"It is the longest river in the United States second only to the Missouri river." Or in other words... It is the second longest river in the United States. Lol
Because joining the mile high club sounds way more cool than joining the 1.609 kilometer high club, give them an inch, they'll take a mile sounds much better than them taking 1.609 kilometers, and mile high stadium is definitely way more cool than 1.609 kilometer high stadium! @@billthecat129
They’re connected though, so technically the Missouri River is another source for the Mississippi River. They both are the longest, only second to each other.
Unless you consider all the oxbow lakes the meandering Mississippi makes that have chanģed the corse of the river over time. The state boundaries don't change with the river. So, most states do now have at least a little of there land on both sides of the river. Kaskaskia in Illinois is a prime example.
I believe where the Ohio River meets the Mississippi River at Cairo, Illinois. The Ohio actually has a higher stream flow. The problem there is the Ohio River may be larger by volume but it isn't actually that long. I do wonder though if that makes the Mississippi technically a tributary of the Ohio?
Call me the MS river man. Ive been up and down that mf at least 80 times. Its nice. Got some rich people with glass houses on the hills living on the banks. Its a scenery for sure.
Look at the pattern at the confluence. The Missouri delta alters the course of the Mississippi (St Louis is in Missouri not Illinois), not the other way around.
We screwed it up like all the other rivers because we let he Army Corp of Engineers drudge it and straighten without concern of the effect on yhe tide.
This brings up a rather interesting question, along with something else I've pondered. Where the Mississippi and the Missouri join, how did they decide which one got to continue South as far as the name? How do we know the Mississippi is not truly the tributary? Just a couple thoughts, and I don't ever remember my science class explaining this to me.
Since you asked, actually, the Mississippi (after it's confluence with the Missouri) is misnamed. The Missouri drains a larger area than the Mississippi before the confluence. So the Missouri River should continue on to the Gulf. However, by the time the source of the Missouri and it's watershed were discovered and explored, the length of the Mississippi had long been named. No one ever bothered to change the name.
It's a matter of construction / names. In the current situation the Missouri is the longest river in the US. This would have been much more obvious if the Mississippi would have flown in to the Missouri river near the city of St. Louis.
If the earth is flat what makes the rivers flow? If the earth is flat why is there water falls? If the earth is flat why can't I fall off the edge? Things I need to know..
Missouri is longest tributary ohio is larger and another commented on river only flow through two states and along others. And maybe a couple others due to cut off enclaves
Scientist say that the Mississippi actually flows into the Missouri River but the Missouri is called a tributary of the Mississippi because the Mississippi was explored first and designated the primary stem even though the Missouri is longer and carries a comparable volume of water.
@quickwimnl ain't gonna happen. This is America. They tried to push that crap on us before. Did Not go as they thought it would. People refused and pushed back
The source should be the furthest away. It may be Itasca is said to be its source but that is only because the person went to the right fork of the river to the end, if they had taken the left fork then they would of found the starting place of the Missouri River. Who's to say that the longer river could have been called the Mississippi, however its all in the name and there could have been 3 river names considering where they intersect. Why call it the Missouri River when that is not where it originates.
But 96% of the globe knows this and UA-cam is an international platform so we dont need to cater to a special interest group....the same country that hates catering to special interest groups
The Mississippi is not the longest river in the US. The Missouri River is. In addition, the Missouri drains a larger area than the Mississippi. So all of the rivers length after the confluence of the Missouri should also be called the Missouri River. Regardless, the length of the Missouri River would never be considered a part of the Mississippi, or part of its length. Adding both rivers together is completely ludicrous!
It seems they’re 2 different rivers that flow in to one downstream. It starts in Minnesota. Also weird how the estuary is in Louisiana and not Mississippi. I didn’t know that, I just always assumed it was Mississippi
All major rivers have multiple tributaries. The longest water course in the US is the Mississippi-Missouri and then the highest small tributary after that.
All I know is that the 1st time I crossed the Mississippi River, it all of 8 feet wide. And the 5th time I crossed it was at Lacrosse Wisconsin and from bank to bank was 1/2 a mile wide. Where the Mississippi River is 8 feet wide and is called the Mississippi River, the Missouri River should have the same rights being called the Missouri River.
I think the US government should give me 100 million dollars to find the true source of the Mississippi, like how John Speke discovered the source of the Nile, I would have a comedy crew to follow, act and provide entertainment for my exploration crew, you know kinda Monty Python style, it would make the congressional hearing a lot more fun. Maybe I should get Jeff Bezos to back me, it would be a good tax write off for him, and he could play it on Prime, win win.
Like the length really matters... It's total network of rivers allowed America to develop the mid-continent before our road networks were built and it irrigates the largest area of farmland in the world.
Technical the Mississippi River is a tributary to the Missouri River..... but we listed the. Mississippi River as main river since we encountered it first.
How is the Mississippi the longest river, if it’s second ONLY to the Missouri? Who edits your script?
Pretty sure it’s AI
I thought the same thing
Exactly
Ai be wilding 😂😂😂
Outside the Missouri River, it is the longest in the United States.
"It is the longest river in the United States second only to the Missouri river."
Or in other words...
It is the second longest river in the United States. Lol
Well, they don't have to pay AI now, do they? But the AI people need to keep checking this stuff until it can successfully check itself.
This is America damnit. We don’t know how long 3700 kilometers is
Yeah well 96% of the global knows....why dont you get off onboard
I do. Get w the rest of the world already ... King Henry VIII is dead, ya know?? 🙄 All you know about is consuming 2 litres of soda
Because joining the mile high club sounds way more cool than joining the 1.609 kilometer high club, give them an inch, they'll take a mile sounds much better than them taking 1.609 kilometers, and mile high stadium is definitely way more cool than 1.609 kilometer high stadium! @@billthecat129
This is America .
Longest in the country second only to the Missouri. That sounds like AI logic.
No the Mississippi river is one mile shorter search it on google
They’re connected though, so technically the Missouri River is another source for the Mississippi River. They both are the longest, only second to each other.
@@G-Rated but the Missouri River terminates at the Mississippi, flowing in to it
The Mississippi only flows through two states, Minnesota and Louisiana. The other states it only flows by, forming a border, not through.
It flows through then as well. Each state claims half the river in their borders
Unless you consider all the oxbow lakes the meandering Mississippi makes that have chanģed the corse of the river over time. The state boundaries don't change with the river. So, most states do now have at least a little of there land on both sides of the river. Kaskaskia in Illinois is a prime example.
A technicality
Amazing how the river naturally follows the state borders. What are the odds of that...
@@mph7282, lol😂
It seems to me the river starts at it's source. Lake Itasca.
i’ve been
The Mississippi River is 2350 miles long
American.. Km≠Miles, welcome to the International System of Units
"It is the longest river in the United States, second only to the Missouri River." - I like the way you think!
Honestly, sometimes thinking humans actually outperform AI. I really hope a human would catch that contradiction.
Well at 6ft 4 …I’m the tallest man in the United States. Second only to anyone 6ft 5 or taller.
If you're going to say kilometers also say miles.
@@saundracoffelt1932 Isn't AI developed by humans and all humans make mistakes.
So it’s the LONGEST river in the states - second only to Missouri?
Who writes this shit? Do you not check it before you publish?
its ai bruh
I've been to the beginning in Minnesota and saild our the mouth into the Gulf.
I've only covered from St Paul then out the Southwest Pass so never saw the headwaters.
I swam at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. The Missouri flowed more than twice as fast as the Mississippi there.
I believe where the Ohio River meets the Mississippi River at Cairo, Illinois. The Ohio actually has a higher stream flow. The problem there is the Ohio River may be larger by volume but it isn't actually that long.
I do wonder though if that makes the Mississippi technically a tributary of the Ohio?
Nobody likes Ohio, even the water can’t wait to get out of there.
Call me the MS river man. Ive been up and down that mf at least 80 times. Its nice. Got some rich people with glass houses on the hills living on the banks. Its a scenery for sure.
If its the longest river in the country how can it be 2nd to the Missouri river
We are Americans. We don't know kilogram. Miles people, miles.
LEARN THE METRIC SYSTEM!!!
1 m = 3.28 ft
1 L = 0.26 gal
1 kg = 2.2 lb
Next time I get pulled over in Europe for doing too many kilometers over the speed limit I will tell him “No Officer..I was doing kilograms”
kilograms is a measure of weight. Kilometers is a measure of distance.
@@comfortablynumb4491 I don’t mean to be that dude but kg is mass not weight
Miles AKA Fresdom units
Correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think that’s how you use “second only to”
How can it be the longest river in the U.S. but 'second only to the Missouri' river?? Please explain how that works, Mr. A.I.
Flew to the comments looking for this one😂
Look at the pattern at the confluence. The Missouri delta alters the course of the Mississippi (St Louis is in Missouri not Illinois), not the other way around.
The real key? It's the longest navigable river in the world!
Second only to...
We screwed it up like all the other rivers because we let he Army Corp of Engineers drudge it and straighten without concern of the effect on yhe tide.
And dam it probably
@@poloska9471 dammed it in both senses of the word.
I did not know this
I did not know this
I realize how much that natural sources make the borders of states and countries.
The Mississippi River should be a tributary flowing into the Missouri River and end at that point
This brings up a rather interesting question, along with something else I've pondered. Where the Mississippi and the Missouri join, how did they decide which one got to continue South as far as the name? How do we know the Mississippi is not truly the tributary? Just a couple thoughts, and I don't ever remember my science class explaining this to me.
Well, how did the Missouri River get it's name when it started so far north/northwest?
Since you asked, actually, the Mississippi (after it's confluence with the Missouri) is misnamed. The Missouri drains a larger area than the Mississippi before the confluence. So the Missouri River should continue on to the Gulf. However, by the time the source of the Missouri and it's watershed were discovered and explored, the length of the Mississippi had long been named. No one ever bothered to change the name.
Easy answer, the Rivers Headwaters.
Therefore the Mississippi is the SECOND longest River in the USA.
Yes, length is determined by the longer tributary. This is done with the danube using the source as that of the Inn River in Switzerland
It's a matter of construction / names. In the current situation the Missouri is the longest river in the US. This would have been much more obvious if the Mississippi would have flown in to the Missouri river near the city of St. Louis.
I've straddled the source of the Missouri river, in Montana. It's a spring about 2 feet wide.
Is this km thing ever done in miles ALSO? It's how our odometer here in Calif read!
THAT RIVER CREATES A 600 miles dead zone in the gulf due to fertilizer and pest spray run off
If the earth is flat what makes the rivers flow?
If the earth is flat why is there water falls?
If the earth is flat why can't I fall off the edge? Things I need to know..
You’re confusing flat with 2-dimensional. The argument is flat as opposed to spherical, but can still have hills and valleys
@@timothyvenable3336 r/whoosh...
Actually, Elk Lake feeds into Itasca so I would consider Elk or the creeks and springs that feed Elk to be source.
I've always thought the Missouri River should be the main river all the way to the gulf.
if it was discovered today that's how it would be laid out simply because the Missouri is twice as long above where the two rivers meet
Most atlases call it the Missouri -Mississippi River due to the Missouri having a greater flow where the two meet.
Missouri is longest tributary ohio is larger and another commented on river only flow through two states and along others. And maybe a couple others due to cut off enclaves
Scientist say that the Mississippi actually flows into the Missouri River but the Missouri is called a tributary of the Mississippi because the Mississippi was explored first and designated the primary stem even though the Missouri is longer and carries a comparable volume of water.
How is it that long when it starts in another state.
Its tributaries' lengths aren't added to a river's length in determining the length of that river.
How did Mississippi get to name it after them when it runs through all if those other states?
Kilometers really AI NEEDS AN EDUCATION WE DO NOT USE THE METRIC SYSTEM IN THE UNITED STATES
About freaking time you start doing.
@quickwimnl ain't gonna happen. This is America. They tried to push that crap on us before. Did Not go as they thought it would. People refused and pushed back
And Americans still don't know how long it is because you gave the distance in kilometers and they're too lazy to use Google conversion.
Funny how despite building the most prosperous nation that has ever existed on planet Earth in essentially less than 200 years we're labeled lazy.
Divide by 1.6.
This makes me feel alot stupider.
Add in the milk river tributary another 1200 km.
Montana and Alberta headwaters
Then call it the Missouri river
The source should be the furthest away. It may be Itasca is said to be its source but that is only because the person went to the right fork of the river to the end, if they had taken the left fork then they would of found the starting place of the Missouri River. Who's to say that the longer river could have been called the Mississippi, however its all in the name and there could have been 3 river names considering where they intersect. Why call it the Missouri River when that is not where it originates.
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The Mississippi River is a tributary to the Missouri River, or at least it should be
We don't use KM here in USA. So knock it off.
But 96% of the globe knows this and UA-cam is an international platform so we dont need to cater to a special interest group....the same country that hates catering to special interest groups
It was in reference to Miss. River in US. So take ur hate elsewhere.
This is the USA we use feet & miles not km.
I'm the best looking guy in the United States, second only to 95% of the other men in the country.
You REALLY need to proofread your script and compare it to:
A- the facts, &
2- what you print on screen.
MEGA FAIL
You know it's really interesting here in the United States of America we don't use the metric system so kilometers are European nonsense to us
If you measure it that way, it would make the Missouri River the longest.
The way presented looks like Missouri River connects to the Mississippi, why not the Missouri River connecting to the Mississippi!
Where the Missouri and Mississippi merge there should be named a new river that continues to the sea. Make sense?
Both of them combined
It forms the front of the chef holding the plate of Kentucky fried Chicken
From the source, my mom always told me if you want clean water you need to go to the head of the river that would be the source
If the Mississippi River originates from a lake in Minnesota is it really the Mississippi River? 😂
The Mississippi is not the longest river in the US. The Missouri River is. In addition, the Missouri drains a larger area than the Mississippi. So all of the rivers length after the confluence of the Missouri should also be called the Missouri River. Regardless, the length of the Missouri River would never be considered a part of the Mississippi, or part of its length. Adding both rivers together is completely ludicrous!
Hard to get an accurate measurement due to "The Coastline Paradox"
It seems they’re 2 different rivers that flow in to one downstream. It starts in Minnesota.
Also weird how the estuary is in Louisiana and not Mississippi. I didn’t know that, I just always assumed it was Mississippi
From the Jefferson River.
All major rivers have multiple tributaries. The longest water course in the US is the Mississippi-Missouri and then the highest small tributary after that.
Include the water shed in Alberta
its length should calculated by people who measure in MILES
Well maybe the Missouri should be called the Missoursippy. And it should be counted
Chicago is the most populous city in the US, second only to New York and Los Angeles.
All I know is that the 1st time I crossed the Mississippi River, it all of 8 feet wide. And the 5th time I crossed it was at Lacrosse Wisconsin and from bank to bank was 1/2 a mile wide. Where the Mississippi River is 8 feet wide and is called the Mississippi River, the Missouri River should have the same rights being called the Missouri River.
It is one of the longest river. Second only to the Missouri River.
Hey...in the USA we don't use kilometers and the Missouri river in not longer
it is called Mississippi - Missouri River
Mississippi - Missouri, that's a river system, not a river.
Throw in Montana's Red River while you're at it.
Missouri River is longer than the Mississippi by ONE MILE.
We're Americans, your obsession with the the metric system amuses us all 😅
And the US continues to amuse everyone else
The Mississippi is filthy by the time it reaches minneapolis.i can only imagine the pollution by the time it reaches the gulf
The Mississippi river is the Mississippi River. The Missouri River is the Missouri River. Two separate river systems.
they are most definitely not two different river systems
2,340 miles...😊
I had always heard that the Ohio river was the main tributary of the Mississippi.
I live in Iowa 💀💀💀💀😭😭😭😭
"The father of waters".😊
Why would we NEED to know that?
Once I hear metric instead of miles, I know somebody not in the us made this and doesn't know what they are talking about.
We still don’t know how long it is because the graphic said 3767km and your script said 3167km.
From Canada...
How about the Ohio river , doesn’t it play a part as far as volume is concerned ?
I think the US government should give me 100 million dollars to find the true source of the Mississippi, like how John Speke discovered the source of the Nile, I would have a comedy crew to follow, act and provide entertainment for my exploration crew, you know kinda Monty Python style, it would make the congressional hearing a lot more fun. Maybe I should get Jeff Bezos to back me, it would be a good tax write off for him, and he could play it on Prime, win win.
Like the length really matters...
It's total network of rivers allowed America to develop the mid-continent before our road networks were built and it irrigates the largest area of farmland in the world.
Of course it matters. It's a statistic and statistics matter.
It's just so we can brag to countries with shorter rivers.
@@philv2529 Thank You. "It's a beautiful river with beautiful bridges" -Oddball (aka Donald Southerland)
Add in the Monongahela-Allegany/Ohio. Now where is the starting point?
Don't forget the Cheat,Tygart,& Youghiogheny Rivers which feed the Monongahela. Allegheny River is started from NY Pennsylvania border.
Floods often, destoyed numerous lives.😅
Don't forget the Ohio river branch
Technical the Mississippi River is a tributary to the Missouri River..... but we listed the. Mississippi River as main river since we encountered it first.
This is America.
Miles, NOT kilometers!
It starts in Canada
Why is it called Mississippi River when it doesn't start or end in Mississippi at least the Missouri River starts in Missouri 😶🌫️❓❓
Miles, not KM, so we know how long it is.
Three thousand thunnahundred. Yup
It runs north.
Looks like it only flows through Minnesota and Louisiana . . . the rest of the states are only bordered on the river . . . so there!
sinmce it is a call tehe missippi we choulf count from the that lengthand since they joi if you ome the other plaes it is the missouri river
Three thousand thallahundred sixty seven kilometers long.
Why is it called Mississippi and not another state?