paradise to some of us.

[@donaldschmenk4345]

Me

[@Toomuchbullshitt]

You wish! Dry heat above 115 will zap the energy out of you as well. Owning a pool is a privilege but temps above 120 is nearly unbearable. It can also get humid during monsoons.

[@Fckdre]

Anyone here after nipsey hussle left someone here

[@Perfectheart-fan-girl]

Vale. True to caesar

[@ncrtrooper201]

Somethings wrong, I can feel it

[@DarthVader999-0]

@@ncrtrooper201 Hello

[@gamerskulll2805]

"First, you must find dirt"

[@isaaccruz8328]

Super mutant fallout new Vegas

[@MacMcLinn]

hehe he said oof

[@romibajwa7153]

We are going to race in it 🏆

[@yayvideogames8032]

crazy how they forgot the brahmin ranchers

[@mistervacation23]

Why would any judge order the records to be destroyed?! How does that make any sense?

[@AnisTarek]

Watching after 10 year on 22 april

[@KuostA]

Must SUCK to be a ranger at a place like that. why even need rangers anyway there, who the helll is going to tresspass there

[@mozzamshah232]

Is this where undertaker is from????!

[@paulgikonyo3771]

i also had the same question in mind...

[@christopherp.hitchens3902]

Now there's a career. Chasing down them pesky wabbits!

[@SSGDevelopment]

FALLOUT LORE

[@WallyBigMt]

GTA LORE

[@28dirtj]

Only the real ones know.... NTC is the absolute worst month of training ever.

[@fairyfine]

it said seemingly desolate

[@GoGoserGo]

they forgot mentioning road runner bird

[@relaxedberserker4156]

1:35 legionaries

[@KuostA]

@jerkinp @jerkinp are u kidding me? not really. it's FILLED with abundant wild life. penguins, seals, etc etc

[@invaderguy78]

Where I live, we had hundreds by Feburary 18, 105 and stuff, guess which area in the world I live.

[@brandicampbell2811]

Invaderguy78 Of Space he'll

[@brandicampbell2811]

Invaderguy78 Of Space no,hell

[@jogdogfrog]

3-million acres, not square miles

[@COZMICTOM]

I WORKED IN A STEEL MILL AS A SCARFER WITH A TORCH ..IT GOT UNGODLY ....I WOULD GO OUTSIDE ON BRAKE IN THE SUMMER WHERE IT WOULD BE IN THE 90'S .WITH IT BEING SO HOT INSIDE IT WOULD FEEL LIKE A COOL BREEZE

[@Rockinruffhouser]

Good ol ntc. U.S. Army

[@kzhong]

i thought east LA was the land god had forsaken

[@charleslee1960]

It is

[@Toomuchbullshitt]

Only because people ruined it and housing prices soared sky high by the 1980s.

[@SUNSHINE-me8gz]

1999 Y2k before that it had shut down twice before the recorded last time I will not say I am my last of this debukle enjoy your flight

[@robert0joe]

@CadetBrandon Also Saudi Arabia.

[@unorthodoxJ]

@finch6789 (cont) So you didn't like a joke, ok then not all jokes are funny to every person It didn't hinder your experience of the footage at all If you don't like a joke then just thumb it down and move on with your life

[@emils2]

first post

[@wellshii]

@unorthodoxJ i bet you think houses build themselves too huh??

[@wellshii]

@TheKmk173 in that case...dont quit your day job

[@unorthodoxJ]

@finch6789 You need to calm down My comment was a joke and I thought the exaggeration that this is an atheist chat room was obvious to be joking as well but apparently not I had nothing to say about the content so I chose instead to make what I felt to be an amusing comment on the title and quote from the video. Apparently people enjoyed the joke If I wanted to shove my views I'd attack specifics and go into some deep analysis, also I'm confused with the Satanist portion

[@unorthodoxJ]

Shame on God for abandoning this place with all the animals And shame on the Tooth Fairy, Dracula, and all the other imaginary characters for not stepping in to help

[@magikush]

lol @ 3 million sq. miles

[@darnellbryant5354]

Ntc 😢😅😅

[@hevylifter]

second

[@praiselordgrace]

nah, Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases. Paslm 115:3

[@gallivant2023]

fifth

[@unorthodoxJ]

@finch6789 Judging by the amount of positive feedback the comment has received, along with a correlation between education and a lack of religious belief (which I assume that most people subscribed to a channel such as this are indeed educated), this practically is an atheist chat room. Besides National Geographic features things on religion all the time. Hell their cover story a month or two ago was about the polygamy religion down in New Mexico. So yes my comment is relevant to the channel

[@caraccident5357]

I want to know the context here

[@lilbrownie3344]

My Proposition: Dig a long ditch like tunnel about a 500 feet wide from the Mojave Desert to the Pacific Ocean. There is no drought just lazyness. In the next 4 years this plan better have action and government funding in order to prevent famine in California Nevada and Arizona beyond. Sand or Fruit? that's your decision. #FLOODTHEDESERT #FLOODTHEDESERT #NODROUGHT #OCEANIA #ATLANTISREBORN

[@lilbrownie3344]

Go fuck yourself.

[@hershleyn4527]

Thats place is safe if ww3 happen

[@MeatBagFrank]

no

[@Toomuchbullshitt]

Atomic bomb test site: allow me introduce myself!

[@lordmerikh]

Patrolling the Mojave desert almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.