SciShow - 2019-01-27
Even science can't yet explain these 7 extremely cool, weird phenomena in the universe, despite decades or even centuries of research. Hosted by: Olivia Gordon SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Alex Schuerch, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Ball Lightning https://phys.org/news/2012-10-mystery-ball-lightning.html https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/periodically-i-hear-stori/ https://www.livescience.com/61946-ball-lightning-quantum-particle.html https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.048501 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/252000845_The_Riddle_of_Ball_Lightning_A_Review https://books.google.com/books?id=TCTpu1UVFsYC&pg=PA633#v=onepage&q&f=false Skyquakes http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141202-mystery-booms-whats-the-cause http://www.seismosoc.org/Publications/SRL/SRL_82/srl_82-5_op/hill_op.html http://www.wnpr.org/post/loud-booms-caused-microearthquakes-seismologist-says Fast Radio Bursts https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/astronomers-trace-fast-radio-burst-to-a-surprising-source/ https://aasnova.org/2017/09/20/a-fast-radio-burst-every-second/ Star Jelly https://biomeecology.com/nature/2018/02/what-is-star-jelly/ https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-enduring-myth-of-star-jelly-1693997962 https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4299 https://www.nature.com/articles/083492a0 https://tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0015587X.1984.9716316 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-05239-7_5 Forest Rings https://www.cbc.ca/news2/background/tech/science/forest-rings.html http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/10.1139/b01-022#.XBEZdnpKj9R https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/starweb/geoscan/servlet.starweb?path=geoscan/fulle.web&search1=R=210206 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1758-2229.12678 https://www.northernontariobusiness.com/industry-news/green/searching-for-gas-in-the-swampy-far-north-364148 Hessdalen Lights https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Massimo_Teodorani/publication/228609015_A_long-term_scientific_survey_of_the_Hessdalen_phenomenon/links/55141e340cf283ee0834a6a5.pdf https://www.nature.com/webcasts/event/optical-trapping-of-ion-coulomb-crystals/ https://io9.gizmodo.com/what-causes-the-hessdalen-lights-1653174566 https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229680-600-norse-ufos-what-are-the-glowing-orbs-of-hessdalen/ Desert Varnish http://minerals.gps.caltech.edu/FILES/VARNISH/Index.html https://www.nps.gov/articles/desertvarnish.htm https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2006/07/solving-mystery-desert-varnish https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/apr/14/shadow-biosphere-alien-life-on-earth Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ball_lightning.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ball_lightning.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:F-18_Hornet_performs_a_fly_by_on_the_USS_Dwight_D._Eisenhower.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D8%B2%D8%AE%D8%A9_%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%A8_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gashydrat_im_Sediment.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tetrakaidecahedral_methane_clathrate1.png https://www.videoblocks.com/video/slow-motion-time-lapse-of-clouds-rolling-in-the-sky-q9s8c4z https://freesound.org/people/bajko/sounds/399656/ https://vimeo.com/146295242 - https://public.nrao.edu/media-use/ https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13058 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11530 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20267 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Star_jelly_-_lindsey.jpg https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3777341 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12602 https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3889121 https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1214339 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frog_in_frogspawn.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yellow_slime_mold.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goldgelber_Zitterling_-_Tremella_mesenterica_-_yellow_brain_-_Tr%C3%A9melle_m%C3%A9sent%C3%A9rique_-_golden_jelly_fungus_-_01.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/adonofrio/6268871099 - www.biology101.org https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cyanobacteria_Nostoc_commune.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boreal_Forest_Ring.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk842pg0Pvs https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Desert_varnish.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valley_of_Fire_petroglyphs.jpg
"The more we know, the more we know we don't know."
-Somebody probably said this but I dont know who
@MrDW- Valid but false
Seriously...we don't know much.
well I said that.
True “intelligence” is the realization that we know nothing at all. We observe and define through a greatly limited and biased perception. We don’t define the universe. The universe defines us.
@Tiffany k You know the names, but do you REALLY know who they are?
She's not saying it's aliens... But it's aliens.
@Mister Physics don't want to believe? then don't! what you think or believe makes no difference to anyone! Hau'oli Makahiki Hou!!
Aliens lol!!!
Fajar Adi It is considered offensive but it is also not the correct term
Its other worldly, spiritual balls of energy. My sister and her ex saw one (I think they said green or blue) this was right around when she would become pregnant the first time. WELL I SOLVED THAT, I believe it's a spirit scouting a couple of places it would make home.
I would like to know if she saw this ball lightning (WHAT COLOR WAS ITS AURA??I tend to see these anyway🎅) before she got pregnant and wont share her experience just run around in circles, inbred maze inherently?
Some of it is womans inbred sexual fantasies, which straight men almost never understand. WOMEN ARE PRIMARILY INFECTED WITH JOCASTA COMPLEX, there's a few other terms for it. Then there's judges (his mothers, daughters, and dead grandmas chivalrous handsome gentleman) sentence men as guilty more frequently and 4 times longer....if two people call the cops the man is arrested? ?star jelly, come on, seriously its fungal or microbial. Messy and strange, naturally (not parasitic sex offenders)
So the ocean farts and the sky tells everyone about it.... Neat.
true,true
"The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know." Albert Einstein.
Absolutely!!
all the way back from Socrates but ok
No truer words have been spoken. The more i study and research the more i realize there is so much more i dont know....
all clickbait channels going for "TOP 7 QUESTIONS SCIENCE CAN'T ANSWER" and using alien and ghost thumbnails.
meanwhile scishow going for actual science.
you sound like a loser
@MO JO and you sound like a little boy who snuck on his mommy's computer!
Now, step away from the big people's machine before your mommy catches you. If she does, you won't be allowed to fingerpaint later.
And you know how much you like that.
Remember?
Now be a good little moron and go play with your jello.
@MO JO go eat more lead paint chips now. They are tasty. BattousaiHBr is right.. you want a laugh, you watch this channel, you want real, proven science, you watch Scishow channel
@L Bigelow aaa, this is SciShow channel ...those tasty lead chips were fed to a few people out there in net land i see ..we best look out for those guys , right @L Bigelow ?? the crazy fools wear off on ya huh ? .. smh ...
*yet solved. 😉
Love your work Cody!
THERMITE HOUSE
Do I know u?
Ooh so clever
Woah This is og Cody 😲
No. 1
Why flat earthers and antivaxxers still exist.
oh ... anti-vaccination
@its10:32 pm especially "the narrative"
@VeggyZ guys we found one
it is ok to mock flat earthers but it is NOT okay to bully the vax concerned, ASBESTOS, ROUNDUP, VAXXES, give humans Cancer
@VeggyZ vaccine doesn't guarantee not getting disease, it reduces chances by making our body produce antibodies for the microbes and store it's information for future use. Vaccines is the reason small pox has been eradicated, polio is almost eradicated, measles is so rare. Go and study
All of the ideas for forest rings don't explain why they are in perfect circles though. My immediate thought is that these are ancient impact craters that have been completely worn away by erosion, leaving some sort of deposit around the edge of it that is making the soil in that ring less fertile. Could be a chemical compound, could be slightly radioactive material, or something else. But yeah, it's a very old crater.
Actually if you look into how magnetism interacts with itself, you'll see it might actually make sense.
Imagine taking the negative end of a magnet and sticking it nearby some magnetic dust. It immediately forms a circle around the magnet trying to "get away" from the polarity at all costs.
If you take 2 same ends of magnets themselves and try to put them together, they repel in a circle. You can go around and around, but never touch the magnets together.
That was my first thought as well. Even if the crater gets filled in, they still end up leaving a geological scar- you're not going to get a completely even distribution of sediment type, and that could effect how plants grow. Earth has been hit by meteors every bit as often as the moon has, but the moon has no atmosphere, so its meteor hits are more discernible.
It's a retarding agent at work continuously over say 10,000 years , the center is the oldest area of failures , it doesn't matter the bacteria virus toxin or genetic experiments being run . Perfect circle is one error.rate of change from point of infection equals a ray , or a vector of change , Delta . Bubbles , go get a bachlors degree in something sciency , an come talk.
And here i thought it was fairies. :(
Forest rings, fairy circles - very different than what she's talking about. Tree "circles are simply explained" (google that), now take a gander at this
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/namibia-fairy-circles-mystery-new-theory/index.html
The circle she's talking about is uniquely different. It too large to be just trees dropping cones in a "circle" around itself.
"Stimulated emission" yes, I'm familiar with that.
My favourite type of science,
Test that every second day
Hahahahaha
Came looking for this, was not disappointed!
All knowledge came from the question, “What is that goo?” Time and money should be a nonissue.
Can 100% vouch for the submarine one. Old bastard I knew was talking about submerging and how everyone just always got out of a hallway because the equipment was known to fire a ball of electricity down the hall. Wasn't even a story about the ball of electricity...the way he talked about it made it feel so common place and expected it was strange. More a "who doesn't just see balls of electricity shot down a hall?" Than a "you won't believe the ball of lightning!"
Thats battery spark. Old subs ran on batteries and they often arched and discharged. Not ball lightning.
When you said "microbes far underground" I heard it as "microbes fart underground," and since you were talking about methane, I didn't think anything of it for a second.
Maybe you solved one mystery. :D
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But seriously, microbes DO fart underground!
@David K lmao
I heard it too. I guess it was because we were primed by the methane talk.
I LOVE science mysteries!!! I was always disappointed as a child when something potentially mysterious was explained with ease. (Disappointed because, well...everyone loves a mystery) we are all (sometimes ) looking for something exciting like out of a book or movie. And it is soooo much fun when science mysteries have that....like quantum physics. Sometimes the most mysterious things have the most amazing answers. It is enjoyable to conjecture the possibilities. My absolute number one science mystery is the double slit experiment. A friend of mine who is a physicist once repeated a quote to me that i adore...”if you say that you understand quantum physics, then it is obvious that you know nothing about quantum physics.”
The shadow biosphere is such an intriguing idea! I love how this channel expands my horizons, thanks SciShow
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4:56 it's just shaggy using 10% of his power to fight them aliens
:D haha
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Not "ET trying to 'get in touch'."
It's "ET trying to phone home."
how did you miss that?! :)
[8:26] I could've swore she said "Microbes fart underground, might produce methane." Ironically, the sentence still holds true.
1:36 I like how she says "loose balls".
10:55 I was JUST there, and took a picture of the same petroglyph! Its in the Valley of Fire in Nevada.
Very curious... In my country (Colombia), there is a Myth called "La bola de fuego" ("The fire ball") and you find people that saw this phenomenon. Most of them think this is some kind of spirit...
Just some info, for those who like to learn about foreign folklore.
Thank you :)
We called it Santilmo in Philippines, unrestful spirits/ghosts.
Joan Llamedo it’s also called
A soucoyant in the caribbean
Those are called "lampor" in mine.
Most of these were strand weather phenomena or unknown things from outer space and it is a nice reminder that even though we have come a long way compared to our knowledge from even only 100 years ago, it is still not everything. We will never know everything, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try getting closer.
Doctor Queasy So then you would want to stay away from “we will eventually know everything”—-for me, this a much more difficult absolute to accept.
@putsome basilonit YEA, BUT TO WHAT END..? I'M TIRED OF PAYING FOR A RICH MAN'S HOBBIES..! WHAT'S THE RUSH ANYWAY. YOU OR YOUR KIDS ARE NEVER GOING ANYWHERE, OR OFF MOON AT BEST.. FEELS LIKE A TRICK TO ME FOOGE..! MADD
@A Frog Yet we likely have no way of knowing the past - so even our own history will remain a mystery even if we do have an eternity.
@Madd Man If you aren't paying for a rich man's potentially beneficial hobbies, you'll be paying for the stupid and lazy who don't want to work, now that half the country thinks socialism / communism are going to somehow solve all their problems, despite destroying pretty much every society they emerge in (because wealth has to be generated, and the only way to do that is to REWARD people for hard work and ingenuity - which is the opposite of both socialism and communism)
Not entirely true.
#3 FRB's
What! You guys haven't heard there has already been another repeating FRB detection from CHIME?
Yup. They should update their video since that's a significant and misleading oversight.
Maybe they don't read Science News. This one was from January 9th: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/second-repeating-fast-radio-burst-tracked-distant-galaxy
Perhaps they shot this video before January 9th and haven't been keeping track of every bit of science news ever. I wish they would update their video, as it IS significant information, but we know that won't happen. Stuff is constantly changing, they can't keep going back and redoing them. Perhaps they'll do a scishow news about it though.
Hey, thanks for the update. Umm..what's CHIME?
Everyone's got their opinions... mine is that I love all of your videos!
I'll bet you love all her videos.😉
@Derek PylesI DO!!!!!
When I was in my late teens, my family and I experienced ball lightning IN OUR KITCHEN. It was late 90s, during a big thunder storm. There was some water on the floor beneath it from melted ice cubes our baby sister had been playing with there but don't know if that was a coincidence. Many electronics in our house were destroyed simultaneously, including a TV and an answering machine. Our doorbell started ringing and had to be turned off manually from the control panel for it (was a fancy one that played lots of different tunes, our dad was an electrician techy). Still one of the most amazing experiences of my whole life, some 20 years later. I was so excited and startled I cried and laughed at the same time and it took a while to calm down!
QuietHands my mom and I experienced ball lightening in a Summer electric storm in the early 90s, in Damascus, Oregon. All the widows were open she was in the kitchen cooking dinner and I was in the living room - right next to the kitchen, I was talking on a cordless phone. There was a deafening crack, the cordless phone went dead and I looked at my mom and there was a bluish white glowing ball about the size of a volleyball between she and I. we had enough time to make eye contact she told me to put the phone down and get away from it and with that another deafening crack and it was gone... no sign of anything. my sister was in college for biology at OSU and she reached out to her professors asking what the heck it was. The consensus was ball lightening- they gave us a few copied articles in regards to it. the idea then was a concentrated ball of nitrogen.
Heather C. that sounds really similar to our experience! terrifying but amazing, right? glad no one was hurt and hope there wasn't too much electrical damage, we had to replace a few things but i think worth it for that once-in-a-lifetime scene.
QuietHands I don't remember if there was anything needing to be replaced. possibly the phone, it went totally dead. And my mom has had tinnitus (constant ringing in the ears) since, because it was so loud! yeah, an unforgettable experience for sure! certainly instilled a deeper respect for the power of mother nature.
Heather C. Oh no, sorry about your mom! I've had tinnitus, it's not an easy thing to deal with. What a story of how she got it though!! D:
Fascinating, first I had heard of Hessdalen lights.
Ball lightning being caused by microwaves would explain why it sounds like when you light something on fire with the microwave
You experienced it?
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I had one of those ball lightning events form in my room during a particularly electrically active storm when I left my window open and was working on my computer. At least I think that's what it was, as I didn't actually see it; but I did notice a slight glow behind me accompanied by what I can only compare to the sound of a welder increasing in amperage ending with a pop like an acetylene torch being shut off. (really loud pop) Thankfully nothing was damaged, but the sound of something like a massive Jacobs ladder pulse next to my head was a little jarring. I closed the window after that.
Actually as of a few weeks ago there are now 2 repeating FRBs.
You forget about youtube recommendations
Producer: "We need you to talk about how there's gel coming from the sky..."
Her:"Okay, annnnnnd?"
Producer: "...and then shut down everybody's hopes and dreams about aliens."
1:19 That overly complicated explanation is bs, I have seen a bright orb moving like it was intelligently controlled, it came from above & then traveled precisely one meter of the ground never wavering, even when it went over a hill & some stairs, it kept the same distance off the ground at all times, once it hit the ground it's course was so straight that you could draw a line on it's path & it would have been perfect, when I saw it I was on a perfect vantage point, I was on a slightly elevated position, the orb was a light blue colour & it was about the size of a soccer ball, it looked like the colour of an electric discharge, the weird thing was that it was really bright but it's light did not illuminate the ground below it nor the surrounding area, another phenomena I experienced was bright flashes that came from nowhere, you know when you toke a photo with one of those expensive cameras that has big flash on it, that's how it looks like except that when it happens you could never figure out where the source of the flash came from, it was freaky & awesome at the same time.
She looks like a geekier version of amy farrah fowler on big bang theory XD
I thought every emission was s stimulated one?😂😂😂😂 2:10
If lighting balls are so common, how come there are no nice pictures or videos of them with 2 billion devices in the world that could take them?
dude it's quick. it's stunning and goes away as quickly as it appears.
I've never seen one, either. But, maybe it has something to do with the fact that many of them are witnessed during flights.
Due to the limited space, probably, it won't last that long (not as long as that footage from Norway). Also, most airlines have strict rules about signal-emitting devices, and so. -Usually, I won't touch my phone on a plane, solely based on the fear of dying when the 747 switches-off autopilot because of me, trying to send a text-.
However, the best guess I got, is this: Those events are more-likely to happen at some places than others. Since the particular conditions which give rise to them are very locally specific, just like a tornado, an earthquake, the auroras, etc.
the 5% aren't carrying a camera they can pull out fast enough. if we keep going with this cellphone nonsense though, we're bound to get some footage.
Well lightning attracts to the metals right?so yeah im not a genius one so let it clarify and my grammar haha😂
@David K 'cellphone nonsense'. Are you showing your age there? 'It's a useful and portable device. Why would anyone use them? Humbug!'
"Something SO common, you might've seen it yourself: Ball Lightning. About 5% of people have seen it"
5% of people is not what I imagine when I think of common. But then again, I'm not a scientist...
Valid observation. In research scopes, 5% is a LOT. It means you could actually grab your clipboard and go find some people to talk to. Something rare enough to be impossible to research by personal experience would be way below 1%.
5% of 7.2 Billion is 360 Million so about the population of the US
Is a phenomena seen by at least 350 million people not common to you?
5% of 7 billion is 350 million, dumbass.
This video has been viewed 1,177,972 times as of this writing. If each view were an independent person, that would indicate about 58,897 viewing this video had seen ball lightning.
"Shadow biosphere". Damn, that's sounds cool
3:32 So the ocean... farts. It literally farts. So loud it sounds like thunder. ... The ocean THUNDER FARTS. (Blink, blink.)
We know that the answer is 42 but we just don't understand the question. Maybe we should start asking the white mice?
@colin Paterson but...why is dust the answer?
@Keith Durant no. They wanted to save the people, but they didn't listen so they just said thanks for the fish.
@colin Paterson Don't Panic
Hahahahahahah!
I have an idea.......... SLAP!!!!!!
"It would be funny to imagine someone poisoning trees somewhere in the rainforest"... what??
I think she meant just the concept of someone going through years of effort for a prank. I doubt anyone at scishow thinks someone actually poisoning the rainforest would be funny.
#1 unsolved mystery:
The secret behind Dios Stando Powah
My father who used to work on ships abroad stated he saw those "ball lightnings" floating on the night time on their ships. It's just glowing on thin air before it disperses. He called them "santelmo" (something supernatural and similar to the Will-o'-the-wisp legend) like how we call them in our country.
That sounds more like St. Elmo's Fire than ball lightning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Elmo%27s_fire
Coulomb crystals are definitely going in my next sci-fi book
I’ve been binging on unsolved mysteries lately and I have to say these 7 were the most interesting! I hadn’t heard of some and had forgotten a few. Thanks! Great content!
Lightning is dielectric, happens in Counterspace, heat from air, free energy released as fields collapse, clean, breakthrough energy.
Research Steinmetz.
"Some things are meant to be left alone." - Dr. Walter Bishop
I was about to say, before the last one, "Still, no aliens xD"
Yay my favorite girl scientist. Definitely crushing on her. I could listen to her talk forever. She makes me happy.
is that star jelly on your pants?
Damn dude. Even your fantasies are lame.
The fact that we have figure out almost everything else is amazing
love her hair
try something beige with it.
Taikamuna - 2019-01-27
#1 - The krabby patty formula
Madd Man - 2019-06-13
REMIND ME NOT TO DRINK THE WATER IN TEXAS..! IF I'M EVER THERE..!
lll-Crown Head-lll - 2019-06-28
It's made out of love, Spongebob says it
Muramasa - 2019-08-09
They r made of plankton . Mr.Krab's told Plankton once .
THE MAAAN - 2020-05-31
Ooooo look so mysterys L can work on
San dro - 2020-07-13
In season 1 Pickles they tell us every part, except the secret formula which may be, nothing. Just a lie to hype the Krabby patty.
Bun. patty, salad, cheese, onion, tomato, ketchup, mustard, pickles and more bread and in that order.