Why Do Rivers Curve?

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  • @MinuteEarth
    @MinuteEarth  4 роки тому +289

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    • @pinoquensy
      @pinoquensy 4 роки тому +5

      you commented on your own video 6 YEARS after it was made wow

    • @R3YXN121
      @R3YXN121 3 роки тому

      Ikr

    • @Nowa100
      @Nowa100 3 роки тому

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      @Nowa100 3 роки тому +1

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    • @dogeongreenscreen
      @dogeongreenscreen 2 роки тому +1

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  • @AkshayKumar-sd1mx
    @AkshayKumar-sd1mx 5 років тому +6970

    That damn squirrel from Ice Age must have caused it.

    • @pebblethefox3483
      @pebblethefox3483 5 років тому +35

      Akshay Kumar lol yeah

    • @HonorJanas
      @HonorJanas 5 років тому +62

      Dang it, Scrat! You killed some more animals!

    • @Bananappleboy
      @Bananappleboy 4 роки тому +50

      Scrat: *_NO, I JUST WANTED TO EAT THIS SEED INSIDE THIS ACORN! PLEASE STOP SENDING ASSASSINS TO KILL ME!_*
      Me: Deal with it scrat, we have other food items to eat besides acorns.

    • @KnightoftheSorryFace
      @KnightoftheSorryFace 4 роки тому +2

      ???

    • @HonorJanas
      @HonorJanas 4 роки тому +16

      Me: You know what you deserve?
      Scrat: What?
      Me: Blue Sky Studios logo.
      Scrat: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

  • @Wraith_K1ng
    @Wraith_K1ng 3 роки тому +970

    I love the details with the muskrat family. The two adults have a child, the child grows up and graduates (the mum either died or left), and the child moves out (the father died I think), and when the muskrat is looking at the billabong it thought that a family of other muskrats had died. Amazing attention to detail.

    • @demirbo7639
      @demirbo7639 3 роки тому +50

      Enough to make a grown man cry ):

    • @Raven1015
      @Raven1015 2 роки тому +8

      Bro.... Really??? 🤣

    • @lif3y3
      @lif3y3 2 роки тому +18

      I’m so glad I’m not the only one who noticed it. I’m about to cry.

    • @Neobjects
      @Neobjects 2 роки тому +2

      Amazing detail. It definitely showcases how much time has gone for that one disturbance to be created!

    • @sha7r193
      @sha7r193 2 роки тому +14

      i think the mom left because the family portrait they ripped her off

  • @AlvinLee007
    @AlvinLee007 9 років тому +3722

    That muskrat family had my attention the whole time...

  • @AlrycaAeveaHexendias
    @AlrycaAeveaHexendias 4 роки тому +921

    1:18 Notice that the family picture has been torn removing one of the parent muskrat, probably the father. Their relationship must've become rocky when their child moved out of the house until they finally divorced. Mother muskrat was left to die alone, explaining the lonely set of skeleton where she once stood.

  • @lob19
    @lob19 10 років тому +1545

    Big WOW for the Mars photo at the end. I didn't know that evidence for water flowing in the past on Mars is that .. evident :D

    • @nathanyoung3266
      @nathanyoung3266 10 років тому +84

      I know. NASA should have hired these guys to make videos for them.

    • @ivandonat
      @ivandonat 10 років тому +45

      why do you think it has to be water?

    • @lob19
      @lob19 10 років тому +67

      Ivan Pupovac Good point. Could be any other liquid. I suppose. Worth finding out more about it.

    • @uhohhotdog
      @uhohhotdog 10 років тому +39

      I doubt it would be any other type of liquid. What liquid do you think could possibly be / have been on Mars?

    • @Omni0404
      @Omni0404 10 років тому +4

      Mind blown!

  • @thetntsheep4075
    @thetntsheep4075 7 років тому +4297

    This taught me more than 6 geography lessons

    • @0623kaboom
      @0623kaboom 6 років тому +32

      now unlearn it as it's pretty much wrong ...

    • @graygravity3856
      @graygravity3856 6 років тому +82

      @@0623kaboom wut do u mean

    • @silberelite7044
      @silberelite7044 6 років тому +12

      More than 6 geography months in my case

    • @FelipeKana1
      @FelipeKana1 5 років тому +88

      @@0623kaboom please state the errors

    • @johntheux9238
      @johntheux9238 5 років тому +48

      @@0623kaboom What's wrong? And if it's wrong what's the truth?

  • @antonioluna770
    @antonioluna770 9 років тому +1833

    Somehow, you created a really sad story about muskrats in a video explaining why rivers have curves, nice.

    • @pierredroderique6290
      @pierredroderique6290 8 років тому +76

      +Gabriel Hortaleza It's not really a sad story; they make a home, grow old, and eventually die after their young have moved on. It's the story of all life in a time lapse.

    • @rudylikestowatch
      @rudylikestowatch 8 років тому +45

      +Pierre D Roderique Not sad? At 0:54 we see dad swept away to his death and at 1:13 there's nothing but a skull. Maybe I'm reading too much into it?

    • @panner11
      @panner11 8 років тому +47

      The dad definitely wasn't being swept away. The muskrats need to swim out of their den every time they forage for food. The skull with the picture still hanging on the wall was sad though.

    • @yahyachothia
      @yahyachothia 4 роки тому +8

      @@panner11 Yeah but the dad was torn out of the frame.

    • @Nileshmadhav95
      @Nileshmadhav95 4 роки тому +1

      @@yahyachothia yeah, swept away

  • @caidthackeray8896
    @caidthackeray8896 4 роки тому +638

    I dunno why, but I felt immensely sad when the muskrat died.
    Edit: I posted this comment like 2 months late and then it blew up. How?

  • @Gastogh
    @Gastogh 8 років тому +440

    That finishing shot of Mars made me "whoa" a little bit.

    • @hecklblaize2026
      @hecklblaize2026 8 років тому

      Did Mars have water?

    • @antonkhuu
      @antonkhuu 8 років тому +22

      +Heckl Blaize .. doesnt have to be water , could be any kind of a liquid substance .

    • @OrangeC7
      @OrangeC7 8 років тому +4

      Not _JUST_ water can turn to ice. :/

    • @IWannaBTheGuy
      @IWannaBTheGuy 8 років тому +10

      Temperatures on mars make it improbable for other liquids to exist outside of the poles. So it's almost certainly water.

    • @khosrow
      @khosrow 8 років тому +6

      The northern pole is made of 50% frozen water and 50% frozen CO2. The southern pole has some specks of water. So there definitely is and has been water on Mars. The question is how much.
      We don't know if those rivers have been formed by water. Maybe it was methane or liquid CO2 from all we know.

  • @0ion
    @0ion 9 років тому +771

    The mars thing at the end blew my mind!!!

    • @donesitackacom
      @donesitackacom 9 років тому +64

      I was like.
      "Oh, cool...wait...HOLY SHIT...W T F"

    • @R4V3-0N
      @R4V3-0N 9 років тому +17

      Mars possibly had flowing lakes, oceans, rivers, lakes, etc at one point, lots of former lake beds and shapes that are created by rivers/ oceans/ lakes/ etc are there: such as certain canyons on mars.

    • @williaamlarsson
      @williaamlarsson 9 років тому +14

      +0ion Water on Mars now confirmed!

    • @0ion
      @0ion 9 років тому +4

      ***** Heeeell yeah!

    • @donesitackacom
      @donesitackacom 9 років тому +4

      ***** i knew it, we did it!!!!!

  • @Cyfix15
    @Cyfix15 9 років тому +1457

    lol "a little disturbance" shows Darth Vader
    Lake: I sense a disturbance in the force

    • @nameguy101
      @nameguy101 9 років тому +73

      +SoldierCyfix
      Use the force, Lake

    • @Cyfix15
      @Cyfix15 9 років тому +25

      Master, I have sensed a divergence in the lake.

    • @Cyfix15
      @Cyfix15 9 років тому +21

      Search your feelings Lake, you know it to be true

    • @kardiona
      @kardiona 8 років тому +26

      Plot twist: Lake is Luke's brother.

    • @vincenttouchard9521
      @vincenttouchard9521 8 років тому +7

      Plot twist: Jar-Jar is a secret Sith Master

  • @Domziiee
    @Domziiee 4 роки тому +108

    I had garden soil dumped on my driveway and I had transferred most of it, however it rained, and when I went back to look, it had these perfect wavy ‘rivers’ where rain water had passed through the left over soil. It looked really impressive

    • @peterburton3095
      @peterburton3095 Рік тому

      Your statement proves this video's explanation lacking. Viktor Schauberger offered a far better explanation to why rivers / streams curve. He was brilliant.

    • @jchabon
      @jchabon Рік тому +1

      ​@@peterburton3095 I don't think that specifically means it's bad ?

  • @bartoszlabuc2351
    @bartoszlabuc2351 5 років тому +1993

    And I studied geography for five years for what exactly?!?

    • @BronkoBanane
      @BronkoBanane 5 років тому +25

      I highly doubt that geography is a real science

    • @MarCel-ih6ui
      @MarCel-ih6ui 5 років тому +94

      @@BronkoBanane It is

    • @illbeinyourdreams5259
      @illbeinyourdreams5259 5 років тому +28

      @@MarCel-ih6ui I thought geology was a sience not geography

    • @eleethtahgra7182
      @eleethtahgra7182 5 років тому +55

      You studied geography so that you'd know the name of the countries outside your border or have the knowledge in how to find the said country on the map. And the name of your states/provinces/region. Stuff like that. Hey, at least when some head of government say lets go to war with country A, you'd know where that country is and its geopolitical relation with its surrounding countries and its problem with your country.

    • @tyronicusmaximus4230
      @tyronicusmaximus4230 5 років тому +88

      @@eleethtahgra7182 there is a lot more to geography than that

  • @dingodon
    @dingodon 7 років тому +185

    Mars rover speech at end translated into ASCII from binary is: "?!"
    Thought you'd wanna know. ;)

  • @njohnny0311
    @njohnny0311 6 років тому +224

    1:13
    Top 10 saddest anime deaths

  • @its_matt_long
    @its_matt_long 3 роки тому +102

    How rivers are formed: Muskrats making a home for themselves

  • @afrodude2424
    @afrodude2424 5 років тому +648

    0:38 Best sad story of all time xd

  • @hahman12
    @hahman12 10 років тому +142

    The mars thing was a bit of a curve ball. I knew about mars having liquid water, but seeing the river formation was a real eye opener. Its something familiar on an alien world, which is really neat!

    • @yousefabdelgaber7498
      @yousefabdelgaber7498 2 роки тому

      It actually has methane rivers, not liquid water I think

    • @Luis-ou9fn
      @Luis-ou9fn 2 роки тому +8

      @@yousefabdelgaber7498 probably means “at some point” he’s right tho it caught me off guard too. Best thing I’ve seen this week.

    • @tornadicstorm6624
      @tornadicstorm6624 2 роки тому +10

      @@yousefabdelgaber7498 I think your confusing that with Saturn's moon Titan, mars did have water at some point leaving these river marks but no methane rivers there,

    • @g.3521
      @g.3521 2 роки тому +5

      @@yousefabdelgaber7498 Titan has rivers of hydrocarbons. Mars does not.

    • @PhailRaptor
      @PhailRaptor Рік тому

      I like the nice touch of having the rover speaking in binary while posing the question of what Martians call their oxbows. Because Mars is populated exclusively with robots.

  • @PedroLopez-ep5fq
    @PedroLopez-ep5fq 4 роки тому +26

    The last question made me giggle, then stop, and lastly made my jaw drop to the floor.

  • @blacksheeptheory2647
    @blacksheeptheory2647 3 роки тому +90

    That Muskrat family went through more character development than the entire mcu. Oscar worthy.

  • @chouco1029
    @chouco1029 5 років тому +645

    english : "this is an oxbow lake"
    french : "its a d e a d a r m"

    • @madtheline2510
      @madtheline2510 4 роки тому +57

      German:
      uhh... old water
      Yes! Old water, perfect!

    • @57thorns
      @57thorns 4 роки тому +40

      @@madtheline2510 Swedish: "Sausage lake"

    • @ixlnxs
      @ixlnxs 4 роки тому +27

      Dutch: horse-shoe lake.

    • @damianbizowski6899
      @damianbizowski6899 4 роки тому +9

      Polish: elder River or old River (2:25 top right)

    • @tigrosabertooth4757
      @tigrosabertooth4757 4 роки тому +2

      @@damianbizowski6899 not only polish, it's a slavic common. for example, russian "старица", which means "the old one"

  • @HNK-ln7hq
    @HNK-ln7hq 8 років тому +227

    My teacher has been unsuccessfully trying to explain this to us for 2 weeks, Minute Earth successfully explained this is 3 minutes.

    • @clarkpetrick127
      @clarkpetrick127 7 років тому +1

      HNK2015 viktor schauberger the water wizard. if you want the real answer

    • @0623kaboom
      @0623kaboom 6 років тому

      and got it wrong ... watch victor schauberger and get it right

    • @rapid13
      @rapid13 6 років тому +1

      @@0623kaboom Um...Schauberger said pretty much exactly what this video said, and what hydrologists have measured and confirmed.

    • @William12-m8m
      @William12-m8m 6 років тому +1

      HNK2015 your teacher is an idiot loll

    • @pflaffik
      @pflaffik 3 роки тому +1

      Your teacher has really dense students.

  • @Sad_cup_of_tea_
    @Sad_cup_of_tea_ 5 років тому +502

    1:13
    Oh no! the rat and his family died :'(

  • @adrianghandtchi1562
    @adrianghandtchi1562 2 роки тому +23

    That was extremely educational, and reflects some of the decisions that are being made in the Netherlands about taking away retaining walls and restoring natural river routs to combat frequent flooding

  • @alcesmir
    @alcesmir 10 років тому +140

    About six times the width per period... That's way to close to 2π for comfort, so close to a cosy sine.

    • @aka5
      @aka5 10 років тому +41

      Everything links back to circles :3

    • @ruolbu
      @ruolbu 10 років тому +2

      Have your seen this? :D Pi me a River - Numberphile

    • @TDRinfinity
      @TDRinfinity 10 років тому

      they said width of the river vs the total length not the length of the period vs the amplitude

    • @KainYusanagi
      @KainYusanagi 10 років тому +1

      icanotspel
      The perfect imperfect ratio? ;P

    • @aka5
      @aka5 10 років тому

      Thomas David Riley So?

  • @dagzandstuff
    @dagzandstuff 10 років тому +469

    Real rivers have curves.

  • @Meerschweinchen99
    @Meerschweinchen99 7 років тому +165

    Check out the border between US states Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. It's interesting to see the borders were drawn a while ago when the Mississippi river used to curve certain ways. Now the river is different but the borders remained the same.

  • @totally_notkikii
    @totally_notkikii 3 роки тому +43

    This taught me more than 3 hours of studying, 9 geography lessons and 2 hours of researching...

  • @manchmalpfosten8133
    @manchmalpfosten8133 5 років тому +1029

    Rest in Peace Elon Muskrat

  • @fangirlfortheages5940
    @fangirlfortheages5940 6 років тому +17

    I shared this video with my 8th grade earth science teacher and she absolutely loved it. This video taught the mechanics of rivers better than any single diagram alone and it’s helped so many students

  • @gabefitz3663
    @gabefitz3663 4 роки тому +53

    So Darth Vader makes rivers?.....FASCINATING

    • @landsraad9745
      @landsraad9745 3 роки тому +2

      For non-savy Star Wars enthusiasts. Darth Vader is an antagonist so powerful that his actions create "disturbances in the force". The "force" is a metaphysical energy, like fantasy mana, that "force" sensitive individuals can use to manifest phenomenon. Most powerful individuals can develop a extra sensory feeling, like fantasy Seers, to read the flow of the "force" on a massive scale. Thank you for letting me nerd out o/

  • @grace_stokes25
    @grace_stokes25 4 роки тому +8

    I would like to thank my geography teacher for being here

  • @sophiac247
    @sophiac247 7 років тому +1685

    If Jesus can walk on water
    Can he swim on land?

    • @marklewis4793
      @marklewis4793 6 років тому +50

      of course!..it is written...

    • @0623kaboom
      @0623kaboom 6 років тому +18

      he used to be able to walk on water ... now not so much ... he doesnt have the structural integrity to keep water from seeping up through his feet

    • @caesaraugustusjulius
      @caesaraugustusjulius 6 років тому +32

      And if He made dead alive, could he living people make dead?

    • @kennymccormick5693
      @kennymccormick5693 6 років тому +14

      Юрий Семаков yea with a gun or knife

    • @bianca-fo5hx
      @bianca-fo5hx 6 років тому +3

      Maybe

  • @f4rr3r
    @f4rr3r 10 років тому +76

    Oh no. It's year 7 geography lessons all over again. Oxbow lakes, meanders...

    • @Bigbub66
      @Bigbub66 10 років тому +66

      No! I did my time. I won't go back!

    • @Durpanny
      @Durpanny 10 років тому +21

      Never learned this in school... That said my state's public schools are 2nd worst in the country so that might explain why...

    • @SuperSMT
      @SuperSMT 10 років тому +1

      I wish I learned geography... People wonder why Americans are so bad at geography - they don't teach it, _at all_!

    • @f4rr3r
      @f4rr3r 10 років тому +1

      Durpanny I think it's a mostly British thing. I think. Most other countries realise that this knowledge is sort of unnecessary.

    • @Durpanny
      @Durpanny 10 років тому +1

      Matthew Jones Eh, I wouldn't say any knowledge is unnecessary, especially if it's about how the world works, probably just taught different things.

  • @LordDragon1965
    @LordDragon1965 9 років тому +22

    As my Dad once said, "Following the path of least resistance is what makes men and rivers crooked. "

    • @carultch
      @carultch 9 років тому +1

      Alan Lambert It is a myth that electric current takes the path of least resistance.
      Electric current takes all possible paths, of all resistances. It is just that it divides itself up onto each parallel path, inversely proportional to the resistance of that path.

    • @LordDragon1965
      @LordDragon1965 9 років тому +3

      carultch True, I was referring to men (humans of either gender) and rivers, not electrical current.

    • @lucaseddsilva
      @lucaseddsilva 9 років тому +2

      Alan Lambert Your dad seems to be a wise man!

    • @lucaseddsilva
      @lucaseddsilva 9 років тому +5

      carultch Maybe that's the reason why electric currents aren't crooked at all, they can be shockingly straight some times...

    • @LordDragon1965
      @LordDragon1965 9 років тому +2

      Lucas Edd Silva Thank You, he was

  • @fadedapollo
    @fadedapollo 2 роки тому

    I love the form factor of this video. It's so simple, the voices are pleasing, the animations keep my attention, and it's straight to the point

  • @darkkijin
    @darkkijin 10 років тому +35

    I love how Fractals are mentioned in this video, just very subtly

    • @LimeyLassen
      @LimeyLassen 10 років тому

      They could mention fractals in every episode if they wanted.

    • @darkkijin
      @darkkijin 10 років тому +7

      Limey Lassen They SHOULD mention fractals in every video. They're amazing!

    • @Goabnb94
      @Goabnb94 10 років тому +7

      Calm down Vihart

    • @trashqueeen
      @trashqueeen 10 років тому

      You know, after an oxbow lake forms,wouldn't the resulting river get curvy again, within the existing curves, also like a fractal? Like a koch curve maybe. Just a thought I had when they mentioned the fractals.

    • @trashqueeen
      @trashqueeen 10 років тому

      jamiec24925 It also reminds me of that one Vihart video where she described different types of squiggles, and which squiggle would be the most space-filling, etc

  • @raz0229
    @raz0229 6 років тому +54

    01:46 The Rat Must Had A Divine Life! *Engineer In Heaven*

    • @doak_
      @doak_ 6 років тому +7

      *or is it*

    • @wojtek_xd
      @wojtek_xd 4 роки тому +1

      Piżmak nie szur 🌞

  • @Wolfrsmv
    @Wolfrsmv 10 років тому +163

    Next: why does religion suck?

    • @5heeshi
      @5heeshi 10 років тому +44

      Why does it bother you so much?

    • @lightsidemaster
      @lightsidemaster 10 років тому +6

      I'm sure there's a black metal song about that lol

    • @verdiss7487
      @verdiss7487 10 років тому +21

      Because the mythologies that the religions are built upon are old and out of date, meaning the message they convey is not properly applicable to the modern world.

    • @BDBK666
      @BDBK666 10 років тому +33

      Verdiss I know right. Don't kill, don't steal...Super outdated.

    • @5heeshi
      @5heeshi 10 років тому +17

      Verdiss The mythos is only a small part of religion. For many religion helps deal with pain and problems. Helps people be charitable and kind.
      The modern atheist movement seems to lack manners, patience and kindness because there is nothing there.
      A world without religion would not be a utopia as atheists dream about. It would be 'the strongest survives' where morality takes a back foot to statistics.
      Also atheists need to stop hijacking science like it's the same thing. It's religion vs atheism not religion vs science.
      That's like religion hijacking a field and every time that field does something we be like "Fuck you atheists"

  • @amanpandey3031
    @amanpandey3031 2 роки тому

    This remembers me of my class 10th geography classes, that I've almost forgotten...
    Those days were just splendid,and my geography teacher were so good .
    Nostalgia hits hard .. Surely !!!

  • @jwright3
    @jwright3 9 років тому +137

    if you pause it at 2:35 the inverted reliefs below the message bubble kind of spell out "USA"...
    ...more fodder for conspiracy

    • @umnikos
      @umnikos 9 років тому +3

      wow...

    • @chingcuifjsjjsjdjdjd7550
      @chingcuifjsjjsjdjdjd7550 9 років тому +11

      +Johnny Wright illuminati cnfirme hide ur children

    • @rolandramos3720
      @rolandramos3720 9 років тому +2

      OMG A CODE

    • @rolandramos3720
      @rolandramos3720 9 років тому +1

      +Mr. tornado I'm 7

    • @Thundernin
      @Thundernin 8 років тому +5

      What more proof do you need? Obama is a shape-shifting lizard-man from Alpha Centauri. Mr.President show us your galactic birth certificate.

  • @peterpang19940518
    @peterpang19940518 9 років тому +472

    Did anyone feel sad because of the lonely otter died alone?

    • @brothebys
      @brothebys 9 років тому +8

      +peterpangggggg
      The dad still had the kid though! The mom will always be remembered!

    • @DragOzze
      @DragOzze 9 років тому +77

      +peterpangggggg yea at least their son made a career as scientist measuring curves and width of rivers @ 1:45

    • @timetogetcancer7866
      @timetogetcancer7866 9 років тому +14

      Musk rat

    • @gloves1212
      @gloves1212 9 років тому +14

      +peterpangggggg I took it as: the child moved out, and the two elderly muskrats were the mom and dad? =)

    • @MrArcticShadow
      @MrArcticShadow 8 років тому +6

      No the child grew up, and one of them passed away since only one of them are using a cane and look old.

  • @jonathanfowler2932
    @jonathanfowler2932 7 років тому +57

    Fun fact:
    A river's
    distance (line following stream from point A to B)
    divided by the river's
    displacement (straight line from point A to B)
    is Pi. Or at least sits near Pi, and the mean of all rivers is extremely close to Pi.
    See Numberphile if you care to look into it.

    • @kaitsfamily4768
      @kaitsfamily4768 6 років тому +3

      Jonathan Fowler your comment fits your profile picture

    • @alastairdouglas2566
      @alastairdouglas2566 6 років тому

      ❤️

    • @GameProfessor
      @GameProfessor 6 років тому +2

      Assume that river's shape is close to a perfect S shape then it is simply perimeter / diameter = pi. Thanks for the fun fact.

    • @sodr7440
      @sodr7440 6 років тому +5

      At first i did not believe what you've said and checked it (by using google maps) and the results were shocking!
      -just kidding, it was no where near near pi, unsurprisingly they are around 1.5 to 4.25 (of course my calculations might be wrong)

    • @mltvk8769
      @mltvk8769 5 років тому

      Wut??

  • @AxelSostenes
    @AxelSostenes 9 місяців тому +2

    I cry myself to sleep to your videos

  • @AlltimeConspiracies
    @AlltimeConspiracies 10 років тому +543

    Wait. Rivers curve? Conspiracy. . .

  • @Jerbod2
    @Jerbod2 10 років тому +24

    The Dutch version of that stretch of river that become obsolete was Hoefijzermeer.
    Litterally translated Hoof-iron-lake. A hoof-iron is a horseshoe, and it looks just like that.

    • @OMGItzFokral
      @OMGItzFokral 10 років тому +4

      Words are cool.

    • @swissphan18
      @swissphan18 10 років тому +2

      The Germans call it what it cointains: Altwasser, which means old water. So yeah.
      En gruet van Zwitserland!! (Did I say that right??)

    • @evklinken
      @evklinken 10 років тому +1

      +swissman17 *groeten uit ;)

    • @swissphan18
      @swissphan18 10 років тому

      evklinken
      darn, but me trying at dutch is the same as for you to be trying at Swiss German:-)
      You know what this means?? : «Wieso löset d'Albaner kei Chrüüzworträtsel??» «Weel's Angscht händ e Heireis z'gwünne!!»
      Why don't you try to make a wild guess and ask for the translation if you can't figure it out??
      (It's a Swiss joke btw.) :-)

    • @Jerbod2
      @Jerbod2 10 років тому

      swiss Man 17 Why loses an Albanian (?) crosswordpuzzle (kruiswoordraadsel) :)

  • @kristianstoyanov6149
    @kristianstoyanov6149 9 місяців тому +2

    I found this lovely video because of the community notes on a Twitter/X video. Give proper credits folks! You it's a win-win for everybody!

  • @Anotherrandomdemon28
    @Anotherrandomdemon28 6 років тому +38

    0:22
    Looks like it'd be a good Bloons tower defense level.

  • @abcdefoff3307
    @abcdefoff3307 5 років тому +18

    1:28 It's called a thallwag. The strongest thallwag is the one that is not in contact with the river banks.
    This chapter is honestly the easiest chapter of Physical Geography. I used to be able to explain rivers, meanders, waterfall, gorges, deltas, braided rivers, etc in one go. I wish I could still do that. I felt so smart back then.

    • @siroccupy6041
      @siroccupy6041 4 роки тому

      :(

    • @TigruArdavi
      @TigruArdavi 3 роки тому

      *wrong* The word is thalweg and it is the line that joins the lowest points of the river bed's cross section (or on land of a valley). It derives from the German geological term Talweg, literally meaning 'valley way'. It is never where the strongest current is, as that is slowed down towards the margins of the bed due to friction. The lineof the strongest current is called the current thread.

  • @narwhao
    @narwhao 10 років тому +9

    Neat and quick explanation for something that I didn't know I cared about, this channel is great.

  • @idocareforapples3908
    @idocareforapples3908 2 роки тому +1

    Ah yes, the perfect mascot for a geology video, Darth Vader

  • @scott98390
    @scott98390 10 років тому +17

    My question: did the rivers on Mars, since they're subjected to different gravity, have a different ratio of periodicity of their curviness to width?

  • @pchuks8428
    @pchuks8428 8 років тому +6

    Your the only one who actually helped me understand undercutting thanks

  • @Blurritos
    @Blurritos 9 років тому +5

    My exam is tomorrow, and watching this video craps up the materials required. Thanks a lot. Liked

  • @dannne88
    @dannne88 4 роки тому

    A question I've never asked myself but one i wanted an answer to the exact moment i saw this thumbnail on youtube. And the icing on the cake, straight to the point! You don't know how good that is. I usually jump a couple of minutes because is so much filler in the beginning. 11 out of 10!

  • @angeloaquino6766
    @angeloaquino6766 4 роки тому +56

    "It's curves will become curvier and curvier, until it loops around and bumps into themselves."
    *choke

  • @confidentclosetharoldpikes831
    @confidentclosetharoldpikes831 5 років тому +66

    Nobody:
    MinuteEarthumbnails: D A R T H V A D E R

    • @MarCel-ih6ui
      @MarCel-ih6ui 5 років тому +1

      Nobody-memes are out of date. you may leave now

    • @KnightoftheSorryFace
      @KnightoftheSorryFace 4 роки тому +3

      Because a disturbance caused it...
      A disturbance in the force.

    • @niadavies8818
      @niadavies8818 4 роки тому

      May the fourth be with you!
      (For future readers of this comment I'm writing this on 4th May 2020)

    • @eyosimaregu9089
      @eyosimaregu9089 4 роки тому

      @@MarCel-ih6ui vvm0N AZXa2Z ZZZ OX

  • @mickeymoose636
    @mickeymoose636 8 років тому +130

    If anyone cares the rover at the end is saying "?!"

    • @delve_
      @delve_ 8 років тому +11

      +Geometry Dash Llamadog Thanks, you saved me some time.

    • @atharvakulkarni0
      @atharvakulkarni0 7 років тому

      Llamadog thnx for the meaning

    • @munch5572
      @munch5572 7 років тому

      I was wondering what it said!

    • @karenaspers4594
      @karenaspers4594 6 років тому

      Llamadog thanks I wondered about hat too

    • @idiotcat7730
      @idiotcat7730 6 років тому

      What does your phone dream about at night?
      💤 1010100010001000
      💤 10101111000101000
      💤 101000010101111100101
      ☁️
      📱
      Get it? Hahahaha

  • @infomationrw
    @infomationrw 9 місяців тому

    This deserves the #1 Video of the 20th century title. All I wanted in a video.

  • @CCABPSacsach
    @CCABPSacsach 4 роки тому +62

    0:50 what kind of school did he go to? He got a diploma!

  • @Otzkar
    @Otzkar 8 років тому +124

    2:30 0011111100100001 translates to '?!'

    • @MinuteEarth
      @MinuteEarth  8 років тому +37

      Nice catch :)

    • @bonnie_dearest
      @bonnie_dearest 8 років тому

      Oskar Evans what?

    • @dash0173
      @dash0173 8 років тому +3

      it's binary code, kiera, the language that computers "talk" in

    • @bonnie_dearest
      @bonnie_dearest 8 років тому

      adza botchway I mean what dose it say

    • @Otzkar
      @Otzkar 8 років тому +3

      Kiera Wiggins it says "?!"

  • @Narsuaq
    @Narsuaq 10 років тому +14

    That picture of a dried river on Mars... woah.

  • @quasar960
    @quasar960 3 роки тому +5

    That was brilliant! Great video, explanation, pace even was awesome. you took something honestly that was so so interesting and explained so thoroughly yet quick and dummied it down to the perfect level. Bravo

  • @DevinAK49
    @DevinAK49 10 років тому +5

    Wonderful explanation. Also I like the new voice. Great addition to an awesome channel.

  • @9jubjubs
    @9jubjubs 10 років тому +35

    Hahah, I finally know what a billabong is.

    • @JimCullen
      @JimCullen 10 років тому +7

      Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong

    • @AustralianGrizzly
      @AustralianGrizzly 10 років тому

      I know right!!! I just knew it was a small lake near a river. But not the details...

    • @AustralianGrizzly
      @AustralianGrizzly 10 років тому

      ***** You know that a Billy is actually a Camping Kettle right,

    • @themonkeyhand
      @themonkeyhand 8 років тому

      Did the dingo eat the baby in the billabong?

  • @GadgetsHigh
    @GadgetsHigh 6 місяців тому +1

    did i just fall in love with geography ?

  • @idog805
    @idog805 7 років тому +18

    The got attached to the rats and got happy when the child went off to college and got sad when one died :(

  • @TheScienceBiome
    @TheScienceBiome 5 років тому +17

    This is my favourite minute earth video! That aha moment that made me understand why rivers meander was just amazing. I hope my content can have the same explanatory power as yours does one day.

  • @bruhh3759
    @bruhh3759 3 роки тому +8

    Damm the rat must have been a motivation speeker. He proved that all it takes to bring a big change is just confidence and small step...

  • @thabomsiza2502
    @thabomsiza2502 4 роки тому +1

    First video... This was a brief but more inciteful than most longer videos. I am subscribing

    • @thesciencerapshow
      @thesciencerapshow 3 роки тому

      its MUCH better now i turned it into a rap on my channel!

  • @PenandBlade
    @PenandBlade 8 років тому +52

    Really excellent video, thank you.

  • @ThatOneJalapenoKid
    @ThatOneJalapenoKid 3 роки тому +11

    Interesting, informative, right to the point, easy to understand, and tought me about a natural lake that i didn't even know existed, and now know how its formed. What an excellent video! Thanks guys!

  • @GlobalWarmingSkeptic
    @GlobalWarmingSkeptic 7 років тому +32

    Oxbow lakes are formed when a river's meander is too wibbly wibbly wobbly to maintain the course it's on.

    • @gilgabro420
      @gilgabro420 5 років тому +2

      just like humans it takes grate effort to follow a straight path.

    • @apostleofthekube3097
      @apostleofthekube3097 4 роки тому +1

      The main flow of the stream diverts itself accordingly, leaving the oxbow lake behind; but here's my question son.

    • @excinerus
      @excinerus 4 роки тому

      What the hell's an oxbow, are our bovine friends fashioning weaponry ? someone should tell me , do i need to buy a shield ?

  • @justasadmanforabanana4124
    @justasadmanforabanana4124 Рік тому

    Chapters:
    1: How it forms?
    2: How it's curved
    3: lengths of a meandering curve's differences in size
    4: how the river's meandering looks like if nothing is ever in it's way

  • @EBProductions
    @EBProductions 10 років тому +36

    that last question hit me hard!

    • @InterrobangActivate
      @InterrobangActivate 10 років тому +11

      Same here :D

    • @tminusfiveminutes
      @tminusfiveminutes 9 років тому +1

      EB Productions Try converting what Curiosity says, 0011111100100001, to text somewhere like here. www.roubaixinteractive.com/PlayGround/Binary_Conversion/Binary_To_Text.asp

  • @artaizen1613
    @artaizen1613 6 років тому +4

    A rare case of aha moment struck me watching this video. Subbing

  • @Oligampla
    @Oligampla 7 років тому +29

    I was so sad when i saw the skeleton in the cave at 1:13 :(

    • @lildiejus3007
      @lildiejus3007 5 років тому +2

      :(

    • @takix2007
      @takix2007 4 роки тому +1

      I'm quite certain they died from old age (their child seems to be growing up in some previous frames)

  • @pedrojuan8050
    @pedrojuan8050 Рік тому

    Short and straight to the point. If only TV ads were all like this.

  • @Gamesaucer
    @Gamesaucer 10 років тому +6

    I've never heard of a "hoefijzermeer" before, even though I am Dutch. However, I **have** heard od an "oxbow lake". Strange things, languages; I know words in English that I don't know in Dutch and vice versa...

  • @xcato13x
    @xcato13x 6 років тому +19

    so what you are telling me is that a river + darth vader + hour glass = song wiggle wiggle wiggle 0:33

  • @solancan1287
    @solancan1287 10 років тому +23

    This video is entirely wrong. Curves are caused by the moon and its gravitational pull. As it orbits one way, it pulls the stream to it. Then when the moon passes from the opposite horizon, it then pulls it back the other way.
    Perhaps if the author of this video had of visited /r/science on reddit, they would have known this.

    • @nekopariah6306
      @nekopariah6306 10 років тому

      /s

    • @tisebi14
      @tisebi14 10 років тому +12

      Troll guy is being trolly

    • @PlaidHiker
      @PlaidHiker 10 років тому +1

      I hope you are being sarcastic.

    • @ChristianTipling
      @ChristianTipling 10 років тому +2

      I read something like this on lies my History Teacher told me. Another lie was that the Athenians made the first written language, NOPE, it was Africa
      Visit us at /r/blackhistory on reddit to learn more.

    • @tisebi14
      @tisebi14 10 років тому

      Christian Tipling How is that relevant to what i said?

  • @leninsamson3847
    @leninsamson3847 2 роки тому

    I love how during the explanation with the muskrat disturbance that if you watch closely you can see the muskrat family slowly grow up

  • @EdwardBerner
    @EdwardBerner 10 років тому +8

    But, and correct me if I'm wrong, aren't there studies that liquid water tends to meander even on really uniform, level, hydrofobic surfaces? Why is that?
    I mean, there can be no soil and very little irregularities to start the meandering. Is it just that even a small difference is enough to kick this process into progress?
    (Will try to find a source, and come back to edit it in later. Possibly an answer even, if I can find one.)
    EDIT: Okay, here's one source article from 1984 Cambridge: journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FFLM%2FFLM149%2FS002211208400255Xa.pdf&code=1eeff1156ef7a855ec9cdaa4de02bcf5 Will keep on looking for an answer. Based on the synopsis, that paper might even have some answers, but don't have time to go through it right now... :/

    • @seigeengine
      @seigeengine 10 років тому +16

      So I read that, and did some Googling because lolwut hysteresis.
      So the paper suggests that it's caused by surface tension. Basically, the water hitting the surface of the plexiglass comes in contact with the irregular (on a microscopic scale) structure of the polymer. This causes the water to have irregular surface tension, which "pulls" the water towards the thinner side (higher surface area/volume ratio). Then as the water starts swinging in that direction, which part of the stream is thinner changes, pulling it back in the other direction.
      This forms the meandering path a river usually takes.
      All of which does NOT suggest this effect manifests on the scale of entire rivers, and the explanation presented in this video is agreed upon by every credible source I can find.

    • @EdwardBerner
      @EdwardBerner 10 років тому +1

      seigeengine Ah, thank you very much :) That sounds like a very reasonable explanation.
      I wasn't suggesting that the explanation on the scale of rivers presented here is wrong, I had heard this elsewhere before in some form as well :) I was just interested to know, what the explanation is on the small scale "smooth" surfaces

    • @seigeengine
      @seigeengine 10 років тому

      EdwardBerner I just didn't want anyone going around telling people rivers meander because of surface tension. :P
      This is a really interesting topic for me (particularly the patterns) because I have a minor interest in terrain generation. I remember a few years ago I coded up a map generator that used multiple layers of perlin noise representing different factors (temp, humidity, and elevation if I recall), and then based on that coloured in the regions differently based on a set of biomes. Now, it didn't very well represent realistic terrain, but it was appealing, and it would certainly suffice for fantastical settings. Being able to add realistic details, like weather factors, rivers, etc. would be great. Especially because with rivers I could likely implement some kind of populator that would place cities around the map too.

    • @azmanabdula
      @azmanabdula 10 років тому +3

      seigeengine Basically the same as how people think the Coriolis effects drains and the way water flows... wrong scale : P

    • @seigeengine
      @seigeengine 10 років тому +5

      azmanabdula Mhm, but it is interesting how water has the same behaviour on two scales for two entirely different reasons.

  • @zedspoint4614
    @zedspoint4614 5 років тому +5

    Didnt realise I needed to know this. Thank you!

  • @bragekv9937
    @bragekv9937 2 роки тому +1

    I had known about the slingshot effect from before, but always kinda wondered if the bends would become so big that they meet again. now i know they can! thanks for explain it as well as showing great examples to understand and visualize.

  • @Leander_
    @Leander_ 5 років тому +7

    2:09
    In other words:
    OXBOW LAKES ARE FORMED WHEN A RIVER'S MEANDER GETS TO WIBBLY, WIBBLY, WOBBLY TO MAINTAIN THE COURSE IT'S ON.

    • @kaisarsihaloho975
      @kaisarsihaloho975 4 роки тому

      Add me wobblyorbee from roblox :> wibbly wibbly wobbly

  • @colfdralegend
    @colfdralegend 4 роки тому +8

    This is actually one thing I remember from school, guess I found it interesting

    • @pflaffik
      @pflaffik 3 роки тому

      and thats why we never invite the Colfdras to parties.

    • @colfdralegend
      @colfdralegend 3 роки тому

      @@pflaffik I’ve never felt so offended by something I am perfectly fine with

  • @waferjuice
    @waferjuice 10 років тому +6

    this stuff is taught during basic geography.

  • @Mon-ey5mb
    @Mon-ey5mb 2 роки тому

    That last sentence about Mars surface🔥. What a creative way of putting things.

  • @kiro9291
    @kiro9291 9 років тому +40

    omg the binary at the end translates to ?!

    • @BhupinderSinghSaini1
      @BhupinderSinghSaini1 9 років тому +2

      +Po Yao “Kiro” Cheong yeah but into translates into ?!

    • @kiro9291
      @kiro9291 9 років тому +7

      Bhupinder Saini
      what ?!

    • @RacistZebraa
      @RacistZebraa 9 років тому +2

      +Po Yao “Kiro” Cheong Apparently it's this : "?!"

    • @kyleclegg89
      @kyleclegg89 8 років тому

      +Racist Zebra it translates into "?!" I'm reference to the questions in an exclamatory fashion in the video

    • @231luffy
      @231luffy 7 років тому +1

      neks ASCII

  • @laurentiucristian1
    @laurentiucristian1 10 років тому +4

    I learn lots of useless information at school, but never ever they told me this. I had to memorize the capital of every country in the world, but I didn't had to explain some elementary things like this.

  • @martint1775
    @martint1775 8 років тому +25

    For the curious and lazy people out there.. The robot at 2:30 said ?!

    • @OrangeC7
      @OrangeC7 8 років тому +1

      Markus Stromme is secretly Yoda shhhhh don't tell anyone ;)

    • @kainraab
      @kainraab 8 років тому

      Markus Strømme just tell me what it said

    • @mirhasanoddname
      @mirhasanoddname 6 років тому +1

      It said "?!". Literally.

    • @GAND-OZZ
      @GAND-OZZ Рік тому

      Or in binary number code, it said 63 33

  • @TheSaneInternational-SNI
    @TheSaneInternational-SNI 4 роки тому

    This cleared everything which didn't use to make sense a year back when I was in my geography classes... Thnx alot...

  • @ItachiUchiha-ip5en
    @ItachiUchiha-ip5en 3 роки тому +14

    I remember this being taught by our geography teacher in 9th grade but i never understood it properly, i think its cuz i was too little to understand it then, it should be taught in 11th or 12th.
    Btw, thnq for explaining it🙏🏻

  • @MovieCompoundBoat
    @MovieCompoundBoat 10 років тому +5

    1:13 RIP little musket family.

  • @diogocampos1181
    @diogocampos1181 9 років тому +49

    1:35 'Another one, Another one, Another one...'
    -DJ Khaleb

  • @Kenan-Z
    @Kenan-Z 2 роки тому

    The river Meander, from which the verb meander originates, is in western Türkiye. It is called "Menderes Nehri" nowadays. It meanders gracefully through several plains and flows into the Aegean, near where I live.

  • @aravindg2574
    @aravindg2574 5 років тому +7

    2014:
    2015:
    2016:
    2017:
    2018:
    2019:lets recommend this

  • @Money_Man55
    @Money_Man55 6 років тому +11

    Rip daddy muskrat 😢