There's a lot of confusion surrounding the longest river on Earth, but I'm here to clear it all up. But I sure love talking about rivers, so here you go. Music by Glass Stones: / glass-stones
For a river like the Amazon identifying where the mouth is isn't easy either. The mouth is so wide it's hard to judge where the mouth ends and the sea starts.
@OokileyGMR
3 жыл бұрын
Next they will include the distance between a cloud and the ground to measure rain's length and add it to the river.
@nhrahat188
2 жыл бұрын
That's hilarious 🤣
@AA_04
2 жыл бұрын
Then we add the distance to the fucking ocean
@joshsalamero
2 жыл бұрын
Hahaha got me! 😅
@sygeno_yt
4 жыл бұрын
What if the ocean is just one very wide river
@amitmittal6492
4 жыл бұрын
best comment on this video XD
@karlisbikis5013
4 жыл бұрын
where would this river be flowing from? and where would this river be flowing to?
@sygeno_yt
4 жыл бұрын
@Karlis Bikis it would be flowing into its self and from it self
@dinamosflams
4 жыл бұрын
*hits blunt*
@jolez_4869
4 жыл бұрын
@Mark Lanzarotta The ocean
@RamdomView
4 жыл бұрын
9:50 I propose that this dispute be settled by releasing a swarm of rubber duckies or other small floating object with beacons attached. Then the aggregate routes taken by the duckies can be measured so as to ascertain the average route of water flow, which may not follow either the straight path or the coast path.
@wesleyparish8280
4 жыл бұрын
RuBbEr DuCkS? Comeon man (good idea) but pollution... bruh
@ALiBi212x
4 жыл бұрын
if this were feasible it would actually be a really good way to measure rivers lol
@RamdomView
4 жыл бұрын
@@ALiBi212x en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Floatees In 1992, 28000 rubber ducks and other floating objects were subject to accidental release from a loose shipping container. These ducks were tracked by oceanographers and made contributions to the study of ocean currents.
@Heioshi
4 жыл бұрын
Nice idea. Lake Victoria will look like a giant bathtub
@linhhoang1363
4 жыл бұрын
@Alex Ye so it was quite an accidental release on purpose...
@polderdebanjan
5 жыл бұрын
The Nile is more mysterious than I had assumed. But the Amazon is one of a kind. I remember reading somewhere that the entire Amazon basin has more fish species than the entire Atlantic Ocean.
@tonybalsomosgimp3478
5 жыл бұрын
It doesn't. There are far more species of fish in the ocean. However, the Amazon is home to the most species of freshwater fish.
@malnutritionboy
5 жыл бұрын
@@tonybalsomosgimp3478 Atlantic. read please
@tonybalsomosgimp3478
5 жыл бұрын
I was talking about the Atlantic ocean, Malnutrition Boy. If you will, notice I said "ocean", and not oceans?
@Mooshimoca
5 жыл бұрын
yeah very possible, it has one third the amount of fish species than every ocean combined so when just factoring in the Atlantic it could have more
@tonybalsomosgimp3478
5 жыл бұрын
Mooshimoca It doesn't.
@Dell-ol6hb
5 жыл бұрын
TLDR; The Amazon River and if you disagree you’re just in deNile.
@Jan_ne
5 жыл бұрын
You're*
@amartinez97
5 жыл бұрын
@@Jan_ne Bitch this is youtube nobody has time for that minor grammar.
@Jan_ne
5 жыл бұрын
@@amartinez97 I'm Nelle, I have country grammar
@TheSuperShepherd
5 жыл бұрын
Of course, someone had to make that joke. Indenile, goodness
@Alextopgaming
5 жыл бұрын
@@amartinez97 It's like saying grammar isn't important, have you ever heard of "Know Your Shit or Know You're Shit".
@anthonyappleyard5688
3 жыл бұрын
Originally, Lake Tanganyika flowed north into the Albert Nile, and the longest source of the Nile was in northern Zambia. This stopped in the Miocene period when the Virunga Volcanoes developed and filled the Rift Valley in Rwanda and blocked the flow, and now Lake Tanganyika overflows west into the Congo.
@allankisembo5934
3 жыл бұрын
Makes sense
@andrewhammel5714
2 жыл бұрын
Only 12 thousand years ago Lake Michigan drained into the Mississippi during a brief phase as the Ice Age ended.
@gnanaganesh5937
Жыл бұрын
kzitem.info/news/bejne/rHuP342qcYWfjYI .
@orangeyewglad
Жыл бұрын
@@andrewhammel5714 The great lakes have only existed for about 12,000 years.
@yeaolon
4 жыл бұрын
Everybody knows that the longest river in the world is 37 million Toyota Corollas long
@DacLMK
4 жыл бұрын
Wrong channel
@wyolaskan1868
4 жыл бұрын
Dac DT Honest mistake
@Parky427
4 жыл бұрын
Light all those shitboxes up and have the worlds longest fire snake..
@yeaolon
4 жыл бұрын
Robert Parkinson nobody asked you
@yeaolon
3 жыл бұрын
Jim Bartz Dude it’s a joke don’t take it seriously.
@hefruth
5 жыл бұрын
I applaud the fact that you didn't just take the easy way out, but carefully examined not only the evidence presented, but also potential biases that the various sources of the information could have for putting forward their cases. Keep up the careful (and critical) explanations!
@quiteliteral3911
4 жыл бұрын
@Mark Lanzarotta Explain how.
@islamicschoolofmemestudies
4 жыл бұрын
@Mark Lanzarotta just because u said wrong doesn't mean its wrong unless you had an argument to back up your claim
@Jethro-goro
5 жыл бұрын
3:00 Technically, a river's length can be set in stone (i.e. the Colorado River). It's just that, from the river's perspective, stone isn't terribly permanent.
@prestongarrett2124
4 жыл бұрын
Jethro-goro this joke is great
@isaiahhahm81
2 жыл бұрын
Top tier comment
@kanyewestbank9677
Жыл бұрын
Technically I’m gay
@macon8638
8 ай бұрын
@@kanyewestbank9677😭
@deepakm3668
4 жыл бұрын
You remind me of that one teacher in every school who asks questions, make students guess but never give the correct answer. 🤣🤣
@xxlextra4737
3 жыл бұрын
hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
@demitraferles7970
3 жыл бұрын
That is the best kind of teacher! They assume that you are capable of thinking. Unlike most teachers.
@Stettafire
3 жыл бұрын
The idea is that you think and you research (and no I don't mean wikipedia). It's really how things should be taught. You should be taught not about a thing but how to learn about a thing on your own because even as a professional you never stop learning
@fredjones7705
3 жыл бұрын
It's about the journey not the destination.
@johanrunfeldt7174
2 жыл бұрын
It's called "The Socratic Method", after Greek philosopher Socrates 470-399BC.
@westhansen4904
4 жыл бұрын
Very nice video and description of the dilemma. Just one correction: the team that re-discovered the headwaters of the Mantaro River as the most distant source was led by Rocky Contos. It was originally theorized by Loren McIntyre 20 years earlier. The first team to paddle from the Mantaro to the ocean was led by me, West Hansen.
@willywestsidee
2 жыл бұрын
That's cool, how old were you?
@thestral1676
Жыл бұрын
@@willywestsidee hes like 60, i found his website
@gnanaganesh5937
Жыл бұрын
kzitem.info/news/bejne/rHuP342qcYWfjYI .
@skyfeelan
7 ай бұрын
this is like the biggest flex ever
@julianbell9161
5 жыл бұрын
2:20 You basically explained integral calculus
@yniq9769
5 жыл бұрын
woow good observation. The length of the sides of the river becomes infinite but the surface area becomes more accurate
@kckdude913
5 жыл бұрын
Line integrals
@meandmetoo8436
5 жыл бұрын
"basically" because you can't start doing integral calculus with this explanation only.
@techfahim6137
4 жыл бұрын
Hahahahah that’s true
@techfahim6137
4 жыл бұрын
Yniq976 it becomes perfectly precise
@johan3561
5 жыл бұрын
10:26 Difficult for explorers to reach? Not if you have 3 second hand estate cars.
@natesmith9007
5 жыл бұрын
what i was gunna say
@mikrofonija8885
5 жыл бұрын
I was searching for Top Gear refrence.
@Persona1996
5 жыл бұрын
Johan Sadowski or your a British man
@ishandey6061
4 жыл бұрын
What if you give Jeremy Clarkson a massive SUV
@amicloud_yt
4 жыл бұрын
Welp... guess I gotta watch that special again
@jacoblees312
4 жыл бұрын
When he said “sadd = barrier” I felt that
@zxera9702
4 жыл бұрын
"Maricanos presaas"
@tovarischkarno4390
4 жыл бұрын
He wrote the Arabic backwards, he wrote the das
@raniayoussef5599
4 жыл бұрын
Except he reverse spelled in Arabic diss 🤣😂
@samuraiyasuke3709
3 жыл бұрын
Actually it is pronounced "sudud" in Arabic سدود
@YASSINAEGY
3 жыл бұрын
@@samuraiyasuke3709 what are u saying I am Egyptian and you say it is سدود but it is not it is سد bec. سدود is the plural of سد
@ssiipp7848
4 жыл бұрын
10:27 Breathtaking picture. The nature of the earth is absolutely beautiful
@danielmueller1443
4 жыл бұрын
Do you mean blyatiful.
@kaizermierkrazy6886
3 жыл бұрын
Of all the beautiful pictures is that really the most breathtaking? Its just trees. The Ethiopian highlands @ 7:30 ard truly amzaing
@ssiipp7848
3 жыл бұрын
@@kaizermierkrazy6886 I did not say it was the most breathtaking.
@ABC-fl8zb
5 жыл бұрын
I think you'll find a brave British expedition led by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May found the source of the Nile.
@idkman4655
4 жыл бұрын
I think that brave British expedition should stay on their island and live Americans to do expeditions from now on
@yanathanduru2828
4 жыл бұрын
The Nile was there while these people mentioned were still living in the caves. My ancestor swam in these rivers before you were even created.
@mazaga1850
4 жыл бұрын
Yanathan you're not making sense
@mazaga1850
4 жыл бұрын
Andrey Parunev the "british expedition" is for a tv show for cars.....
@KIM-xl6zs
4 жыл бұрын
Ive been there, its in Uganda near jinja, we don't need Jeremy Clarkson there
@Rhys123
5 жыл бұрын
I'm here before this blows up into a amazing channel-12/10/18
@AlvinBalvin321
5 жыл бұрын
2/22/2019
@easymac79
5 жыл бұрын
I came across this amazing channel on 2/23/19.
@inari.28
5 жыл бұрын
24/2/19
@comicbookguy2326
5 жыл бұрын
here at 10k subs
@GhostOfJulesVerne
5 жыл бұрын
20k subs yesterday, 25k today (2/24/19) :-0
@gothamjetskier776
4 жыл бұрын
Well thought out & great River info Sir. We thank you for your time putting this together.
@stevehinnenkamp5625
4 жыл бұрын
A crash course, but how concisely it conveyed the amazing ability of a river to enthrall us and mystify the experts. Rivers are like tornadoes--they have a mind of their own. Thank you for this marvelous video.
@sammuelle77
5 жыл бұрын
This is a great video man. Really good quality, informative and good graphics/animations. Now too binge watch all the rest.
@miZuTiERia
4 жыл бұрын
I was once googling for this question many years ago and in the end it turned out to be confusing and frustrating me more. Now I understand why this is so hard to be determined. Thanks for the useful info.
@nongthip
4 жыл бұрын
Easy: the Nile starts where it leaves Lake Victoria, making the Amazon the world's longest river. Top Gear reconfirmed that in season 19, but then were required to muck around looking for some other "source" to fill out a two-hour two-part Africa Special. Argument settled - Lake Victoria is the source.
@anon2427
4 жыл бұрын
nongthip yeah but where in lake Victoria is the source? Lake Victoria is massive
@mocua2910
3 жыл бұрын
The nile is the longest on earth but not largest in water volume than the amazon river. The Amazon river is the largest by water volume but not longer than the nile river.
@guilhermeweber2340
2 жыл бұрын
@@mocua2910 did you even watch the whole video?
@westhansen5735
Жыл бұрын
@@mocua2910 Are you using the same parameters to measure the Nile and the Amazon? If so, what are they?
@chris_1825
3 жыл бұрын
The video: “nobody really knows who discovered the true source of the Nile” Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond: 👁👄👁
@Zeroneii3
3 жыл бұрын
he said that no one has discovered the true source of the Nile yet
@lejibus
3 жыл бұрын
Just found this video. Immediately went to comments to see if this was mentioned. Not disappointed.
@AndrewHiggins9
3 жыл бұрын
I think you're missing his point. The physical facts are known and not in dispute. The question is about what we mean by "The Nile." Does it refer to the same thing as it did in the ancient or medieval eras, or does it have a new meaning in light of our more advanced knowledge of water flow through the region? This debate is similar to the debate regarding Pluto, prior to the general consensus that it's not a planet. None of the physical facts about Pluto were disputed, it's a question about the meaning of the words.
@redactedz6146
3 жыл бұрын
@@AndrewHiggins9 Lmao as I watched forward, the sheer technicalities and efforts to find out its length are boggling. Hopefully new expeditions are/have been funded for this
@nuclearnadal4601
3 жыл бұрын
I see you are a man of culture as well 😏
@kayzeaza
5 жыл бұрын
They should get Saudi Arabia to measure the distance since they have no rivers haahhaha
@ASWE15
5 жыл бұрын
we have tho
@techy5045
5 жыл бұрын
@@ASWE15 self made ones LMAO
@jerryspringer5211
5 жыл бұрын
Since they have no rivers they wouldn't know how to measure one. So no, it wouldn't work :))
@jerryspringer5211
5 жыл бұрын
@@ASWE15 it's a joke man, don't get too salty ;)
@waylong4797
5 жыл бұрын
Lol even singapore has a *3 kilometer* river. I cant bother to change to miles. So suck it.
@mattllaves
5 жыл бұрын
What if somebody pees on the source of the nile
@ilo3456
5 жыл бұрын
It will most likely up to some degree have the possibility of reachingthe mediterranean
@mr.dawson9141
5 жыл бұрын
someone in my class asked if the yellow river is yellow because people pee in it
@tudormardare66
5 жыл бұрын
You have to do it all year round, without stopping from peeing to change the length of the river.
@shakibm1558
5 жыл бұрын
@@ilo3456 global warming will end
@piteoswaldo
5 жыл бұрын
You'll have the longest pee ever.
@Marina-xu9rr
3 жыл бұрын
Amazon River is the longest, the biggest, the everything when talking about water. Under the Amazon River bed there is another Amazon river flowing, so we have to count it twice.
@cmlds
3 жыл бұрын
@Sebbo h It's not a river, is a large aquifer, so it doesn't count here.
@johnt3606
3 жыл бұрын
@@cmlds while it's called a river it will always be the longest river for me lol.
@cmlds
3 жыл бұрын
It's not correct to call it a river.
@johnt3606
3 жыл бұрын
@@cmlds Yes but it's on its name
@pandorski35000
2 жыл бұрын
There's also a river above, the transpiration of the forest, it's the flying river, a lot of water too
@johanherrera6413
4 жыл бұрын
Amazon hands down. Why? Because I'm southamerican, long live regional bias.
@carlosalbertofernandezvele7574
4 жыл бұрын
I'd give you more than one like just because all amazonian rivers mentioned are from my 🇵🇪
@larrylarry9962
4 жыл бұрын
Upload a video
@hobogrifter
4 жыл бұрын
I'm from the US America bias
@johanherrera6413
4 жыл бұрын
@@pinheadtheyumenikkifananti6969 ohh look someone couldn't get a joke and attempted to sound deep and meaningful TO A JOKE. Can you guess who is it?
@johanherrera6413
4 жыл бұрын
@@hobogrifter my kind of bro!!! Continental bias FTW!!
@nirvanistu
5 жыл бұрын
Although i love geography i wouldn't have thought that i will enjoy a geography YT channel. Well, you proved me wrong and i thank you for that. Amazingly well done, each and every one of your videos. Respect.
@currentgiant7498
5 жыл бұрын
Endlessly fascinating, was worth a second viewing. Thanks for sharing and creating content!
@garoul17
4 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see the comparisons of the Yangtze, Yellow, and Indus rivers, in regards to overall length based on presumed or identified source.
@DS-ud6ys
6 ай бұрын
Francisco de Orellana traveled the entire length of the Amazon in 1542. "River of Darkness" is an absolutely fascinated book about this adventure.
@LIOTBs
4 жыл бұрын
Very well thought out, researched, and presented! Thanks!
@yourroyalhighness7662
4 жыл бұрын
The river that hold’s the title for being the longest may be in dispute. The river that holds the title for being the world’s GREATEST is beyond dispute. The mighty Amazon dwarfs all other rivers. It’s discharge into the Atlantic Ocean is so powerful that the ocean’s water is fresh for up to 100 miles from where the Amazon empties into it.
@tonyh7994
3 жыл бұрын
That's crazy wow
@r3cy
3 жыл бұрын
if this channel has taught me anything, it's that there's a bigger river under the ice somewhere.
@RossomeOfficial
3 жыл бұрын
I are back to re-watch some older videos and my golly have you evolved greatly over 3 years!
@zacharywoodman6445
5 жыл бұрын
I was half expecting you to go all "while if underwater rivers count, the deep ocean thermohaline current running from the North Atlantic to the North Pacific is the longest" which would have been weak
@musaran2
5 жыл бұрын
That would be stretching it. But if you want complications, changes in ocean level will give you plenty.
@zacharywoodman6445
5 жыл бұрын
Not to mention inaccuracies in bathymetric measurements that deep. But, by any measurement, it would be longer than any sensible measurement of either the amazon or Nile. But yeah, nobody would call a deep sea current a "river" sensibly.
@doubleaa6980
5 жыл бұрын
Man I also thought the same that he will surely go under the oceans 😂 and I am lowkey disappointed.
@hydrodwarf
4 жыл бұрын
A saline river that traverses up & down deep ocean currents? mmm.
@nigelrg1
5 жыл бұрын
Very interesting, and well presented. I hadn't thought there was any question about the Nile being the longest.
@EM-qx3hx
3 жыл бұрын
Fascinating video, full of data and beautiful images, thank you!
@i.s6982
4 жыл бұрын
Love this channel!!! Sooo interesting!!! If you can please make a video about permafrost. It would be a great continuation of the previous videos
@lukas.caldwell
5 жыл бұрын
Why am I not surprised people are arguing over a river.
@thelinedrive
5 жыл бұрын
Can I Get 1000 Subscribers Without any videos? Because nerds are wonderful pedantic assholes and they must be treasured for this.
@vinnie4538
5 жыл бұрын
Because your an intellectual
@wild1p329
5 жыл бұрын
@@vinnie4538 *you're 😝
@jobvandelaar7977
5 жыл бұрын
People want others to say that they are right and everyone has different opinions, so they will argue until someone says that he is right. Then they go play Fortnite again lmao😂
@jacoblees312
4 жыл бұрын
Wild1 P 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 𝑔𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑚.
@appleislander8536
5 жыл бұрын
I'm half expecting them to find a couple of extra, tiny little tributaries and add and 1000 km to both.
@anthonyappleyard5688
3 жыл бұрын
The length of the Amazon depends on whether you include the course south of Isla de Marajo, or whether you treat it as part of the Rio Tocantins.
@overlandme
2 жыл бұрын
Wonderful info...never thought it is like this...thanks for sharing
@aleshiatisha4897
3 жыл бұрын
Ever since going to school I was thought that the world's longest river is the river Nile
@lukitasmol10
3 жыл бұрын
And i was thought the Amazon was longer, with no lake Victoria and its source cheating.
@UltimateDurzan
2 жыл бұрын
Guess you could say, you were IN DE NILE
@jerrycollinsomondi873
2 жыл бұрын
@@lukitasmol10 How can you start measuring the length of a river without establishing its source.The Amazon source is obvious while that of the Nile is yet to be resolved.There is cheating there.,And if you Amazons insist on competing a solo race then obviously you win.I.e in that solo race of yours become the 1st & the bottom.Fact,the source of River Nile lies South of L.Victoria.It can as well even be R. Limpopo or L.Tanganyika.That is the mystic Nile for you.Cradle of mankind.
@easymac79
5 жыл бұрын
9:58 I'd say it should be marked by two lengths, in a 3D space, straight, from the mouth of the Kagera to the geographic and vertical center of the lake, and then straight again, to the Nile. The only way to be more accurate, IMO, would be to actually map the flow of the lake, and factor in flow volume of each tributary, and all of this changes with the season so it is a truly daunting question. But theoretically, if you could map all of the water molecules and determine it's sort of "predominant flow", that would be a solid basis for a final answer.
@ashisroy8895
2 жыл бұрын
very descriptive and full of new infos. Thanks.
@creounity
4 жыл бұрын
8:22 the letters are in the wrong order: in Arabic they should do right-to-left, and in this case must be connected in writing (i.e., سد).
@NeopreneLinguist
4 жыл бұрын
Exactly - the video shows "duss" in Arabic!
@soos4719
4 жыл бұрын
"Dus"
@ihtesham_emon
4 жыл бұрын
I also thought the same, but wanna see more about Saad in any other video.
@jjsdumbshit2792
3 жыл бұрын
@ThirdeyeStrike k
@sifridbassoon
4 жыл бұрын
Great video! It had never occurred to me to add in the rivers that flow into Victoria.
@bryandepaepe5984
3 жыл бұрын
This is good life lesson about that every seemingly simple answer to a simple question has a "depends" in it and the devil is always in the details.
@edwinreveron870
4 жыл бұрын
Based on this information, I personally no longer considered the Nile River the longest, the Amazon River is obviously much bigger, because all connecting rivers should be counted as one river....
@ricardoreis9503
3 жыл бұрын
Nile too
@siphesihledlamini4413
2 жыл бұрын
Very clear explanations bro big ups man 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽
@WyeExplorer
4 жыл бұрын
That was super. I've walked every river of the Wye my humble local river in the UK and Wales and my brother and I always used to debate the sources of some of these and say that, in fact, it's the overall area with its streams and rivulets that forms the source of a river at its head. Who can say? I think it's down to the explorer that gets right up there. Mark
@alexjago51
5 жыл бұрын
It seems pretty obvious to me that the distance through the lake should follow the low-point from the bottom of the tributary river to the mouth of the lake. I.E. if you drained the lake, what path would the river take?
@piteoswaldo
5 жыл бұрын
I think the line of highest flow should be the one used. Slightly harder to measure than in your definition, as you need to map the speed of the water at every depth. Also, his definition of which tributary to follow is completely wrong. At every junction, you should always follow the one with highest flow, the one which contributes most water to the river. Not the longest, to artificially inflate the length numbers.
@alexjago51
5 жыл бұрын
A line directly from the mouth of a tributary to the lake outflow isn't the direct equivalent of a line down the centre of the river. What I'm arguing for is to follow the path that the river would continue along if all the water in the lake suddenly disappeared.
@alexjago51
5 жыл бұрын
I'm not saying "no water" I'm saying "temporarily empty the lake and see where the river flows"
@AG-ig8uf
5 жыл бұрын
"I.E. if you drained the lake, what path would the river take?" emm.. no path ? It will fill in drained lake and only then flow as it used to.
@1TakoyakiStore
5 жыл бұрын
This is how the Lakes of the Saint John's River in Florida are measured but that doesn't help if the Lakebed is hypothetically perfectly flat.
@adon2424
4 жыл бұрын
Great Info! Fantastic Delivery!!
@indrajitgupta3280
3 жыл бұрын
Fascinating! Thanks very much.
@rilluma
5 жыл бұрын
This CHANNEL contains only QUALITY CONTENT. Expotential growth will be expected in time perioid of 2019-2020. KEEP UP THE VERY GOOD WORK, like you have done this far. ! GodSpeed !
@zulumike3228
5 жыл бұрын
6:15 "and now, onto the Nile." (Shows footage of Lake Powell, AZ.)
@charsbob
3 жыл бұрын
Fascinating. Well done.
@jliller
4 жыл бұрын
Q: What is the longest river in the world? A: Semantics, the river that takes us all to hell.
@anujagunasekera3120
4 жыл бұрын
River Stix
@zahrans
4 жыл бұрын
Flint River
@luqmaanabrahams1971
5 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure Top Gear found the source of the Nile
@whynotbanana
5 жыл бұрын
was about to say that haha
@thuokbestinalt6413
4 жыл бұрын
Tanganyika of course
@Benjy52
4 жыл бұрын
Luqmaan Abrahams Exactly. How would Atlas not know this? Oh wait he’s Am-
@anthonyappleyard5688
3 жыл бұрын
Originally the Amazon flowed west into the Pacific, until the Andes arose and reversed the drainage. Given that, the longest known river that ever was, was the Congo flowing into the Amazon, when Africa was joined onto South America, before continental drift opened the Atlantic Ocean in the Triassic or Jurassic.
@benyaminbrm4739
3 жыл бұрын
Nice work and video bro, keep up good work 😉🤗
@syed79able
4 жыл бұрын
Great info. So much more then I've ever heard
@andreluizbutzkedallacorte5242
5 жыл бұрын
The Amazon river actually is called Solimões until it reaches the Negro around the Amazon Forest biggest city, Manaus. After that it is called Amazon.
@lin7823
5 жыл бұрын
That's only what the Brazilians call it
@lin7823
5 жыл бұрын
@no. But that was mentioned in the video, so your comment literally has no point, and the Brazilians didn't name it
@thekingcreeperissexy
5 жыл бұрын
i like how the river it reaches is called the "negro" river lol
@cynzix
5 жыл бұрын
Rio Negro e Solimões? I thought they were singers 😄
@pedrosalvador1146
5 жыл бұрын
@@thekingcreeperissexy Because it is a black river, lel, negro in Portuguese means black
@user-gr9fq9gt9w
5 жыл бұрын
8:22 Arabic should be written from right to left. Istead of SADD you wrote "DS"
@lEGOBOT2565
5 жыл бұрын
The Arabic is correct, the Latinization is also correct
@Leoptxr
5 жыл бұрын
@@lEGOBOT2565 دسّ (dass) is not سدّ (sadd)
@tttylerpantsthesquirrel2814
5 жыл бұрын
Just like Hebrew! (I see your name)
@ishmamtaahasattar4810
5 жыл бұрын
Thnx for correction (as nobody is correcting it that's why thnx)
@mohammadsabah8619
5 жыл бұрын
Are you now going to bomb gaza for that????
@SubieSpecs
3 жыл бұрын
@6:00 Hey, I've been there! That's the view from "The Chasm", a little walking track in Milford Sound, New Zealand. Nice.
@vampireducks1622
3 жыл бұрын
Really enjoyed this. Good research. Subscribed.
@vampireducks1622
3 жыл бұрын
The point at the end about the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics seemed a bit odd. My guess is they'd care more about their reputation for scientific accuracy than competing claims to having the longest river.
@vampireducks1622
3 жыл бұрын
Great animantions and graphics, by the way. I particularly loved 2:27 to 2:37.
@somepersononplanetearth9577
3 жыл бұрын
@@vampireducks1622 you realise brazil's leader is basically donald trump? they DO NOT care about science.
@vampireducks1622
3 жыл бұрын
@@somepersononplanetearth9577 My guess is that the Brazilian Institude of Geography and Statistics in no more Bolsonaro-like than NASA, say, is Trump-like. Generalizing from one person to an entire country or scientific community is absurd. Your argument would also imply that scientists or people generally in the USA don't care about science, since the US leader is also "basically Donald Trump".
@somepersononplanetearth9577
3 жыл бұрын
@@vampireducks1622 yeah but in the us the government doesn't care about science at all, trump literally asked people to inject themselves with bleach.
@angrypossumsx1259
5 жыл бұрын
Are the Mountains of the Moon still considered to be one of the sources of the Nile?
@mohamedfarah7555
5 жыл бұрын
TOP GEAR HAS FOUND THE SOURCE OF THE NILE
@shebbs1
5 жыл бұрын
Not sure if that is officially recognised.
@sunnyjim1355
5 жыл бұрын
@@@shebbs1 Of course it isn't, because it was done by white men.
@arturmizuno893
5 жыл бұрын
@@sunnyjim1355 salty, i like it
@JamesDavy2009
5 жыл бұрын
@@sunnyjim1355 Wasn't David Livingstone a white man? He was the guy that spurred the Scramble for Africa.
@johnkean6852
4 жыл бұрын
....humungus EGO though?
@jeremypeirson6840
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you. A very interesting and educational exploration. In the end we marvel at the wonderful complexities of earth and nature and how they continue to baffle man's attempts to box them into order. What a beautiful earth! What an amazing and complex creation!
@ardabaser1349
3 жыл бұрын
Damn, there are a lot of numbers and names I didn't know. So informative! At the end of the video: Oh they are Brasilian. WHAT A COINCIDENCE!
@bonob0123
4 жыл бұрын
Nile is clearly longer in straight length distance. Amazon is clearly longer by path length and obviously has more volume of water
@jetterofletcher5682
5 жыл бұрын
The River of Pain, Heartache, and Disappointment...
@madhumaulik171
2 жыл бұрын
Really educative &gives a satisfied feeling of virtual voyages through, in
@madhumaulik171
2 жыл бұрын
I couldn't finish my original write up. I wanted to state that the video provided an excellent virtual voyages through the world's longest two rivers.
@solootto
4 жыл бұрын
Watching from Botswana bro !! Just discovered your channel fr
@felixdubiswolf3371
5 жыл бұрын
It's not about size, it's about your impact on the ecosystem.
@benadryl9192
5 жыл бұрын
Well then it’s amazon. Or the people that chop the trees down
@henriquesoares2343
5 жыл бұрын
Actually its the Nile because it is the sole source of water in the middle of the desert, making it surroundings the only arable land in hundreds of miles while the Amazon is one of many big rivers in the region, to the point that one of its tributaries has the fifth biggest volume of water of all the rivers in the world
@benadryl9192
5 жыл бұрын
Henrique Soares yeah sure Nile was the heart of a 9k year old civilization but the Amazon has 1/5 of the most types of animals and is getting cut down so a lot of the animals are dying
@availabIe
4 жыл бұрын
@@benadryl9192 That doesn't mean anything. The Nile has been, is and probably will still be more important for humans than the Amazon.
@benadryl9192
4 жыл бұрын
unavailable agreed but I never brought up humans. I think that the Amazon has a bigger impact on animals than the Nile
@DanParkerFilms
4 жыл бұрын
Not even a single mention of James May and the Top Gear lads finding the source of the Nile, disappointing.
@rastaborko2333
3 жыл бұрын
Source of Nile is Ethiopia
@syafiqzr7326
2 жыл бұрын
Ah I see you're a man of culture as well
@sebbo_h7121
2 жыл бұрын
@@rastaborko2333 no
@TheBrass18
2 жыл бұрын
I know, I was waiting for that reference!
@HotelPapa100
2 жыл бұрын
Well, the name of the Channel is "Atlas Pro", not "Pop Culture Pro"
@fromthefareast2707
4 жыл бұрын
The confusion of River Nile's mouth is more confusing than my life's confusion.
@baguettegott3409
2 жыл бұрын
The background music is so funny to me, I was dancing along the entire time. Interesting video nontheless
@ReisenderRaumplaner
4 жыл бұрын
the longest river is the Congo-Amazon River.... at least historically....
@synceware1453
3 жыл бұрын
Please elaborate?!
@ReisenderRaumplaner
3 жыл бұрын
@@synceware1453 when Africa and South America 300 Mill. years ago were one continent, a river that sourced where nowadays Congo sources flew from there throug the whole cotinent till the Pacific Ocean. At that time the Andes were only small hills. When the continents broke up and the Andes were built the river separated in today's Congo and Amazon. The Amazon had till about 50 Mill years ago a big waterfall into the Atlantic Ocean.
@synceware1453
3 жыл бұрын
@@ReisenderRaumplaner while im sceptic of the certainty with which you present theories about the geological features of land 300 million years ago as given facts, I thank you for your quick reply. That would have been one *thick* river indeed!
@ReisenderRaumplaner
3 жыл бұрын
@@synceware1453 there enough hints claiming the theory as a plausible fact. Of course, it was big and thick.
@SuperSMT
3 жыл бұрын
It's not like the Andes shifted the slope of the entire continent of South America... it's doubtful the entire Amazon could possibly have changed direction....
@vanta1140
4 жыл бұрын
You've got your facts wrong. Top Gear discovered the TRUE source of the Nile.
@DavidKing-qt2vx
4 жыл бұрын
I’m very disappointed that wasn’t the picture they used for “throughout all of history”
@MalletCNCWorks
4 жыл бұрын
You had me at Top gear!
@stefan5046
4 жыл бұрын
Wasn't it grand tour the same but i think it was season 3
@XEddieX24
4 жыл бұрын
That was my favorite episode. That Africa adventure was amazing 👍
@FredLimestone
4 жыл бұрын
@@stefan5046 no it was top gear
@itznotmytube
Жыл бұрын
Dangit, we come to you for answers, man! :D Great video, really interesting. iirc, some of the more recent videos discussed searching for the source from the southern end, as you mentioned. 🐧
@stephenwagobiwealthy1
3 жыл бұрын
Great content watching from Uganda, the source of the river Nile
@Airbourne92
5 жыл бұрын
Who's with me on team Amazon?
@MrBeiragua
5 жыл бұрын
Go Amazon! Go IBGE!
@The_Daily_Tomato
5 жыл бұрын
I'm right there with you ;) #TeamAmazon
@starmax1000
5 жыл бұрын
Me! Kinda biased though, live somewhat near an Amazon tributary so....
@splashnskillz37
5 жыл бұрын
Me
@appa609
5 жыл бұрын
Just started work at a fulfilment center
@minemilx2702
4 жыл бұрын
Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond knows.
@jjsdumbshit2792
3 жыл бұрын
what is it tho
@davidmantz2190
3 жыл бұрын
If anyone is wondering, when a river bends and breaks as shown in the video, it's called an Oxbow lake.
@SamuelMortimerSmile
4 жыл бұрын
this was really helpful for my online school!
@patrickpomphrett8256
2 жыл бұрын
You have provided a very interesting analysis and very educational. But it could be considered to be missing one key question. Do you measure from the coast or from the point in the river where the water is brackish, or is defined as saline. If you add that to the mix the amazon wins outright.
@ricardomatheus3758
4 жыл бұрын
Answer: There is no consensus between Amazon or Nile. In my opinion, Amazon since they included lakes in the measurement of Nilo.
@jumajasjas2925
4 жыл бұрын
Nile is far longer... this video is propaganda against Africa... Nile is originated from Lake Victoria ib east Africa one of the largest lakes in the world...
@alpacawithouthat987
4 жыл бұрын
Jumajas Jas Just because a river is connected to a large lake doesn’t mean the lake should be included in the measurement
@ramy131
3 жыл бұрын
Thomas Gray Africa is exotic. South America is disgusting
@BLKCLVR
4 жыл бұрын
This was awesome!
@anitaaliwonyamusoke9542
4 жыл бұрын
The Nile crosses through Lake Victoria and you can see its path from the surrounds of the lake, in Uganda. (A silver road in the waters) You have to carefully navigate across the river running through the lake, while using a boat because its turbulent. The waters of the Nile look different inside the lake.
@rastaborko2333
3 жыл бұрын
My friend the source of Nile is Ethiopia!!!!
@nategz9875
5 жыл бұрын
Amazon Is clearly bigger. Just look at all the tributaries and add them up. The Amazon is the largest river system.
@sunnyjim1355
5 жыл бұрын
You clearly don't understand the defference between 'largest' and 'longest'... something which any hetro woman knows.
@Matheus-hj8ye
5 жыл бұрын
@@borhanuddintvif they don't know the source, than it's not the longest
@juzcosma5109
5 жыл бұрын
Nathaniel Gomez I disagree with you
@kikolapersona
4 жыл бұрын
@@sunnyjim1355 Its longer and larger....
@ronh2660
3 жыл бұрын
May, along with Clarkson & Hammond, found the source of the Nile
@samuelmade5776
3 жыл бұрын
I see you're a man of culture as well
@mwanykange
2 жыл бұрын
INTERESTING AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH
@notfrayed
3 жыл бұрын
For a second I swear Bob from Bob's Burgers was narrating lol! Nice vid tho and good info, keep it up:)
@MpmSuhail
5 жыл бұрын
my middle school textbook: Amazon in the largest river and the Nile is the longest river.
@howtubeable
5 жыл бұрын
I don't know if that's true, but it's a good compromise.
@anisa.......6592
4 жыл бұрын
which means you are the only one who stadied a fair school😂😂😂😂
@Stettafire
3 жыл бұрын
In mine it was the Amazon, but then I'm British and that same textbook um... glossed over history, let's say. Colonism? What colonism? 🤐😨
@aayushguptaghosh5047
3 жыл бұрын
Amazon is far longer than nile !
@aimeerose4086
4 жыл бұрын
They say no one knows the source of the Nile? Say that to Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond!
@hanifbashir745
3 жыл бұрын
Very true...thanks millions
@giladwasheretravel3553
4 жыл бұрын
Another awesome video man. you're great. At 8:17, I thought you might like to know, you're spelling the Arabic Sadd backwards. It happens often. Arabic, like Hebrew, is written right to left.
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