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@auntheidi9389

3 ай бұрын

How come we don't see Widget the anteater anymore during the sponsor spot?

I'd like to stress the fact that the Gobi dust storms are just so severe that they literally cross seas out into SEA and Japan. every year

@wonky_shoebox7514

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, a little known fact about ireland for example is that desert sand reaches here every year and helps with the fertility of the land. We wake up one morning and everything is covered in orange-red fine sand. It's called the Scarabhéan in irish and coincides with the windy season

@Aleksandrlawgaming

3 ай бұрын

Just like the saharan dessert dust is what causes the amazon and all covers the caribbean almost all year around

I live in a desert in the US. The part a lot of people don't understand about deserts is that they can be burning hot during the day and freezing cold at night. The lower the amount of water and vegetation the harder it is for the soil to hold a consistent temperature. These are the conditions they are dealing with for the Moon and Mars also.

@user-lj3uu2ri3x

3 ай бұрын

I live in Australia and 100% understand, we go from hot dry and burning to cold wet and drowning and that can all be in the same week!

@christianavance9124

3 ай бұрын

@@user-lj3uu2ri3x I live in AZ, and found that as far as environment, Arizona and Florida in the US tend to share a lot of traits with what I see and hear about AUS. Im sure a few other states could join that, but being on completely different sides of the country and 1 being a coastal state while mine is land locked mostly desert amuses me.

@fuzzyhair321

3 ай бұрын

​@@christianavance9124ugh I really hate how humid our summers are becoming. It's just the constant sweat box had enough of it

@firstnamelastname4249

3 ай бұрын

​@@christianavance9124 I'm from Iraq and been and have spent some time in AZ it and the similarities between the 2 are almost identical espacially in the Mojave desert region, Utah too except it rains more there and the weather can be more extreme.

@christianavance9124

3 ай бұрын

@@firstnamelastname4249 that makes perfect sense to me. Some of the differences are how far north/ south the deserts are, but a lot is also the elevations too. And when you add in walls of mountains around some of the valleys it can add a whole other layer. Only some storms from the Sea of Cortez can get over many of the mt ranges and will kinda get pushed around the 1's they can't and can become haboobs by the time they reach populated areas.

Have you ever seen a cassowary? Those things are straight up dinosaurs, dude

@archstanton6102

3 ай бұрын

Saw two in a zoo in Malaysia, they had to be kept separated as would attack each other.

@TazTom

3 ай бұрын

I'm Australian, and cassowary are the only native species that actually scare me. I respect and will avoid many other species, but cassowary exist on pure spite.

somewhere in America, there is a man named Chucky Bigtree, and he looks exactly like Karl

@Dracadin

3 ай бұрын

In Slovakia we have leader of far right political party, that looks like him... except... a bit less hair... well... yours better

@MrAdamArce

3 ай бұрын

Oohh the creepy doll. That movie plus my mom having a child size porcelain doll that blinks is eyes when it "shifts" made sure I hate dolls lol. That porcelain doll just outside of my room door, staring in and occasionally blinking while standing there. Now I can't sleep without my room door shut 😅

@joeobrien196

3 ай бұрын

There is a company with branches all over the British Isles called Littlewoods.

@bethmarriott9292

3 ай бұрын

Yes but he has a tan

... naked Navy personnel on horseback firing bazookas. Damn that's a fine sentence.

@dhawthorne1634

3 ай бұрын

Sounds quite intimidating when you consider the fact that Poseidon was not only the Ruler of Seas but also the patron god of horses and Calvary. ...Why haven't the Seals tried this tactic yet???

Karl seems to be growing into the tangent shoes that Simon left. He’s almost there!

Fantastic improvement in diction. I can now watch at 2x again without any loss in comprehension! Great job Karl. Thank you for listening.

Happy leap day! Love your content 😊😊😊❤❤

"I crossed the Gobi desert to be free and now I thought I live in a country where I can say what I believe and have my freedom to think. However, now I have to constantly censor my speech because in the name off a 'safe place.'" -- Park Yeon-mi

Those tangents are reaching legendary levels

Great job, dude. You have the ability to make trivial information absolutely enthralling.

Utahraptors and Megaraptors are the largest. KS, good reporting.

A 30 ton goose sounds scary but not as terrifying as a 30 ton swan, they are truly scary and mean enough as is

The high altitude deserts in the U.S. get super cold too. Even in regular standard deserts like the Mojave or Sonoran you still feel cold though bc the temperature swing from day to night can be extreme. It can easily go from 110F down to the mid 50s. In the rest of the U.S. the low temp is usually about 20 degrees cooler at night. Another part of the desert that’s unpleasant is the extremely dry wind just saps all the moisture out of your body. When it’s hot you just assume it’s the heat doing it but you’ll feel it even when it’s cooler. Deserts are weird places to be & can be scary bc the danger smacks you in the face when you’re there. Europeans die in the Mojave desert on a regular basis bc they underestimate the temperature & danger. I don’t know why but it seems like it’s mostly German people that it happens to but Scandinavians & Brits do as well.

Hey neat! I did learn alot! And that great green wall is cool! Unique idea.

11:27 I get a real kick thinking about Eric reading a script and thinking “dinosaurs, donkeys, jokes about poop…. I’ll leave this one for Karl” 😂

@goosenotmaverick1156

3 ай бұрын

As much as I hate being one of those, I just can't get on board with Eric's style of presentation.

Hell yea! I love it when the algorithm throws a Karl cameo at me.

Time for Karl to lose the term Interim. I'll always love Simon but Karl is the guy. And doing a good job.

@MrSixdrive

3 ай бұрын

Where did Simon go? He seems to have left a bunch of channels at the same time

@rheinhardtgrafvonthiesenha8185

3 ай бұрын

He‘ll always have small wood tho

@eddiehancockii

3 ай бұрын

@@rheinhardtgrafvonthiesenha8185 not half as small as people who make those comments and think they're funny.

@goosenotmaverick1156

3 ай бұрын

Agreed 100% Simon and Karl both have their own traits I love. They're both awesome.

@007GoldenLion

3 ай бұрын

I love them both ❤

Calling Karl 'interim' is the equivalent of '15 days to slow the curve'. He's here to stay and he's not Eric; I'm ok with that.

As a show on the mesozoic you should know that T-Rex vs. Spinosaurus is basically a set of Vice-Grips vs. Needle-nose pliers

Is city 404 named thus because it can no longer be found? Fun Fact: Close Encounters of the Third Kind had an early scene where a ship was found in the middle of the Gobi, presumably put there by the aliens.

This was top notch peoples! Cheers.

I feel sorry for you Karl, always having to see just how badly things are getting with every new subject you talk about on this channel. I do hope that someday, you'll be able to wholeheartedly treat a subject that is getting *better.*

Great video!

Didn't know Karl was hosting. From the first word of the ad I was like "... is that... isn't that... Nisha from fact fiend?"

I lived in northern Japan for a year in 2003/04- my porch was often lightly covered with golden reddish sand from the Gobi, even tho I lived on the far eastern side of Honshu island. It was quite airborne!

1:25 - Chapter 1 - What it's made of 5:15 - Chapter 2 - Bestiary 8:25 - Mid roll ads 10:20 - Chapter 3 - Dinosaurs discoveries 15:10 - Chapter 4 - The few & fearsome people 17:35 - Chapter 5 - Chinese military history 24:45 - Chapter 6 - The environment of doom3 30:05 - Chapter 7 - Climate change ? 33:35 - Conclusion

You miss pronounced Karl everyone knows it's supposed to sound like coral ala The Walking Dead. Great video I like that you throw in other cool facts during your tangents because Fact Fiend will never die.

Dude the Gobi desert sounds pretty dope. Also geese are terrifying man

I feel like I’m out of the loop. Is Simon coming back?

Suggestion: Agincourt

@eddiehancockii

3 ай бұрын

I second this

What method are they using to mine this coal? Here along the Mammoth Vein, EXCESS water was the biggest hindrance, collapsing and flooding mine-shafts, bogging down equipment, increasing cases of pneumonia among workers, pushing toxic gasses out of the fissures in the rock and creating fires and explosions when it found it's way into their stores of calcium carbide. The only water a modern coal mine should need is what the workers need for hydration and hygiene. Everything else can be done with explosives, electricity and air compressors. Even if water is used for a coal power plant to power the operation, it can be condensed and recycled back through the system.

Karl is doing great just keep him as host thanks

at 10:19 did Karl say "inside baseball" or was I hearing him wrong? If he did, what did he mean?

It's a while since I've watched a geographics vid, but where's Simon?

Can we all take a moment to appriciate what a bang on job Karl does with his Simon impersonation? Because it is. Bang. On.

Camels are also very stubborn and ill-tempered and like to spit on you.

3:14 Sorry but nope. The ‘U’ and ‘Hu’ in Ulanqab and Hulun buir are pronounced like ‘oo’ as in moon. The ‘X’ in Xilongol is pronounced like in Chinese pinyin, more like ‘sh.’ Yes, all four of the places mentioned lie in Inner Mongolia (the Chinese province) not Mongolia (the country).

Why do I feel like bamboo and giant pandas are the answer to everything.

I crashed in a plane here with a bunch of people. We ended up building a new plane from the old one and flew ourselfs out of there. We were lucky cause the guy that had the idea only builds toy planes.

How long will you be "interim host"?

Thank you Smallwood

i like this guy, he's like a young simon back when he had hair.

22:28 hell yeah it would be!

Sven Hedin reported on this desert back in the dizzay

Utah Raptor. That's the one in Jurassic Park.

Hell yeah Gobi dinos! Also I will not suffer Spinosaurus disrespect!

Is baked Alaska a hot dessert?

A very interesting desert.

Anyone find the video on desert sounds he mentioned?

@llamasugar5478

3 ай бұрын

One is “Mongolian Sand Dunes That Sing.”

Thank you for having skippable ads

15:57

Nature can be our greatest foe if treated badly!

Yeah. Dinosaurs

I think T-Rex and Velociraptors are the standard for comparing carnivorous dinosaurs purely because Jurassic Park seared them into the consciousness of our entire generation. Paleontologists know their research or new discovered species won’t get anyone’s attention unless they relate it back to something from (the first) Jurassic Park. Even if we know they weren’t 100% accurate to our knowledge, it was 100% believable. Amazing that 30 yrs later Jurassic Park XVIII can’t replicate the realism of the first (and 2nd), just bland CGI, like Spielberg’s team was only one to get it right. I’ve heard that most velociraptors were likely more akin to those small ‘cute’ dinosaurs that swarmed people in Jurassic Park: Lost World.

I want more dinosaurs!!!

I see the big duck 😱😱

I want to visit Mongolia one day.

His name is Smallwood 😂

Golden Eagles hunting is a Kazahk tradtion not Mongol

When did Mr. Fact fiend join biographics?

@tomholroyd7519

3 ай бұрын

Def a Brain Boi vibe here, I like it

@resileaf9501

3 ай бұрын

Months ago.

@goosenotmaverick1156

3 ай бұрын

Been quite some time now. A solid 3-4 months I think.

Where is Sinon?

silent video clip of man astride camel wrangling camel on green foreground with a background of immense sandunes, choice

Is fact boy coming back??

@BigChucka419

3 ай бұрын

They parted ways

@simonupton-millard

3 ай бұрын

Don't think so

@paulherman5822

3 ай бұрын

No.

@WaddedBliss

3 ай бұрын

He's in jail. Got charged and sent down for kidnapping and selling children on the Dark Web.

@goosenotmaverick1156

3 ай бұрын

*insert iRobot meme here* ..... No.

KARL, WHAT???????

I don't know why some KZreadr apologize profusely about pronunciations of languages they don't speak. Sure, there're jerks in the comments that love to point out such... and I view them worse than Grammar Nazis.

I would suggest that desertification also increases the impacts of climate change.

Bravo nature. Does that desert have a go fund me?

Tryant lizard God would be bettter than T-Rex

Don't we have enough technology to just Google translate what Gobi means? Gobi means desert your saying desert desert💀

Where is baldy ?

! Woahz not Simon

What happened to Simon?

Tyrant Lizard Kings was also the name of a local band when I was young :)

wails of the dead ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Heh… Smallwood

He lost me at Smallwood. Just kidding, interesting fr.

Can you do a 5-minute version?

Someone has presented clothes to Simon.

🇺🇸

As a child on the family farm we had a Goose protecting the chickens that Everyone was afraid of, it took a plug out of my great-grandfathers leg, it once Bum-Rushed a Hawk which had jumped a chicken and destroyed it, the chicken survived.

Saying Gobi Desert is redundant; Gobi means desert in many languages

@resileaf9501

3 ай бұрын

And a lot of hills, rivers, and other geographical areas are named the equivalent of "River River" because that's how translations work. It's not new.

@bmxerkrantz

3 ай бұрын

are you talking about the desert of the Gobi desert?

@goosenotmaverick1156

3 ай бұрын

​@@resileaf9501I love when folks overlook that so hard 😂

@gadaadyn8190

3 ай бұрын

@@resileaf9501 FYI Mongolian for river is gol

😂

I've tried, but it's just not the same without simon

Not the same without Simon. 😕

@goosenotmaverick1156

3 ай бұрын

Off to "Places" with ya then!

@archstanton6102

3 ай бұрын

Then move on

@jimmccauley9099

3 ай бұрын

Hahahahaha! Quite the name you got going on there. Also, l agree, not the same. Like expecting a shot of gin and getting water instead. Oh yes, moving on also, just to keep the two trolls in the loop.

The Terror Bird scares me more than T. rex because roosters are their descendents & climate change could easily give us huuuge roosters again.

I thought this was a Simon Whistler channel. ???

The Chinese don't care about environmental issues.

@alidaweber1023

3 ай бұрын

I don't know what the Chinese people as a whole think about environmental issues. You're talking about well over a billion people with a range of opinions. The problem is that the Chinese government doesn't care any more about environmental issues than the former Soviet government did. You can't just plant anything you want, wherever you please, and expect them to grow successfully.

@davidburke2697

3 ай бұрын

Big business controls the world and big business doesn't give a F about the environment. It's not just China.

@TheoplisFisher

3 ай бұрын

China like the United States can’t just be described as uncaring considering they are 1 and 2 globally in renewable energy. Looks like you’re hunting for likes with zero informative content.

😴 ...

Geese eat meat

@jackvos8047

3 ай бұрын

You know geese are herbivores right? Any insects or small fish they consume are in the wrong place at the wrong hiding in or on the vegetation that the goose is actually intending to eat.

Seriously??? Smallwood?

Please speak with passion and remember that you are not a robot. I can not hear when one sentence end. You speak like water fall- no intonation. This make your information boring.

Nooo not this guy

@goosenotmaverick1156

3 ай бұрын

Yesssss this guy.

Had to unfollow and stop watching video what a shame u sold ya soul to square space

had to un-sub since Simon isn't making these videos anymore :(

Can we please get Simon back, this guy is just not a good fit

hm... sorry, but Simon is better. 🫤