5 Unexplainable Mysteries Explained by Science
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- Опубліковано 2 тра 2024
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Sources:
Meat shower:
timesmachine.nytimes.com/time...
blogs.scientificamerican.com/...
archive.org/stream/americanjo...
books.google.com/books?id=Rv2...
Easter Island hats:
www.sciencedirect.com/science...
www.sciencedirect.com/science...
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...
www.nationalgeographic.com/tr...
Earthquake lights:
news.nationalgeographic.com/n...
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/...
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...
Sailing Stones:
www.nationalparks.org/connect...
www.nps.gov/deva/planyourvisi...
scripps.ucsd.edu/news/mystery...
journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
The Bloop:
oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/b...
motherboard.vice.com/en_us/ar...
Will-o’-the-wisps:
www.pitt.edu/~dash/willowisp....
rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com...
www.sciencedirect.com/science...
www.sciencedirect.com/science...
www.researchgate.net/publicat...
mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/geol/...
"synchronized projectile vomiting vultures"
I'm sure the people who tasted the meat were happy to know this.
@Terry H Thankfully they died long before it was discovered to be vulture spew. Whether they died naturally of old age is another mystery!!
wow, sounds like a cool name for a rockband
Who would ever think that buzzards have weaker stomaches than my girlfriend.
*Buzzard #1:* "Don't throw up! If you throw up, I'll throw up."
*Every other buzzard:* Me too...me too...
@@superque4 you just wanted to flex the fact that you have a girlfriend, didn't you?
@@dLzzzgaming Busted.
What I took from this video: A large group of vultures puked up their lunch over a kentucky town, and those two guys actually ate puked up carrion.
Oh yeah i forgot about that
Thoughts to make me lose my appetite and subsequently weight
IKR
Vulture vomit. Yum.
Partially predigested food. Yum Yum.
Will-o’-the-wisps have become rarer as people destroy the marshes and swamps, they are a rare and endangered flame.
I saw will-o the-wisp in my grandmothers house in the 1970's. She was burning peat or coal at that time. A tennis sized ball of light (Blueish with a hint of mauve) floated from the fire place and moved around the room about 4 feet off the ground until it hit the curtains and disappeared. It had a slight hissing sound and appeared to have a life of its own! My grandmother just laughed, I guess she had seen it happen before!
😂😂
@@kokujin5446 deforestation is very funny
Which is incredibly sad, because wetland isn't just habitation for animals, insects and plants, they are also very rich in carbondioxide, meaning that breaking up and destroying wetland will result in metric tons of carbondioxide being released into the atmosphere- which we definitely don't need more of in our current year.
F for respect
Oops, I meant F Gb F G Ab A Ab Bb B C... (Liszt Transcendental Étude 5)
Hank and John Green both educated an entire generation of kids and i am eternally grateful for their impact on society. Thank you legends for all the hard work, dftba.
yes
Hardly. Education is process of disseminating human capital- skills, values, knowledge in a “school”. education can bring wealth to individuals, communities and nations in many ways, but only if it is real education. Whatever that means…I’m now Confucian
Dftba? Jesus just type it...
@@randomname4726 what
@randomname4726 what a stupid thing to get pissy over.
don't let the rest of the story of the meat shower distract you from the fact that he said that some guys actually tasted it
Now there is the supernatural mystery!
There was a similar incident in Norway fairly recently iirc. Only it was white stuff. Guys tasted it. Turns out it was Reindeer semen. Forgot how it got all over the town, but I checked out once I heard that.
@@jordandehart6905DISGUSTAAAAANG!
You know some random dudes are gonna be curious/dumb enough to do it. There's always at least one guy who's gotta "check it out". 🤷♀️
They did it for science of course.
Vultures: Screw this one town in particular.
People who live there: Free meat let's taste it!
@@VioletDeathRei never turn down a hot meal
That fried chicken is pathetic, here have some good food
Raw vomit Meat
Of all the luck....
@@VioletDeathRei lets hope they cooked it with lava
i think it’s crazy that nine years later, the thing that best cheers me up is still just hearing hank explain some science to me
Normally, I'd agree. But, in each of these cases, he's presenting theories, not facts. None of these has a shred of fact to them, they're just someone's ideas (many of them unlikely, frankly). Presenting theories as established fact delegitimizes real science, and gives crackpots room to argue that the Moon landings didn't happen, and the Earth is flat...
@@madnessbydesign1415 - It's good to be sceptical, but PhysicsGirl did a vid about the "sailing rock" & the guys who put trackers on the rocks, to alert them if they moved, so they actually got to see them moving (& why) with their own eyes.
@@hervigdewilde3599 I saw that episode, and she did a good job of explaining how they came to their conclusions - based on actual data collection (you know, like real science). She didn't just rely on computer models and conjecture. That's what was missing from this Sci Show episode...
also my grandmother used to point out the "Marsh gas" (she was a nurse and very scientific), when she drove us around the Eastern Shore of Maryland at night, which is rather swampy. The headlights would hit some, from a distance, and it was fabulous. Also she believed newer cemeteries with people still decomposing were best.
Oh, the Bloop was a biological sea monster: the Ice Crackin'
Nice!
Ahahaha that's the best dad joke I've ever heard!
Best dad joke ever!! Seriously lol :)
Im crakin
Epic pun usage! +500 kraken up pun points
So wait, you’re telling me meat just fell out of the sky, and the solution was *vulture vomit* ? The universe is vast, wondrous, and batshit insane.
My guess is that some company dumped a large amount of spoiled meat nearby and many vultures gathered, then after they are their fill they flew in a direction over town, possibly returning to wilderness but as they flew over town their body rejected the contents if their stomach for some reason causing it to shower on earth
@@abyssstrider2547 that kinda crossed my mind.
@@eineweitereratselhafteseel8801 Neat :D glad to see a like minded individual
Sure.
And someone had tried eat it to test if it were real meat
I'm still curious about the cultural purpose of the Moai. They were obviously extremely important to the Rapanui people, based on the intense effort and dedication involved in their creation and I just want to know what the purpose was. I wish I could ask one of the creators of the Moai.
They were erected around the coast, looking at the sea. Probably they were put there as some sort of protection from invaders from the sea (real or imagined), so the would-be invaders would look at the figures and probably mistake them for giants from afar.
I'm just speculating, btw, probably we will never know for sure, because the culture who made them disappeared completely.
We will never have the opportunity to ask them because they distroyed the ecosystem of their own environment and all died as a consequence. Unfortunatelly, this o happening to us right now as well.
@@samuela-aegisdottir I remember seeing a show somewhere that suggested the ecosystem on Easter Island was changing anyway, even without human intervention, so the islanders might have been screwed either way.
@@samuela-aegisdottir- They didn't die out. Their culture changed, and Europeans changed it further.
@@juanausensi499- Easter Island is the middle of nowhere. No invaders or enemies until Europeans showed up.
The story about vomiting vultures was new on me. I would have guessed tornado, like where waterspouts suck up fish or frogs and drop them miles away. But cormorants also do the vomiting thing when spooked, so vomiting vultures makes sense. And sounds grossly cool.
It is so refreshing to have a 'did you know' style of channel that doesn't rely on a constant 3 second slide change of non-related images!
Thank you. I didn't notice but you're absolutely right
Oh my god yes!
True that. Randomly came across this video and it's informative while still being fun.
YES😅
Yes! And also having no over-used memes to punctuate every word *shocked Pikachu face*
So what you’re saying Hank, is that there was a...
*_meatier_* shower?
Kevin Benoit da dum chsh
Lol
Lol
Lol
Leave the premises
“They were all meat eaters”
Kevin Benoit Good o🤣🤣
Re the bloop: I know that ice can make weird sounds. I've sat next to a frozen pond and heard strange swooping noises. I figured it was the ice expanding and contracting.
Even thin ice sheats, such as lake ice, produce, upon breaking, sounds that resemble faint distant gunfire.
Scale that up to glacial proportions and you get infrasound. That are felt, not heard.
Wait. Spontaneous human combustion is not a thing? I remember being terrified of it when I was a kid. I can't remember where I learned about it but I know many of my 40ish year old friends were afraid of it too when we were kids 😂
Quicksand also turned out far less of a problem than I thought as a kid...
@@blahfasel2000 oh no quicksand is still just as big a problem as we've thought it was
I heard a story about an old lady's corpse that spontaneously combusted, but the explanation was something like the body had dried out somewhat, it was hot, and their body's combustibles got concentrated. It may have been on Film Theory though, so I'm not sure it's a real one.
It seems like spontaneously combusting would be pretty unlikely under normal circumstances, seeing how we're like 70% water.
Ripley's Believe it or Not (Book)!
allright time to explain this to ya'll (theres a video about it on yt too).
people dont spontaneously combust, however a few decades ago people thought otherwise as they'd leave someone (mostly older people) alone and they'd come back to a overcooked fleshy thing sitting where little old granny was a few hours ago. most of these were smokers, which is why the idea came up that it might actually just be that they dropped a lit cigarette, which in turn made something catch fire and bam you've got crispy grandma. and since grandma in both crispy and non crispy form is highly unlikely to move...like at all, she wouldnt be able to escape the homemade barbeque of death.
so no, there are no spontaneously combusting people walking around ready to blow up at any moment, this is ofcourse not counting terrorists in the equation. its just people who probably dropped a lit object and turned themselves into frank the paralysed fireball.
7:25 That's just the pioneers Hank! They used to ride those babies for miles.
Dammit. Beat me to it
Thank you friend, exactly what I wanted to say!
So I wasn't the only one who thought of SpongeBob when I saw that part lmao
If anyone's played Frogger you'll know why moving Boulders are terrible
_Came to the comments looking for this reference, was not disappointed._
So those guys that had to taste the meat. They actually ate vomit from vultures...
I dont think they had to taste it to be honest.
Yes, it may sound very unusual with the taste that they were even able to eat! I am shocked and I hope I will get more such videos from SciShow
No
Both guys spat it out
Tbf as gross as it sounds, and boy is it gross, vultures have super strong stomach acid to kill nasty bacteria that is all over the carcasses they eat. That being the case vulture meat vomit probably wouldn't be too harmful to eat. However please don't put that to the test!
Ah yes scientists taste everything they test right?
When Salt Lake had the earthquake in March, a lot of people talked about the lights in the mountains and it's good to know finally what that was. It's got to be some kind of mineral or metal as apparently it's been seen in other parts of Utah where there are also mountains.
You can actually hear earthquake before it arrives.. During 2015 a 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook Nepal followed by a 7.3 the very next day. Couple weeks later one morning at 7am local time while I was scrolling facebook, I heard birds going crazy and within seconds I started hearing a deep humming sound that started getting louder and louder and within seconds of that everything started shaking. Later found out it was an aftershock of around magnitude 4.5ish.
Technically, the earthquake happened before the noise. What you're hearing is the shockwave of sound that travels faster, obviously, than the shockwave in the earth that caused the 4.5 magnitude aftershock
The animals always know, in Indonesia before the earthquake and tsunami all the elephants ran to high ground followed by other animals.
@@swordzanderson5352 Seismic waves travel at 6 times the speed of sound in air or more. Also even the strongest earthquakes don't create an athmospheric shock wave. Instead what was most likely happening was that they were hearing secondary sounds created by the P-waves (pressure waves) of the earthquake coming through which travel about 70% faster than the S-waves (shear waves). S-waves are the ones that cause most of the destruction and can be felt more strongly. This speed difference is also what earthquake warning systems rely on, giving a few minutes (depending on distance to the epicenter) of warning before the destructive S-waves hit.
@@blahfasel2000 Thanks for the info. On second thought, yeah, makes sense that waves travel faster in solids than in air, my intuition made me say some bs. My bad.
I heard humming sounds right before the earthquake in northern CA. Dec 2022
Earth lightning would be the coolest earthbending style that Toph would have invented
Yes
I am so confused by your comment please esplain to me exactly what your talking about I have had an experience twice with the Wisp, And I am researching details in deth I am interested in any information that you have.
@@BEE-od3li I think you replied to the wrong comment
@@BEE-od3li- _Avatar: The Last Airbender_ reference.
Hats off to Easter island
Well played sir/mam/... Can't remember any others pronowns..
🗿:*Tips fedora* m'lady
.....underrated comment.
Rapa Nui
😏
Learning that earth lightning is a thing makes me hope that the people who are currently in charge of ATLA learn about it and make an earth bender character who figures out how to lightning bend and no one else in the show can figure out how they do it.
I love stuff like this......there is almost ALWAYS an explanation. Figuring it out is one of the best parts of being a human. So many humans, for so long, would see a rainbow or a mirage, and intelligently wonder, “WTF is that?”
"Throughout history, every mystery ever solved turned out to be: not magic."
- Tim Minchin
Neither magic nor UFOs!
I thought of that exact quote the moment I saw the thumbnail!
My hero
Depends on how you define "magic" I s'pose :)
They're all magic if your definition of magic is broad enough
So what you're saying is that some people tasted vulture vomit.
insertswear ...pretttty much
Wait that is not a normal thing
You haven't?
People also eat ground up maggots, roaches, rat hair/poop/pee, and quite a few other things you probably don't want to be told is in your food right before you eat it. And that's on a daily basis.
A little vulture vomit doesn't seem too bad compared to all that.
@@lordgarion514 Don't forget about the most expensive coffee, where the beans are harvested out of the poop of a specific mammal who's name i forgot
You're one of my favorite storytellers. Your voice gives many of us solice of knowledge.
These videos are always fascinating and informative as well. For once the narrator not only does an excellent job of presenting the subject, he actually knows what he is talking about.
I really appreciate you pointing out that even if we solve these mysteries, the stories we tell about them can still have value.
That's probably one of the wisest comments I've read in a long time.
What do you think about the wisp
That we can make live action special effects
@@silentwisdom7025 As soon I read this, I thought the same thing.
Only if we know the difference. Believing in things without good reason is horrifically damaging to our world.
When anime characters watch anime, are they actually watching anime or is it live action?
_Top 10 questions science still can’t answer_
Depends on the context. Unless stated or implied, could be either.
Depends on the anime. In universe I have seen it portrayed as both. A weird one is a Shonen Jump character reading Shonen Jump
I mean, in Spiderman: Spiderverse, there was literally a comic book about spiderman where spiderman actually exist
@@ohthatwan8559 Logan had X men comics
@@Dr.Spatula Talking about Gintoki from Gintama? lol
i found the will-o-the wisp part very useful as im researching them for a book im writing. thank you
Man, I was half asleep and that ice breaking sound came up and scared the crap out of me
Science: *can explain something*
The comments section: This is beyond science
Hahaha, person with a cutesy name here.
Science: No, I keep telling you, it is NOT!
It's always like that, haha. Some people want to be fooled.
No - its just called "Adolescents" and a few adults that behave like Adolescents.
Good News - most outgrow it. 😉
Emperor Darth Jar Jar Snoke
Internet commentators: Science can’t explain this! Therefore it must have been caused by ghosts, fairies, and aliens!
Dr. Membrane: *NOT SCIENTIFICALLY POSSIBLE!*
Humans: "It tastes likes mutton..."
Vultures(grinning) : "Yeah! , sure it does.."
Yashaswi Kulshreshtha
...I...should be surprised that humans ate it but...Kentucky. It may not be Alabama or West Virginia...or Florida...but...yeah... the heat and humidity kinda roasts peoples’ brains.
@@anonymousfellow8879 Yeah, hot and humid climate is really frustrating, but how does your reply refers to my comment as answer? Were U just putting your point casually or it meant something else. I said it kinda straight forward, i dont wanna be rude but i am just asking
@@anonymousfellow8879 why did you put like 50 ... in your comment
Very interesting and informative. Thank you for sharing!!
All of that stuff is awesome and I am really glad I got to see all of this. I hope all goes well for me and I hope you have a great day!!! ❤
I observed Will-o-the wisps when I was 7 years old. In Australia, we call them "Min Min Lights". Father took us out in the car in the middle of the night, and we watched them bouncing all over the fields. What I noted was that if I looked at one directly, that particular light would always appear right in front of my gaze, and would change color. It's the same gradual color change you get if you look at a bright light, and the after image fades off, changing colors as it does so. Old timers out bush used to say they were caused by vapours released from the artesian bores (boiling hot mineral water sources). However, the Artesian Basin (which underlies most of western Queensland where I was living at the time) is always there, but the "min min lights" weren't always present, so I've never really known their origin. But I did figure out how someone could chase one and fall over a cliff. It's because that ONE you look at long enough, imprints like a negative after-image of a flash light...so it's always right where you look. As soon as I figured out that directly gazing caused that effect, then I experimented by not looking directly at them, but out of the corner of my eye (kind of glazing over and looking past them). That way I could see dozens of them, all bouncing like helium filled balloons, and all different colors. An amazing, not to be forgotten experience. It terrified my younger brother though...
Duude! That might have been a cool experience. I wish I could watch that phenomenon too.
what the actual fork did i just read? that sounds amazing.
That is a fascinating story! Thank you for sharing.
That is pretty darned cool.
My mum to this day insists min min lights are magic and is terrified to drive on any road reported to have them appear.
#3: finally, a pet rock that *might* do something!
#4
the pioneers used to ride these babies for miles
It's like Pikachu if I stress it enough!
You mean 4#
@@Mason_Malakai_Leroux really... Its been a year, and you're giving me crap? Get a life...
"Is this venison?"
"not sure, might be vulture vomit"
I can’t believe I recognize your voice without seeing your face🤯. In beginning, I was is that hank’s voice from crash course and it is you 😂. Your videos helped me a lot in school. Thank you. I couldn’t pass it without you 💕
They missed the chance to call it a Meat-eor shower
More like Meatier shower
Get out
Peter Walker Us
Gooood one!
Meat eater shower
"They seem to move...by themselves. Rocks"
The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles.
Also, holy shite, the explanation for Will-o'-the-Wisps actually makes the related Pokemon move "Will-o'-Wisp" make perfect sense for what it is.
Or fire force!
The sailing stones, even the biggest ones, have 0 mistery to me. Water turning into ice expands, thus lifting the bigger rocks a tiny tiny bit either on one side or both sides, then, when the ice starts to melt, the ice is really slippery, and so the rock converts it's potential energy into motion.
If they are sliding in ice. How do they leave a trail?
* mystery *
Did you actually watch the video? The rocks are driven by enormous sheets of ice which are in turn driven by the prevailing wind.
@@notsanctioned8590 they fart
Thank you for revealing the answers to these mysteries Hank🏆😃🎈👏🏽👏🏽🙏🏽
The fact that spontaneous human combustion is almost definitely not a thing, is strangely comforting.
He was pretty wrong about that. Ive watched plenty of reports and studies that say otherwise. Our bodies produce flammable gases. Lighting farts. But. Under the right circumstances things built w/carbon can start to burn. Ive seen a knot on a piece of plywood explode and spark. Me and a coworker were astounded. UA-cam human combustion. Now im not sure I can trust anything this guy says
@@dickfitswell3437 Don't believe everything you see on UA-cam
@@callmeworms replys after watching a youtube video...
There are survivors of SHC, it happens
@Aaron Tate Exactly, because it worried me!! But for those who have it on their death certificate, what should be on there?
"Synchronized Projectile Vomiting Vultures" would be a good name for a rock band.
The Rogue Wolf Not really.
@@AlraArt yeab it is
Or at least the name of a Cannibal Corpse song
You could shorten it to Synchronized Vomiting Vultures and make it like 3 growling vocalists with a bird aesthetic, I can see it working.
*metal
Not entirely sure what subgenre would be best though.
Oh, Hank absolutely is a professional storyteller! They just happen to be true stories.
Having been raised on the Mississippi River, North enough we had winter, the ice would crack but not perceptively move. The crack might run a long ways, just to be observed the the clear ice. The bloop was a sound from among it's repertoire. Ice might also buckle,. Once under me as I was skating. The tilt propelled me to the nearby
shore.
2-6 meters per minute? How do you not notice that?! That is significant!
maybe it´s a typo and meant to be 2-6cm are minute? considering some rocks have travlled 450m 2-6m seems way too fast.
I was surprised too, so I checked and SciShow's second source gives a very detailed description of the people witnessing it! Meters per second O_o www.nps.gov/deva/planyourvisit/the-racetrack.htm
That was my exact thought too
Is not significant if it only lasts for a few seconds.
Just like you can walk at 5 km/h while only moving 2 meters.
2 meters per minute is about .12 kilometers per hour. Or about 3 cm per second. Noticable up close but from a distance you would need time lapse video to see.
2 to 6 meters... per minute? A rock, moving 2-6 meters PER MINUTE? And it's barely noticeable?
I'm not a geologist and my math isn't the best, but that amounts to one really freaking fast moving rock...
Perhaps they meant centimetres?
Kamilla Jakobsen no it just went zoooooom
It went so fast no one could see it
That's what I thought too. I tried not to give it much thought but it still bothered me.
Of course, they were referring to rocks and not boulders. Boulders would be a bit slower.
Pioneers used to ride these babies for miles
They said 2-6 meters per minute but not *every* minute :)
I wish this video would have been recommended to me sooner. It’s really cool!
You mean before you tasted the meat?
As for the lights-- I just always chalked it up to kinda being like static electrify. Like when you rub your socked feet on a carpet and zap someone.
Only it’s giant rocks and plates rubbing together and eventually it zaps.
I grew up at a meeting point of 3 wetlands (bog across the road, marsh behind the old fields, and swamp in the woods past the rock wall) 2 lakes (one more of a frog pond) and a river, ive seen "will o the wisps" before. I personally like the gas plume theory a lot because i used to chase them as a child and i was never once burnt
I've seen them indoors. I didn't touch either of them, but couldn't feel heat from being quite close to them either. Moving air didn't seem to affect them. So I can guarantee that its definitely not something burning. They *are* a light source, as their green glow shines on nearby objects.
So will-o-the wisps are..glowing bacteria farts?...wow!
What?!!
Yep. Pretty much!
those nasty beings
Jeffron27 I wonder how Merida thought they smelled
Thank you for the most interesting video. Much appreciated.
Ah so this is how the SCP foundation do cover ups, they get Hank to make videos like these
Crazy lights in the sky? Electric rocks
Meat showers? Vulture vomit
Don't ask questions.
Stay in your lane.
Trust the government.
I'm assuming the number of vultures needed to produce even a sporadic rain of meat would be enormous. Wouldn't people have noticed and made a note of that? Something seems a bit off with that explanation.
Then there was the UFO that scared them all.
I was thinking the same thing. I've seen black and turkey vultures and there's only so much meat you can fit in an individual bird.
I agree as well.
I'm quite sure some one would have seen a ton of vultures flying by.
I am not sold to this explanation either.
Vultures fly very high, and in general, don't empty their whole-ass stomach contents all in one go while they are airborne. They most likely flew high enough to be obstructed by their falling refuse, and vomited small amounts of meat at one time over a period of the 3 or so minutes the "meat rain" lasted. This is a sensible conclusion, in my opinion. I hope this comment could be of some use to you as well.
1876: "Why that tastes like vulture vomit Jedidiah" "Well Emy-Lou saw us tasting it, so shush now." "Yeah, its err .. a mystery." "Yup"
@@fayetal_attraction lol
A mystery is something that science hasn't explain YET!
Everything has an explaination. No matter how weird it can be.
damn really cool seeing an explanation for the earthquake lights. i saw them during the 2016 earthquake in ecuador. i live on the third floor so i could clearly see like 3 flashing lights in the sky while the earth was quaking. i had no idea they were so rare!
“When I grow up, I wanna study giant stone hats!”
Not everyone wants to fulfill your dreams of one day becoming a manager at WalMart.
@ Forgive me, this comment was made a year ago and I hadn't yet been enlightened to the scientific wonders of stone hats. I was foolish to brush aside these fascinating articles of silicate headwear.
Best follow-up comment
6:50 "The pioneers use to ride these for miles!"
"And it's in great shape"
@@ashleycantrell9844 You are my new best friend
I read that in spongebobs voice
It's not a boulder..... it's a rock!!
*for mile
These stories are SO great!
I grew up on a lake in Wisconsin. My favorite sound was the twang. It traveled, so I’m assuming it was cracking ice.
"Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus." - Men in Black
Yes! I knew I wasn't the only one who thought of that line! XD
That line is based how conspiracy theorists say the government cover ups for UFOs always include stuff like swamp gas or light from stars or planets tricking the eye. It also mocks how the official report for the Roswell incident was a weather balloon. The funny thing is the Roswell weather balloon was real and contained atmospheric testers used to detect nuclear explosions hence the Top Secret nature of it, and many UFOs are in fact sighted over swamps so swamp gas is a potential cause.
@@akatoshslayer7599 Don't forget the desert. A lot of UFO sightings occur in deserts as well. There's also a lot of oil and gas in deserts. Coincidence? I think not.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-is-oil-usually-found/
Soo those curious lads ate vulture vomits?
I think i had enough internet for today :D
Crown Jewel
They’re Kentuckians. I’m honestly not surprised.
I’ve seen those wisps. They don’t look like fire at all. They are blue/white. They don’t instantly burn up. They linger until you get close then you can’t see it anymore kinda like approaching fog.
Sounds like you are describing a plasma.
This video blew my mind! A few years ago, my mom and I were in our backyard, looking up at the sky in the middle of the night, well past sunset. And all of a sudden we saw a big flash of light in the sky with no accompanying sound or anything. I googled for days and saw no reports. We have lots of seismic activity where I live, so I wonder if it was an earthquake light!
Glowing green clouds are the last things you want to see in a cemetery!
D She
Nah. Exploding corpses are.
@@anonymousfellow8879 eww, yes
8:46 2-6 meters/minute is quite a noticeable movement for a rock!
Yeah that is faster than a Few small Animals and sloths
It's about the speed of a tortoise by my estimation and I tend to notice those guys moving
@@chrispitio7177 kinda funny how those also look like rocks from a distance
Well 6 meters a minute would be noticeable. 2 meters a minute is around 3 centimeters a second. So you'd have to be distracted or not paying attention to realize a big rock was on the move. Which I think was the point.
So good. Thank you.
Science is never a “case closed” . Or at least it shouldn’t be. Always be open minded and willing to change your mind. That’s the core of science!!
moving at 2-6meter a minute, those stones must be like.... "Wheeeee"
Hank: uses metric system.
Me who learned the metric system as a child and knew I'd be able to use it one day: YES
chegeny AWH yes! Haha it’s always my favourite comment - or at least it used to be before I wised up! - when people would tell me to use metric in my videos!
I’m about as much of an American country boy as they come and I greatly prefer SI units over our arbitrary imperial units in the U.S. I can’t even count how many times I’ve been called a commie over that.
Tanner White haha 😂 you keep doing you and hold your head up high chap!
@@TWhite94 As someone who only knows the metric system I always gets really confused with other systems. Like Fahrenheit. "It's hundred degrees outside today?" It is... boiling, literally, outside?
Come to Europe, fellow metric user, we will welcome you
Neeeed more of thissssss it helps with my curiosity
you do spin a great yarn of science!!!!! thank you !!!
Kentucky Meat Shower is my stripper name
I'd say "Luscious Mustard" is pretty good in it's own right...
Agreed
You made me giggle/snort >
Allways leave them wanting More , lusciously
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I live in Alaska and I remember seeing lights like that after the big earthquake, looked super crazy. Nice to know why that happened.
Next time that happens you can now point at the sky and say "Electric rocks, man!"
What a wonderful world.
You don't have Google in Alaska?
@@98Zai well people do other things than Google daily to see if one random mystery has been solved?? Although yeah, I would probably be more interested in why
About the sailing rocks when he mentioned that they move 2 to 6 m per minute as not noticeable, I think that is fast enough at least as a moving snail which is noticeable. That made me think that maybe he menioned the wrong units like maybe centimeters (cm) which is pretty slow.
Hank, if you ever see this, there is a doctor named Lawrence Afrin who proposes that spontaneous human combustion is possible through mast cell activation. He writes about having a patient that would begin to smoke from his pores if he got heated up, such as during exercise. In MCAS the mast cells go nuts sending out tons of mediators to cause all kinds of havoc, and his theory is this is how people can combust due to the chemical reaction. Wish I could remember it fully, but please read up on it. It is interesting.
Hank is an excellent story teller, that's why I watch these so much.
On the subject of the sailing stones, I've seen something similar happen, at a different scale of course. On a muggy day, outside at a glass-top table, a can of soda gathered so much condensation around its bottom that it made a film under itself, and the lightest breeze made the can slide over the glass. It moved quite a few inches on its own, so it seems the science works.
Amazing as always❤Love love love you 🥰
I may not be a scientist, but as someone with autism I can say that I will gladly devote every thought in my mind to a single topic and find out as much as I can about it
It's a little known fact that the inscriptions on the Moai red caps roughly translate to "Make Rapa Nui Great Again".
We will build these big beautiful heads. Nobody builds heads than me
no wonder their missing! someone realized their stupidity and impeached them!
I laughed so hard at all three of these comments! Thank you!
You win comments today
Ryan Dysinger
I thought that they read “UNITY - DUTY - DESTINY”
A 100 years ago, cranes were a little scarce.......SCIENCE!!
Good job.
We always enjoy these, especially the humorous way he presents them. Especially this week's "
5 Un-explainable Mysteries Explained by Science ." Un-explainable things cannot be explained. I assume the contradiction was intentional. Further - they were not explained. He just listed theories as to how they might be explained. Fun stuff! :)
The comment about spontaneous combustion is wrong. There is a lot of scientific evidence to support the existence of this phenomenon. Please do an episode about this subject and all the documented cases of it around the world. If anyone is curious watch the channel "The Why Files" episode about it. It's very good.
I remember being in high school and seeing flashes of green lights behind the clouds. It genuinely looked like weapons fire between two sides of... well yes I thought this was a UFO fight. We don't live anywhere near active fault lines or volcanoes (like entire states away) and I'm still curious if this explains it or not.
Those are called Green Ghosts (and happen over top of Red Sprites as the lightening that spawns them reaches different atmospheric layers.) Pecos Hank does a great video about these!
Just another form of lightning, of which there are many.. It is thought foo fighters / lightning balls can be produced by powerful radar beams interfering constructively at a point in the sky, ionising the atmosphere.. Much the same tech now used for full 3D, in-air plasma projection that focuses I believe 4 lasers to a point and moves the point around very fast, like a 3D vector monitor but in the air.
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This tech. can also project audio to an exact point in space by pulsing the ionisation of the air at a point to match the source audio pulses. This tech. has been used by the military for decades and you can now watch videos of commercial tech. There's a god Reuters article with a couple of vids.
Since you've revived my curiosity in spontaneous human combustion, would you be a dear and cover that topic in near future? It would be lovely to finally have a reliable source to clear it up
At least some cases of "spontaneous human combustion" turned out to be obese people smoking in bed, falling asleep, and setting the blankets on fire. The way their fat burns causes the body to be burned up like a candle without as much damage to the further parts of the bed, so the aftermath looks odd.
"The Wick Effect"
Wicked
@@Br3ttM you’re telling me, they don’t wake up while being burned alive? If I caught fire I’d freak out and run around, even if I was asleep
@@isaiahbias5961 People who die in fires usually get knocked out by the gases, then die by the same gases, and THEN they finally burn.
Under rated Channel I really love the channel’s content
#6. I guarantee you that will-o-the-wisps are not combusting anything. I've only seen 2, both times indoors, and close enough to touch (had I been so brave). The lights were both a kind of aqua green, not blue. They were not visible with the lights turned on. They seemed to pass through objects, and clearly emitted their own glow on surrounding objects. So they were definitely a source of light and not any kind of reflection (as I initially assumed). I couldn't feel any heat from being in their close vicinity. I still have no idea what they are, but they're definitely fascinating to watch.
Primary causes of meat showers:
1: vultures
2: Saitama
One punch. Really.
Whats a saitama
@@kk-uo2pd A superhero from the anime One Punch Man.
It's satire, with a running gag being that Saitama is so strong any enemy he punches explodes into a flying mass of blood and organs meats.
Or vultures fleeing from Saitama
You can make mini earthquake lights at home! Just take a wintergreen lifesaver candy, break it in a dark room, and tiny sparks of light should occur when the candy breaks. You can also see light when you open up a bandaid in a dark room but just not as bright
I've actually done the candy trick! It can take a few tries to get it right, but it's really cool.
Works best if you crush it in a pair of pliers. Interestingly, wintergreen lifesavers glow green, and peppermint lifesavers glow blue (although a lot dimmer.)
What? No, no, no. I'm not breaking candy. Damnit!
*breaks candy in the dark* ok where's a bandaid.
You are a great story teller
Excellent, even for this series!
Kentucky Meat Shower: a gold mine for Punk Band Names Game. The title; Transylvania University analasis (footnotes!); Synchronized Projectile Vomiting Vultures (🌟)
Will-o'the-Wisp: I've studied folklore since childhood, and live near Washington D.C. The area really is humid, damp, full of wetlands, and marsh areas, with Rock Creek Park rambling everywhere. I've seen them 50 feet from the road, at the MD/D.C. border; at Symphony Woods in Columbia, MD; on the C&O Canal ( some sections are incredibly remote, due to inaccessibility).
"Almost definitely not a thing"
*Hank what are you not telling us?*
I love how you actually have explanations for these phenomena.
8:51 "2 to 6 meters per minute"
Is that a mistake or am I the only one to think that's actually fast.
I have seen those willow wisps. Scary... very scary. Especially when they dance across the landscape weaving between trees before going puffing out.