Why the World's Sixth Ocean is Forming in Africa
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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Ah, the Afar region - where people can walk one meter and then truthfully say "I come from Afar"
Underrated comment.
This moment when jokes in the comments are much funnier than in the video.
And then be like, "I'm a fireman but I live in the south, so that's why I said it that way."
My name is Jafar
He'll No 😂😂
he increased his budget on the jokes
that's why he needs the 12 dollars
Fun Fact :
A spoon full of Neutron Star can weight as much as Mount Everest.
I have a video about Neutron Stars at my channel.
lots of bad jokes. ://///
@@kashmirha Like your humour
“We do what privileged white kids trying to go to Harvard do. Go to Africa.”
Watching HAI videos feels like I'm both losing and gaining brain cells at the exact same time
cause you are
That's about right
Yes
It's called PEMDAS your brain cells are cancelling out durrrrrrrr
it's called a zero sum game
"Saudi Arabia and Iran will celebrate with extra special fireworks?"
My god
Stop
Sup Justin
everyone looking at the replies of this comment, have an nice day.
edit: wow, so the moment I replied I knew exactly what the replies were going to be, seriously guys, he ain't stalking you.
Sup
1 minute ago justin
12.99/month for 10 million years? What is this fannypack made of? Antimatter?
Close. It's the iPhone 12 fannypack edition
Fun Fact :
A spoon full of Neutron Star can weight as much as Mount Everest.
I have a video about Neutron Stars at my channel.
@@gunjanshah13 too clickbaity man
yes
@@gunjanshah13 No? A tablespoon of Neutron star weighs ALOT less then Mt. Everest. Get your "Fun Facts" right next time :)
“Africa 2, electric boogaloo”
Grian would be proud.
its a big meme
*Grain
yeah ookaayyy grain it is
@@planetearth8044 grains green grianite
@@jashsoneji @_sweeze_ grian is a minecraft player
"In stores now"
"Plus shipping and handling."
I don't think that's how stores work
Clearly you have never had to pay employees as a business owner... Or in America it's customers who pay and it's called tipping(edit)
@@viewer-of-content Stores don't do tipping in the US. It's exclusively the foodservice industry for some reason.
@@U.Inferno You can buy products in a store without interacting with a person (self service cashiers) and tipping a human cashier would slow down the service too much.
On the other hand, foodservice industry relies much more on customer's experience leading to more interaction between an employee and customer so tipping is more possible there than in stores
@@U.Inferno Tipping is now a feature on some of the newer cash registers in the US that even asks for a tip in self checkouts. I went somewhere the other day at the iPad like self checkout it asked 10%, 15%, 20%, or choose your own tipping percentage. What sort of scamming economic system are we coming to that a price tag means nothing. 😅 The only way to pay no tip at this self checkout was to custom write 0%. And then it asked do you want to donate to a charity for the order which fyi the store corporation you're shopping at can often use your donation as a part of the store's tax write offs, depending on how they file it on their back end😅
it is during lockdown
"Why the world's sixth ocean is forming in Africa":
Because someone won't stop blessing all those rains
@GGanon......by golly, you're right!
TOTOly! LOL!! I'll just let myself out....
@@DBLewisOrlando and I'm right behind you. Lol
@@DBLewisOrlando "Toto, We're not in Africa Anymore".
😐
This has to be a Guinness world record of most jokes and puns in a single video.
Too bad it was quantity over quality and not the other way around like usual.
Every 60 -seconds- million years in Africa, a new ocean is formed
Lolll
“Together, We can stop this”
"Please spread the word!"
Lmao
Is anyone else curious if it would be called a strait and sea before being an ocean?
Ikr, It feels like it would be a sea
Also SOUNAVABICCHHHH
But first it would be a bunch of lakes and rivers tho right?
Then I’d think it would be a sea then ocean. The bits in South Africa and Ethiopia (and any other thin bits) would be straights kinda like the straight of Gibraltar. Maybe the afar straight and cape straight? Regardless it would be pretty cool to watch how modern country’s would split the ocean and land and sea and stuff. I wonder if it would be classified as international water or if the nations would claim ownership of it. Maybe they would dig a canal to get to the middle faster? It would be cool
@@a_human8489 Probably by then though, humanity will be wiped clean off the face of the Earth.
Are straits usually borne of two continental plates parting?
@@a_human8489 Maybe by the time anything happens we'll have evolved into a different species
video: "everyone knows there are 5 oceans".
me: *laughs in idiot*
Finally, Sam uploaded to the correct channel.
Is that what happened? Ha, nice.
Oh yeah, I still see the deleted video in my notifications.
@@nitehawk86 wat
What happened?
I laughed so hard at this comment
There’s more jokes than facts. Makes the video only half as interesting.
Too many jokess... The focus of topic is lost. Because your attention juggles between the jokes being thrown at you.
@@138shreyshekhar2 r/whoooosh
@@mhqa_ not at all correct use of that.
@@BananaWasTaken r/whoooosh
@@mhqa_ that could technically apply here if the first woosh was a joke. However, if it was it was poorly executed and could’ve been done better by doing:
R/wOoOoSh
Or
r/woooosh
With a /s after it
Came here to learn something about the potential new ocean forming in Africa. Instead, I was overwhelmed by a host of not-so-funny jokes, failed attempts at witty pop-cultural references, and finally the ad for a self-indulging charity-giving opportunity. I learned next to nothing about the ocean in question. Disappointing.
Kenyan here. It's already began, lakes along the great rift valley have started joining up submerging whole villages and a game resort
Do not go!! from the west side (senegal)😭
Omg
F
The poor people and animals! 💔😭😭
I know. I live over at Keroka Town and things are getting ugly as each rainy season passes, creating landslides worsening each year, especially on the short rains of October. If that persists, it may be possible that Victoria Lake itself will flood all eastwards of it, drowning us.
"Saudi Arabia and Iran will have a land border and it will be celebrated with extra special fireworks."
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
As someone who is studying geopolitic in the Middle East, this is a very funny joke.
@@michaelhaykal6548 hella yea man that tiny joke made my whole day.
@@michaelhaykal6548 Me too. That's why I put this comment.
What could Possibly go wrong? World war 3? Nah
Totally lost it there🤣🤣🤣
The jokes are getting excessive, and off topic
Yeah some of them were genuinely funny, but the cheeto one was just a complete miss
@Random Autonomous Drone Pilot _Say goodbye to your fuckin' drywall, bucko_
@@kylestanley7843 Woah, calm down on the monster, Kyle.
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sixth Ocean
Wow
Must Affar system
It’s ocean wars now
Hello there
@@hithere2741 oh hi there 👋
Jokes makes this half a point interesting.
Half funny
@@manuelscorza1863 46.54% actually. Thanks for rounding up 😉
Nice pun
What is the point with these jokes?I CAN'T LEARN
There is a channel called What If,it tells no jokes but it's the same topic
1:29 "Which I'm sure will be great and will be celebrated with an extra special fireworks show" LMFAO
UA-cam: how many jokes do you want ?
Half as interesting: yes
OMG i‘d NEVER have expected HAI to be afanboy of „antscanada“, but he knows „the fire nation“, omgomgomg :DDDDDDD
@@elisabethwittner5539 What 🤔
@@hooby7045 Ants Canada has (or either had, haven't checked that channel in a while) a ant colony he named the Fire Nation.
That other person literally thought it was a reference to that Fire nation.
Don't know why they replied to you instead of commenting though.
@@mecor9191 thank you 6 months later
Quite impressive that somehow his jokes have managed to get even worse...
I... I thought they were good...
@@Arri7979 sorry but no.
@@samedjones - I'll go hate my decisions over there then.
@@Arri7979 😂
It's hilariously bad and I love it.
Just imagine someone somehow watches this a million years later.
Imagine if there was human civilization on Pangaea and they made videos on all the future oceans that would be formed before they somehow got wiped out with no trace.
"If I keep refusing to eat anything other than flamin hot cheetos, I will die"
From my experience, no you won't... Not yet.
Not yet
Your comment is overshadowed by justin y's comment.
Lil Xan came close 😂 or he relapsed and his PR covered it up, your guess.
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But they will always keep me up at night
Honestly, I've never heard of the "Southern Ocean". I always assumed the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans just extended all the way to Antarctica.
Southern Ocean is just invention without real proof.
@@Bork_In_Volcanic your argument is dumb because all ocean "borders" are imaginary
same
i thought Southern Ocean was a drink from Florida - iced tea with meth.
It turns out that the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the lesser salinity there, and the colder temperatures make it different enough that scientists have used that designation for a while, but geographers only recently came on board. After all, there is nothing on any map that could be used to argue against your point.
1:04 "Y-shaped intersection almost as volatile as the ones Google draws with dotted lines."
lmao
I'm not keeping up with kardashians please explain the joke to me.
@@scottyj6226 Border conflict
@@scottyj6226 when 2 nation or more have border dispute, goigle maps usually have 2(more) version for each nation and international one mark the border with dotted line
As a kenyan I find this absolutely hilarious but Frightening at the same time.
Finally another Kenyan who watches Half as interesting
Usijali it won't happen anytime soon, maybe by then there won't be any living organism here
yea, man. A few million years from now, you might be dead!
There's a crack in the Atlantic ocean floor, pushing the American continent to the west, and the African continent to the east
Humanity and all mammalian life will be long extinct by the time this happens
1:25 Saudi Arabia to Iran
No homo 🌝
Teacher: "What are the 5 oceans are called?"
Me: "Pacific, atlantic, the cold one, the other one, and the forgottable one."
Ik this is a joke but all the 5 oceans are..
The Pacific Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean
The Indian Ocean
The Southern Ocean
And the Arctic Ocean.
Edit: CHILE WHAT DID I JUST COMMENT
@@no-sg8wq Arctic = Cold One
Indian = Other One
Southern = Forgettable One
Smh learn the real names. At least you got Pacific and Atlantic right.
Southern ocean? The lack of geography classes in the USA is reaching a critical point
@@joaofabio5927 actually, The Southern Ocean is the official name for it, at least in the USA. Also you're required to take at least one geography class in the USA, sooo... I don't disagree completely though, the methods of teaching here aren't the best.
Some people call the southern ocean as Antarctic ocean. Btw i didn't get why indian one was called the other one or maybe there wasn't even a joke.
“Privileged white kids trying to get into Harvard” lmao literally every single white friend I have that has gone to an Ivy league or even a top public Uni has taken a trip to Africa.
Come to Africa. There are white people too.
@@legionextraordinaire9760 very very few tho
@@Hhhh22222-w you've never heard of South Africa
@@nigerdeltamirrortv9311 1 country. Out of 54. White people are rare in africa, yes. And you will get stared at.
@@prettyflackojoyde2628 Not really everyone has seen white peoples they aren’t a commodity in most places
2:36 " ocean 6 or 6 fast 6 furious " 😂
"We need to do what the privileged white kid does to try to get into Harvard. Go to Africa" -Half as Interesting 2020
(Yeah yeah Ik I missspelled privileged)
How did privileged become "priviagled"?
Priviagra
Pringled kids
That's true 😂😂
Is this guy jewish?
“The jokes are strong in this one”
I just had to stop in and say that whomever your title card artist is, you're not paying them enough. That title card is amazing, and I will now be watching the video as a direct result of it.
This video has particularly good jokes...
Fun Fact :
A spoon full of Neutron Star can weight as much as Mount Everest.
I have a video about Neutron Stars at my channel.
@@gunjanshah13 I'm an astronomy fan and a worldbuilder, but dont you think that you are going waaaaay too overboard with the self-advertising?
Don't tease him like that.
I still want to know how this can be interpreted as a roast on the Newark airport though
We're adjusting to his taste. He has overpowered us. We have lost
I'm in kenya and we have started seeing crazy anomalies with raising levels of water in lakes
Like what?
Are you okay ? We need an update....
@@ericromano8078 lake nakuru doubled its water level, salinity levels in borehole raised
Never mind, you can move to Australia. There are a few Very nice Kenyan people, living here already.
It's now, 2022, how are things going now.
Seawater leaking in from its basin?
I am impressed with the "theory" of a 6th ocean BUT I am more impressed with how much puns, jokes, and free promotion with guy is giving. and props to the editor
God: *You are getting some water*
Africa: Finally!
God: but it's salt.
Yes 99.999999999999999999998 % of people that live now won't see that ocean exept people from Switzerland we all know they love forever
Won't really matter that much, be cause seawater still evaporates and will cause nice rain fall.
Africa No!
@Shitty Gayming very romatic people those Swiss
I bless the rains originating in the ocean formed by the Somali and Nubian plaaaaates
Teacher: "No worries dehydrated children, only 10 million years until we get unlimited water!"
Children: "yay?"
10 million years later, they'll be very *salty* about that... ;-)
Don't worry, they can't count
It's salt water
😂 Jesus! You all should just stop.
Jokes on you coz lakes are flooding all around us in the riftvalley, water came early.
The jokes are so bad. Couldn't finish watching it.
3:35 “If you’ve ever stolen a hot air ballon...” Relatable.
Ballon Wonderland.
inflatable
The concept of short informative videos is great and I’ve watched this channel for several years. Most topics brought up here are interesting and delivered in a way that makes it fun to watch with the animations that go along with the explainations. However as of late, I think there has been a bit too many jokes that are out of context and don’t really contribute anything to the video that could be left out. Am I the only one who feels this way? This is meant as constructive criticism and nothing else.
True. It makes the video feels cheaper. And almost 1/3 of the video are jokes, 1/3 ads, 1/3 educational info. That's like 2/3 of non-related content.
I agree wayyyy to many jokes it distracts from the video
Yep - this one gets a downvote, and I stopped watching another one earlier today.
It's a waste of time, and it's just annoying.
Agreed
I agree. I counted a total of 23 unnecessary jokes in this whole video. 23 too many smh
Glad it's Earth's fault for once. Thanks for the videos!!! 🏊🏊🏊
The lack of likes on your comment, I mean the fact that there were zero likes, especially after reading some of the liked comments above, is another micro-sized speck of the proof in regards to the declining of an intellectual species….
well, as some call it anyways…..
"Which creates a Y-shaped intersection that's almost as volatile as the ones Google draws with dotted lines."
Damn
Shows a picture of Israel
*India, China, and Pakistan disliked that*
@@justsomeguy5470 its not israel its balestine !! phri balestine
@@ohad.5890 ....
I was never taught about the southern ocean just the Atlantic, Artic, Pacific and Indian
Some call it Antarctic Ocean. I am from India and that's what we were taught. I was so confused the first time I saw Southern Ocean in some map.
@@mobashshirkareem976 we were taught both names
Cuz it’s not a separate ocean
@@AragornRespecter None of the oceans are separate.
@@arrgghh1555 yeah but some are separate by relatively small boundaries. There’s nothing like that for the southern ocean
This is completely expected. It will be as it why in the times of Atlantis, which is definitely the Eye of the Sahara.
I visited the Afar region in December 2019 (just a few weeks before Covid hit) and it was incredible. We climbed Erta Ale at night and you can actually see the lava! Thankfully I had the high ground (:
Nice, I'm Ethiopian myself but I've never explored lol
Really nailed the jokes this time 😂😂😂
😂😂😂 😂😂😂 😂😂😂 😂😂😂 haha yeah bro
Gotta grab my hammer
yeah for people with a two digit IQ
Sargo you must be so smart
@@brynmcdougald2418 perhaps
2:55 Yeah, the Fire Nation's version of Alcatraz is there.
These jokes are horrible. I'm sorry but I had to say it.
Wrong
That's the joke
Your standards are waayy too high for this world
He's "woke". Of course his jokes are obnoxious at best
They’ve gotten worse over time.
Thanks for uploading a video to the correct channel Sam. Proud of you.
When I was growing up, I was always taught there were 7 oceans… I don’t know why, or what they are, but there was an extra one somewhere around Indonesia that was separate from Indian/Pacific oceans, and there were two oceans in the arctic and one of them had a different name. I still don’t know why, but I was taught about the 7 oceans and 7 continents, and remember being told it was easy to remember because they had the same number…
No but like same?! I chalked it up to my brain just merging the idea of seven continents and how many oceans there were.
"To sail the seven seas" - age-old saying
well technically, because of ocean gyres and other currents they atlantic and pacific ocean both are divided into a southern and northern part, and the water doesn't mix much between the oceans, so you could say there are 7 oceans.
Last time I was this early, Half as interesting was posting wendover productions videos
0:38
This video was a bad idea to watch while eating because I nearly choked on my food laughing at this joke.
I like the jokes. Not because they’re all gold, but because it seems like you’re having fun and feeling the vibe making the script. Good on you, keep it up 👍
“Fire nation base” ah, a man of culture i see
like
Just a comment of appreciation for HAI
don't you mean appreciation for Wendover productions?
Fun Fact :
A spoon full of Neutron Star can weight as much as Mount Everest.
I have a video about Neutron Stars at my channel.
@@elliotw.888 Nahh F* that guy, he's just an Ali express HAI
1:58 We love to see it.
More exciting and practical is the greening of the Sahara with record floods year after year filling the ancient lakes again as the desert climate flips via its 6000 yr cycle. New food bowl is being born as we go into the cyclic Maunder minimum.
Is it just me, or is this the funniest HAI video yet?
I think it's the music in this video (and the fireworks)
@@davinator2_058 Yeah, probably the extra special fireworks.
1:10 I didn't realize the borders between US states were so volatile.
I feel like I need to take a shower and take my vitamins after all those crappy jokes and references were fed to me.
Wow great info that is constantly interrupted by horrible jokes
about as funny as the average joke in a YT comment section, which i guess is all you need
Exactly my feelings! I could do without the jokes.
i assume ur being funny?
Not sure what it says about me, but I subscribed after hearing the first two jokes. Lol.
Too many bad jokes ruined an otherwise interesting video.
IDK if this is meant for children, I'm just a grown man trying to learn about geology. It's all very distracting
We need to do what privileged kids do to get into Harvard: Go to Africa!
Good one :D
It's okay, the two plates are just trying to social distance.
Well that's OK then.
Wait, how many oceans are there? #teamseas
Thank you! That grape analogy finally helped me understand plate tectonics
The fire nation is now mad because you know where one of their bases are
HAI be like: "all your base are belong to us"?
I came here to possibly learn something but the constant jokes made it quickly obvious that I came to the wrong place...........
"The southern ocean... is a fake ocean invented by the ocean lobby to sell more waves" :) Good one!
UA-cam: How many pop culture references does it take to stretch a 2 minute video to over 5 minutes?
HAI: Yes.
Lol, no freakin' way. Rich kids go to Africa when trying to get into Havard? Effin' rich people 😲
I understand why they would (I think) and specific places they would choose to go but is that really a thing?
the new continent should be named “miller grove” because everything happens there making africa more interesting
Why is Donald Trump pretty and I am not? But why does he only have a wife but I have TWO HOT GIRLFRIENDS who I show off in my masterpiece YT videos? Do you know the answer, dear vka
AxxL donald trump must’ve gone to miller grove💯💯💯💯💯
@@AxxLAfriku tf was that
Come on this won't be a sixth ocean this is more like an extension of the Indian Ocean.
Ok all oceans are connected tho
Yes, all oceans are connected, and the Indian and Pacific Oceans are not really distinctly disconnected. And the Arctic is kind-of a fake ocean. So really there's really just three. Oceanography perspective.
The indian plate? My God who came up with the names? The Australian plate goes all the way up to India! That's why aboriginal people look like a hybrid of african and indian. Why is hald of the somali plate in the water? That's the north east africa plate and it goes all the way to saudi arabia.
I liked Half as Interesting better when the ratio of information to jokes was higher.
This. Also the music is really irritating
Yea I mean, now its like Half As Interesting :/
Shut up justin
He’s just really feeling himself on this one
This channel should be called “half too long”.
Ba dum tss
Too*
Doesn't even make sense
Real talk, wouldn’t it just be called the African ocean or something?
Fancier
I saw the Oculus Rift joke coming a mile away and I still laughed
Is it really 299
He really chose quantity over quality with the jokes on this one..
If a new ocean does form, would the the sea level decrease or something like that? Like because of water displacement. Would that cause any effects?
It's almost as if the budget of the jokes have increased with the quality of the video's
*nice*
Especially the Iran and Saudi Arabia one like gee I've found the funni.
"hey do you think this is enough jokes?"
" N o "
This is what unfunny people do when trying to seem funny. Just stick to what you know, which is talking about what people are here for.
“We need to do privileged white kids trying to get into Harvard do; *go to Africa.”*
Gold!
I live in Africa. And I'm white. But am not privileged.
LegionExtraordinaire that’s actually super interesting, but he’s really talking about, at least here in America, white people, or just ppl in general with a lot of money, who pay to go to Africa for a couple weeks and do some minor community service projects; at the end of the day, while helpful, they obviously can’t do very much in a few weeks, and they could probably use all that money they spent on the trip better if they just donated it to a local group, but they get to act like they changed the world, and it looks really good on college applications. :/
@@akorn9943 some people like to see the change they can make in person. But yes , some do take advantage of people as well.
I would trade more information for less cringy jokes.
I think the split in eastern Russia is a lot closer to that next ocean. They already have the worlds deepest lake and its only getting wider every year.
Reduce the gimmicks. It's way too much
relax w/ the lame attempts at jokes bruh. you swinging and missing on all of em.
I'm glad the video qualified its point by stating truthfully that scientists have NO IDEA whether this new ocean will form or not...because we really have very little idea of what that process looks like, and what needs to happen (at the micro and macro levels) for a continent to completely rift and new oceanic crust to form. Also, even assuming this does eventually happen (keeping in mind that these processes have been going on for 30 million years in East Africa, and there have been periods where the rifting slowed to a stop, before picking up again...ramping up to a whopping 7 millimeters a year), the question of when it happens is also hotly debated. The world could have a new contender for its largest island (it would definitely be bigger than New Guinea...and depending on where the split happens, could absolutely dwarf Greenland) in anywhere from 20 million years to 100+ million years. We just don't know.
If anyone's interested, one of my favourite online geologists, Dr. Erik Klemetti, wrote a really thorough piece on this subject:
eos.org/articles/are-we-seeing-a-new-ocean-starting-to-form-in-africa
Thank you for being the person for posting this, it’s really important to contextualize time scale for geological events
I really enjoy the content and I have since the channel started, and I might be in a minority but it was much more enjoyable when the educational part came first and the jokes came second, it's started to become a comedy channel with half explained facts now rather then the opposite. Please take this as constructive criticism, and I hope you find success whichever way you chose to go.
I agree, and "comedy" has to be put in quotes here
Interesting topic, terrible jokes.
That was the most educational
stand up routine I ever watched
I appreciate the reference to Betty Thomas’ 2009 masterpiece “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.”
So the longest lasting secret in the world has been finally revealed... Africa has water
bruh this is trying so hard to be funny but i havent laughed at all
Have we been calling it The Southern Ocean? News to me