Professional Botanist VS Impossible Geoguessr Maps

[@GeoNebula]

Still can't believe I fumbled the Eastern White Pine round LOL. This was so much fun, thanks again for having me!

[@lightcrowd42040]

Hi geonebula

[@barleduckgeo]

🐐

[@chir0pter]

Just FYI there's a European aspen too. I was looking this up recently as I was adding some disjunct Durango MX populations of Populus tremuloides to iNat that I found on Streetview :D

[@GeoNebula]

@@chir0pter I learned about it today, thanks for letting me know! I wasn't aware there were aspens in Durango, that's so cool! Love learning about disjunct populations like that.

[@chir0pter]

@@GeoNebula thanks, I should have scrolled down to see the 50 people mentioning it 💀

[@mariusbraun450]

I love how enthusiastic this guy is about plants

[@jaro0247]

As a professional KZbin video watcher this is very interesting!

[@GeoJaydi]

facts

[@johnnybojan]

We also have quaking aspens in Europe - there's even a saying in polish which roughly translates to "you're quaking like an aspen tree" because of their quaking leaves

[@Oznej]

We have the same saying in Swedish. :) However, you're both right. What he refers to as a quaking aspen is a different species, which is not found in Europe; and likewise, the European aspen does not grow in North America. Though they are related and fairly similar.

[@ythehunter755]

The reason the climate in Europe is "shifted up" is because of the Gulfstream bringing warm water from Latin America to Europe

[@chir0pter]

It’s not really “from Latin America” the Gulf Stream is just the northerly return flow from the subtropics which flow south and the tropics which flow west. Also the larger part of the climate moderation of Europe is just due to having ocean west and being in the westerly wind belt- the Gulf Stream warmth is long expelled to the atmosphere the time the North Atlantic Drift current approaches Europe. Water acts as a seasonal buffer.

[@Sophia-xx7rv]

0:04 a video you've had in the plans.... more like in the plants

[@arminavdic2718]

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[@randomperson8572]

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[@Frosty-py9jp]

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[@vharmi.]

So about the quaking aspen thing: There are two separate species that are both referred to as quaking aspen. Populus Tremula which is found all over Europe but not in North America, and Populus Tremoloides, which is the opposite. They do look very similar however, which is why I believe there was a mixup here.

[@GeoNebula]

That makes so much sense now! I learned a new tree today, thanks for the info!

[@Tvillingklippan]

@@GeoNebula If you are very nervous in sweden a popular saying is that "you tremble like an aspen leaf"

[@GeoNebula]

@@Tvillingklippan Haha I love that!

[@hawahawa7808]

@@GeoNebula Popoulus tremula is not very similiar to P. tremuloides in terms of its bark, I do not know why people are saying that (maybe because of the leaves). They are more greyish as young; similiar to many of the other species of the Populus genus, like cottonwood and balsam poplar. When they get older the bark become almost pitch black. Alle the white-barked trees of the Swedish location were birches; Betula pubescens/B.pendula.

[@GeoNebula]

@@hawahawa7808 That's great to know, thanks for the info!

[@nathanhass]

Fun Aspen Fact: The largest tree on earth is a quaking Aspen forest of clones that are a single organism called Pando in Utah. I don’t know exactly where Pando is in Utah, But I called out Utah on that round immediately! I can also recognize Aspen immediately as I grew up with two large aspen trees in my backyard in New Mexico believe it or not. Also, my pets name is Aspen because her fur color / pattern resembles the bark of an Aspen tree.

[@GeoJaydi]

I love Aspens! So cool you had some in your backyard. They were illegal to have on your property where I grew up since they do grow so huge

[@Marauders5]

Being from Sweden, my first gut instinct was Sweden that round. "Yeah got to be Sweden". And it was lmao

[@palmtreegal3]

I love geonebula!

[@Lol-og9me]

Me too!

[@Lahoje]

21:24 surprised he didn't notice the trees look Polish

[@zntei2374]

This is a very interesting video to me, a professional horticulturist. I don't know so much about wild plants though

[@arnavthescientist1149]

What is horticulture?

[@zntei2374]

@@arnavthescientist1149 Art and science of growing plants, typically in a smaller scale compared to agriculture

[@IbrahimTaha-e6s]

Wow​@@zntei2374

[@arnavthescientist1149]

@@zntei2374 oh noice.thanks for the explanationm I am a physics student, don't know much about biology, sorry.

[@arneshpal7702]

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[@MuriKakari]

In the US Cornbelt, particularly the eastern end, it's really common to plant straight line mini-forests to protect crops from the wind. It's also really common for a tall pine or an oak to have been planted in the farm house's front yard. Those Indiana ones screamed windbreaks to me, especially when I could see the crop fields. But that's home field advantage for me, lol; possibly even stereotype advantage as I automatically associate straight lines with the US. I had absolutely no clue about any of the other ones.

[@essengeebee]

These botany oriented videos are excellent. For me, it's much more satisfying to guess based off the plants than coverage specific metas. The major mistakes I made in the playalongs were when I trusted meta over landscape and foliage. I'm very familiar with gorse after seeing Geowizard climb through it many times while straight-line missioning. Nebula was right about us having beech forests in Britain too, there's one very close to me. I got Italy right, partly because of the infrastructure, but his England guess was very reasonable too.

[@chir0pter]

@@essengeebee one meta that geonebula could have used to help him bigtime was the pickup truck meta…it’s probably pretty hard to both find a round in Europe that looks NA and also get a pickup truck in the frame

[@JohnAndJohner]

@@chir0pter He also missed the obvious NA architecture on the Vancouver round, though to be clear, he probably wasn't trying to look at it given the premise of the video.

[@chir0pter]

@@JohnAndJohner pickup truck more cut and dry than architecture imo

[@JohnAndJohner]

@@chir0pter For specifically EUvNA maps, sure but you can easily find pickups in Mexico and Australia to name a few.

[@chir0pter]

@@JohnAndJohner yes for eu vs na 50/50

[@clone3]

when the zigzag aria math starts kicking in

[@egroegartfart]

That was impressive. I really enjoyed this video. Eventhough he got several wrong, in most of them he mentioned the correct answer and just got tricked and accidentally picked the wrong continent. But his explanations of the trees and leaves and vegetation were really good. Impressive. I got a lot wrong. I got the ones right around Ohio because I spend a lot of time outside so they were familiar. The indiana ones and Southeast and Northeast U.S. ones. But other than that all wrong. I thought the one was Colorado or somewhere in the Rockies for sure and it was Europe. Lol. Thank you zig.

[@GeoPopo]

I love these series so much, they are by far my favourite educational geoguessr videos to watch, seeing these pop up always makes my day and I always learn something new :). GeoNebula - you're a legend - thank you for all the enthusiasm and wisdom you bring to each video 🔥. Keep em coming!!!!

Gorse is very iconic in Galicia (northern Spain), but I didn't expect it to be so exclusive of western Europe, glad to learn and another great video from you folks. :)

[@Donanzador]

@4:05 The European aspen looks very similar to the American quaking aspen, and it grows throughout Europe and Asia. Good chance that's what the mixup was.

[@ryanlind5239]

Oh wow I live in Vancouver and did not recognize that round in the slightest. Usually when it's B.C. I can at least get "feels like home" vibes but not there lol

[@ÖmerRao-t7n]

This will probably never be read but if it is, I would love a video on trees of South America and Oceania, places like central/southern Chile alongside new Caledonia would make such an interesting vid, also incredible content, keep up the work, love from Turkey ❤️🇹🇷

[@UpTheIrons51510]

Aspen are never alone in wild (clonal propagation) and pretty exclusive to the Rockies. They are in poplar family, so I think they look more like cottonwood than birch. Certainly taller when mature. Contextually, in places where birch grow, they’re going to be single specimens growing in all manners of places like ditches, fence lines, etc, I exclusively saw Aspen, at least in Montana, along streams, riparian. (Natural populations, of course they use them for street trees n stuff there) The Utah round might have been the Pando grove, the largest single species in the world. 40,000+ trees with 1 genome

[@chir0pter]

@@UpTheIrons51510 Quaking aspen are not exactly that exclusive to the Rockies- check out inat

[@michaelpreminger4259]

Quaking aspen does occur in Europe (kind of)! The American species is Populus tremuloides. Tremuloides is latin for "like tremula". The European species is Populus tremula!

[@funzionedispari4325]

2:30 Robinia is invasive in Europe

[@MrPassivefist]

Awesome vid, I love this kind of content I'm learning a lot! As a native of Indiana, I can confirm our forests are very diverse and have so many species you can find anywhere.

[@kraenk12]

The truck in that Newfoundland round gave it away that this could NOT have been Europe.

[@gwts1171]

We have quite a few Weeping Willows here in MN, too. I would have never guessed Vancouver Mellencamp on that round, Thanks for the video, guys!

[@Sophia-xx7rv]

I saw Christmas ferns yesterday on a field trip! they're supposed to look like Santa's boots but they look more like long mittens

[@hyperfeen]

id'ing northern hemisphere plants definitely hard for me as an aussie, was holding out for an Asian / Australian / NZ round but alas. The challenges are always fun tho

[@phpART]

what a great guy geonebula!

[@Aviertje]

All these places looked so similar to me! I'd love to see a run which focuses on photospheres taken of heritage locations; I wonder how well he'd do recognizing some of those!

[@mystfire]

Recognized the loc at 12:05, it’s a tiny but locally known historic fishing village called Finn Slough.

[@GeoCamelOfficial]

Love all your videos with GeoNebula :)

[@elainerose8799]

Glad to see more of this content 😊 I think a very knowledgeable botanist could play GeoGuessr and clean up. If only you get the older academics to play a computer game 😅

[@sanj_lh]

Geo nebula lets gooo, love when you collab with him!

[@michaelwisniewski6047]

On that Greece round you had the slopes of Mount Olympus. I hiked to the top with my family over a month ago. It was beautiful and amazing. Pretty cold at the top. I totally recommend it! Oops, on closer view, you actually have Mount Ossa there, just 50km south of Olympus.

[@Aisers]

Thumbnail go grazy

[@apocalypseexe8959]

in this house we love GeoNebula🫶

[@johnmcnally7812]

Gorse smells lovely, like coconuts and butter.

[@JohnAndJohner]

25:10 is the moment I realized I am a cringe GeoGuessr player. My ass immediately went "wait, is this gen2?" completely defeating the premise of the video. Because of the gen2, my guess was immediately Sardegna, which is way closer than I'm allowed to be based on a halo in the sky.

[@Johnsli]

17:25 I thought America just based on the car. Didn't think it looked like anywhere in Norway even if the landscape can look similar.

[@the_black_dune6433]

thanks for the intro to GeoNebula

[@funzionedispari4325]

I had the same utah forest as a random windows screensaver, it looked beautiful so I searched where it was and now i guessed 32 km off lmao

[@DuckOfRubber]

Southern Indiana stepping up to represent generic eastern North American, but also kinda European looking forests and trees.

[@igortarasow]

would be awesome to see more videos like this, maybe a more tutorialesque video with him

[@thetutorialtypo6573]

Zigzags thumbnails are becoming more and more ai generated 😂

[@rickyhan7023]

Richmond BC has lots of Chinese people it’s basically Taiwan. The Fraser River delta is pretty out of place. The houses you see by the river are owned by indigenous people. I used to ride my bike around there.

[@crazyanim8tion]

But I thought... you can tell it's an aspen... because of the way that it is? A similar plant to gorse is scotch broom, but I remember the difference by saying "gorse is coarser" (they have sharp spines). I think we have both on the NA west coast but maybe scotch broom is more common.

[@4C51]

According to iNaturalist it looks like those southwest France pines are Maritime Pines (Pinus pinaster)

[@slifer0081]

Correct, they are also the exact same pines seen in the spain location

[@beeryye]

The powerline was a giveaway at 13:49

[@adenhawk4029]

As a plant science major I’m jealous of Phil’s knowledge and I want to be him

[@Pomess42]

very good idea! he is probably stronger than us without knowing it

[@tommasorovario6657]

Very useful video, it helps a lot knowing the plants when you get a forest round, i ususally struggle on those but i'm cinfident i'm gonna do better now

[@Issy_Owen]

Love how Oscar plays with smaller channels

[@skyblockgamer7713]

I like these series with a botanist actually because they are very relaxing. Congrats to Nebula to guess the correct continent on last game.😀P.S. I don't understand why Oscar says east or west ocean when there's a sea.

[@fran-bruh]

Banger

[@SixHexKeptMeInTheDark]

You were 2nd by like 8 seconds

[@fran-bruh]

@@SixHexKeptMeInTheDark they dont watch z8 like i do

[@SixHexKeptMeInTheDark]

@@fran-bruh same, I was first finally xD

[@guessr_val]

9:11 what the f part of Mass is that 🤯🤯🤯 nice job tho!

[@RyanYoxo]

You should pick the Californian red wood trees in Warburton in Victoria, Australia Would throw someone off. Also I’m surprised how close I got with my guesses based on vibe alone despite never playing geoguessr, just purely watching your videos hahah

[@pingerlol]

if youve seen hereditary, the utah round makes perfect sense 😂

[@Tutorialmaster5787]

I like all your videos. literally

[@ShivPlayz]

Bring lenli Bring Lenli Bring Lenli

[@CinaedmacAilpin1874]

To be honest the first "decisive round" at 19:00 is neither in Europe nor in North America 😂

[@Zarosian_Ice]

4:50 someone might have to correct me, but i think you are wrong about your assessment of latitude/longitude, you're looking at a 2D representation of the globe, i'd expect canada and sweden to be on the same latitude/longitude spherically.

[@rumilb]

nebula goat

[@Codeqs]

Very cool Challenge

[@SixHexKeptMeInTheDark]

5th also stop trying to speed run its hard enough as it is

[@SixHexKeptMeInTheDark]

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[@Codeqs]

@@SixHexKeptMeInTheDark dude i dont even care about this stupit sht

[@arseniys3054]

Who wants to see Professional Electrician vs Impossible Geoguessr Maps?

[@ByynDawg]

I thought the Newfoundland round was Norway myself and I am norwegian

[@pinkdragon4830]

Nebula sounds like he looks like NileBlue

[@slifer0081]

8:12 there is no way he goes uk on an obvious eastern europe/baltics, with the silver birch, scots pine, norway spruce, etc

[@yafyafyaf222]

Yooo this was my idea !

[@vidyaseshadri8468]

hi im first!!! big fan zigzag ur the best geogeusser youtuber !!!

[@SixHexKeptMeInTheDark]

Hi also you’re fourth

[@vidyaseshadri8468]

@@SixHexKeptMeInTheDark no im the first comment

[@vidyaseshadri8468]

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[@SixHexKeptMeInTheDark]

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[@SixHexKeptMeInTheDark]

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[@skootle04]

as a professional valorant player, I like men

[@alexIVMKD]

Sheesh, Oscar cooked

[@arjunraghunandanan]

Hey Oscar, can you do a react of the Smosh Games Geoguessr video uploaded yesterday. I guess it'll be fun. Maybe even on 2nd channel. Video title was "Can We Guess Where We Are?"

[@finnlissaman]

Gorse was introduced into nz a is a very annoying weed

[@AlicePrasad]

Ayo! 3 mins!?

[@Kerguelen.Mapping]

I only just realised bro uses Minecraft music in his vids

[@AshCatTrainz]

I just noticed the Minecraft music

[@arekzawistowski2609]

Turkiye isn't Europe Oscar. At least 90+% of it

[@gracessweettreats]

Heyy please reply I love ur vids

[@gurtner9]

Asian part of turkey, not europe.

[@anitakluga5710]

Epic

[@teddy_123.]

Love it

[@AverageWeather]

3 min gang ayyyy

[@DarkKittens123]

Hello mate you’re very cool

[@ladeedaa]

I actually did better than your host this time around

[@Liveherefreeinmylivingroom90]

Did you like the Swedish🇸🇪 culture?

[@SixHexKeptMeInTheDark]

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[@Blockly806]

this thumbnail is awful

[@kyriakoshohlastos7528]

1st

[@SixHexKeptMeInTheDark]

3rd*

[@SixHexKeptMeInTheDark]

By like 23 secs

[@SixHexKeptMeInTheDark]

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[@sweet.969]

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[@SixHexKeptMeInTheDark]

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[@elliejohnson9600]

hi i love you

[@CrazyGuyPL]

He is so bad