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[@peaceonearth8693]

LoL at your naievete. That gov has an interest in creating a park in order to make money from tourism. Not to preserve the flowers.

[@estefanoespinozapiccoli7015]

​@@peaceonearth8693 Yeah, to be fair the Chilean goverment hates tourism and has neglected his possibilities for decades, specially in the North of Chile because boosting the tourism there would mean that the Mining Companies should start to be more careful with their enviroment contamination... Just in the last few years the public pressure over this has been enough to force the goverment to make actual Progress against the mining contamination in the North so just now the goverment is starting to take interest in the possibilities of tourism

[@AdrianCuyubambaDiaz]

What a beautiful planet indeed. From deserts to rainforests, from beaches to mountains. We're so lucky to call it our home

[@joela2438]

Having endured arid or semi-arid conditions for roughly 55-80 million years, the Namib may be the oldest desert

[@jul1440]

Also has the largest sand dunes. They are red.

[@Cryogenx37]

It's thanks to geographic videos like this is why I sometimes spend a lot of time on Google Map street view to appreciate the world even if I can't ever travel to places

[@kevinhutchins4222]

2001: A Space Odyssey did not shoot scenes meant to depict the red planet Mars. The shots you had shown depict early earth.

[@jul1440]

The Antarctic Polar Desert is the driest desert on Earth; the Atacama Desert is the driest _hot_ desert.

[@estefanoespinozapiccoli7015]

As a Chilean that has worked on the Atacama Desert before doing Archaeology research there was a few little mistakes in the video, for example 8k years BP there was a lot of more humid places with rivers and even swamps in what now is the Atacama Desert, but even with those few mistakes it's nothing that bad so still a great video

The presence of rivers and swamps doesn’t negate the existence of the Atacama Desert 8 thousand years ago. There’re also large rivers crossing the Sahara Desert: the Nile and the Niger River, and a large lake just on its boundaries: the Lake Chad.

[@Agustin_R]

@ in the Chilean case it does. Because Cordillera de Los Andes is very high in that latitude, all the rivers that could run through Desierto de Atacama could only flow with rainwater that comes from the Pacific Ocean. So if it doesn’t rain in Desierto de Atacama, it doesn’t rain in the west part of Cordillera de Los Andes and therefore the rivers get dry. Sorry for my English xd, I don’t use it much

[@TheMolabola]

The desert blooming is beautiful wow

[@claraguzman6842]

Very informative. Thank you

[@billweberx]

This should be a 5 minute video. The repetition is unbearable.

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[@cookiedudes]

LOL, perhaps it's video editor's fault.

[@rolyrod69]

Yeah! It’s sooo incredibly redundant. Took the words outta my mouth!

[@DolchOfHate]

Maybe for native speakers. Repetition usually helps children that are getting used to the language, specially for L2 students. I'm Chilean and I teach at a bilingual school. My students loved the video.

[@Svensk7119]

​@@rolyrod69 Hate to be the pedant of the group, but I think you meant "yeah". "Yea" rhymes with "say". Of course, it has the same meaning, and maybe you felt a little like Shakespeare...

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Brilliant! Thank you very much for such a well created, really educative video

[@edgarsnake2857]

Great content and a nice production. Thanks.

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[@thecon115]

Huge respect for your hardwork and research that you have done in this, it was amazing content

[@ygberg]

When the research totally misses on the mark with the film 2001... I would not even call it research. Nothing in that film takes place on the planet Mars!

[@Guitcad1]

2001: A Space Odyssey is not set on "the Red Planet." Mars is never even mentioned or referred to in the entire movie. Stanley Kubrick might have used stills of the Atacama Desert for the backgrounds of scenes in the first segment, but the setting of the scenes is in Africa, not Mars. Why would you think that? You've never seen the movie, have you?

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[@Nicksonian]

I was going to say the same thing. The confusion is laughable and being new to the channel, I question it’s credibility. Besides it isn’t the oldest desert on earth.

[@paulm749]

@@geopolipedia2956 Your reply doesn't cut it. This glaring error plus a few others indicates some very sloppy research on your part. Do better.

[@m.debaser4]

Good video, but it incurs in the same error all videos about Atacama do, wich is they only show the high parts of the desert instead of the lowland core Atacama, wich is actually the area known as the driest in the world, where isn't any snowpacked mountain nor hardly any flower boom occurs and where it truly looks like Mars.

[@chrissyn4491]

Thank you for your efforts in making the topic so clear.

[@arshpreetkaur9114]

The real appreciation and hardwork award goes to the one which created this magnificent video. Thank you so much for this and I really like the quote you told regarding .. Life again can be changed if you have even a little hope which totally resembles with the Atacama desert climate 🎉🎉❤

[@sporkazmable]

Wait a minute, the first act of 2001 Space Odyssey takes place on Mars? I'm almost positive that's not true, it's supposed to be the ancestors of humans on Earth.... When the ancient hominid throws the bone into the air, then it hard cuts to a Space station orbiting Earth, that's symbolic of humans learning to use tools and culturally evolving from bone hammers to spacecraft in the astronomical blink of an eye.

[@mikestewart7338]

Absolutely mesmerizing! Thank you..

[@johnpritchard5410]

Lima is the driest place that I've been....

[@ayaddar4792]

Brilliant

[@rmar127]

So many inaccuracies in this video. As an Australian, I have a reasonable understanding of the El Niño and La Niña cycles, due to the fact that our climate is heavily influenced by these events. Let me tell you that El Niño does not occur once every 5-7 years. It generally occurs for 5-7 years at a time, then is interrupted by 2-3 years of wet weather caused by La Niña before returning to El Niño.

[@box4859]

Well, technically, Antarctica gets less rain than the Atacama. It gets 0 CM per year.

[@scpatl4now]

The Peru Current absolutely does not become a warm current. That is not true. El Nino is caused by abnormal westerly winds which blow warm water from the western pacific to the east which interrupts the upwelling caused by the Trade Winds which blow offshore which in an El Nino blow the opposite way. This might slow down the Peru Current, but that current is always cold.

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Too bad a lot of it is wrong.

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[@bogdanferu1160]

What he said is verry interesting... and mostly true... but there is one misstep... the Atacama is NOT the driest desert on Earth... it might be the driest tropical desert on Earth, but if you include the Antartic desert (wich is classified as a desert), then that is the driest desert on earth... simply put, no rain has ever struck the antarctic desert for 3 million years, wich is the time the antactic icesheet formed... its also the windiest place on earth with winds often blow past 130kph or 80mph...its also the coldest place on earth with winter temperatures often dip bellow -70 degrees... simply put, the combination of verry low temperatures and high winds, makes rainfall impossible there... even the atacama isnt that dry... allthough it hardly ever rains in the atacama, there are some extremly rare ocassions when it does rain there... while in the antarctic, its simply impossible to rain... so the Antarctic is the driest desert on Earth...

Snowfall also counts as precipitation. BTW, can you cite any reference supporting the claim that "no rain has ever struck the Antarctic Desert for 3 million years"?

[@TheNachoOne]

Some places in the Atacama have never received any rain, that is why it is the driest.

@@TheNachoOne, how can anyone know whether a certain place on earth has ever received any rain?

[@Nicksonian]

The Namib, Kalahari, Gobi, and Antarctic deserts are all older. And I’m not sure why Australia isn’t on there because Australia has the earth’s oldest surface.

[@inutilsuverzivo]

ACKCHWALLY...

[@k.h.1587]

There were no scenes in 2001 on Mars

[@diegoramirez7901]

It would rain in the west side of the Coastal Range, however it doesnt. The South Pacific High prevent any rain in northern Chile.

[@Glennn7]

0:22 EEquator? Isn't the accent on the second syllable instead of the first?

[@stuckbarry4163]

Antarctica is the world's largest desert. They completely ignore in this video.

[@Sanakavin]

Nice

[@مرادمحمدصبري]

Thanks a lot

[@pgantioch8362]

The Himalayas were formed starting 50M yrs ago, when the Indian Subcontinent, after VERY rapidly traversing the Tethys Ocean, slammed into southern Asia. As far as deserts 20-40 degrees north & south of the Equator, you didn’t mention Hadley cells. These have warm, moist air rising at the Equator & heading poleward. After dropping their precipitation, dry air moves down toward the ground, making those ares very dry.

[@AlvinSeville1]

That was the same ocean that had Gilligan's Island.

[@sporkazmable]

@@AlvinSeville1 Wait really? Does that imply that Gilligan's island takes place after a trip back in time?

[@AlvinSeville1]

@@sporkazmable Guess that means they're several light years away.

[@studyaccount2950]

i couldn't find Chilean mountain range, any mountain range if it's there, it is in the continuation of the Andes, and as per that Atacama is not between mountain ranges, it is a coastal desert and is dry because of the cold current and being on Subtropical high. Please correct me if I am wrong.

[@vicalonso6597]

I live in this desert. In Chile we call it Cordillera de la Costa, it's the Chilean Coast Range

[@inutilsuverzivo]

thanks for the video but calling it "the chilean mountains" is not wrong it's absurd, it's like calling mississippi "the USA river". it has several names but you can call it "the coastal range".

[@codyporter6]

In 2001 a space odyssey it was prehistoric earth, not mars.

[@nsdax7]

The atacama dessert is from the south of Peru to the north of Chile.

[@jamesmatheson9624]

So if we blow up the mountains theyll get rain,it sounds like if we made mountains that we can push warm air in the region and make it rain when we want

[@baonguyen-po3ko]

Meanwhile the El Nino phenomenon causes the rainfall in VietNam to drop and monthly temp to rise 😢 The video is very informative tho .Thank u ❤

[@kinguchiha6212]

When he said climate change I was oh cool I wonder which country or region is getting the opposite effect as a result

[@danfobb8301]

nice

[@SunGuru86]

The largest desert in the world is not the Sahara, but Antarctica.

[@Nicksonian]

This is just awful. First off, the Atacama desert is not the oldest. The Namib, Kalahari, Gobi, and Antarctic deserts are all older. And I’m not sure why Australia isn’t on there because Australia has the earth’s oldest surface. The bit about 2001 A Space Odyssey is completely wrong. Those scenes were done in a large movie soundstage and were meant to portray Africa, not Mars. Geesh, how does anyone talking about science not see how nuts that statement sounds? Mars?!?! LMAO. With that I stopped watching. Ya can’t get that much wrong in the first two minutes of a video and expect me to keep watching, or ever come back.

[@icohen1627]

It is weird that the atacama desert is the driest because I always thought most South American countries are rainy forested and lush

[@noobclashofclan8498]

Bro make a video of ocean current 😊.

[@fens3508]

The Wettest : Mawsyrnam.

[@dutch9357]

2001 a space odyssey spends no time on mars. Early earth, the modern moon, Jupiter, and beyond. No Mars.

[@nicpardon1057]

Isnt the antartic the driest desert on earth

[@Hmsfnd-Mark]

👍👍

[@jim2376]

Been there. A forbidding landscape.

[@lucasmanlabao]

Amazing dessert

*"desert"

[@Rogue.Warrior]

I can turn this desert green if I was given the opportunity and sponsoring.

[@juggalofred1533]

You need to include some Insane Clown Posse music in your videos

[@omaralabasi886]

The third reason is the main cause .. all others have minimal effect

[@stevoplex]

Who is Andy and why are Andy's Mountains named after him? 🤔

[@corilia9529]

Because the mountains suck up the moisture.

[@abhikul123]

Compare this with the wettest place on earth called MAYSYNRAM in INDIA. 700 inches of rain every year. 😅🤣😂

[@scottieeasley4907]

Oh my God are we on the repeater

[@boio_]

It's Humboldt Current not Peru

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[@boio_]

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[@eljjtp]

What about Antarctica. Pretty sure that's the largest desert.

[@mikenichols3849]

the namib desert is the oldest on earth. it is at least 55 million years old.

[@calvinkalmon6746]

The mispronuciation of "prevalent" and "bases" is just too much, terribly annoying.

[@mochababy2]

The Sahara desert is just called Sahara... Meaning Desert... Can't call it Desert Desert.

[@andrewnewton2246]

Antarctica is the world's largest desert.

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[@paranoidandroid6711]

Antartica is the largest desert.

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[@danrhone9756]

I thought Death Valley would be driest place on earth. Really

[@fccc3379]

Death Valley is the driest place in North America, but it's nowhere near as dry as the Atacama.

[@CharDhue]

Antarctica

[@moefuggerr2970]

Talks way too much about random trash and constantly shows unrelated pictures of other things. Skip it.

[@bryant-fr7sr]

Bruh you can't talk about possible positives of climatic warming. You'll get canceled.

[@FantasmaOlvidado1]

Antártica is the driest.

[@XeonAlpha]

And the largest

The Antarctic Desert as a whole (let alone, the Antarctica) isn’t drier than the Atacama Desert (measured as average annual precipitation). And neither is the Antarctic Desert the largest desert on earth since the coastal regions and the Antarctic Peninsula aren’t technically part of the Antarctic Desert (since their annual precipitation is greater than 50 mm) and, on the other hand, the Sahara Desert is significantly larger that many people think since it includes the Arabian Desert and the Syrian Desert, an extension of the Sahara Desert and geographically contiguous to it.

[@XeonAlpha]

@ you can keep posting this response all you want but it doesn’t make it true. A simple google search will show that yes, the Antarctic desert is BY FAR the largest desert in the world. No it’s not all of Antarctica, which is what you’re implying is the problem, it’s called the “Antarctic Polar Desert.”

@@XeonAlpha, your "simple google search" is "confidently incorrect" because you don’t even know where to find the surface area of the Antarctic Desert. "14.2M sq km" isn’t the surface area of the Antarctic Desert but of the whole Antarctic continent/Antarctica.

[@XeonAlpha]

@ yup I’m sure you, a random guy on the internet are more confidently “correct” than an actual professor. To answer this record-setting question, it's important to consider what exactly makes a desert a desert. According to Jonathan Wille, an Antarctic meteorologist and climatologist at the University of Grenoble in France, any region that sees less than 9.8 inches (25 centimeters) of precipitation per year qualifies as a desert. When all such regions are considered, Antarctica qualifies as Earth's largest cold desert, and the Sahara is the largest hot desert. "At 14.2 million square kilometers [5.5 million square miles], Antarctica is the largest desert in the world," Wille told Live Science.

[@myerspaul7182]

That's a good climate change !

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[@barnabyssjones]

this is not geopolitics

[@tarikmehmedika2754]

Aren't some places even drier in antartica ? There has been no precipitation what so evwr for the last 2 million years and isn't the Namib desert the oldest ? Why didn't you adress this ?

What do you understand by "drier" places?

[@tarikmehmedika2754]

@ Parts of Antartica have nit recived any kind of precipitation for more than 2 million years.

[@kbdigitalpvd]

Sooooo much repetition 🤦‍♂️

[@rmar127]

Given that it receives 15mm of rain per year, ids say Antartica would be drier.

So what’s the average annual precipitation in Antarctica? Can you cite any references?

[@rmar127]

@ rainfall: zero. When the year round temperature is below freezing 🧊 there is no liquid water. Ergo, drier than the Atacama.

[@XeonAlpha]

The Antarctic Polar Desert is by _far_ the largest desert in the world, not the Sahara. In fact the Antarctic Desert is larger than the Gobi, Arabian, and Sahara _combined_ .

This isn’t actually true. On the one hand, the Antarctic Desert doesn’t include the totality of the Antarctica. The coastal regions and Antarctic Peninsula receive more than 50 mm of annual precipitation. On the other hand, the Sahara Desert and the Arabian Desert are technically the same desert since they’re geographically contiguous (through the Sinai Desert). If you compare the surface area of the desert regions of the Antarctica and the Sahara and Arabian Desert, the Antarctic Desert isn’t the largest desert.

[@XeonAlpha]

@ Your response is what we call: “Confidently incorrect.” No the technical Antarctic desert doesn’t include all of Antarctica, nor did I say it did. It _officially_ covers 14.2 million sq km. Let’s do a little more math: Sahara - 9.2M sq km Arabian - 2.33M sq km Gobi - 1.295 sq km Grand total: 12.825M which surprise is less than 14.2M by a wide margin. This isn’t hard to figure out if you punch it into Google.

@@XeonAlpha, your reply is "confidently incorrect" in one thing: 1.42e7 sq km ("14.2M sq km") is the surface area of the whole Antarctic continent (aka Antarctica), not of the Antarctic Desert. You can look it up. Addendum: I should have included above the Syrian Desert as part of the Sahara Desert since the Syrian Desert is a contiguous extension of the Arabian Desert.

[@meskahmusic]

This video contains massive miss-information…

[@TheRoon4660]

Whatever you do don't lose a chance to sell your climate man made change BS.

[@Mark65845]

The earth is only 6000 years old

[@SaranshTiku1]

He talks as if everyone has a 5 second memory. This could be a drinking game where every time he says “Driest place on earth” we take a shot. I’ll be hospitalised with Alcohol poisoning by Minute 9.

[@Pomelu]

bro just use your real voice

[@who9387]

Atacama is not the driest place on Earth !!!!! Do proper research, check out Antarctica, places there have had no precipitation for thousands of years, maybe even millions.

Could you mention the names of some of those places in Antarctica that have had no precipitation for thousands of years? Could you cite any references supporting that claim?

[@inutilsuverzivo]

the average precipitation in antarctica is closer to 50mm; even half that is higher precipitation than atacama. aat least name your sources or else they are useless

[@who9387]

@@inutilsuverzivo Yet you do not name yours so that is equally useless

[@inutilsuverzivo]

@@who9387 you are right. do you want text references or are you ok with internet links. i have both

[@who9387]

@ Check out the McMurdo Dry Valleys en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMurdo_Dry_Valleys, no rain for nearly 2 million years.

[@hypeandjive]

There are some people who do not need to be doing voiceover narration. You are one of those people. Slow. Down.

[@anibalrendon569]

Wow big misleading statement That Peruvian current is cold current and NEVER becomes a warm current. The process of "El NINO" formation is complete different set up. You should research into it and correct otherwise shows a poor researched video. Sorry accuracy matters.

[@Chapps1941]

Even though this is not definite, it's known for a fact. 🫢🫢🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🫨🫨😳😳