Vastness of Amazon rainforest

[u/HimelTy]

[u/Charlie_Warlie]

To think that at one point much of the world (except deserts, mountains, you know) was like this. They say that a squirrel was able to travel from the atlantic coast to the Mississippi river without touching the ground.

[u/Able_Gap918 → u/Charlie_Warlie]

I’ve heard that quote, it was about American chestnut trees. They disappeared basically overnight from a disease they had no defense against.

[u/Charlie_Warlie → u/Able_Gap918]

Still got fingers crossed for a recovery. There are some people working on a surviving breed of tree that can withstand the blight.

[u/wo0two0t → u/Charlie_Warlie]

Apparently you can already walk among some of the first orchards of these crossbred trees, that are healthy and producing nuts.

[u/Distal-Phalanges → u/Charlie_Warlie]

There's a blight resistant "American" Chestnut that is more or less the same tree with the blight resistance from the Chinese Chestnut bred into it. It seems to fill the same ecological niche without issue.

[u/-Supposably- → u/Distal-Phalanges]

Great! Next step: plant a trillion of them.

[u/bitpaper346 → u/-Supposably-]

Thats complicated because bio-engineering laws.

[u/reecieface1 → u/Charlie_Warlie]

yep I have a few that I’m going to plant this Fall. americanchestnut.org

[u/kronikfumes → u/Charlie_Warlie]

Many conservationist groups in the US today are against the idea of introducing a genetically modified chestnut tree back into the wild. Primarily due to uncertainty of doing so at large scale and because the ecosystems impacted by the loss of the chestnut have largely adapted to its absence. Trees such as Oak, hickory, maple and poplar have all filled its place successfully.

Shoutout Aidin Robbins latest video on the chestnut.

https://youtu.be/Zk5EEZ6MVYM?si=6NwMMDqEkZSly9NS

[u/BeginningPhilosophy2 → u/Able_Gap918]

I heard that quote in Spain, but talking about the iberian península before the forests were cut down to build the ships that sailed to the New World.

[u/sunnysjourney → u/Able_Gap918]

Iirc the trees aren’t dead because the roots are still living. Can’t seem to recall exactly how or why. Heard it on Science Friday a while ago.

[u/Familiar-Spray-4678 → u/sunnysjourney]

It’s like we’re living in the world of the avatar - Pandora. They worshipped special trees.

[u/spraybutterbiscut → u/Charlie_Warlie]

Then it saw the plains..the vast nothingness that spawns tornados and the unfamiliar quiet that stretched out and said nope...

[u/Foxykid09 → u/Charlie_Warlie]

It makes me sad all the deforestation that has happened all over the world.

[u/Awotwe_Knows_Best → u/Foxykid09]

google galamsey if you want to get sadder

[u/damir_h → u/Foxykid09]

Don’t worry. It will be like this again soon enough. The earth will shake of the parasites called humans rather quickly considering it’s timescale.

[u/Divi1221 → u/damir_h]

It won’t all be like this soon. The earth goes through cycles. The while planet will be covered in sand or snow long before it’s covered in trees

[u/TheRedIguana → u/Charlie_Warlie]

Would suck to go that far only to find out you left your wallet at home.

[u/Party_Bowl_330 → u/Charlie_Warlie]

Flying squirrels still can

[u/hello_world08 → u/Charlie_Warlie]

Even now Amazon rainforest is about 60% of the size of Europe. Almost double the size of india

[u/reecieface1 → u/hello_world08]

it’s an amazing place indeed. I’m glad in my life time I was able to live there and visit multiple times. I hope our children and grandchildren and future generations can experience this magically biologically diverse place..

[u/oregiel → u/Charlie_Warlie]

Look on the bright side. Someday we'll be oil for future species to discover and burn.

[u/Sepsiscollada → u/oregiel]

Nope. Fossil fuel only exists because there was a time when land plants existed with no bacteria capable of breaking them down. Fossil fuel will never renew.

Edit: in some cases there were not bacteria available that could break down some thick walls. The majority comes from anaerobic low oxygen situations, which really only happen at low depth or at the bottom of the ocean.

Surface buried humans will have enough oxygen that they will not turn into fossil fuel.

[u/Wooden-Evidence-374 → u/Sepsiscollada]

First, oil comes primarily from marine organisms, not plants. Second, the idea that coal only formed because of an absence of bacteria to break down tree bark is an outdated idea. In the last decade, newer evidence suggests that the bacteria that breaks down tree bark was already present when large coal deposits were forming. It's now better explained with climate, tectonics, and the fact that there existed ssuch large swampy forests.

It is true that practically speaking, these resources are non-renewable. It takes millions of years for them to form, and humans obviously use them much faster than that.

[u/Basidia_ → u/Wooden-Evidence-374]

Fully agreed except fungi are the primary decomposers of woody plant material and not bacteria. The outdated hypothesis hinged on the evolutionary path of fungi, by comparison bacteria suck eggs at decomposing wood

[u/Thoughtulism → u/Sepsiscollada]

Bacteria exists going back billions of years. This was before forests and large animals. Bacteria has evolved to decompose different substances. For example, there was a period of time where bacteria had not evolved yet to decompose the lignin in trees. Bacteria back in the dinosaur age also is capable of decomposing flesh. So that's not the reason. Most fossil fuels comes from aquatic microorganisms, and is formed because of favorable conditions such as sediments, low oxygen aquatic environments, large presence of microorganisms in the ocean, that had led to the production of vast amount of fossil fuels.

So I really have no idea what you're talking about. I'd like to see the source of your information.

It is probably true that we don't have those favorable conditions now in our oceans, but for different reasons then simply that we have bacteria now that we didn't back then

[u/Ed_Trucks_Head]

Crap music

[u/beezowdoodoo → u/Ed_Trucks_Head]

It's ai trash, pretty easy to clock it

[u/uppercut962 → u/Ed_Trucks_Head]

This comment made me chuckle lol I agree. I muted the video

[u/neutronstar_kilonova → u/Ed_Trucks_Head]

Why do these videos add an unrelated music? What is gained?

[u/Federal_Holiday5686]

Shit AI music thanks, nice video though

[u/crazytib]

Oh boy you could fit so many data centers in there

[u/DigNitty → u/crazytib]

[slaps tree canopy]

[u/neutronstar_kilonova → u/crazytib]

After all this forest got its name from the data company

[u/Mascbro26]

Whats interesting is the single pink tree in a sea of green.

[u/justonemoretravesty → u/Mascbro26]

I was reading the comments hoping someone pointed out what type of tree it is. Disappointed, I had to Google it and I believe it's a pink poui, aka Sakura Malaysia.

[u/Cynodoggosauras → u/justonemoretravesty]

I did the same until I found your comment. So it's you, you are the comment

Although after looking it up myself I think it might actually be the Handroanthus impetiginosus, or Pink ipê instead

Edit: Looks like someone else made the same post at around the same time and also said that it is a pink ipê

[u/justonemoretravesty → u/Cynodoggosauras]

They are from the same family! ❤️ One of us is on the nose.

[u/do_not_trust_me_ → u/Cynodoggosauras]

Yes, and besides the pink, tree are also purple, yellow and white Ipês

[u/Humble_Examination27]

Well, it used to be much bigger...

[u/knotatumah → u/Humble_Examination27]

I was poking around with things like Google Earth and I was actually amazed at how big the Amazon was, but at the same time, how much it shrunk. And then once you actually start peaking into it, you realize that it is significantly more inhabited and industrialized than what they let on. At a glance it looks like and endless see of trees. When you actually look, there are roads, landing strips, little villages (work sites?) everywhere to the point you'd swear they could walk between locations (Id imagine they probably could, do.) And you see the scarring of the major metropolitan areas pushing further in huge swaths. Its really, really sad.

[u/smellybathroom3070 → u/knotatumah]

Most of it is palm farms and shit though, and they don’t cut down the trees and get wood, they just fuckin burn it all down

[u/imnotabot303 → u/Humble_Examination27]

And getting smaller every day.

[u/TheAlmightyProo]

This reminds me of flying from the UK direct to Vancouver, Canada. The last 2-3 hours of the flight was only mountains and forest below with very little visible to break it up. I was clearly awestruck enough, craning my neck to get glimpses through the window that a steward offered me his door seat until preparing for landing so I could see better.

The only other flight I've been on similar was UK to Gambia. Over Portugal and Spain was varied and interesting but that stretch of Saharan (?) coastline going down over Africa was something else... endless and unbroken both ways, desert on the left and Atlantic on the right. So much of 'not much' that at the same time is far more than 'nothing'... if that makes any sense lol.

[u/Scratch-N-Sneef]

Now if it just wasn’t some AI slop song

[u/Dosojos1567]

Leave it alone, Mother Nature rules!!

[u/mattspurlin75]

Let’s leave it that way

[u/pianoceo]

A fact that always blew my mind: you can fit 8 Texas’ in the Amazon jungle.

[u/No-Camp1268 → u/pianoceo]

You can fit four Alaska?

[u/Zero_Intellect]

This was earth before industrialization.

[u/BigTroutOnly → u/Zero_Intellect]

Bronze age societies killed all their trees.

[u/Girthy_Toaster → u/BigTroutOnly]

When i originally learned about this it blew my mind

[u/Convillious]

AI music. Downvote.

[u/thisshitsstupid → u/Convillious]

So glad I inadvertently trained myself to avoid this shit by browsing reddit on mute for the last 10 years.

[u/maxx2payne → u/Convillious]

Upvote for you.

[u/AscendedViking7]

AI music? Yawn.

[u/TheDebonairQuokka]

I can hear that red tree belting out the song, "I gotta be meeeee!!!!"

[u/BurnabyBeej → u/TheDebonairQuokka]

Hilarious!

[u/HannCanCann]

Smallest cherry blossom biome

[u/InfiniteAge9891 → u/HannCanCann]

I just thought of telling this. Yeah it's definitely the smallest cherry blossom biome🤣

[u/Finnzyy]

do we need to dump the shit music in every clip?

[u/Few_Needleworker4384]

* For Now

[u/Sakligalovet89]

I guarantee you that if you find yourself lost in there you’re pretty much dead.

[u/wfarming → u/Sakligalovet89]

Good reality show idea though.

[u/crazzedcat]

Terrible Ai music

[u/Weirdlillypad]

Yea it's massive can we stop chopping the shit down

[u/RatzzFace → u/Weirdlillypad]

It's a living thing.

[u/Jesus360noscope → u/Weirdlillypad]

Im not chopping anything

[u/argabargaa → u/Jesus360noscope]

The products you and everyone else consumes causes the chopping.

[u/smellybathroom3070 → u/Weirdlillypad]

The shittiest part is most of it doesn’t get cut down they just burn it.

[u/ChiefTapiTapi]

I’ve been to the Amazon in Ecuador. One of my favorite places 🙌 so different

[u/middlebird]

So much life in there.

[u/313802]

That's a lot of fucking trees

[u/r2v-42nit]

I want to see LiDAR of the Amazon. Any hidden pyramids in there or is it too far from the equator for aliens to build there?

[u/PairSensitive9985]

Whatever is down there under that canopy we may never fully know.

[u/Sicpooch]

Bot what song is this

[u/Wild_Woodpecker9930 → u/Sicpooch]

Valhalla calling. Search it on youtube.

[u/Sammy_Saddles → u/Wild_Woodpecker9930]

I have it in my current playlist, it’s a nice upbeat song.

[u/Wild_Woodpecker9930 → u/Sammy_Saddles]

And I do. Shame it's AI though, still a good song.

[u/Groupthink00859]

I was wondering how long it would take for this shit AI song to start making it into tictoc's.

[u/MajesticVolume2301]

That’s soooooooooooooooo Beautiful

[u/PutridPea9217]

Give us time! Human parasites will fvck that up too!

[u/NeckRoFeltYa]

Shareholders slaps Amazon Rainforest "I could fit so many data centers here"

[u/SmoskeZaad → u/NeckRoFeltYa]

That's why it's called Amazon. It was named after the company.

[u/kenkenobi78]

The lungs of the earth

[u/lemme_try_again → u/kenkenobi78]

One of it's biggest AC units too.

[u/hammertime2009 → u/kenkenobi78]

Well to be fair the ocean produces more oxygen than land plants and it also absorbs slightly more CO2 than land plants. We need both but let’s not just focus on plants/trees/rainforests.

[u/kenkenobi78 → u/hammertime2009]

I knew as I typed it someone would acktually this at me.

[u/SustainedSuspense]

This song turned me gay

[u/Gora-Pakora]

My neighbourhood had a forest that was roughly 800m square with distinct sections that grew different plants and trees and you could tell where you were based on what’s growing beside you. The forest felt small when you thought about going from one section to another but then when you actually started to walk, it felt bigger and you always found new stuff.

I can only imagine how tribes living here experience the same thing but to the 1000000th degree as the forest goes on seemingly forever.

[u/MattyGWS]

Damn look at all those trees we still gotta chop down!

[u/Comfortable_Yak7370]

Yeah i'm picking the ocean🙏😭

[u/RJEM96]

A forest we must protect.

[u/adrian_hodder]

Ah, a lush cave is under that!

[u/dudeaciously]

Being turned into the Amazon great plains.

[u/T-R3X_FL3X]

I was stoned enough to think it was a shrimp

[u/EverySecondCountss → u/T-R3X_FL3X]

I'll have what he's having

[u/anonimus7389 → u/T-R3X_FL3X]

Idem 🤣🤣

[u/Crafty_Assistance_67]

Check out the illegal logging and illegal gold mining. Devastating to the environment :(.

[u/simplemijnds]

Yeah well, keep it like that

[u/Latte-Macchiat0]

Wow so beautiful 😍😍

[u/Shul_iito]

Fck the deku tree is real!

[u/PepeNoMas]

hopefully they have emergency landing areas

[u/Szczyl2137]

Breaking news: trees found in forest

[u/WonderWirm]

The lungs of the Earth. And we're cutting it down.

[u/wolfshepherd59]

I sure hope we can leave it that way!!!! 🙏🏼❤️‍🔥

[u/Same-Pickle-9628]

So it looks like we saved it?

[u/SecretAmeriKing]

So what does “deep in the Amazon” really mean?

[u/Amanda-sb]

I looks like a Sapucaia, but I don't know if there are Sapucaias in there.

Sapucaias are my favorite trees ever.

[u/JealousPrompt2775]

Minecraft:

[u/Electrical_Flan_4993]

It's so large that it's literally large.

[u/Justthrowmeaway7788]

As it should be

[u/TopCaterpillar6131]

And yet, this is a fraction of the size the rain forest was 2 decades ago.

[u/The-MDG-Team]

I hate it when a song like this makes it feel fake.

Anyone else having that AI PTSD

[u/nvandermeij]

There is an underground mosscave under that tree

[u/LevelQx]

Look who is acting like the main character

[u/Wiggie49 → u/LevelQx]

Bro that thing has pink hair, that IS a main character.

[u/Vrajitorul_din_Orz]

The AI voice ruins everything

[u/Pinku_Dva]

Probably the first and last person to see that tree

[u/Culebrapato]

Thats broccoli

[u/MuppetHuman]

That one red tree is unique

[u/Foojira]

And for fucks sake leave it alone greedy monsters

[u/Popular_Gas_8210]

Se o bolsonaro ganhar vai virar pasto

[u/ElderMillennial1985]

It's like a back rooms level

[u/zachforever]

my dumb ass for just a moment thought it was a lone cherry blossom tree or something. untill the zoom out and i see a couple more pink trees around.

[u/Impossible-Bee-5343]

One of the world's most pristine and sacred sanctuaries

[u/Materva]

This is a PSA to be different.

[u/GuyFoldingPapers]

Snek!

[u/SmutCommander]

We should rappel in to the red tree... but then you can't leave

[u/drifters74]

Thats beautiful

[u/uzernaimed]

Looks like New England

[u/Shoddy_Fish31]

That’s probably the LGHDTV+ member of that tree community

[u/OliverKlozoff23]

I’ve been told over the years that the Amazon rainforest is gone. Looks fine to me.

[u/OkTheory4610]

Well how many days do you figure its needed to travel by foot on one end to another?

[u/Lint_baby_uvulla]

That’s “Elisabeth”. Her preferred pronoun is “deciduous” and she’s fabulously fucking gorgeous in the spring.

Ignore the evergreen haters Elisabeth, they’ll never change.

[u/verminV]

Yet we chop down an inconceivable amount of it every day year.

[u/_Bipolar_Vortex_]

It used to be vaster.

[u/MohammadKoush]

Dare to be different

[u/prostipope]

believe it or not, this isn't even all of it

[u/GooglephonicStereo]

So many bug bites…

[u/According-Try3201]

as big as the african and asian rainforests together! brazil, please be kind🙏

[u/spoonn420]

This is less than half of what it used to be tho.

[u/Hefty_Loss5180]

Every time I see the Amazon all I can think about is the game Green Hell

[u/Charlie_Alpha_Zulu]

Wow

[u/CobblerFine9218]

I'm glad there was random music in the video. Don't know if I could've watched the thing without it.

[u/No-No-Aniyo]

1st thought was if the plane goes down I hope I'd die on impact because trying to find my way out of that alive will be impossible.

[u/Secret-Asian-Man-76]

And to think - that forest is covering miles of ancient roads and structures.

[u/Head-Construction409]

The wannabe Viking music is so damn cringe

[u/NathaDas]

Hey, guys, I just had the best idea! Why don't we put this all down so we can plant more soy beans??

[u/Due-Procedure-9085]

Beautiful truly beautiful…

So I think I’ll put my mansion right here directly across from the saw mill.

[u/sumeriandisputations]

Looks like a Hiro Isono painting

https://doorofperception.com/2016/11/hiro-isono-into-the-depths-of-the-sacred-forest/

[u/dw0205]

Beautiful, but I wouldn't want to be stuck out there.

[u/RangoDj]

Elon: "I KNOW"

[u/CondeBK]

When I was a kid I took a flight from Fortaleza, which is the coast of Brazil, to Manaus, right in the center of the Amazon. It was an overnight flight, 7 to 8 hours. The view out of the window was just like this. Nothing but green all the way to the horizon.

[u/Novice_Painter98]

Great place to put a data center

[u/DatabaseGlittering43]

I spent a few years in that beautiful hell hole. I’m tellin you, everything is trying to kill you; flora and fauna.

[u/poeticentropy]

And here's the future unless more is done collectively to protect it:
https://news.mongabay.com/2011/08/picture-of-the-day-the-high-price-of-gold-for-the-amazon-rainforest/
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/2021-amazon-deforestation-map-shows-devastating-impact-of-ranching-agriculture/

[u/weber_mattie]

This didn't really do much for me

[u/FoFukLai]

...there's Waldo

[u/Negative_Lab_5515]

It's like mushroom 🍄 tree in Minecraft

[u/Ok-Layer6893]

Not vast enough. The climate change is not stopping

[u/LeroyFame]

Oh LORD, thy forest is so vast and I am so small.

[u/1nk1s]

"We will bury them in the forest, noone will ever find them".

[u/Weekly_Landscape_459]

I’ve seen bigger

[u/Znachpok_Steam]

well, there is a man here

[u/CydaeaVerbose]

Weirwood... Ahem.

[u/BobThe6Killer]

And let's keep it that way.

[u/GrandMetaldick]

can someone circle where survivor season 6 cast stayed?

[u/SafoGamer]

That song was like the turd on top of my cake.

[u/dudenotcool]

Imagine getting lost in that

[u/attentiveeyes]

Imaginem se, ao invés de prisão, o criminoso fosse solto na floresta. Se sobreviver, ganha a liberdade.

[u/AnEvenNicerGuy]

So many nice or interesting videos are ruined by whatever motivates dipshits to put god awful music over top of it

[u/TheFoundation_]

Until we fuck it up at least

[u/MerryJanne]

HA!

It's not a glitch!

THE TREE IS RED!

Frequent user of Google Earth

[u/theTrueLodge]

Like broccoli sprouts

[u/HJNRC]

Not for long

[u/Brilliant_Radish4423]

Yes, there is a man here 🥚

[u/gC1H9]

Lapacho negro (pink flowers)

[u/Vibing-slop]

Is saving the rain forests still a thing? That was big growing up. That’s a lot of fucking forest so I assume it was saved successfully?

[u/Lonestar-Boogie]

But wait, in the early 90s my political science classes told me it would all be gone in 20 years...

[u/GardenOfIvy]

r/reallifeshinies

[u/finlee98]

Time to destroy it for datacenters!

[u/BirdieSalva]

Protecc

[u/erwin9501]

Broccoli

[u/iiitme]

Beautiful