The Mississippi River Explained in under 3 minutes 

Curious, at its source is it shallow enough to walk across? Obviously you'll get wet but would your head stay above the water?

@XR171 Yes. I have a photo of me standing in the middle of the river. My feet on the ground. My torso completely above water, even my belly button

You just gave me an idea for my next birthday I live a block from the river too near downtown 😂 always wanted to meet where it all starts

Did you not think that alligators may be out there. Just a thought.

@@davidaaaa4611 In Minnesota? Lol 😆

Dee-eeep river...

Hahahahahahaha I was thinking about that the whole video.

History begs to differ.

Great song!!!

Shiiiiddddd. Not mikkkikkkippi

That alligator just swim to slow

Mississippi should really be considered a tributary river of Missouri river, not the other way around.

Yes, I assume that is most likely a historical convention as the Missouri did not gain significance until later

On the other hand, we have no castles of any note.

I remember crossing the Rhine back in 95 timeframe.... It was just outside of Strasborg, France. I remember thinking about the Germans during WW2 and how they must've crossed at this same area. It was in Feb and very misty and foggy that day, kind of creepy in a way.

​@@TellenJonesexactly dude

Me and a dude I used to know would sing: "Well, in 1418 we trook a little tip along with Jernel Kakson down the Sissamightymip!"

You're the only state that has the entirety of the eastern and western borders as rivers. RAGBRAI fact they tell us.

@@jayteegamble I rode across Iowa with 10,000 Humans many years ago.

The Missouri is PART OF your western border. From Sioux City northwards it is the Big Sioux river

Continental Davide??

​@@avgjoe-cz7cbcontinental David's not here man

​@@clayton5584 I'm sorry David I continental do that

There is one creek I believe it’s called 2 ocean creek that splits at a point appropriately called “ parting of the waters. That is the spot you are talking about.

@@toddbaker1574 Yes, in fact, I first heard of it as "Two Ocean Creek", but much of what I subsequently found called it "Two Ocean Pass", so I'll guess it is know by both (and maybe more). So, maybe the Carp in the Mississippi (trying to get to L Michigan) have branched with some going up the Missouri and from that water route could get to the Columbia?

I noticed that too! Un-Iconic.

Corpse - a dead body

BO never learned this.

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AI is ignorant of correct pronunciation.

And talking kilometers.

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Thank you so much 🙂

I read ‘The Mississippi River Exonerated in under 3 minutes’

I read 'the Mississippi River Examined in under 3 minutes'

Noo thanks. We are not sending our water out west

I read ‘The Mississippi River Exorcised in under 3 minutes’

Thank God I wasn't the only one.

That's not true

I've always wanted to see where it starts!❤ Neat!

@sondra-ht7ho Its a beautiful area but if you visit in the summer, beware... the flies up there BITE like crazy! Besides that .. swimming in the river is a joy

Correct spelling is Itasca. I've been to the headwaters. There is a small park along with a sign that indicates that this is the headwaters, and how far it flows to the gulf of Mexico. Most people take the opportunity to walk to the other side, which is about 30 feet across in what is generally about 20 inch deep water. (9 meters, 51cm).

The whole thing should have been in miles, not metric.

Hey, I actually already have a small series about that. So far I have a video about the Amazon River and the Ganges River in a similar style as this one and there are more to come!

@@FactSpark Oh, okay. You should make a video on the Nile and the Indus. These two rivers are full of history.

@@FactSpark c c

The Kickapoo river in Wisconsin is the longest most crooked river in the world. I believe in the native Indian language it's namesake means crooked.

Or, someone gave me a good BS line of 💩

It is September 2023, that is happening right now. It is affecting the fresh water intakes of New Orleans and surrounding communities. New Orleans will not be a completely salt water port unless the River jumps to the Atchafalaya River channel.

@@jakurdadov6375 You are correct..)))

Isn't that to logical these days to understand ? Maybe they one day are so advanced to understand climate is changing to the solar system

Which means the earth is flat and it's not going up the earths curvature... because there isn't an earth curvature

The Mississippi actually flows north for twenty miles before it heads south. Check out the headwaters at Itasca state park.

Where in the state of Michigan are you south of Lake Michigan?

@@guidorrmc7618I meant to type Illinois. You got me thinking though and, yes, there is a part of Michigan that is south of Lake Michigan: the Traverse City area. All of Lake Michigan, then no, there isn't.

Was about to make the same comment

They did mention Alberta, but a small portion of Saskatchewan is included. Sask, by thaw has 97000 lakes.

Alberta has 4 watershed basins. The Milk, the Saskatchewan, the Athabascan, and one river that flow s into the Pacific in the Rockies. Can't remember the name.Might be that creek that flows along the Yellowhead pass by Jasper.

Exactly. I've argued that the river should actually be called the Allegheny River! Because if the 'rule of thumb' is followed, where when two rivers meet the larger river keeps it's name and the smaller river becomes it's tributary, then when the Allegheny and the Monongahela meet in Pittsburgh, instead of forming a new river, (the Ohio) the larger river which is the Allegheny River should have kept it's name. And when it met the Mississippi, ...once again it should have kept it's name, the Allegheny! Technically the Allegheny River should run from upper Pennsylvania to the Gulf of Mexico, with the Mississippi being it's tributary!

@@BST-lm4po Except the tributary (the current upper Mississippi) wouldn't be called the Mississippi anymore, as it'd go nowhere near Mississippi. But otherwise, yeah. I don't know why the name changes at Pittsburgh.

​@@BST-lm4po But previously the Allegheny was just considered the Upper Ohio, so...

It's just me speaking into a microphone, english is not my first language.

Kilometres is better for everyone. It is about time that the USA catch up with rest of the world. Metric is so much easier to use.

@@gordonwaldner9792 Absolutely!

grow up.

@@rizkyadiyanto7922 To whom is that directed?

@gordonwaldner9792 We dont care for metric. We tried in the '70s and it didn't work. Get over it. Personally I only like metric for measuring liquids.

I did already: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VrpNOkrJnas.html Enjoy!

@@FactSpark thanks brother....

@@FactSpark I'm from patna, BR.... The city which is on the bank of Ganga river....lots of love from 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

the most polluted river in the world.

Hello how are you doing

The New River runs from south to North. Einstein!

So it existed after the Mississippi existed?

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The ancient New River existed before Pangea split up. There was no Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico yet, those formed together as Pangea broke apart. Even after Pangea began to pull apart the New River flowed north, not south. That ancient river has been called the Teays River, after the Teays Valley in West Virginia. Today it flows into the Ohio River via the Kanawha River but the Ohio itself is much younger. Ice Age glaciation blocked the old valleys to the north forming lakes along the south margin of the glaciers. Eventually the lakes got deep enough to overflow into adjacent valleys, cutting new channels which would become a major river. Both the Ohio and Missouri Rivers trace out the approximate southernmost edge of those glaciers before reaching the Mississippi.

Yea frenchy not corpse

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This is false. The Mississippi River is 10's of millions of years old.

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I met her accidentally in St. Paul Minnesota

Well I heard my dream went back downstream, cavortin' in davenport,

About 0.6 miles

go back to elementary school.

@@rizkyadiyanto7922 How many kilometers to nagasaki?

656168 feet

There are locks and dams north of STL that do just that.. the problem is south of STL, (primarily South of Cape Girardeau) the land is so flat that you cannot create a resevoir. The river will just make another path elsewhere. (In between STL and Cape Girardeau the river narrows down to a half mile wide and is to wild to make any dams on that stretch as well) (i live an hour south of STL around river communities so i know the Mississippi River very well.. and have even kaysked on the some of the roughest parts... why? Cause its my local area)

The army corps has engineers that have already built structures like that in some places. When the river is very low & saltwater creeps up the river bottom from the gulf they build a temporary bar on the riverbed to ward off damage to water systems.

@awedelen1 cant really imagine how it would work (seawater diversion), but i see all the wingdams and Horseshoe dikes all the time, so i know they are capable of geeat feats

@@leslietaylor4458 , They’ll dredge the bottom & make a small sand bar that ships can still pass over. Since saltwater is heavier the hope is that much of it will stop or reverse at the sand bar. riverwater >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> riverwater >>> ^ sand bar ^

Doubt you can control it, the Mississippi is 200 feet deep down there.

Isn’t it artificial

Because it flows northeast and eventually into a delta that drains into Reindeer Lake

@@TheWizardGamez that's not true in the slightest.

@@riversrme yeah brother but if you look at the map of the mississippi drainage system the milk river is only 87km away from the start of the south sask so I was just wondering.

@@agile564 It could be 2 km away, but if the respective starts are on opposite sides of a divide the rivers could still flow into different drainage basins.

And the Mississippi uses miles and square miles as measurement.

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It just flooded less than a month ago😂😂🤦‍♂️

@@maddad1119 and now it’s drying up. Watch the news 😑

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