Our own kidneys also have redundancy. Just one working kidney is enough for us to stay alive. A good analogy to this video would be a patient with kidney failure who only goes to the hospital after *both* of their kidneys have failed (and not realizing that their kidneys have been failing for a quite long time).
That reminds me of redundancy in DNA sequences, where in some cases multiple codons actually code for the same amino acid. This means that even if there is a mutation which affects one base pair, there is a lower chance that it results in a change in amino acid sequence and therefore protein function. Of course, a mutation can still impact the function of genes that are used for producing functional RNA or other purposes that are much more sequence-determined.
@@genghiskhan6809 evolution is not "coincidence", it's a stochastic process determined by the laws of physics an the environment. Saying that some general fact (e.g. presence of redundancies) about evolution outcome is a "coincidence" is like saying that it's a coincidence that a car engine works because it uses random motion of gas molecules.
real life example of that: people are born with two copies of a gene called smn1, which creates a protein, that keeps your nerves alive (in rough terms. I'm no neurologist.) Even if you were born with one of those genes, you'd be fine. However, if you were born missing both those smn1 genes, like my daughter, you have ANOTHER set called smn2 genes, which can make an almost passable protein, at least in her case passable enough to keep her alive and healthy until we could treat her. Isn't redundancy great?
This video makes it sound like redundancy is a mechanism for ecological evolution, when it is actually consequence of ongoing competition for resources. I think it's important to not make it sounds like there's a planned path for evolution.
I felt you explained redundancy three times in the first 1:30. You went over the material multple times in the first 90 seconds, while repeating the important insights for over a minute!
We certainly notice the imbalance in some areas, like where I live in Southern Arizona. Snakes are mostly killed or moved out of neighborhoods, which is kinda understandable. BUT, that also means that the rats and mice have a LOT fewer predators and therefore are more populous. Same with rabbits and birds. Because their predators like hawks, owls, bobcats, coyotes, and mountain lions (cougars) don't like living around humans as much (and we don't like the bobcats, coyotes and cougars around because of dangers to ourselves and our pets), then there's PLENTY more of those too! Plus of course our gardens and such that provide a LOT more food than would normally be available.
@@joachimfrank4134 A friend used to live in Missouri, USA. He told me that for a bit of time, it was legal to shoot deer from inside your house for the same reasons. Just open a window and shoot any deer that were there in your yard. No limit either...
I feel like redundancy is far more important than most people think and is one of the main missing parts in complex human systems (ie transportation - - > traffic jams / supply chain problems)
No joke, my dad's alias back-in-the-day was "Dexter Crashcup, Director of Incompetence for the Department of Redundancy Department at Integrated Oxymorons Unlimited".
Noticed the title changed, assuming you’re probably using view data to see which title style is the most effective. So I’m that case the title I first saw and got me to click was the ‘department of redundancy department’ one however I wasn’t in a place to watch at the time so didn’t click until ‘nature has a backup plan’ preferred the first one as it seemed an odd topic for a nature channel which intrigued me while the second feels like it’s already explained in the title.
@@danriddick914 I know it’s probably super helpful to the creators but as a viewer it’s kinda annoying paired with changing thumbnails it never fails to annoy me when I think a channel has uploaded a new video but it’s actually just a new title. Plus with so many other factors (time of upload, date, how busy people are, how soon after upload people get notified) I can’t see how it provides all that much data
@@opheliaclarke8264 I worry the suggestions are assisted by AI that is 'choosing' the 'best' thumbnail and title for videos. While it might work well, imo it takes away from the creator's intent in exchange for more views. EDIT: That is to say: nature is NOT like a runaway train; if the only similarity is redundancy, then they could legitimately choose just about any modern manmade 'machine' - "runaway train" just elicits the maximum response according to some AI (I assume). I'm glad they changed it back to "Nature Has a Backup Plan And... " but that's legitimately clickbait by leaving the end of the title with an ellipsis. Just my 2c.
@@danriddick914 In my title/thumbnail combo it was "Nature Has a Backup Plan And..." for the title, then in the thumbnail, there was text that said "It's going to fail!". So even more clickbaity, but did manage to be truthful together, though I would have absolutely been more entertained by OPs "Department of Redundancy Department" title, that's a joke I have a particular fondness for.
That episode of Star Trek where worf died of massive internal organ failure but came back at the brink because apparently Klingons have dormant redundant organs of critical things like the heart
@@JatPhenshllem DNA derives all of its power (and hence the backbone of the entirety of evolution) from the double-stranded design, which has redundancy (and hence error correction) as its core feature. This allows it to grow exponentially larger than what previous lifeforms were capable of, leading to the massive amounts of complexity we see today. DNA is the best error-correcting storage and copying system known to man; many orders of magnitude better than our best computers.
@@niklas5336 Not quite. Error correction is not built into DNA, it's done by proteins external to it. And sometimes the double stranded nature of DNA does not provide redundancy because one strand forces the other to be complementary. (The real redundancy comes from the body storing two copies of every genome, one from your mother and one from your father. ) DNA is cool, but it's not magic.
@@garretwang1031 potato has double the pair that we need to use its polen to map its genome, potato is pretty tough, yea, unless you are an irish farmer that is.
@@niklas5336 "DNA is the best error-correcting storage and copying system known to man; many orders of magnitude better than our best computers." Sorry this is false. It does beat computers in information density. But its read/write speed is abysmal compared to computers, and it is FAR more error prone. There are about 100 mutations per generation in humans. that's a copy of ~10GB of data. How many errors would you expect when you copy a 10GB computer file? Less than one. Most of the time it's an identical copy.
@@greenseedpod What? I'm having trouble parsing your comment. Are you trying to talk about the fact that most common potato cultivars are tetraploid? Well check out the adders tongue fern with it's 96-ploidy (For up to 1,440 chromosomes total)
It's more like a rivalry between companies rather than a back up plan. Organisms fill different niches as they evolve and the more that position is desired - evolutionarily favorable - the more species exist within. It works as a back up plan for the ecosystem if something goes wrong but it's not the main drive force
This is an excellent example that the potential niche of an organism is usually much wider than the niche it currently fulfills. Rabbits in the right ecosystem can be an Apex predator and foxes a frugivore.
and if the last breaking system of a train fails, the train will automatically brake anyway as their braking system is built to be engaged by default, unlike our cars
lmao every MinuteEarth video ends with a little pun right as the happy music finishes and this one is exactly the same except the pun is about our inability to fix the collapse of the global ecosystem and the little character is breaking down crying.
Since people are commenting about the title but I haven't seen a single correct attribution - "The Department of Redundancy Department" was coined by the radio comedy group The Firesign Theater back in the 60's. It was a quick side-joke in an official-sounding announcement somewhere in the middle of the teen-drama parody "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers" IIRC.
It doesn’t matter one bit if we notice an ecosystem failing or not. Look at all of our problems and the people with the power to change things for the better. A red flag will be waving in our face and humanity will not give a crap.
I am not entirely sure what the videos point is here. Are they saying that like with kidneys the ecosystem redundancy makes it such that we do not notice important breakdowns gradually but that instead the collapse comes all at once? Cause I don't feel like I was given any real arguments for the latter. If this is a system with many redundant pollinators say it is not immediately obvious why the loss of one pollinator type would be different than the loss of 1/3 of the pollinating animals. So how is redundancy masking the loss?
Who knew that redundancy can be important in not just in human society, but also in nature? This also reminds me of learning about “keystone” species, where an important apex predator is the main support for an ecosystem. If that predator is gone, then the rest of the ecosystem falls apart, just as demonstrated by the starfish in this very video.
There’s even a trolley or train problem that comes with this. What if your redundant species is non native or even invasive? Would you pull the kill switch?
Makes me think of XKCD’s cartoon on an orchid that specialized for a specific bee. But the bees went extinct. How the orchid carries on, I don’t know, but it’s slowly vanishing.
I would imagine that most attempts to try to relocate a portion of a species filling a similar ecological zone can be rather long and tedious. I would imagine that it could be done safely if a sort of biosphere that is large enough, to test the compatibility of introducing a redundant species into an area with fewer redundancies, in order to sort out candidate species to help increase diversity in areas that could benefit from it.
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Dear minute earth, please look into save soil movement and if possible please make a video explaining the technicalities of organic soil content. Thankyou
Another point os that many of the causes of extinctions occurring today gobble up all redundancies at the same time. For example, forest conversion to urbanization: all species there are suffering the same fate.
I was thinking of that. I think the 6th extinction will be much, much bigger than scientists are expecting. There's a study now that the marine ecosystem collapse will rival the Great Dying (Permian extinction?). On land it won't be much better.
A backup plan should ideally not be used. It is there for when the initial plan (the supposedly better plan) fails. Great that nature as got backups, but lets not force it's hand
To be fair, legumes can only fix nitrogen into the soil BECAUSE of symbiotic bacteria in their nodules. But you’re not wrong in that there are many different species.
Department of Redundancy Department? Sounds familiar... do kittens and sandcastles have anything to do with it? (Sandcastle Builder! You should try it)
I expected a much different video from the thumbnail and video title. The video I was expecting was one debunking an argument I’ve heard a few times: that plastic will eventually go the way of coal in the distant past. That is, all coal worldwide was deposited in a period before an organism capable of breaking down the cellulose in trees had evolved (I think it was fungus in this case), and plastic will go the same way with an organism capable of breaking it down eventually evolving. The obvious problem with this argument to me being: wood/coal accumulated by natural means in the past and was rate limited by various natural factors, whereas plastic today is made by artificial means and rate limited by other artificial means which are constantly increasing/improving. Anyway, the reason I expected that video over this was the fungus, beetle, etc. standing on a log while holding up a recycling bin. The recycling bin in my mind evoked the idea of plastic and its disposal, while the log with its decomposers brought to mind coal, and the decomposers holding up the bin from on top of the log implied some kind of connection between these to concepts. An interesting video nonetheless, but I just thought this might contribute to the conversation somewhat.
as a semi-frequent TV Tropes editor, i really appreciate the TV Tropes reference in the title! EDIT: looks like they already changed the video title. oh well
We don’t have the capabilities for that. Even if we had the capacity and money for that project, some animals and plants might be unable to be cultured or may take to long. Depending on the circumstances, it might actually hurt the ecology as well.
Wich is why I pay 10€ month subscription to mossy Earth, Who are doing many great Re wilding Projects (redorestation, planting kelp, helping vultures, bisons, snails, salmon etc and even rebuilding a floodplain forest
00:00 "Redundancy can seem like a waste" Me literally copying stuff from my phone to both my desktop and RAID / media server: I beg to differ! [Edit] 00:05 "I mean, who needs lots of things that do the same thing" Me who was able to play Barotrauma with my friends even though the game didn't recognize the mic in on my main audio interface, because I swapped it out for my backup interface. I'll be stopping now [/edit]
@@smurfyday The burning of fossil fuel is for energy, but electricity, let alone household electricity, is but a small portion of that. Most of which comes from green sources. Turning of my server or no longer playing video games is literally going to change nothing. Putting pressure on your government to step away from fossil fuels via protests, messaging your representative, and voting will do infinitely more
Could someone explain the title to me? I just don't get what "department" they are talking about or why the word appears twice. It might just be a language barrier, but it would be nice to know. "The department of redundancy department" is what it's telling me Edit: answer found. Jesus i am stupid
It is a joke. Repeating the word "department" is literally redundant, so the department would be naming themselves according to their own subject matter. There is no such department, though.
As someone that has managed servers on critical systems, the rule of redundancy is: two is one, one is none.
but then that means two = none too
@@rymikai , it's non-transitive, smart aleck, heh.
reminds me of the archival rule of thumb: if there's not three fully separate copies, it's not backed up
Ok but who asked?
@@Slabri , you're aware this is a *comment* section for *comments* , right? It isn't a difficult concept. I'm sure you'll get it eventually.
Our own kidneys also have redundancy. Just one working kidney is enough for us to stay alive. A good analogy to this video would be a patient with kidney failure who only goes to the hospital after *both* of their kidneys have failed (and not realizing that their kidneys have been failing for a quite long time).
@@EliteMay6000 Cite your sources.
@@alexandermcclure6185 I do not remember commenting that
I am very sorry
I was *not* expecting the FMA reference in that opening.
Ikr
Better yet, the first guy is levi
I was looking for this comment!
You wanna talk about unexpected references
Fucking firesign theatre in the title
They probably need more than 3 brakes it scar is in that train
That reminds me of redundancy in DNA sequences, where in some cases multiple codons actually code for the same amino acid. This means that even if there is a mutation which affects one base pair, there is a lower chance that it results in a change in amino acid sequence and therefore protein function. Of course, a mutation can still impact the function of genes that are used for producing functional RNA or other purposes that are much more sequence-determined.
Thank god (or just sheer coincidence) for those redundancies.
@@genghiskhan6809 evolution is not "coincidence", it's a stochastic process determined by the laws of physics an the environment. Saying that some general fact (e.g. presence of redundancies) about evolution outcome is a "coincidence" is like saying that it's a coincidence that a car engine works because it uses random motion of gas molecules.
real life example of that: people are born with two copies of a gene called smn1, which creates a protein, that keeps your nerves alive (in rough terms. I'm no neurologist.) Even if you were born with one of those genes, you'd be fine. However, if you were born missing both those smn1 genes, like my daughter, you have ANOTHER set called smn2 genes, which can make an almost passable protein, at least in her case passable enough to keep her alive and healthy until we could treat her. Isn't redundancy great?
Can we take a moment to appreciate how this team elucidates and highlights the most basic and fundamental principles in the most amazing ways.
😭🤣
This was exceptionally well-made, not just in the animations but how it is taught. Viewers should realize how lucky they are :)
I see you everywhere lmao
The animations are well-made. You should try it yourself.
This video makes it sound like redundancy is a mechanism for ecological evolution, when it is actually consequence of ongoing competition for resources. I think it's important to not make it sounds like there's a planned path for evolution.
The Department Of Redundancy Department is a gem my sister thought up decades ago in our teens. So sweet to see this!!
Unfortunately no. Just coincidence!
I felt you explained redundancy three times in the first 1:30. You went over the material multple times in the first 90 seconds, while repeating the important insights for over a minute!
So...you're suggesting our video on redundancy had redundancies in it??
@@MinuteEarth lmao not y'all being goofy 😂
@@MinuteEarth “idea redundancy” is probably one of the most effective teaching strategies. Really great job as always
@@MinuteEarth No, I think you were trying to pad the video legnth so it ended up being 1/4ths ad and not 2/4ths ad.
We certainly notice the imbalance in some areas, like where I live in Southern Arizona. Snakes are mostly killed or moved out of neighborhoods, which is kinda understandable. BUT, that also means that the rats and mice have a LOT fewer predators and therefore are more populous. Same with rabbits and birds. Because their predators like hawks, owls, bobcats, coyotes, and mountain lions (cougars) don't like living around humans as much (and we don't like the bobcats, coyotes and cougars around because of dangers to ourselves and our pets), then there's PLENTY more of those too! Plus of course our gardens and such that provide a LOT more food than would normally be available.
It is necessary to hunt deer in Germany, becaus there are no bears and wolfes any more. Otherwise they would eat all the young trees.
@@joachimfrank4134 A friend used to live in Missouri, USA. He told me that for a bit of time, it was legal to shoot deer from inside your house for the same reasons.
Just open a window and shoot any deer that were there in your yard. No limit either...
That fullmetal alchemist and attack on titan reference
I'm pretty sure 00:32 is a reference to Leah from Stardew Valley :D
@@maralasar well, I never played it, so...
@@maralasar but in think she is from "liz and blue bird", but may also be right
And not even brotherhood but the original
@@maralasar Heya, I illustrated this video and you are right! So happy you caught this one :)
I noticed and appreciated the Rattata in the background. Good video. Thank you!
IS THAT A LEVI ACKERMAN AT THE START!? (the details are so well made, nice work)
I feel like redundancy is far more important than most people think and is one of the main missing parts in complex human systems (ie transportation - - > traffic jams / supply chain problems)
No joke, my dad's alias back-in-the-day was "Dexter Crashcup, Director of Incompetence for the Department of Redundancy Department at Integrated Oxymorons Unlimited".
0:08 Oh, Edward Elric!
0:03 Levi?
@@K21040 Yes, how could I miss that?😅
Noticed the title changed, assuming you’re probably using view data to see which title style is the most effective. So I’m that case the title I first saw and got me to click was the ‘department of redundancy department’ one however I wasn’t in a place to watch at the time so didn’t click until ‘nature has a backup plan’ preferred the first one as it seemed an odd topic for a nature channel which intrigued me while the second feels like it’s already explained in the title.
I hate that they added that service, it no doubt encourages clickbait... Now it's "Why Nature Is Like A Runaway Train"
@@danriddick914 I know it’s probably super helpful to the creators but as a viewer it’s kinda annoying paired with changing thumbnails it never fails to annoy me when I think a channel has uploaded a new video but it’s actually just a new title. Plus with so many other factors (time of upload, date, how busy people are, how soon after upload people get notified) I can’t see how it provides all that much data
@@opheliaclarke8264 I worry the suggestions are assisted by AI that is 'choosing' the 'best' thumbnail and title for videos. While it might work well, imo it takes away from the creator's intent in exchange for more views.
EDIT: That is to say: nature is NOT like a runaway train; if the only similarity is redundancy, then they could legitimately choose just about any modern manmade 'machine' - "runaway train" just elicits the maximum response according to some AI (I assume). I'm glad they changed it back to "Nature Has a Backup Plan And...
" but that's legitimately clickbait by leaving the end of the title with an ellipsis. Just my 2c.
@@danriddick914 In my title/thumbnail combo it was "Nature Has a Backup Plan And..." for the title, then in the thumbnail, there was text that said "It's going to fail!". So even more clickbaity, but did manage to be truthful together, though I would have absolutely been more entertained by OPs "Department of Redundancy Department" title, that's a joke I have a particular fondness for.
I completely stopped watching older videos. Too often they turned out to be just a changed title of something I already watched.
For Levi using 3 vacuums is not redundancy, it's extra cleanliness
That episode of Star Trek where worf died of massive internal organ failure but came back at the brink because apparently Klingons have dormant redundant organs of critical things like the heart
Species: **goes extinct**
Ecosystem: Oh no! Anyways...
Humans: *cause more extinctions*
Ecosystem: Oh no!
Surprised you managed to avoid mentioning the greatest form of redundancy in the entirety of nature, possible the universe: DNA
@@JatPhenshllem DNA derives all of its power (and hence the backbone of the entirety of evolution) from the double-stranded design, which has redundancy (and hence error correction) as its core feature. This allows it to grow exponentially larger than what previous lifeforms were capable of, leading to the massive amounts of complexity we see today. DNA is the best error-correcting storage and copying system known to man; many orders of magnitude better than our best computers.
@@niklas5336 Not quite. Error correction is not built into DNA, it's done by proteins external to it. And sometimes the double stranded nature of DNA does not provide redundancy because one strand forces the other to be complementary. (The real redundancy comes from the body storing two copies of every genome, one from your mother and one from your father. )
DNA is cool, but it's not magic.
@@garretwang1031 potato has double the pair that we need to use its polen to map its genome, potato is pretty tough, yea, unless you are an irish farmer that is.
@@niklas5336 "DNA is the best error-correcting storage and copying system known to man; many orders of magnitude better than our best computers." Sorry this is false. It does beat computers in information density. But its read/write speed is abysmal compared to computers, and it is FAR more error prone. There are about 100 mutations per generation in humans. that's a copy of ~10GB of data. How many errors would you expect when you copy a 10GB computer file? Less than one. Most of the time it's an identical copy.
@@greenseedpod What? I'm having trouble parsing your comment. Are you trying to talk about the fact that most common potato cultivars are tetraploid? Well check out the adders tongue fern with it's 96-ploidy (For up to 1,440 chromosomes total)
It's more like a rivalry between companies rather than a back up plan. Organisms fill different niches as they evolve and the more that position is desired - evolutionarily favorable - the more species exist within. It works as a back up plan for the ecosystem if something goes wrong but it's not the main drive force
This is an excellent example that the potential niche of an organism is usually much wider than the niche it currently fulfills. Rabbits in the right ecosystem can be an Apex predator and foxes a frugivore.
I love these longer formats. :)
... 3 minutes? Wait, what is a short format, then?
@@aplow22 minute physics. A minute, I guess?
@@aplow22 youtube shorts
0:05 I'm just happy that Henry's here :)
Never has a doom and gloom prediction been delivered in such a cheerful voice
I have never seen a channel change their thumbnails so many times so quickly as you guys
This episode was particularly well written. Well done!
and if the last breaking system of a train fails, the train will automatically brake anyway as their braking system is built to be engaged by default, unlike our cars
“Extinction of species really isn’t that bad for us”, was what I thought the end summary was gonna be. Lol!
Is that a full metal alchemist reference?!
I'm still trying to figure out who that Disney princess at 0:22 is.
@@remliqa Leah Stardew Valley
@@ZoruaHunter
Oh, okay. I never played that game.
lmao every MinuteEarth video ends with a little pun right as the happy music finishes and this one is exactly the same except the pun is about our inability to fix the collapse of the global ecosystem and the little character is breaking down crying.
Since people are commenting about the title but I haven't seen a single correct attribution - "The Department of Redundancy Department" was coined by the radio comedy group The Firesign Theater back in the 60's. It was a quick side-joke in an official-sounding announcement somewhere in the middle of the teen-drama parody "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers" IIRC.
It doesn’t matter one bit if we notice an ecosystem failing or not. Look at all of our problems and the people with the power to change things for the better.
A red flag will be waving in our face and humanity will not give a crap.
I am not entirely sure what the videos point is here. Are they saying that like with kidneys the ecosystem redundancy makes it such that we do not notice important breakdowns gradually but that instead the collapse comes all at once? Cause I don't feel like I was given any real arguments for the latter. If this is a system with many redundant pollinators say it is not immediately obvious why the loss of one pollinator type would be different than the loss of 1/3 of the pollinating animals. So how is redundancy masking the loss?
I think I saw Leah from Stardew Valley in there. Very appropriate.
really love all the microbes in this! Fabulous illustrations
Such an informative video, I hope to make more content as engaging as yours! :)
Amazing video!! Loved the anime references :)
This video could be used in a "Designing a scalable software infrastructure 101" course.
Nice analogy to make things easily understandable.
Who knew that redundancy can be important in not just in human society, but also in nature?
This also reminds me of learning about “keystone” species, where an important apex predator is the main support for an ecosystem. If that predator is gone, then the rest of the ecosystem falls apart, just as demonstrated by the starfish in this very video.
There’s even a trolley or train problem that comes with this. What if your redundant species is non native or even invasive? Would you pull the kill switch?
Makes me think of XKCD’s cartoon on an orchid that specialized for a specific bee. But the bees went extinct. How the orchid carries on, I don’t know, but it’s slowly vanishing.
My favorite channel has uploaded!!!!!!!
"Couldn't 'bee' better" I see what you did there
I was wondering where this one was going, but it wrapped up nicely.
I would imagine that most attempts to try to relocate a portion of a species filling a similar ecological zone can be rather long and tedious. I would imagine that it could be done safely if a sort of biosphere that is large enough, to test the compatibility of introducing a redundant species into an area with fewer redundancies, in order to sort out candidate species to help increase diversity in areas that could benefit from it.
Wow. it's only been 40 mins since this video was uploaded there are 6k views, I'm using vanced sponsor block and theres already markers to skip sponsors! How awesome is vanced community!
I appreciate the subtle eastereggs in the first ten seconds of the video
My little weeb heart cherishes this video
Dear minute earth, please look into save soil movement and if possible please make a video explaining the technicalities of organic soil content. Thankyou
This is your weekly dose of science and puns.
Boo!Hello MinuteEarth!I love your vids,keep up the good work!
Another point os that many of the causes of extinctions occurring today gobble up all redundancies at the same time. For example, forest conversion to urbanization: all species there are suffering the same fate.
I was thinking of that. I think the 6th extinction will be much, much bigger than scientists are expecting. There's a study now that the marine ecosystem collapse will rival the Great Dying (Permian extinction?). On land it won't be much better.
A backup plan should ideally not be used. It is there for when the initial plan (the supposedly better plan) fails.
Great that nature as got backups, but lets not force it's hand
To be fair, legumes can only fix nitrogen into the soil BECAUSE of symbiotic bacteria in their nodules. But you’re not wrong in that there are many different species.
0:07 Edward Elric was certainly thankful for having redundant arms.
What's Edward Elric doing in the train?
Wow how many thumbnail and title changes do you guys do
Department of Redundancy Department?
Sounds familiar... do kittens and sandcastles have anything to do with it?
(Sandcastle Builder! You should try it)
Pretty sure one of the staff spends time on TV Tropes.
Do I spot Levi Ackerman and Edward Elric? XD I love these cameos
We don’t need mosquitoes luckily
0:05 thats levi akerman
0:08 thats adward eclic
I thought so!
Is that Levi at the beginning?!?
I thought so too!
Choice of words 🙌🏻
Minute earth just upgraded its information. Now that's cool
Edit: did you delete a video?
*its
@@smurfyday lol thanks
Ikr
thank you, for everything
just here to say the (second) title is so good (the department of redundancy department)
Like the new intro.
Just like species go extinct, dont new ones also come to life? Im wondering if redundancy has a way of naturally refurbishing
Why the Ratatat in the background?¿?l
???
Is this similar to Rivet Popper Hypothesis
You make it sound like ecosystems purposefully desire redundancy.
I love that FMA reference
The moment i saw levi and edward i know this would be a great one.
This episode is more interesting then others.
sea star withering disease on the PC coast had the result of a sea urchin population explosion, not muscle.
Looks like your YT Channel has a backup plan.
where is the planning done?
Love the fullmetal alchemist reference
I expected a much different video from the thumbnail and video title. The video I was expecting was one debunking an argument I’ve heard a few times: that plastic will eventually go the way of coal in the distant past. That is, all coal worldwide was deposited in a period before an organism capable of breaking down the cellulose in trees had evolved (I think it was fungus in this case), and plastic will go the same way with an organism capable of breaking it down eventually evolving. The obvious problem with this argument to me being: wood/coal accumulated by natural means in the past and was rate limited by various natural factors, whereas plastic today is made by artificial means and rate limited by other artificial means which are constantly increasing/improving.
Anyway, the reason I expected that video over this was the fungus, beetle, etc. standing on a log while holding up a recycling bin. The recycling bin in my mind evoked the idea of plastic and its disposal, while the log with its decomposers brought to mind coal, and the decomposers holding up the bin from on top of the log implied some kind of connection between these to concepts.
An interesting video nonetheless, but I just thought this might contribute to the conversation somewhat.
Oh wow, I just noticed an embarrassing mistake.
*these two (2)
Not: these to
@@MrMessiah2013 Dude, you know you can edit your comment, right? You don't have to reply to yourself with your own mistakes.
What was the thumbnail when you watched it?
Your comment is unfortunately confusing now that they've changed the thumbnail
Legumes to bacteria... It's bacteria in the legumes roots that do the nitrogen fixing
Can you do audiobooks pl?
as a semi-frequent TV Tropes editor, i really appreciate the TV Tropes reference in the title!
EDIT: looks like they already changed the video title. oh well
0:08 Full Metal Alchemist lol
Great video!
Love the title!
Like to vote for my proposal:
We should grab as many ecologically helpful animals, breed them to extreme amounts. Then release all of them at once.
We don’t have the capabilities for that. Even if we had the capacity and money for that project, some animals and plants might be unable to be cultured or may take to long. Depending on the circumstances, it might actually hurt the ecology as well.
that first title was brilliant hahah
Wich is why I pay 10€ month subscription to mossy Earth, Who are doing many great Re wilding Projects (redorestation, planting kelp, helping vultures, bisons, snails, salmon etc and even rebuilding a floodplain forest
I'm watching this for the third time and only now I noticed at 0:22 that the character looks like Leah from Stardew Valley :D
Can you imagine how depressing life would be without mangoes?
Which show is the vacuum from?
…and your Natural Guard.
First Boomer to catch the reference can hand me the pliers.
2:12 I wonder if Joey knows that his Rattata has red eyes?
first it was "inflation is huge, but its a good thing", then "species going extinct, but its ok"
00:00 "Redundancy can seem like a waste"
Me literally copying stuff from my phone to both my desktop and RAID / media server: I beg to differ!
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00:05 "I mean, who needs lots of things that do the same thing"
Me who was able to play Barotrauma with my friends even though the game didn't recognize the mic in on my main audio interface, because I swapped it out for my backup interface.
I'll be stopping now
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Part of why we're burning so much fossil fuel, while Ukrainians are freezing to death.
@@smurfyday The burning of fossil fuel is for energy, but electricity, let alone household electricity, is but a small portion of that. Most of which comes from green sources.
Turning of my server or no longer playing video games is literally going to change nothing.
Putting pressure on your government to step away from fossil fuels via protests, messaging your representative, and voting will do infinitely more
It's midnight and im still awake because of my plane ride
Could someone explain the title to me? I just don't get what "department" they are talking about or why the word appears twice.
It might just be a language barrier, but it would be nice to know.
"The department of redundancy department" is what it's telling me
Edit: answer found. Jesus i am stupid
It is a joke. Repeating the word "department" is literally redundant, so the department would be naming themselves according to their own subject matter. There is no such department, though.
@@SgtSupaman thank you ^^
0:02 Levi from aot
0:08 Edward from fmab