Should This Lake Exist?
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2015
- The Salton Sea is the largest body of water in California, home to the second most diverse group of birds in America and it exists by accident.
Another great video on the Salton Sea: • The Accidental Sea
I used archive from this video.
Music by Kevin MacLeod, www.incompetech.com ‘Mirage’, ‘Hyperfun’, ‘Marty Gots a Plan’, ‘Past the Edge’
He must have some self discipline not to smack the flies off his face
I've lived in Australia a long time
tevin persinger I thought the same thing too. I would be pretty much just whacking away at the flies the whole video if I was him.
Veritasium the flies that bad in Australia? I had a bad enough time with them in India.
Kyle Welsby he literally said he was in California like 8 times.
The flies are way worse than that in Australia haha
this turned from interesting and educational to depressing and sad in just over 7 minutes...
My girl on her period
@Anthony Miranda TRUEEE
"Should this lake exist?"
Should i even exist?
Yes this lake should exist and it can be saved
This isn't sad if you watch the whole thing really
Quite bittersweet sure but it's not purely negative
The old timey commercials and the ruined houses really give this place a Fallout vibe
or Russia vibe yeah looks the same
If they ever make a terrible movie, they know where to go.
Or sandy shores from GTA
@@TheGamingPolitician it is Sandy shores 😂
They should make a Fallout theme park there. Just paint a few old barrels yellow, hide them everywhere and give kids toy Geiger counters.
Physics wasn't enough so he started questioning a lake's existence.
Why not ! :)
It still about physics. Area physicist sees physics in everything in the universe.
Shut up
Every Story of the 50's: "everything was great, except until..."
The Hart-Celler Immigration Act of '65.
Nep Nep you sound like Thanos
.. until the fire nation attacked.
@@0.-.0 Or, all three ....
A great indicator
It’s basically a huge fish tank that hasn’t been cleaned in ages...😬
Helena No it's more like a septic tank that hasn't been cleaned in ages!
Jom Pop I went out there about a month ago... and it was nice. I mean, it's a strange place, but I like strange, so... Took some great abandoned building shots! 😊
Helena Any Topless photos???
Jon MacDonald Shame on you! 😉
Helena 😀😀
(🌻Y🌻)
I'm so blazed right now, but did the bubling mud segment feel like it went on for an eternity? And I loved it.
I was sitting here just now under those same circumstances, it absolutely did lmaoo
@@PTSD_Guts hahaha. Glad somebody else experienced that as well. 😂
Same
We’re all here getting stoned and refreshing recommended videos together in 2021
Same here it felt like 5 minutes I was really confused but I was entranced
My brain: okay you need to go to to sleep its 3am
Also me: I dont need sleep, i NEED ANSWERS
I looked at the clock and its 3am... I hate Insomnia
Lmao Sheldon Cooper reference
@@jaridkeen123 why u do not upload anymore video?
FYI: this is the lake in GTA V
Walter Joseph Kovacs Yep, Alamo Sea from GTA V, even the abandoned resorts.
Maybe that's why it seemed familiar
Walter Joseph Kovacs Alamo Sea in GTA. Despite everyone leaving Salton there are little enclaves of people who want to get away from it all, just like Trevor.
opsin Yeah, Salton City is there, for instance. Looks arid and abandoned, but people live there!
Walter Joseph Kovacs exept in gta v there is an outflow river and it is at sea level but we get the idea
2:51 that’s what my mother did when I was born
Lmfaoo
So she dressed you up like a new riviera?
@@ThePavelkomin She tried
Lol
😂😂🤣
"Nature will find a way, even if it does not involve us."
Not if we constantly bruise it!
@@muegaltomiganson I mean it definitely still will. Nature will kill all of humanity off before it succumbs to us.
@@derpymule7977
*flashbacks black hole bomb*
@@muegaltomiganson wait when the hell did we make black hole bombs
@@ceoofconfusion100 since Kurzgesagt existed
fly:
*attempts desperately to ruin the sentimental gravity of your culminating speech*
you:
*activates maximum-ponder-drive, generating prefontal heat THUS repelling the fly through pure thought*
It is kind of hard to lay down a serious and profound monologue with flies crawling on your face.
That's called being outdoors, you should try it some time.
Some people go outside and work, I know it sounds crazy
You ever been to a lake, buddy?
Ghandi would disagree with you yo...
unless you're beelzebub
6:20 There's just a lack of caring...
*fly lands on his forehead*
Yup... No fucks were ever given.
I respect him for the bravery of talking while a bunch of flies flying around. One almost go in his mouth
XD
That fly really wanted its 13 seconds of fame.
I
You what?
This has to be the saddest video of him. In the end, the camera pan over on the lake and silently video ends unlike any other video
“A lack of caring” as the fly is taste testing your face lol
You were talking about the lake, then for absolutely no reason to switched to talking about mud bubbles for a bit. Then we watched a 3 minute montage of mud bubbles. Then we switched back to the lake with absolutely no transition.
...what?!? XD
Corey Lando Mud bubbles are cool. So is geothermal power.
Corey Lando this surprised me in a funny way, i kinda had to chuckle :)
Corey Lando
the new vsauce lol
I liked the mud bubble montage. The lack of transition with pretty cool IMO
Corey Lando LMAO
I could watch those mud bubbles for hours.
+Rapey Raptor | CS:GO | Highlights same
+Rapey Raptor | CS:GO | Highlights IKR?!
+Rapey Raptor | CS:GO | Highlights i was in a trance
it's like u wasted 1 hour of your life
+Rapey Raptor | CS:GO | Highlights Get a lava lamp, it's nearly as good.
“You can’t even see the other end of this lake”
Hol up then, what I seein then?
that's not the complete other side.
You can't see the end of the lake, not the side...
@@ZebraFacts Dude, what I meant is that the lake is much wider in the other areas.
@@geo3106 Are you saying that some parts of the lake are wider? If so, I agree. I've never been there but on a flight from LA to Chicago, we flew over a huge lake. It was so big, I'm sure it was the Salton Sea.
@@ZebraFacts yes, thanks
I would legit be really interested in lobbying to turn this into an algal carbon sink. It's so static, and so large. You'd have to regulate the runoff but it could be huge for carbon capture.
6:30 Boi dont scare me like that
Thecatsmeow :3 xD
That's only the reality... Nothing to scare about, accept that, or change your and others' mind...
It doesn't matter if you're scared it will happen!
...you guys realize im talking about the fly jumpscare right
@@spectral8591 clearly not
All those flies would drive me crazy...
Conor Porteous you may want to avoid Australia in the summertime then... Us Australians grow a sensitivity to not notice them at all xD
Stuff i do I haven't played Blacklight in a long while. Has there been anything new? Any updates or are they still letting pc die and Playstation grow? I wanted them to add that compound to pc so much.
You wanted to catch them with your tongue, didn't you?
Winson Li PC's getting a parity Patch soon. Then there's a full roadmap of content patches.
***** Sure, the PC version did die to the PS4 version, but it's getting a parity Patch that with make it equal the PS4 version.
Anyway, I just liked the logo. I haven't played in years..
Went there 3 days ago. Truly magical to explore some of these largely abandoned towns. Desert Shores, Bombay Beach. A must do if you're in SoCal
Agree, love exploring the area. Bombay Beach is the bomb.. Don't forget the Slabs!
I live their so here’s some tips don’t come out in the summer it can get up to 125 if you do find a nice place to dine and cool off. We have some of the nicest sunsets and sunrises with the sky turning a nice orange pink very beautiful when theirs a few clouds . It is a small community and we love visitors. Can be glad to say I’m a part of the community lived here my whole life of 16 years.
@@bloopbloop7061 I used to visit Calipatria on business (in the summer ...) and kept wanting to visit the Salton Sea. But my desire to get back home to 75° from the 110 was too strong. So one time I went there first, and it is a surreal place, almost dreamlike (it was hazy that day, heat hazy). Glad I went, but sad to know its eventual demise. The only savior is a biblical flood of rain, and that's not helpful otherwise. One of my favorite sci-fi 'B' movies is 'The Monster that Challenged the World' which took place at the (made up) Naval Facility on the Salton Sea.
@@bloopbloop7061 is the lake swimmable?
@@goldenyuri3556 depends on what you mean by swim able I would not go in their now but like 8 years ago we would jump into the keys near desert shores of my grandmas dock now their is no water in the keys and it’s super salty like really salty
This is definitely the inspiration for the Alamo Sea and Dandy Shores in gta 5.
Yes, it is. You can read about it in the GTA wiki
I wanted to slap those flies for you so bad
Daycow417 one of the disadvantages of HD
zookatone or even 4k
Veritasium haha you're in my thread. . . .makes me feel a little special. . . . . .Keep up the good work man
IKR
😂😂😂😂😂IKR!!
Why the mud volcano oddly satisfying
Ya like the bubble pop eh?
IDK!
It's so sMoOtH
I want the slo-mo guys to take video of those bubbles bursting.
Because it’s ASMR
Wow that ending wasn't expected. It was like "The Birds" but with flys.
I remember going there as a kid back in the early 60's when it was thriving. The fishing was amazing.
Sandy Shores really looks good with this graphics mod.
My first thought haha
Fax
i was thinking, wheres my favourite psychopath.
Where’s trevor
Smh
Nice place, but flies' paradise. Perhaps due to the amount of dead fish.
death to flies! Goddamn ISIS terrorist fly!
You can see them in the video
we all wouldn't live without flys
Prove it, Stalin!
The flies eat algae and are the reason that birds go there.
netlfix: are you still watching
someones daughter: 1:22
Lmao
Nice
Someone's daughter is sharting?
@@webpombo7765 apparently
Imagine falling in a mud volcano, but it's a 3 foot deep hole just big enough to get your hips though, so you get stuck on your elbows while your body gets scorching burns up to your hips and there's toxic gas pushing up around you, making your lungs burn. You cans get out and in your panic slowly slide down further into the mud
wow that sure seems uncomfortable, daniel!
Now imagine all those CO2 building up under the surface and suddenly releasing and killing every living being in a 16 miles radius.
Which happened once in some other lake
@@horusreloaded6387 the thing is that CO2 is being vented unlike the other lake.
Watchout Trevor might be there, you never know what he is up to.
eTheBlack Usually meth
The only thing they farm there is methamphetamine
Hahahaha true to that...
eTheBlack Oh man! I made the same comment and I came down here to see if anyone else thought the same thing! I didn't come down far enough XD
eTheBlack *sigh*
Trying to have serious conversation about moral obligation and consequences of our actions.... THE FLIES. THE FLIES! HEY ARE YOU TRYING TO SHARE YOUR FEELINGS? HOW ABOUT I LAND ON YOUR FACE! NO? HOW ABOUT YOUR CAMERA?
MattsAwesomeStuff There is a capslock key next to the A on your keyboard. Push it once, make sure you type lowercase letters by default, and never push it again.
carultch THERE IS A TINY BUTTON ABOVE YOUR BALLS. CUT IT OFF TO ENSURE YOUR CRAPPY SENSE OF HUMOR WILL NEVER BE PASSED ONTO THE NEXT GENERATION. Jeeze, it was a joke about panicking when an insect gets close to your face and how he didn't.
HAHA HAHA! I LIKE THAT! NICE COMEBACK.
HELP MEEEEEE! HELP MEEEEEEEE!
MattsAwesomeStuff thanks for the comment. It made me lol
Happy to know I’m not the only one who was hypnotized for an eternity by those bubbles
I really love that lesson at the end. Love this channel and can't wait for the next video.
Lol 6:31 the bug's like "Look ma! I'm on UA-cam!" xD
But seriously, very interesting video. I never thought I'd be so fascinated in watching mud bubbles pop for over a minute straight :o
Are you subbed to, like every channel on UA-cam or something!?
Graham Rich Just every one you watch. ;)
josh11735 mum get the camera
lmao ITS A MONSTE...oh.
Lol... We could be friends ...
I liked this video just because he put up with all those flies XD
how many files did he deal with?
69, at least
Ashchu117 69 😏 jk
Ashchu117 because it's so stinky when fish die
*+RandomAct OfKindness* lol fixed it thx
I really enjoyed the fly on 6:31 walking over my screen.
I think that's a spider?
@@DewSocks nah its a fly. plenty of dead fish means plenty of flies.
Flies: "We're gonna end the viewer's whole attention span."
Humans do have great power to shape the planet. Imagine what we could do if we all cared.
just imagination...:(
Bros Badass Sadly....
+Amineo It would be best if we just left nature alone and only try to change things where humans live.
+Amineo
Get Government out of the way and a Capitalist will Care.
+Amineo
Start with yourself and then help others around you achieve consistency within their moral principles.
Live THAT life. Don't wait for a majority to do something good.
Those mud bubbles were so satisfying to watch.
Gen Z: "Ah. That was satisfying."
1:21
@@donottrustanyonelol thanks, stranger.
Little kid: looses his slippers in a lake
He to his dad: *title*
I felt the silence and breaks after every line towards the end......
trevor should be crashing a plane in there any minute now
+patsie00 :D
Huh?
TheWolfyArtist
Gta
Ha
Gta time !!!!
Comment section:
10% about the lake
90% about the flies
1% about the distribution of comments
It seems to me that the lesson has more to do with the careless destructiveness of agricultural runoff.
I mean that sped up the process but ultimately any body of water that doesn’t have an outlet is going to become so salty that it supports little to no life great salt lake Dead Sea etc
That, and the folly of poorly planned engineering projects that created it in the first place..
Careless destructiveness of Homo Sapiens and entropy.
What did it destroy? A patch of dry desert?
Great Job! You broke that down well. I 've watched a ton of Salton Sea Videos.
The Hoover Dam has killed any hope of maintaining this Mistake Lake, by preventing the floods that used to ruin the area. This video is nearly 4 years old and the situation has gotten much worse. Purposely - gotten much worse. It IS returning to the condition it was before 1905 - and with the Hoover Dam, it will guarantee that this hell-hole will dry up. It is now toxic, choked down with no oxygen, the remaining fish are gone, the birds have mostly left. The newly exposed land is being sold. It's a done deal.
Soon to be a large salt flat - just as it was years ago.
*large toxic salt flat. All the run-off, all the pesticides, fertilizer and salt is just going to sit there and accumulate, harming the nearby area
@@awildfilingcabinet6239 The areas can be sampled, and any areas with high pesticide levels can be covered with gravel and sand. The area is surrounded by a huge desert with pervasive blowing particulates anyway. The newly exposed playa will be exposed over the next decade allowing controlled coverage
@EveryDay Not sure what you are saying and who you are saying it to. The only way to reduce the effect of the decades-long pollution is to seal it up and prevent access. That is not a waste of time (unless you want to breath pesticides) nor resources
@EveryDay Let me instruct you with facts: There IS ag runoff, want pictures? THAT and the extremely polluted New River are the only feeds into the Mistake Lake now. They are adding concentrated pollutants to the already highly polluted lake. Another fact: Fine particles blow across the newly exposed playa (and the desert surrounding) without mechanical contact from RVs. The wind whips up the top layer. Yes, asbestos is a concern.....but it is in very low levels. The pollutants and metals (naturally occurring selenium) are a direct concern. The area of concern (downwind) is too gigantic to make off limits with barbed wire - hell - we get resistance with a wall on our border! Young children and breathing impaired individuals should already be out of downwind areas. To remain is child abuse. People more for health reasons and weather reasons all the time. The state owes these people nothing. By the way, there are no indigenous fish or critters in that water.....they were all added in over the years. And it was more than salt killing off the life in the lake - the agricultural runoff fed the algae that overgrew and sucked all the oxygen out of the water. Then it cycles and dies off and decomposes - creating that horrible smell. It keeps repeating this cycle. That is why this lake is already termed dead, cannot be saved and must be dried up. We don't add water to a polluted lake.
@@june19v, yea they have so much extra water in California the farmers water the fields to the point there is continuous runoff from them. That is why half the farmland is dead from lack of water. Have you driven the I5 recently? Millions of acres of dead farm land. The politicians need to protect the smelt and make sure all usable water ends up in the ocean so they can enforce drought laws.
This video was sponsored by Ray-Ban and flies :D
Lol
😂
Lol
bomber1452 I came for this comment !
sara meachel I just came too!!! Gonna wipe up now.
Lake: Is the new hotspot for tourists and a moneymaker and stuff
Farmers: We're gonna end this man's whole career
excellent production. very expressive and straight to the point. (also an impressive basket you got there, dude (@7:14-15. well blessed)
Eagerly waits for the mud to get on the camera. Also remind me of sand shores from GTA V.
It is
yup alamo sea is inspired on this
+Matt Merrill Loooks a bit like fallout irl...without the RAD
Carbonated fizzy mud.
Has anyone tried bottling that ?
"It's packed with minerals!"
*finishes inspirational speech*
*perfectly pans to bird flying across the lake*
you and your videos ROCK!!!! Thank you.
Incredible place to study terraforming! There are lessons to be learned in just the time lapse photos.
Been there. The fish bones were so high along the shore and the stench so bad, it was hard to see beauty in the lake. But hey, it's a short drive to some beautiful mountains near there, and it was in those mountains that I proposed to my wonderful wife of 19 years! The desert view below provides a gorgeous contrast to the mountain scenery. I love the Salton Sea area... from a distance.
the mud volcanoes are very satisfying in slow motion :I
Daniel Crossley Literally what I was thinking xD
Daniel Crossley why the straight face :|
YEEESSSSS
Daniel Crossley true it looks fake but its real
Look like clay
Amazing video, and very intriguing history.
I re-watch this every once and a while just for the extended mud bubble scene lol
that fly just crawl onto the camera liek "HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY MOM"
haha saw that too
Dude I read your comment right as it happened. Dufuh?
+sean wilkerson same
When?
+NaVE BloodWater 6:34
2:00 also known, scientifically, as the "Taco Bell Effect"
You get frer gas from taco bell
Good ol mudbutt
Lol
Damn 420 likes
Amazing ,I start watching this guy's videos and just keep going ...
dang, well done video is amazingly thought provoking
Omg I just realised something........... that's sandy shores in GTA 5
i heard "san andreas"
Well here Sandy shoresis called dessert shores in real life so he's in dessert shores
My mind was blown too
Go back to your mom's basements
Yep and salvation mountain is salvation hill in GTA.
Sandy chores gta 5 is based on this place
*shores
+StroopwafelArmy well maybe sandy doesnt like to take out the trash so chores is actually right
+the swedish miner It is based of Bombay Beach
I knew I saw this before
it's not...but whatever
“You can’t even see the other end of this lake” with the mountains in view
I know it’s a low blow but
Veritasium: The San Andreas fault has magma close to the surface.
Me: Naw. It's having a temper tantrum.
That is very deep...
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Pun intended
Lol
Chris vd. Heijden ACTUALLY.... the deepest point is only about 16m (52ft) :)
Uh ggggg8 Buffy uh
HUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUE
Just no
+David Stumpf (sp1inter) the vampire slayer
The abandoned buildings remind me heavily of the scenery in Fallout 3, 4, and New Vegas.
slab city is not far from here
Sandy Shores in GTA V.
The bird at the end flying off to new shores reminded me that we have no wings, and are stranded on this planet. Remember to care.
Pog
I love you. Well done video. Smart video with a great story of truth about the Salton Sea. Thank you. Peace and God bless you.
What kind of camera do you use?
DJ Inclined I'm now using a Panasonic GH4 with 12-35mm lens
I think gh4 is capable of shooting in 4k, isn't it?
Πιάνο Ακορντεόν yup
are you using the mic on the camera or an external?
Why do UA-cam commenters always ask stupid questions? what next? "what shirt are you wearing?" like just enjoy the dn video
Hey me and that lake are a lot alike we're both mistakes
Moritz Beck
that's just called being edgy
Don’t say that.
Pyro Technik are you covered in flies as well
"This lake was an accident"
Well thats one thing me and the lake have in common
Respect. That speech at the end... wow. You have my respect.
Pre-Salted Fish Get 'em here, fresh from the water, already preserved!
Incoming GTA/ Trevor comments.
Veritasium Did you like this post or did a bot? Either way I took pictures and sent them to friends.
It is I know. But I had to make sure
No it's actually the one used to inspire the Alamo sea in GTA V along with sandy shores.
***** The lake in F:NV is actually Lake Mead.
Mandos Aldmer i don't know why people don't understand that... the lake in New Vegas is called lake mead! Also it's the only water in the game you come across that doesn't have radiation which sounds like the opposite of this lake.
6:30 that fly on the left is my hero
Doing a coast-to-coast road trip before heading back to Aus, and I was just at the Salton Sea the other day. I got chatting with locals at Bombay Beach, that was an experience in itself, but what an interesting place and story it has.
Mud volcanoes in slow motion, I liked that.
Schlomo McGoldstein *glob* *glob* delicious
Schlomo McGoldstein it has nice thicc volume & eccentricity
Fallout: Salton.
Lol
i want the game
More like Alamo Sea and Sandy Shores from GTA 5.
TAKE ME TO THE PLACE, I BELONG. WEST VIRGINIA, MOUNTAIN MAMA, TAKE ME HOOOME, COUNTRY ROAD.
One overlooked solution is pump storage between the Salton Sea and Pacific Ocean in California. Pump water out of the Salton Sea at night using geothermal energy and produce hydroelectric power during the day by adding Pacific ocean water to the Salton Sea. The surface area of the Salton sea is 343 square miles. There is a 225 feet of elevation difference between the Salton Sea and Pacific Ocean. They have already bored a hole in the mountain between the imperial valley and San Diego to transport fresh water. They could drill another one for this battery storage idea. Another advantage is you effectively reduce the high salinity of the Salton Sea while improving air quality of the imperial valley by covering the entire dry lake bed.
Love these videos.
sounds like the sea from gta v
i think it is
+Xcitywhiteboy it is
"There are only a few people left there"?
Why are they ANY people left there? Why are they still there? What do they do there? Who are these people?
They work at the plants
Farmers too.
there are about 300 people there ( give or take) and less every year
they go to work in Palm Springs. Also real estate is extremely cheap. you would have to be extremely reclusive to want to live out there.
They earn a living catching flies.
That sign off was one of the best I’ve seen
"these people had a lack of caring" *ignores bug on face*
*pauses for dramatic effect, fly lands on mouth
The slow motion mud bubbles were really awesome. Thank you for explaining where the air comes from.
Reminds me of what happened in Florida with the Everglades watershed.
At 6:31 can we all just please appreciate the fly on the camera lense
Should California exist?
Menko should america exist?
Should earth exist?
Zeppelans Should the earth exist?
Ad.A Afif I see we're going bigger and bigger, so should the average American man exist?
Zeppelans Your profile image makes your question incredibly interesting.
Fly:OMGZ I'M ON DA INTERNETZ
***** 6:11 Derek is Lord of the Flies!
Much flies, very buzz.
***** that was his second of fame.
***** INTEWEBZ*
+NecrosVideos Lawl
I was there, 20 years ago, right on the shore line, and it really stunk and the water was coffee brown. And that's sad, because there IS something magical about that place, and that magic is the humidity and the tropical feeling, right by the beach. it's very hot, and bone dry, everywhere around the lake, but at the lake itself, it feels very tropical, even though it's not in the tropics.
If the lake is low in elevation lower than nearby Colorado river a pipe can be run from the river to the lake with a ram pump on the end sending some of the water into the lake and some of the water upwards to a greater height which then can be released to a spot some distance away through gravity. The spot can be somewhere where water is needed possibly for agriculture where without the water agriculture would not be possible. A ram pump does not use any electricity and maintenance is minimal. The cost to build is very inexpensive. Great video as usual.
A wind pump can be installed on the other end of the lake sending the water somewhere else. Another hose can be run from the river to the lake increasing flow acting like a siphon that never stops flowing. Some of the water in the lake can be run into a solar water distiller removing the salts out of the water and releasing the distilled water back into the lake. The wind pump and solar distiller have no moving parts so very little maintenance is needed and they use renewable energy keeping costs down.
Those mud "volcano`s" are also underwater in a few places.
One time I watched my brother pull three nice corvina from above a muddy water boil of a mud pot.
It was weird.
"You can't see the other end" *sees mountains across the sea*
Well where he was standing, he wasn't wrong, there was a part in the video whe you can't see anything over the horizon.
Oh Snap! ! Nibiru! !!!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
That was in the past, the lake as of now has evaporated massively
Look at 5:50 . I don’t see anything past the water
you can’t see from end to end but you can see from side to side
Beautiful message at the end of the video
I visited it a few years ago. Fascinating place. Also check out the nearby Slab City where squatter/artists live and “Salvation Mountain” is.