Meet the Fossils
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- Опубліковано 10 лис 2022
- Coals are fossil fuels that generate power, but it has not always been coal… If we go 300 million years back in time we can meet the fossils that have become fossil fuels. These ancient trees called lepidendrons have since become a solid layer of carbon that we are slowly using to create fuels.
Created by Robert Krulwich and Nate Milton
I think it’s kind of important to add that the trees only got compressed and turned into coal because at the time those trees lived and died, the bacteria that decompose wood hadn’t evolved then - so no more coal since these evolved;)
Yup, depressing really, because we use all our fossil fuels on stuff that can be powered alternately
If we were half as smart or altruistic as we should be we'd have stopped using fossil fuel as soon as we discovered it was finite and found an alternative more quickly
Nuclear but no one wants to do thst because they are potatoes😊
@@TroglethByproducts that it'll last for millennials.
@@TenebresLikesToObserve the longer it lasts the less harmful it is
"If you saw this tree - your day is ruined..."
🎅🐡
I WAS ABT TO SAY THAT
@@Kerguelen.Mapping This man is too late to comment 🎅🐻
@@alexanderthemidI this man is dead, he just dosen't know it yet🎅🎅🐈
So fossil fuel is basically solar powered
If you trace everything back, most energy we use comes from nuclear reactions
Almost all energy on earth comes from the sun. Exceptions are
1) radioactive substances, mostly nuclear decay via the weak force but we can also harness the strong nuclear force.
2) geothermal energy, which is part latent heat from the earth’s formation part radioactivity
3) the portion of tidal forces from the moon’s gravity
Everything else: nuclear fusion occurs at the core of the sun to create lots of high-energy photons which hit the earth, which then either do work as heat or facilitate photosynthesis in plants (among a handful of other uses).
@@52flyingbicycles Cool, so does any living thing use geothermal to “get energy”, I think there’s a mushroom that uses nuclear decay radioactivity
@@Cheesepuff8 some organisms at the bottom of the ocean use energy from hydrothermal vents, which are geothermal powered. It’s called “chemosynthesis”
@@Cheesepuff8 yeah, some fungus that evolve and eats radioactive material on Chernobyl, weird and interesting fella
You forgot that the reason they piled up was because bacteria didn't know how to eat the woody fibers of the trees
Yeah, after 60 million years some fungi developed the enzimes capables to decompose the lignin of the wood and therefore no more fossic carbon was produced.
The most important thing of this topic was missed in the video
@@lautaromorales2903enzymes
Wait that means we literally are running out of that source of energy @@lautaromorales2903
@@TheThingoftheSky thats why its a "nonrenewable" resource.
If we want new coal the trees must evolve
Also i heard that there is no microorganisms that able to digest wood at that time period so when tree died its just sit right there
Petrified wood
@@Wachuma-icp99no, coalified
The reason they piled up is because nothing had evolved to consume lignin, which too millions of years, and no more coal has been made since. It's also why the oxygen levels were so hight, hence monstrous insects such as meganura.
typo
Funny how there's a literal creepypasta about seeing a lepidodendron means you have fallen into a time ripped
Wat
@@TheThingoftheSky the extinction memes
funny analog horror
Idksterling
Ohohoho Money 💸
"Aye man, let me get a charcoal but hold the char."
"No char?"
Absolutely love the art style!!
It really looks like zeeeko‘s style but idk if that was actually him
*It’s the tree.*
*wake up*
wake up
do not panic.
Remain calm
remain calm
HAVE YOU SEEN THIS TREE?: hopefully not, because this is a lepidodendron tree, and if you see this tree, you have fallen into a time rip. REMAIN CALM
🎅🎅🎅🐡🐡🐱🐱
@@fidelaabellano6200 real
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Really??? No way??!? stfu if you see a T-rex clapping yo cheeks you should panic 😲 🫨 🫢 😮 😲
Unfunny ._.
It’s scary that what took millions of years to make, us humans have been able to dig up in just a couple years
and burn so easily
bro we will slip into stone age if "green way of life" will turn out to be a scam
"and died, another that grew and died, and another that grew and died."
*Me and the birds start playing*
The title made me mistake this for a TF2 short
Thats somehow way cooler than it being made of dinosaurs
You might be mixing coal with oil
This may seem cool but this also means that we are limited on coal, this is because the lepidodedron tree along with its relatives are no extinct
I think coal is the real non-renewable resources.
A misconception is that coal and oil come from dinosaurs when instead it came from an earlier period in Earth's history
Beautiful voice premise and art style!
its all fun and games until you see one in today's time
I see many comments like this, and I don't get the reference... Explain pls?
@@TheThingoftheSkythere’s some strange joke/meme about seeing this type of tree which means you fell into a rip in space time
This is such an amazing animation
The animation in this really adds to it imo, it’s nice to look at
I love the way this was drawn
and there were no microbes or other decomposers around yet to fully break them down, so they collected :)
fungi, worms, termite: bruh
There wasn't yet the ability to decompose wood material yet. Had to evolve first, and that took some time.
@@romanski5811 so they were preserve on the ground like that then buried somehow? Cool, I never thought of it
those weren't around yet, and the species nowadays that are closest to those didn't have the ability to consume fibers
So the carbon in coal was originally from the atmosphere. And burning coal just puts back what was originally in the air.
technically yes but that would still change up the climate that nearly all life is adapted to currently,
the global warming would still kill alot of creatures and ecosystems;
just because it was once in the atmosphere doesn't mean everything would be fine if it was in the atmosphere.
i miss this guy
Robery Krulwich I've been waiting to hear your voice again since you left Radiolab. Its good to hear you again.
I hope that one day after I die I can be as useful as coal.
Please keep on i love your style.
Simple yet amazing animations
I've listened to RadioLab for way too long to not immediately recognize the voice of Robert Krulwich. I'll be surprised if this isn't him.
Thanks alot camera man for entering a wormhole to 300 million year in the past!
And then redrawing the whole thing as an animation!
I hate how people call fossil fuels dead dinosaurs. The closest to it is essentially fossilized compost
Wished we had this when I was in school. This is much more intriguing and easy to understand.
Weird school then.
I had this in school
Does this has full version?
You can has the full version of deez nutz
These animations are great.
So when i see coal im falling into a fabric time
Nah
schlatt from another universe
don’t forget that the tully monsters was alive with those fossil feuls
Narrotor sounds like Fred from Scooby Doo
You missed one important thing, that the plants can not decay because there is no presence of bacteria to brake down the plants.😮😮😮😮 thats why they turned to coal.
We have been mining coal at rates that will soon destroy the supply. Fossil fuels are not renewable. By the end of the century we will basically be out of all accessible coal and oil.
What then....?
And Elon wants AI bots to review fucking MOVIES for his twitter, which I imagine takes vast amounts of energy. One Google search consumes as much energy as a bulb 💡 shining for 3 minutes. Can't imagine how much that takes, for just ONE movie... 😢
@@TheThingoftheSkynuclear power
@@peeperleviathan2839 right 👍
@@peeperleviathan2839 there's gonna be nuclear powered cars? lel
Theres nothing we can do in the backround
So wood is still the fuel for literally everything?
What's even more mind boggling to think about, is that those buildings themselves are actually made of dead marine life 🐚
(One of the materials used in cement is limestone, which is formed from marine fossils and mud, which turned into rock)
This is insane animation 😲😮
I wonder if aliens visited our planet, would they be horrified at our burning of coal for power? Think about it, coal is the result of a special circumstance where dead tree material could accumulate without decomposition by microorganisms. Sure, coal is considered abundant, compared to other elements that we use daily, such as iron, aluminium and so on, and so we take it for granted. But the ores these metals come from can happen pretty easily and naturally. What if the way coal is made happened by sheer coincidence, such that Earth is one of the few life-sustaining planets to even have coal, among the possible thousands or even millions of alien homeworlds?
You're very interesting
If you see this tree you are already dead 🎅🎅🐱
So trees turned into coal which turns into diamonds?!
This only happened because there was nothing on the earth to eat the wood. So for about 50 million years they kept piling on eachother and now we got coal
If that were true then coal would be more widespread. Surely there is a special condition necessary to prevent decomposition.
Awesome art style
There's 1 missing point here. The nature hasn't create a creature that can desolve lignin so the tree essentially cannot rot and just lying there undisturbed for million of years until it was sunk to the underground by earthquake
If those plants stored so much carbon from the atmosphere that fish were able to evolve lungs and legs, then wouldn't releasing that carbon back into the atmosphere be a really stupid idea?
A fossil fuel??
My goodness
Right 😂
I miss Radiolab 😢
Have y’all seen the meme going around about this tree the tree the shorts was talking about?
Alien music intensifies
really nice animation
I wouldn't call coal a "hard" rock. It's pretty darn soft compared to most minerals. Heck, limestone is harder.
For all the animation and music, you forgot the most important point that made this process possible. There were Decomposer microrganims yet.
i wish i could plant a lepidodendron tree
You could scare people who have seen the meme
How did you guys get sassy mate on camera?
Wait are you the voice of the narrator in The stanley parable ? Sound super similar
We can't get coal ever again. Decomposition worked differently back then. Now we have microbes and fungi that cam break down tough wood structure..
Excuse my ignorance, is the narrator Robert Krulwich?
A more reasonable surmisation would be that these layers were formed through stratification during the Great deluge.
hey its me!!
Great video 😲
I just broke the fabric of time!
This is giving me HILDA vibes, i love it
my house is not lighted by fossils
I actually meant if u see this tree u have fallen into a rip in the fabric of space and time and u have to WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP.
Rip my brothers
I like to imagine the undiscovered benefits of fossils specifically have and then we're gonna wish we never wasted it as a species. Soon hopefully we can come together to put our home first, Earth.
should be a fun separate topic for kiddos to learn.
Can we make coal artificially?
I suppose this was before there were fungi to recycle them
so its like charcoal with extra steps
He sounds like Harlan Ellison.
Damn. I didn’t know that. Thats really interesting
Was there a bacteria that decomposed those tree at that time?
So would that mean that wherever there’s a peat bog there will, eventually be coal?
Reminder that this is what Electric cars run on.
Not really
@@almoslabant1554
Yes and no. Excluding the production process, lifespan vs other vehicles and disposal when it dies, electric vehicles are only as clean as the power grid that charges them. An electric car on a coal powered grid is still ultimately coal powered.
Did this guy really just say meet the fossils that die? That's the equivalent of saying I just put some toast in the toaster instead of bread 😞
It was trees.
Those plants died for us ;(
and we can never have them back because bacteria eats them
Coal is from...
And ive seen that tree in a forest bruh
Remain calm
You are stuck in a time rip STAY CALM.
Wake up
Wake up
Wake up
Bad video. You missed the most important part.
First trees who turned into our fossil fuels belonged to an era that did not have bacteria that would decompose them. So they were able to pile up.
When bacteria evolved to eat them up, that era ended and no more fossil fuels formed.
Beautiful
New Ben Stiller movie, hell yea.
I love this, but how is it that there is oil on other planets can someone explain that
There isn’t
There isn’t wtf are you talking about
Tree powered society
So in other words plant based sedimentary rock
Don't forget the lignin!
Bro no way that animation looks like it was made by Zeeeko? (The guy with the meme animations) Is commercials gigs why he was gone?
Nice short but to say that "they died so that we may light our homes" isn't exactly true.
Just happened that way and we are lucky it happened when it did, the way it did.
If you wanna bulk eat coal it has 7,000,000 calories