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? Mythbusters style I might say...

Maybe let it dry out in evaporation ponds and scrape the Veritasium off the top?

Ye, remove that TV mayonnaise from my youtube.

@@stanbinary Mythbusters was a bit more toned down and just about rode the line of bad and cheesy, but enjoyable.

I couldn't have said it better.

Especially the explosion sound effects are really annoying me. I just want to hear what the actual explosion sounds like, why the hell add another effect on top of it

So what you're saying is you prefer a smaller production budget?

@@BigDaddyWes not at all. I am sure you can spend a pile of cash on a product that feels closer to other things he makes. This isn't what I subbed for and it feels manufactured and actually feels cheap not money wise but content wise.

yeah, if could be edited without that 'TV' attitude and result in a much better video.

@@sirhenk5910 sorry to burst you bubble but there is no such thing as slow motion explosion sounds. High speed camera's don't record high speed audio. So everything you have ever watched with sound in slow motion has been edited. So any vid of the slowmoguys is also edited to hell.

bbc

To compare this to Discovery channel and BBC today is an insult to this video.

The difference between this video and most other Veritasium videos is ART DEPARTMENT! Models are always dope.

@@manicmartyr69 I mean, I get people are salty with the BBC for whatever political reasons they don't like but they have been at the forefront of broadcasting technology since forever. A lot of core tech that's used throughout the entire industry comes from the BBC's RnD departments from colour science to audio specs (I say this having worked as a colourist for the better part of a decade). Plus they do make some super pretty stuff. David Attenborough's shows have been the high bar for documentary film making since forever and always put a focus on pushing technology and film making forward. They might make some ropey looking scifi every now and then (looking at you Dr Who) but shows like Peaky Blinders show they can make some good looking TV when they want to. Can't say I dig Discovery's style much though. Only so many cheesy "the truth is out there" documentaries I can stomach :D

Absolutely, but what's with the weird caricature of Humphry Davy, you'd think he'd deserve some respect.

And shark week

2000's also had some good shows tho😣

This reminds me of Nat Geo

What if we have a reality TV show between a married couple of Potassium, Hydrogen, and their whiney kid, Oxygen?

@@runed0s86 Those would be some explosive episodes that's for sure 😂

But what gender is the potassium and how is it oppressed?

Maybe at your school. I learned this in 6th grade.

@@walperstyle are you trying to be funny

Looked at your acc, seems like ur just a lying creep that subs tonevery woman he can find

Kazakhstan has the best potassium

The channel Periodic Videos has an old series like this, check it out!

i'll second that! I would definitely watch.

damn this is a great idea! :D lets hope he makes it happen!

Read the disappearing spoon by Sam Kean. It is exactly that

It is not a good thing, that we re over populating.

That whole sequence had some pretty great accidental comedic timing.

I searched up raining indoor potassium for this and I couldn’t find this video but I found the channel and found the video on the channel.

Learn some other adjectives. Nothing cool about an explosion.

@@kenbellchambers4577 thanks for sharing your subjective opinion buddy

@@mranonymous3554 Seeing so many people brainwashed to the point of being literal monosyllabic morons is not a 'subjective analysis'. Every one wants to be a hipster. It is so cool to say 'so cool'. There are many other words in our diverse language, but it always 'cool', 'cool', 'cool' You know what is cool? A freaking dead penguin. Try some other words for a change, it doesn't hurt.

But the props were nice.

I hate the whole low frame rate vibrating stuff aesthetic that this has

Agreed

That would be amazing. Same budget, but fire the graphics guys and spend it on science instead.

It was way too shaky. It's like the viewers are expected to have ADHD.

My meth addicted brother thought he could smoke it

yeah I was like, if I wanted National Geographic I'd watch National Geographic

Why you are not happy with high quality content ?

@@zaidrahman1398 I've been subed to Veritasium for more then a decade. Derick is a great youtuber, but this video just reeks of that same vapid corporate energy that plagues shows on TV, and that destroyed the Discovery and History channels

@@zaidrahman1398 It's not about the quality, the style of filming and commentating made the video drag a bit imo. It's the same reason I hate most documentaries.

@@MadMadCommando the production values were unnecessarily high. It didn't improve the content at all.

What a compliment

These type of people are why I keep living

Yep, not for ur channel lol

Damn I pay my internet for memes lol

Such great vids the school system can revolutionize the education system if they change just a two things. Hiring the right teacher that is passionated about other learning like this guy and what you teach. It's no secret school are teaching so many useless topics that wont help you grow in life leaving other topics that are far more important like financial and what not and let me tell you, old ways dont open new doors... Education needs to change as time goes by.

How much danger is there of the pumped liquid leaking out into the nearby river? I know fracking has dangers of introducing contaminants into the water supply, but that is often due to the fragile nature of the rock where the natural gas is present. Does the potash have a similar structure and therefore similar dangers?

you mean thank veritasium

@@PrinceKaladin - The underground solution mining is not done under pressure like hydraulic fracturing (I also spent 18 years as a petrophysicist in the oil and gas industry) so no leakage from underground to the surface water. The ponds are lined with a synthetic rubber liner and they don't scrape it clean when the harvest the evaporated product with converted road scrapers. There is a rock hard layer of salt on the bottom. That said, there is no 400 acre ponds that do not leak, and there is some from the ponds. The water flows across some less permeable rock layers under the ponds and comes out near the river. There are a series of sumps and pumps to catch and recirculate the leakage. Honestly there is not much in the way of harmful contaminants in the water. Mostly just salts and some of the CuSO4, but in very trace quantities. I used to do mass spec analysis on occasion. But it's not great to salinate the Colorado either, so yea they do the best they can but it's not perfect.

Must be pretty weird seeing a place you're familiar with in a series about mysterious locales.

Is the copper sulfate in the formation or added? That wasn't clear to me. Thanks for expanding on the chemistry.

looks like it got pulled up with strings or sum. very sus that it landed back upright

@@keatonspersonalemail9689 force of explosion was evenly distributed through the water so the bucket didnt spin much, plus the water kept the bucket heavy when it hit so it didnt go much of anywhere

@@keatonspersonalemail9689 why would they fake an explosion

@@pootzeketzi1233 cuz I’m high asf

@@keatonspersonalemail9689 hahaha

Mark Rober: w o r l d s b i g g e s t p o t a s s i u m e x p l o s i o n

"Please do not try this inside at home kids...."

Rober? You mean styropyro?

@@well_as_an_expert_id_say Styropyro would get a kilo of potassium and light with a laser

@@well_as_an_expert_id_say marks also a great scientist,

I think we should cut Derek some slack. He is clearly excited to be doing something he's always wanted to do, which is filmaking with a high budget. I think over time their editing style should find a good balance between "look how much this cost" and "we don't need to use all the takes".

Good thing it was plastic!

I didnt notice that my jaw was dropped for about 3 minutes after that just trying to process what i had just seen

I know!! LOVED it!!! And I can't believe how he remained relatively mild in his amusement the whole time. Every time I've done an explosion demo, I jump like 5 feet in the air and yell "OH SH**!!!!"

You are

WHY did it jump tho ?? You would expect that water rapidly blowing up should push bucket down, but instead bucket just flies after water, like rocket flying backwards, weird.

Don't talk to me! I am famous! Don't dislike my good good GOOD videos! Don't talk to me, dear dario

I won’t buy RU-vid original

Like it

Curious.. a "show".. when i thinked this channel was all about science.

Totally agree, I like better the previous cozy style

I will check it out.

ok, SupremeLeaderKimJong-un

Lets the professional fly the drone. In other news - great Discovery Channel style content, not too bad. Checked all the boxes for "content"

15:51 Mark he was really working that right camera joystick like a pro

@Jayden Tan SO THAT'S WHY MY OLD TEACHER PRONOUNCED IT AS "POTASHIUM"

I am wheezing hard

trueeee

i fully advocate for submerging all of twitter in a vat of oil, so it doesnt even get to react with the moisture in the air

Amen

Hahahaha. Similar.

welcome to entertainment

Word

Accurate

Yeah... this dude clearly in the pocket of big pot ash...

@@Heywoodthepeckerwood big potash 10/10 lol

Yes, because this for RU-vid Original which means technically IT IS a TV show/series format

@Abhinavv Arora In this case it doesn't work. I sincerely appreciated Mindfield, because it wasn't in this TV-esque style.

​@@farifairis7388 I know, but RU-vid has to be different from TV. I chose it for this reason. You have to be hooked by content, not from the fancy style. Feels like you miss the message, here. Even though the content is great as always

i don't like it at all

liked it, but I would've like the show a lot more if it didn't have all that way too loud, hyper-active music and sound effects. Also, those incredibly shaky graphics and camera angles are really hard to look at. I personally prefer the much slower pace of the usual videos, rather than this more traditional TV-like pacing. They don't need to keep their audience's attention on such a tight leash, we're all here because we like his usual videos, which are generally calmer, slower paced, and less saturated (like geez it's like the colors are screaming at me in this video). A documentary-style series would've been much more in-line with that rather than... whatever this is

I'm 65, we're not old. 60 is the new 50 didn't you know?

@@elcruzer6706 Really, you don't HAVE to comment.

He aint 64

Thank you for this! I'm still in my 20s and already feel like I'm too old to learn music (I never had the access/connection/proper introduction). My own brain is making me doubt myself, even when I'm aware of how wrong the thought is.

@@darksuprise1564 he actually is!

I know this is random, but yeah. This is why America has so much ammunition.

No one asked, JOHN!

Same company as the Moab plant. They bought it while I was with the company. Obviously different process though because of no underground mining. Same amine separation process. I liked the management at the Wendover site better though!

I live in Utah but I’ve never seen these

Not to be confused with Wendover Productions

Indeed. But you also need to sprinkle enough toilet water on them, or they'll just dry out.

Brawndo's got electrolytes

Water? Like, out the toilet?

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@@davidpadilla1354 Hail Satan

yes hahaha, i want him to have a higher budget but this style of documentary video is meh compared to his usual style

Yeah really, wow... Giving me some strong Mythbusters(?) vibes.

Yoo i used to watch ur videos

Yeah, and it makes it feel dead. Like it's some corporate mayonnaise. I far prefer his usual style, not overloaded with 'cool' TV crap.

@@Steelrat1994 Agree. The over the top producing (music, footage, script...)makes everything so exaggerated and over acted... Everything used to be much simpler, and that’s not bad at all.

it is insane indeed...

... But without the dry narrator.

Nah, much more History Channel

Yeah, I found it disturbing as well. Not the usual Veritasium video I signed up for

@@panda4247 I have a headache

@@DictateGPT same

Yea

Yea

Google money brought them out there and back.

That's Dead Horse Point State Park. Near Moab. Yes, next to Canyonlands NP. Yes, it's in the middle of a desert.

At least that guy got an interview. How about the guy making glass? They probably spent hours with him and he only got 5 seconds of screen time.

So true. Leaders in education should take notice on how it should be done

@@TheHunter2 except the actual part of learning people hate is the repetition needed to understand a subject completely. Veritasium is a great teacher because he isn't forcing you to do the homework it takes to keep knowledge in ya brain.

Exactly schools are failing kids big time

@@SpeedomusicSM its super sad. I had this one math teacher who knew exactly what to say and i got straight A's. Then i got another math teacher who was always goofing around and i got C's and D's. One person can make such a big difference explaining the same stuff. Cause even the same type of math gave me different grades just because of the teacher.

@@napoleonbonerfarte6739 I don't know... Watched it once; remember it all.

🤣🤣🤣

What type of drone was that?

@@2inchANDY dji inspire 2 i think

Nicest way of saying "HELL NAH!"

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Praise God. Jesus, who reigns, my Husband and Son of God, comes soon. USA(Babylon) will be invaded by Russia to the east and China to the west and will lose. NYC will be destroyed. Repent and focus on Jesus. Plead the blood of Jesus. Rapture is soon and the kingdom of God is near, so be holy. Obama is the antichrist and will use the rfid chip as mark of the beast with the False Prophet named Francis from Catholicism. There will be three days of darkness so please prepare as that will be when Jesus shall visit people. There will be fallen angels and giants and zombies and cyborgs and dinosaurs and persecution and many millions of deaths and disease like boils and tsunami to USA California and New Jersey and Florida and famine and fireball. Nuclear bombs shall strike. Canada and Europe and South America and asia shall also be affected with judgements. Time is short and Jesus is coming to collect a people without spot or blemish. Waters will turn to poison, The tribulation will be bad so enter rapture to escape. EMP coming to USA.All lives matter not just black lives. If you suffer from depression, anxiety, racing thoughts, mood swings, anorexia, suicide thoughts, loneliness, or have a disease, seek Jesus. Jesus can cure any disease. Husbands are head of the wives, husbands love wives and wives obey husband. Aliens are demons dont trust them. Osas is not always true. There will be a locust army that will wage war on humanity. Believe in faith to receive in prayer or you will not receive, those who exalt themselves shall be humbled but those who humble themselves shall be exalted first shall be last but last shall be first, seek Jesus and pray without ceasing, Keep 10 commandments even Sabbath, bless and not curse, repent of all sin, do unto others what you would want them to do unto you, harp music with praises to Jesus is biblical, read bible daily, cleanliness, no yoga or yoga pants, dont get COVID vaccine, love God, love others, avoid homosexuality, high heels, strife, sinful incest, guiding people into prostitution or lusting over nudity not married to you, Jehovah's Witness, witchcraft, sinful media like tv shows, unholy anime like death note and avatar last airbender and naruto and one piece and bleach, love of money, sex outside of biblical marriage, adultery, masturbation, porno/hentai, anal and oral sex and hand jobs, plastic surgery, football and idolizing football, merchants of the faith, addiction to facebook, sleeveless shirts and sinful shorts, sinful earrings and piercings, drunkenness, pride, smoking, gossip, lying,lacking faith, materialism, fictional books, dolls like dolls from Disney, no disney shows or movies, sinful movies like marvel, joking around, not loving God, unforgiveness, rap/music that doesn't glorify Jesus or God, cursing even parents, hate, suicide, videos games, trusting in self or humans over trusting in God and His Word, having any idol than Jesus, bikini and inappropriate clothing, sex with animals, arrogance, rebellion, Santa Claus, catholicism, 7th day adventist, lukewarmness, martial arts, freemasonry, energy drinks, skirts/dresses above the knee, tattoos, dying hair, star wars and the figures and movies and games, idolising sports and muscles and fitness and humans, abortion, islam, atheism, secularism, smoking cigarettes or marijuana or e cig, supporting or being a furry, orgies, swallowing semen, seeking the praises of men over God, burning government property sinfully, idolizing kpop stars or celebrities, hating God, dora the explora, cheating on your spouse with another person, bad thoughts like sexual thoughts and murdering thoughts, condoms, black goo, being rich in this life, loving this life, seeking popularity/ having favoritism/partiality,sex or lusting after animals or even children, racism, jehovah witness, mormonism, transgender, lies of evolution and big bang, flat earth, gambling, cheating or not paying on taxes when biblical required, mistreating orphans, bribes and taking bribes, leading at interest sinfully, murmuring, heresies, merciless, wrath, defamation, owing and being in debt, no affection, prosperity gospel, necromancy and mediums and astrology, hair extensions, God hates divorce, drinking human or animal blood, twilight book series, not helping the poor and needy and widows, not giving tithe (10% of income) and offerings, not being thankful to Jesus, not listening to parents, Halloween, 5g, avoid following other religion other than following Jesus Son of God. I am an unprofitable servant and least of everything by infinity. Best blessings to everyone every second forever by infinity God willing. Shalom aleichem. Isood

@@davidpadilla1354 just stop, goddamnit.

@@davidpadilla1354 take your meds

@@davidpadilla1354 You're gossiping about Obama.

YESSSS

Yes of course I am

Not as blown away as that bucket

As well as intact!

Most intriguing part!

It’s definitely a downgrade from the usual content.

It's a youtube original so go figure

@@lupa3041 yeah, i agree. RU-vid original doesn't bring any added value to the channel, it's usually worse than the channel itself.

I agree, smb

Yeah, my science teacher wanted to show us how we could create hydrogen gas and then to show that it was hydrogen gas by the whooping sound it makes when burning. Except by mistake he used way higher molarities than intended and thus there was glass and acid everywhere in the room when the whoop instead turned into an explosion. He was shocked. We were shocked.

@@hen-rex Yeah, that was our case also. 😀

i would thought sodium would be more explosive, i see potassium is just as reactive as Na.

@@andrewcannon587 Both are Group 1 elements, potassium being one period lower has greater atomic radius, and lower ionization energy which means it's easier for K to lose the lone outer electron than Na. Gain or lose electrons = "reaction". Potassium therefore more reactive than sodium.

Our science teacher did the same thing and a small piece shot up and lodged into the drop ceiling tile and the fire dept had to be called.

"I don't want no scrub, a scrub is a guy that can get no love from me..."

*closes helmet* KEEP FIRING, SCRUBS!

@@Nemozoli no pigeon either

It would be shame

I love Ve but the editing made me cringe and the pace was so slow for the complexity of the subject. I felt like this video was aimed at children.

@@user-fs7eq8lq4w I hope that this is sarcastic like some kind of parody

@@ericcartman1929 ikr lmfao

​@@user-fs7eq8lq4w Worse, it was aimed at boomers.

True

Blowing my mine! 😂

@@DrManhattan84 He had a chance and missed it. 🤣🤣

Ha!..So vast

Just shows such a contrast on how most of these RU-vid science videos have little to zero new created content and little interest in informing. Many RU-vid channels are mostly parasitical, they just copy stuff to get short views.

He even talked about "Amazing Places"

and over-the-budget too!

Tom Scott seems like a cheap version of Vsauce

@@aiden3229 wrong

so an american version of tom scott

Yep, you see it happen to every channel when they sell out to RU-vid originals, slowmo guys and vsauce case in point

Totally agree. Not to mention that normally we would have a discussion about the adverse effects that potassium might have on plants and nutrition, but no, it seems that they've sold out, like most youtubers do. Disappointed.

I wish the yt dislike button did something

RU-vid Originals for you.

Looks like all the negative comments are here🙄

And landed upright

If you played Minecraft you would know, that an explosion in water (either by potassium or creepers or others) does'nt destroy anything! Please educate yourself!

“Explosions in water don’t damage anything” Submarines:🙄

@@angeloc1340 lmao

@@angeloc1340 r/woooosh

yeah it was a bit intrusive but the video is great otherwise

agreed

Agreed. I would have liked to hear what the actual explosions sounded like.

0:20 The music is so much compressed I get a head ache, and had to stop watching.

Audio engineer: Which dials and buttons should I use? Producer: Y E S .

Standard industrial process is to react KCl with NaNO3 for KNO3 and NaCl. Sodium nitrate is also mineable (chilean potash) as a naturally occurring mineral. There are some other modern routes, but this was before the Haber-Bosch process so it precludes readily available ammonia.

I wonder how they get the copper sulfate out of it once they add it in. Copper does kill algae, in fact it kills everything alive and never decompose (copper would be copper forever), so it is not something you want to spread into the environment if not necessary.

...But you do need to complain about RU-vid twice a video apparently. Also, this is just a channel on RU-vid... not the entire thing. 🙄

@@megamanx466 It's a sponsored RU-vid Original. This is what the RU-vid execs think the people want

@@MadMadCommando RU-vid is always trying to be more like TV for some reason. These shows always have good content because of the people making them, but really annoying and cliche style and presentation which makes it feel like I'm watching some dumbed down version for wide TV audiences.

@@MadMadCommando Well I and a number of other viewers like it, but many don't. Seems like he should do both formats. Both are fine to me anyway. 😅

@@ronanmcintyre It's only "dumbed down" if you're intelligent enough not to learn anything from it. The info is key; the format is arbitrary.

M i n i n g A w a y

Minecraft Reference.

I D o n t K n o w W h a t To M i n e

B u t I l l M i n e I t A n y w a y

M i n e d i a m o n d s

yeah it's obnoxious...

@Daniel Chang you must be the sound editor

@@-morrow WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DESTROYED HIM BRUH

@Daniel Chang " I read your bio. You’re not going to become a youtuber so sit down and go clean your room little boy." is that supposed to be an edgy reply? since when having a youtube account means that i wanna be a youtuber? Nice projecting bro haha malding ass. My og comment was: "get shat on haha xd" to the snowflake, cuz morrow's reply was just too good :shrug:

@Daniel Chang When you read a 8 year old bio description and thinks it a good point to reply to someone lulz

Haha, and not in the good way. It's a shame, because the normal Veritasium videos are great.

Isn't he Australian, from Canadian family?

Copycat

More like Australian, but yeah his American accent is pretty good.

He’s Australian

My thoughts exactly!

I've thought this for ages. I honestly don't know how it isn't a bigger discussion and I really really hope someone with an audience talks about it

That low "brrrrrrrrr" base and music were really annoying. The information presented deserves better soundtrack or none at all

100% agree. It felt like a cheap rip-off from Derek's much better thought out work

i liked it

Kévin Cognée I too like to learn and dislike infotainment thats watered down to the lowest common denominator.

I want to know if there was any external funding for this glorification of a severely devastating mining practice which is destroying a lot of southern america with the US strong-arming major salt processing over there

yea i hate this shitty editing. it's like watching an american tv show.

Keep it difficult, please. Old UK duffer here, with you from the start :)

I’m proud of the potassium

was he okay?

@@larsalfredhenrikstahlin8012 Yeah he was fine. Obviously a little rattled, just like the windows nearby ;)

Are you saying George Stephenson was a African American? Or Mexican?

@@carpballet What part about "North East of England" don't you understand?

Geordie lamps for the Geordies of Yorkshire?

@@NorthernScrub - My daughters just returned to the U.S. from two weeks in the U.K. I shocked them a little when I knew who the Geordies are and that Newcastle is the castle built in like 1010 to replace the Roman 'castle' which I think was just a fortified settlement.

@@NorthernScrub Gosh. Sorry. I read “discrimination” and in the US the first thing we think is it must have involved blacks or Mexicans. My bad.

Exactly

While the video is amazing, I found the constant cuts around the explosions, and the broad, awe-filled, Discovery Channel-esque intro and tone of writing to be a bit distracting

I think we can all agree that potash is far more riveting content than murder trials.

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 I can agree. I was on the edge of my seat.

@@Yorb. living life on the edge