Why Trees Are Out to Get You

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  • Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
  • Want to help plant 20M trees by 2020? Go to teamtrees.org #teamtrees
    Huge thanks to all the RUclipsrs who organized this. My apologies for the repost.
    These videos are from 2012 so my interest in trees goes back a long ways. I think these videos discuss two of the most interesting and amazing facts about our leafy friends: they are made mostly of CO2 (which comes from us breathing out amongst other sources) and they can transport water up a tube higher than any we can currently manufacture. So trees are out to get you. But we do much worse to them so we owe it to them to plant some more. 20 mil is a good start.

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  • @louieatkins-turkish1349
    @louieatkins-turkish1349 4 года назад +3505

    "A tree looks like dirt"
    Tree: you look like dirt :'(

    • @wyattzhao1356
      @wyattzhao1356 4 года назад +30

      Lmao

    • @photon2724
      @photon2724 4 года назад +12

      Lmfao

    • @RodolfoCruzMusic
      @RodolfoCruzMusic 4 года назад +11

      haha

    • @johnnybgoodeish
      @johnnybgoodeish 4 года назад +12

      Tree: Icky squashy dirt :)
      Leave us alone humans!
      Where are the Ents when you need one?

    • @jumpman8282
      @jumpman8282 4 года назад +8

      That gives a whole new meaning to the saying:
      "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust"

  • @girv98
    @girv98 4 года назад +4565

    I was wondering why I suddenly got 20 notifications about trees

    • @japaneseflea
      @japaneseflea 4 года назад +90

      got my zoo tier notification

    • @annika4733
      @annika4733 4 года назад +7

      And circletoons too

    • @pleaseenteraname6825
      @pleaseenteraname6825 4 года назад +29

      James Girven and they all managed to post it at the same exact time. I tried clicking on Mark Rober’s video and got redirected to MrBeasts

    • @MooShaka89
      @MooShaka89 4 года назад +1

      Same 😂

    • @AdakVishal
      @AdakVishal 4 года назад +5

      I am going to explore forest this weekend long.

  • @ollierkul
    @ollierkul 4 года назад +1232

    "You are becoming the tree"
    I.... I am groot

  • @shirshzibbu330
    @shirshzibbu330 4 года назад +188

    5:52 - i will never look at trees the same way again
    5:56 - proceeds to look at trees the same way again

  • @bnh2766
    @bnh2766 4 года назад +3854

    This man just went back in time to get his black hair back and I respect that

    • @Insertnamesz
      @Insertnamesz 4 года назад +112

      lmao jeeze I never realised how grey he's gone... it's happening to all of us!! I wonder how much CO2 I've breathed into trees since this video originally released.

    • @jerotoro2021
      @jerotoro2021 4 года назад +59

      @@Insertnamesz Average 2.3 lbs of CO2 per day, video was released about 2500 days ago, that's about 5750 lbs, or 2.6 tons. You monster.

    • @JadenTapscott
      @JadenTapscott 4 года назад +9

      @@jerotoro2021 May you also add metric equivalents for people who *don't* live in the USA?

    • @jerotoro2021
      @jerotoro2021 4 года назад +23

      @@JadenTapscott 2.6 tons is metric. Metric tons, "tonnes" if you will. 2600 kg. Although I see you're a fellow Canadian, you should be knowing both systems bud.

    • @JadenTapscott
      @JadenTapscott 4 года назад +10

      @@jerotoro2021 Oh, never mind then...
      (Thanks for reminding me about metric tons by the way...)

  • @ytravi
    @ytravi 4 года назад +1427

    "You are becoming a tree"
    There should be a t-shirt of this line.

  • @Deathnotefan97
    @Deathnotefan97 4 года назад +769

    Veritasium: Trees are out to get you
    Also Veritasium: Let's plant 20 million trees!
    I too, welcome our new tree overlords

    • @mshadyd7309
      @mshadyd7309 4 года назад +8

      Hoomans: Cuts down 40 million trees each day

    • @barahng
      @barahng 4 года назад +10

      @@mshadyd7309 Some humans are worse for trees than others though. The US has more trees than a century ago for example. Japan despite their insane level of population density, manages their forests sustainably. Hell, they started afforestation and silviculture practices in the 1600s. Planting tree plantations for timber instead of harvesting old growth. Compare those practices to those of Brazil, or Haiti.

    • @mshadyd7309
      @mshadyd7309 4 года назад

      @@barahng Fair enough.
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_by_region

    • @MauroDraco
      @MauroDraco 3 года назад +4

      @@barahng yeah. In Brazil and other developing countries most (between 75% to 92%, depending on the calculations) of all - that means accumulated HISTORICAL - deforestation is due to eating animal products specifically.
      Let's remind ourselves that more than 50% of all grain produced in the world is for animal feed.
      And let's not forget the huge pastures they deforest for...
      We vote three times per day for that to happen. Or not. Particularly in developed nations, as most of this production of suffering animals is for exporting to those countries.
      That's also a main cause of hunger for the one BILLION humans that doesn't have the means to eat enough calories to survive each day.

    • @pavelshalnwv8494
      @pavelshalnwv8494 3 года назад

      @@mshadyd7309 hug em before cutting, they'll fill better

  • @oranges13
    @oranges13 4 года назад +104

    "The lowest the pressure can go is a pure vacuum"
    Famous last words

  • @lokeshlkr
    @lokeshlkr 4 года назад +1067

    Derek: _You are becoming, the tree._
    Me: I am groot...

  • @toreole5831
    @toreole5831 4 года назад +1530

    Marvel: endgame is the most ambitious crossover ever
    RUclips bois: hold my tree

    • @digdogg_
      @digdogg_ 4 года назад +12

      Mr Beast: hold my madladdery

    • @dreadogastusf3548
      @dreadogastusf3548 4 года назад

      All the TreeBois are throwing shade. (I'm leaving now.)

    • @jaswik2023
      @jaswik2023 4 года назад

      and the crossover did not work

    • @khjappe3894
      @khjappe3894 4 года назад

      @@jaswik2023 prove

    • @jaswik2023
      @jaswik2023 4 года назад

      @@khjappe3894 see
      When you change the past there are too many things that can go seriously wrong for instance
      A rock fell on the, it becomes a pothole,someone trips on a bicycle, struck hits it ,the truck driver smashes the brake ,somehow the fuel gets ignited, the truck blasts, the blast waves triggers a seismic wave detector to think it's a earthquake and it predicts an earthquake on a safehouse where nerve gas is stored, the safehouse starts evacuating, they fail the nerve gas hits people, the people think its governments doing, civil war starts where everyone dies
      This is highly unrealistic but messing with time is super dangerous
      Also changing the pasteans toh have effectively begun a new future which is in no correlation with the future that you are trying to change
      Basically from a scientific standpoint super unrealistic and it's a bother since they tried to make it look scientific
      If they simply said time travel now exists I would not be bothered
      And also what is wrong with killing half the people I would argue it is not a bad thing to happen to the world

  • @syberphish
    @syberphish 3 года назад +10

    About 16 years ago I owned a tree service business. Used to see some strange things in trees. Was doing a full dismantle one day and when the top third of the spar went down, I was getting shot in the face with streams of water pumping out from the face of the cut. One of them shot a couple feet in the air. And it was a lot of water, each jet was maybe 1/8" in diameter, and there were several. I'll never forget being so amazed by the pressure it was under, blew my mind.
    Another 2ft diameter tree had formed a void in the center somehow; when my chainsaw cut into it, about 15 gallons of water came pouring out and drenched me.

    • @mylamberfeeties875
      @mylamberfeeties875 3 года назад +1

      WOW I'm here in Oregon my son is a logger I'm going to ask him about this. Lived in Bandon Oregon most of my life major logging town never heard of this. 😲🌱🌻

    • @syberphish
      @syberphish 3 года назад +1

      @@mylamberfeeties875 it may depend on the type of tree. I only saw it a few places.

    • @richtomlinson7090
      @richtomlinson7090 2 года назад

      U believe that sometimes, when there is water shooting out of a tree, you are witnessing the equivalent of an artesian well or spring, so the water is contained in it like the plumbing of a mountain spring.
      We have several springs around like that, like Saratoga springs.
      I've seen videos where water gushed out of the trunk, because it was connected to these springs somehow.

    • @richtomlinson7090
      @richtomlinson7090 2 года назад

      The one example you mentioned, may be partly how the Redwoods keep climbing.
      I've read that some water collects in the crotches and the leaf litter wedged in there and the tree develops little rootlets growing into these reservoirs high up in the tree, so maybe a cavity can hold some rain water up there.
      I love tree, and I'm a woodworker that plants trees, and mills logs with an Alaskan mill setup connected to an 066 Magnum Stihl.

    • @richtomlinson7090
      @richtomlinson7090 2 года назад

      I meant I believe not U.
      There's no way to edit.

  • @bunderlemu7802
    @bunderlemu7802 3 года назад +213

    So, that's why small plants look greener when someone regularly talks to them? Mind blown.

    • @rayyan21d
      @rayyan21d 3 года назад +15

      Are you the dude in the video

    • @HarryNicNicholas
      @HarryNicNicholas 3 года назад +7

      regularly BREATHES on them...

  • @giveML
    @giveML 4 года назад +467

    "I will never look at trees the same way again"
    *looks at the tree the same way again*

  • @besmart
    @besmart 4 года назад +1599

    Who is this young Derek clone so confuse

  • @abdelrahmanwael4449
    @abdelrahmanwael4449 3 года назад +16

    Thank you, Derek, for helping me find my new-found obsession with trees. Trees are underrated!

  • @TE72GOD
    @TE72GOD 3 года назад +27

    This makes me want to see a life long experiment of 1 man living in a bubble with a single tree. Lol

    • @krumba100
      @krumba100 2 года назад

      It has been done with a mouse.

  • @Gaming_With_Elfie
    @Gaming_With_Elfie 4 года назад +658

    "Trees are out to get you"
    *LOTR flashbacks

  • @smartereveryday
    @smartereveryday 4 года назад +532

    One of my favorite RUclips videos of all time is the one you did about trees crowding out the canopy of the forest and people that jump in front of you when you're getting your luggage off of the luggage claim at an airport. I think about that video every time I fly. Thanks for taking the time to make this even though you're traveling with family! I know how hard traveling with kids is. Great job man, you continue to impress. TEAM TREES ASSEMBLE! Let's get to 20 Million trees!

    • @ady12345cool
      @ady12345cool 4 года назад +4

      When people exercise, they loose weight by exhaling the CO2 out the lungs.
      When tree gains mass, it takes in CO2.

    • @mattmab25
      @mattmab25 4 года назад +2

      what a waste of intellect, you realize this attempt to plant 20m trees is useless. why dont they do something important like fund a carbon capture plant? one plant saves space that the trees would take up, lowers the risk of wildfires, and does the work of 40m trees. this is just a publicity stunt. you bunch of sheep are embarrassing.

    • @gayathrinair6744
      @gayathrinair6744 4 года назад +9

      Matthew Marbaker
      Useless? Can’t you see that planting more trees will give us more time to come up with an alternative solution .

    • @dpatts
      @dpatts 4 года назад +23

      ​@@mattmab25 trees do more than just carbon capture. they improve soils, provide animal habitats, absorb pollutants, stabilise the earth, give homes to bird and insect pollinators, stabilise earth, foster biodiversity which is vital for the greater ecosystem as a whole. for humans they provide shade, shelter, and reduce stress.
      regardless of whether you are right or wrong your attitude in calling people sheep is not helping anyone

    • @xtramoist9999
      @xtramoist9999 4 года назад +1

      @@mattmab25 That's the same logic of a flat Earther... :O

  • @Shadab738
    @Shadab738 2 года назад

    5:22 :"it just evaporates"
    Sents shiver down my spine.

  • @ashleyandersen4375
    @ashleyandersen4375 4 года назад +5

    The mass question had me over here SCREAMING "CARBON PEOPLE CARBON PLEASE JUST SAY IT!!!!" Love this #teamtrees stuff. Got 4 plum seeds awaiting spring! Hoping for healthy saplings!

  • @Rabcup
    @Rabcup 4 года назад +149

    He was so enthusiastic then, excitedly yelling into a camera about trees in the woods like a vlogger on an acid trip

    • @Adrischa
      @Adrischa 4 года назад +1

      Haha. I thought the same

    • @thatplane3865
      @thatplane3865 4 года назад +4

      @jemielnic ?

    • @__-yz1ob
      @__-yz1ob 4 года назад

      @@Adrischa
      The last part reminds me of something

    • @alexmikhylov
      @alexmikhylov 4 года назад

      you can't verify he wasn't

  • @dhuh943
    @dhuh943 4 года назад +913

    Derek: In a sense, we are the tree.
    Vsauce: And in a very real way, we ARE the tree!
    Or are we?

    • @GetawayFilms
      @GetawayFilms 4 года назад +39

      I can hear the vsauce music... :O

    • @sliced4736
      @sliced4736 4 года назад +35

      i feel his eyebrow raising.

    • @synonys
      @synonys 4 года назад +4

      Tree... Family trees...

    • @christiandelve30
      @christiandelve30 4 года назад +3

      *vsauce music starts*

    • @thekaz5225
      @thekaz5225 2 года назад

      On point.

  • @DrakeMagnum
    @DrakeMagnum 4 года назад

    I'm so glad to see you part of this project Derek!
    Bravo for making something as common as the tree fascinating and impressive.

  • @williamhandlebar9585
    @williamhandlebar9585 4 года назад +150

    Every RUclipsr there is: We need to make vids to plant trees!
    Veritasium: Eh... I'll repost.

    • @alfredjames4530
      @alfredjames4530 3 года назад

      He should have posted something after

    • @ReaperCoding
      @ReaperCoding 3 года назад +1

      @@alfredjames4530 STFU,,..He did what u would not do in ur awful 1000 times life..

    • @alfredjames4530
      @alfredjames4530 3 года назад +2

      @@ReaperCoding I mean it isn’t the best example to say you support a cause, and then the only major thing is repost a video, but I guess it’s better than doing nothing.

  • @ald12
    @ald12 4 года назад +699

    Derek: You are becoming the tree.
    Me: at least I'm contributing

    • @cheesywiz9443
      @cheesywiz9443 4 года назад +2

      i was thinking the same xD

    • @r.g.s.5923
      @r.g.s.5923 4 года назад +2

      Giraffes: You really are what you eat.

    • @klejimr6965
      @klejimr6965 4 года назад

      I tree

    • @yunnie5116
      @yunnie5116 4 года назад +3

      Ugandan Knuckles conTREEbuting :3

  • @ferna182
    @ferna182 4 года назад +453

    if this was vsauce, the ending would've been: "In a very real way... we ARE the trees... And as always..."

    • @itskdog
      @itskdog 4 года назад +15

      “...thanks for wAAAAIIIITTTT!”

    • @Getyourwishh
      @Getyourwishh 4 года назад

      Oof

    • @FugazStar
      @FugazStar 4 года назад +15

      ...or are we?

    • @randomdude9135
      @randomdude9135 4 года назад +2

      All hail Michael!!!

    • @SnoopyDoofie
      @SnoopyDoofie 4 года назад +4

      And BBC Earth would say, "This is no ordinary tree...it's a spy tree!"

  • @BrianFedirko
    @BrianFedirko 3 года назад +1

    wow, thank you so much for this. i was taught in school that we didn't know how the water was physically dealt with in trees, and i've wondered and tried my entire life to figure or find this out.

  • @garcmanuel826
    @garcmanuel826 Год назад

    I watched so many of your videos and this is by far the best one. Thank you, I must now go back to slowly becoming a tree.

  • @ayushmanrusira8001
    @ayushmanrusira8001 4 года назад +539

    Me: Exhale
    Tree: I have a boyfriend

    • @FME
      @FME 4 года назад +17

      lol the tree must be blonde

    • @av28379
      @av28379 4 года назад +1

      @@FME LMAO

    • @blackmambagyn
      @blackmambagyn 3 года назад +1

      Story of my life.

    • @derpatel9760
      @derpatel9760 3 года назад +17

      what a carbon digger.

    • @freedomofspeech2700
      @freedomofspeech2700 3 года назад +1

      Poor joke, stop writing such crap comments

  • @brightenyourday9196
    @brightenyourday9196 4 года назад +168

    Mark Rober: Planting 20 mil trees
    Mr Beast: Planting 20 mil trees
    Veritasium: Why trees are Out to get you

  • @micahphilson
    @micahphilson 4 года назад +3

    I still remember watching this video originally. Never would have guessed it was back in 2012! Man, I've been watching this channel forever.

  • @spookykitty2327
    @spookykitty2327 3 года назад +63

    evolution: favors efficiency
    tree: actually wastes 94% of water like a boss

    • @freedomofspeech2700
      @freedomofspeech2700 3 года назад +6

      Trees waste water?? Poor joke

    • @pupperemeritus9189
      @pupperemeritus9189 3 года назад +4

      evolution doesnt actually favour efficiency. it favours something being just enough.

    • @madiis18account
      @madiis18account 2 года назад

      trees are using that evaporation to cool themselves down actually

  • @MrFastFox666
    @MrFastFox666 4 года назад +743

    Mom: "son, what are you doing?"
    Me: "I am becoming one with the tree"

    • @DanieliusGoriunovas
      @DanieliusGoriunovas 4 года назад +30

      You suck with minus 15 atmospheric pressure?

    • @calibr0636
      @calibr0636 4 года назад +9

      nah, he just farts on the tree

    • @kunalgahlot5211
      @kunalgahlot5211 4 года назад +1

      you are having sex with Groot?

    • @jaimeduncan6167
      @jaimeduncan6167 4 года назад +1

      Danielius Goriunovas 😂😂😂😂

    • @nbkawtgnobody
      @nbkawtgnobody 4 года назад +4

      Mom: Honey Billy has dropped acid again!😁🌈🌈🥴🥴🌈🌈😁

  • @anasbarouki2447
    @anasbarouki2447 4 года назад +263

    Mom : What do you want to become when you grow up?
    Me : "A tree"

  • @nitrouspeed3583
    @nitrouspeed3583 4 года назад +2

    I’ve never had a teacher play one of your videos in class & today my chem played the wire through ice video & physics played the weightless flywheel. Today was an awesome day

  • @thekaz5225
    @thekaz5225 2 года назад

    The title and thumb nail of this video is direct proof that your other video about how "Click bait is Unreasonably Effective" is 100% true.

  • @shiromisaki
    @shiromisaki 4 года назад +403

    Derek: Interviews average citizens
    also Derek: puts on backwoods alabama banjo music while doing so

    • @justagenosfan
      @justagenosfan 3 года назад +27

      imagine being interviewed and having alabama music clipped in when you're on

    • @thegrunch6448
      @thegrunch6448 3 года назад +3

      @@justagenosfan bruh

  • @Dinghly
    @Dinghly 4 года назад +250

    "You are becoming the tree"
    I am groot

    • @user-ly2ej8gy2t
      @user-ly2ej8gy2t 4 года назад +8

      We are Groot.

    • @rodyates2669
      @rodyates2669 4 года назад

      that must be why some . people are described as" a good root/"

    • @ooloops
      @ooloops 4 года назад

      Really the tree is becoming you because it's taking the carbon atoms you're breathing out and putting them into its branches. You become the tree when you eat it.

    • @neutronenstern.
      @neutronenstern. 4 года назад

      you are becomming the tree.
      ...
      but what if i eat it or parts of it like apples ?
      then the circle is closed again.
      What a wonderful circle.

  • @MiguelSabogal
    @MiguelSabogal 4 года назад

    Just beautiful. Thanks for the rewatched.

  • @LostConcept
    @LostConcept 4 года назад

    Thanks for showing me this! Congrats on 20 MILLION WOHOOO!!!!

  • @kamalpoluri1666
    @kamalpoluri1666 4 года назад +501

    Interviewer: Want is ur contribution to the society?
    Me: I help trees grow by exhaling.

    • @beast_boy97
      @beast_boy97 4 года назад +9

      best comment!

    • @thaferg6969
      @thaferg6969 4 года назад +3

      @@beast_boy97 My left ear enjoyed this

    •  4 года назад +1

      I help trees by burning fossil fuels!

    • @mahez4874
      @mahez4874 4 года назад

      No you rae actually making the world end by breathing, chopping trees and burning trees.
      Because the CO2 level should be lower

    •  4 года назад +1

      @@mahez4874 why should the co2 level be lower? Who has the authority to determine the right co2 level?

  • @rollinthunder1000
    @rollinthunder1000 4 года назад +557

    Nobody:
    Tree: Time to *Super Succ*

    • @ronitplayz
      @ronitplayz 4 года назад

      :>

    • @xeinrr
      @xeinrr 4 года назад +4

      i would not let them suck my...
      *_P I N G A S_*

    • @GewelReal
      @GewelReal 4 года назад +2

      Honey?
      Where is my *super succ?*

    • @kiwicami287
      @kiwicami287 4 года назад +1

      :)

    • @wojtekpolska1013
      @wojtekpolska1013 4 года назад +2

      saw u on TierZoo video about Tree tierlist

  • @farifairis7388
    @farifairis7388 4 года назад +36

    *"Super sucked!"*
    [Derek, 2019]

  • @baileyjorgensen2983
    @baileyjorgensen2983 3 года назад +39

    Why did you stop interviewing people? I liked that format.

    • @baileyjorgensen2983
      @baileyjorgensen2983 3 года назад +5

      @oldgolfcartspeakers Yeah but he stopped years ago. Look at his videos from 2019, he doesn't interview anyone like he used to (except in this, which is a repost).

  • @mli3793
    @mli3793 4 года назад +69

    Half way into the interviews I was screaming CARBON into the screen 😂😂

    • @oscargarza804
      @oscargarza804 4 года назад +4

      dioxide

    • @squidblaster3327
      @squidblaster3327 4 года назад +14

      @@oscargarza804 Actually, I'm pretty sure the tree releases the oxygen from CO2 back into the atmosphere as O2, taking just carbon. If somebody actually educated on the topic wants to correct me, go ahead

    • @supercomputer0448
      @supercomputer0448 4 года назад +5

      @@squidblaster3327 no that sounds correct. That's how I would have said it.

    • @reefjames6302
      @reefjames6302 4 года назад +1

      hahaha me too, my dad told me to shut up

    • @mli3793
      @mli3793 4 года назад +1

      @@squidblaster3327 Yes that process is called photosynthesis, its more complicated than that and has many stages but one of the results is that the carbon atom splits from the carbon dioxide molecule. Why can't I scream carbon because of that?

  • @NanakiPL
    @NanakiPL 4 года назад +330

    "This video is part of what is potentially the largest collaboration ever on RUclips"
    I have 12 videos about trees in my sub box with a green fundraising tag under them… and 1 that doesn't have that tag… yours.
    edit: there's also one that says it's not about trees - by Physics Girl :P

    • @thevioletskull8158
      @thevioletskull8158 4 года назад +7

      Nanaki it's going to get bigger,it just started so.

    • @BeastBlack270
      @BeastBlack270 4 года назад +23

      Because he's in Australia
      And we dont have support to support the fundraiser directly through youtube
      If aussies needa donate we have to go to the website directly

    • @randomguy263
      @randomguy263 4 года назад

      Oh, I just have like 4 videos.

    • @PrincesaLunez
      @PrincesaLunez 4 года назад

      Plus pewdiepie is supposed to post about it too, and I’m sure other big channels (like GMM and etc) who post videos on a schedule will post their later when it fits their posting schedule :)
      Also click #TeamTrees to see every video with the hashtag

  • @trentmorrison6074
    @trentmorrison6074 3 года назад +2

    I like how in the thumbnail, he just smiles. As if he was secretly working for the trees to rule the world.

  • @solid-parker237
    @solid-parker237 3 года назад +7

    "Hey, w-what's tha--"
    "I'M A TREE!"
    "Oh, well, ok, then"

  • @sock-like5665
    @sock-like5665 4 года назад +300

    "Why should there be a height limit?"
    Yeah Minecraft

  • @drdandy5680
    @drdandy5680 4 года назад +253

    Vietnam uploaded: the trees are out to get you

    • @CaptainOfGames
      @CaptainOfGames 4 года назад +18

      When you hear the trees start talking it's already too late

    • @gabedarrett1301
      @gabedarrett1301 4 года назад +5

      Underrated comment

    • @Sillimant_
      @Sillimant_ 4 года назад +6

      hol up

    • @Menaceblue3
      @Menaceblue3 4 года назад +1

      *[Paint it black by rolling stones is playing in the background]*

  • @krantinebhwani6125
    @krantinebhwani6125 2 года назад +1

    Can't beat a smart, well-made video that ends twice - both with a good final quote for further thought.

  • @mlbreel
    @mlbreel Год назад

    I have to say that I think this is my favorite RUclips video ever! :) Thank you so very much for opening my eyes to seeing trees in an entirely new perspective. I’m going to go hug one tomorrow!

  • @khun_chanel
    @khun_chanel 4 года назад +101

    "you born from the stars and becoming a tree"

    • @PerryStevPT
      @PerryStevPT 4 года назад +1

      OMG my mind blowned!

    • @AKM-vo9lw
      @AKM-vo9lw 4 года назад +2

      @@flweb.design the circle of life. lol

  • @smoothjazzfails
    @smoothjazzfails 4 года назад +584

    Me: *Exhales*
    Tree: “Why, hello there”
    Edit:
    Whoa! Thanks for all the likes!

    • @thel0n3lytramp63
      @thel0n3lytramp63 4 года назад +11

      “General Kenobi”

    • @jandajohnson9427
      @jandajohnson9427 4 года назад +1

      Should I say it with a British accent?

    • @thepope2412
      @thepope2412 4 года назад +2

      Phytoplankton generate more oxygen than trees

    • @smoothjazzfails
      @smoothjazzfails 4 года назад

      The Pope
      Phytoplankton: “Out of the way, tree!

  • @sofrimiento
    @sofrimiento 2 года назад

    You're channel is really my favorite channel. You are really great. Thank you so much.

  • @tanvikathuria7204
    @tanvikathuria7204 3 года назад +1

    Just awesome content, your enthusiasm, and the way you present it. You are the best !!

  • @johnpossum556
    @johnpossum556 4 года назад +211

    "There is unrest in the forest, there is trouble with the trees
    for the maples want more sunlight
    but the Oaks ingnore their pleas" - Rush

    • @loversandlosers
      @loversandlosers 4 года назад +2

      John Possum nice

    • @NoMereRanger73
      @NoMereRanger73 4 года назад +1

      Yeees!

    • @Zorzi98
      @Zorzi98 4 года назад +2

      One of my favorite songs from the Rush :)

    • @johnpossum556
      @johnpossum556 4 года назад +2

      @@Zorzi98 A great, truly very imaginative band. ruclips.net/video/JnC88xBPkkc/видео.html

  • @sonicruled
    @sonicruled 4 года назад +126

    You shouldve mentioned that the trees take carbon from carbon dioxide leaving oxygen for us. I think thats an important motivation to make people value trees

    • @acerrusm
      @acerrusm 4 года назад +5

      Also forgot to mention that trees release the carbon dioxide at night while during the day they produce oxygen

    • @schuylerpablico8300
      @schuylerpablico8300 4 года назад +9

      Its actually proven false. The oxygen comes from water, H2O. They proved this using tracer oxygen

    • @dracomalfoy2272
      @dracomalfoy2272 2 года назад +5

      @@acerrusm there's some trees that release 24 hour oxygen

    • @megagatlingpea2322
      @megagatlingpea2322 Год назад +2

      trees also use oxygen for respiration

    • @solidsnake246
      @solidsnake246 Год назад

      Ppl nowadays are that dumb, they dont believe in oxygen.

  • @abdel1213
    @abdel1213 4 года назад

    thanks for being part of the team trees

  • @runjettyrun3819
    @runjettyrun3819 4 года назад

    AWESOME thank you for making this video & undertaking this tree project 💖

  • @arpitbehera3990
    @arpitbehera3990 4 года назад +152

    Trees are out there to get you
    Frodo: Seen that

  • @Puuppamies
    @Puuppamies 4 года назад +121

    4:56『 S U P E R S U C K E D』

  • @billkiele5819
    @billkiele5819 4 года назад

    THere's one step needed to complete the lesson. It's hinted at by at least one reader who noted that we get O2 back from the tree. You said so yourself. What stays behind in the tree, then? THe CARBON. It is then processed by the tree, along with minerals from the soil, (I couldn't guess the mechanism, but it's chemical) for the tree cells to produce NEW tree CELLS. THe tree may also keep some CO2 unprocessed, which adds some weight as well as reserves for when the sun doesn't shine enough to trigger all the reactions.
    THe other stuff you present in this recycled video amazes me utterly! Great video.

  • @brianfriis4784
    @brianfriis4784 4 года назад

    It's been a long time since I studied this, but there are small "airbags" that will "inflate" in the eventuality that air does come into the xylem called tylosis. It is essentially parenchyma that will expand due to the pressure difference and seal off part of the water transport and prevent a total collapse. Some wilting diseases cause these to expand and kills the host.

  • @nitroRadon
    @nitroRadon 4 года назад +152

    Parent: what u want to become when to grow up child.
    Child: treeee

    • @GajanaNigade
      @GajanaNigade 4 года назад

      You don't even realize

    • @suthinscientist9801
      @suthinscientist9801 4 года назад +1

      But tree isn't a job

    • @GajanaNigade
      @GajanaNigade 4 года назад

      @@suthinscientist9801 🤦🤦

    • @nitroRadon
      @nitroRadon 4 года назад

      @@suthinscientist9801 hope u will get my comment one day... 😅😅

    • @pogdog86
      @pogdog86 4 года назад

      @@suthinscientist9801 r/wooooosh

  • @psychorooks
    @psychorooks 4 года назад +3

    It's encouraging to know that at least two of the tubers involved in this movement were already among my subscriptions. Please, keep up the good work!

  • @oneworldmusicpodcast2369
    @oneworldmusicpodcast2369 4 года назад

    Biggest most beautiful project I've ever heard of. Truly proud!

  • @ethanp6059
    @ethanp6059 4 года назад +1

    Thank you sooooo much for spreading team trees the community and mrbeast are thankful

  • @jared6893
    @jared6893 4 года назад +78

    8:48 Veritasium just bothering random people tryna swim with tree questions xD

  • @GeekyMino
    @GeekyMino 4 года назад +18

    I love this guy! His videos are super high quality, educative and fun to watch!

  • @pritambanerjee1377
    @pritambanerjee1377 3 года назад +2

    I loved your end-note.
    "In a sense, you're becoming the tree"....

  • @elmarow2495
    @elmarow2495 3 года назад +15

    Damn, I was in suspense the whole video wondering how the title was at all relevant to the content, but I mean... THEY’RE STEALING OUR MASS

  • @c182SkylaneRG
    @c182SkylaneRG 4 года назад +5

    Probably the trippiest conclusion to an educational RUclips video that I've seen so far: "You're all turning into Trees" :)

  • @MK73DS
    @MK73DS 4 года назад +87

    8:48 "The energy is not matter"
    Press F for Einstein

    • @isaiahdobesh5109
      @isaiahdobesh5109 4 года назад +6

      But, it takes so much energy to create even minuscule amounts of matter, it’s generally safe to not think about energy becoming matter. Especially at the magnitude that trees would need.

    • @isaiahdobesh5109
      @isaiahdobesh5109 4 года назад +7

      Also as an amendment, energy isn’t matter, matter is condensed energy 😉

    • @Memeshi
      @Memeshi 4 года назад +2

      nuclear accelarators with high energy it is possible to produce matter and antimatter.There fore the answer is yes the energy can be converted into matter and vies versa (E=MC^2)

    • @danrichards27
      @danrichards27 4 года назад

      @@Memeshi yeah but not by a tree.

    • @purshotambohra2131
      @purshotambohra2131 4 года назад

      @Babba Ganoush but fat isnt as dense as muscles so probably put on some muscles first hehe

  • @BentReality.369
    @BentReality.369 3 года назад

    Cool, answers a few questions about trees I have had for years and dispelled older science about trees.

  • @Tiger1x1
    @Tiger1x1 3 года назад +2

    Guys like u and mark rober are a blessing to youtube and mankind.

  • @fuseteam
    @fuseteam 4 года назад +40

    title: trees are out to get you
    closing lines: you are becoming the tree
    moral: plant trees or become trees the choice is yours

  • @beactivebehappy9894
    @beactivebehappy9894 4 года назад +21

    I think that Derek was not busy and all but he was just trying to flex to his RUclips bois that hey I have already covered that topic before!!

  • @grahammewburn
    @grahammewburn 3 года назад

    Next time you see a tree you like, give it a hug. It feels good!

  • @Contra1828
    @Contra1828 3 года назад +2

    Well, the reason for the water is to keep the cells in the leaves alive because cells are filled with water and you need living cells to perform photosynthesis, and thin high-surface-area leaves would naturally dry out in the sun very quickly.
    (Also, most of the weight humans lose through exercise is *also* exhaled as CO2, not excreted as liquid or solid)

  • @JohnyK07
    @JohnyK07 4 года назад +5

    This type of stuff is what makes me marvel at the amazing way our universe works, down to the simplest things that we take for granted and never give much thought!

  • @gabrijelozimec759
    @gabrijelozimec759 4 года назад +108

    "Potentially the largest collaboration on youtube"
    Sounds like orc mischief to me.

    • @jimmyostler8946
      @jimmyostler8946 4 года назад +16

      The first 10 videos from my subscriber feed were team trees videos
      It might actually be

    • @Danilego
      @Danilego 4 года назад +12

      Yeah, I was like "hey, two tree related videos in a row, what a coincidence!" Then came a third, a fourth, a fifth. Then I noticed the hashtag lol

  • @akimexgreen5841
    @akimexgreen5841 3 года назад

    Trees are amazing.
    I love trees,
    Let's plant trees and make this planet a better place to live.

  • @arieldelgado2583
    @arieldelgado2583 3 года назад

    A tree is the result of deliberate and precise engineering. Even with our modern scientific knowledge we still struggle to explain how this "simple" form of life works. Great video, big fan!

  • @theni3762
    @theni3762 4 года назад +68

    I watched these when they first came out years ago, oh the nostalgia.

    • @human6310
      @human6310 4 года назад +5

      How's the world by 2093?

    • @IsraelCountryCube
      @IsraelCountryCube 4 года назад +1

      Well you’ll probably be dead by then or I will or we all will but I can remember the times I was a kid at 7 years old in 2008 I don’t know why but I loved that feeling nostalgia it makes me wanna cry but really were still in that time just wait until a millennium has passed! At least we won’t have to worry about it!

    • @94XJ
      @94XJ 4 года назад

      As long as we're being "nostalgic" about recent things, how about that moment when you wrote this comment? It was a totally different time!

    • @theni3762
      @theni3762 4 года назад +1

      for those of you who didn't notice the tree over 10 meters video was made 7 years ago

  • @otso682
    @otso682 4 года назад +45

    Damn, his hair and beard color has really changed in a couple of years!

    • @mansourq.689
      @mansourq.689 4 года назад +2

      Too much studying and researching truly stresses the hair

    • @perfectstranger1152
      @perfectstranger1152 4 года назад +1

      Im sure he realized that when editing this together. Lol

  • @Chris-ht5ng
    @Chris-ht5ng 3 года назад +16

    This was so painful to watch knowing the answer to where they get their mass.

    • @ketchup143
      @ketchup143 3 года назад +1

      maybe u should be "on the outside" doing actual science things and leave this space for people who want to learn.

    • @bradleyhenderson1198
      @bradleyhenderson1198 2 года назад

      They get their mass from standing vibrations, like the rest of the 'particles'.

  • @REN92106
    @REN92106 4 года назад +10

    "you are becoming the tree" Damn thats so true

  • @August0Moura
    @August0Moura 4 года назад +35

    Same happens in the opposite way: when burning wood it leaves just a bit of ashes, most of it mass is released into CO2

    • @MrTenad
      @MrTenad 4 года назад +6

      Lots of CO2 yes ...but also H2O.

    • @cocobos
      @cocobos 4 года назад

      That ashes is the carbon.

    • @cocobos
      @cocobos 4 года назад

      @@TheEclecticDyslexic oh right, the coal is, ashes is just the residue..

    • @amojak
      @amojak 4 года назад

      so forest fires feed trees, OMG cannibals!!!

  • @PapaNoahful
    @PapaNoahful 4 года назад +48

    Everyone: We're planting trees! Let's save the planet!!
    Veritasium: *w h y t r e e s a r e o u t t o g e t y o u *

  • @4realGTFOH
    @4realGTFOH 3 года назад

    The twist at the end was brilliant.

  • @parthsarda2793
    @parthsarda2793 2 года назад

    Adhesion and cohesion helps as well in transporting water up a tree.

  • @AmolMahurkar
    @AmolMahurkar 4 года назад +6

    "you become the tree." that's wonderful.

  • @thevoidlookspretty7079
    @thevoidlookspretty7079 4 года назад +19

    Sees someone eat an apple:
    YOU’RE EATING PEOPLE!

    • @tibfulv
      @tibfulv 4 года назад

      It's a _cookbook!_

    • @Nemozoli
      @Nemozoli 4 года назад +1

      Soylent Green really is people!

  • @genghischan69
    @genghischan69 3 года назад

    Wow, only at the very end it was revealed why trees are out to get us. Brilliantly done.

  • @zoleroid7027
    @zoleroid7027 4 года назад

    Glorious beard.
    Also I have a new appreciation for nature's wonderful engineering.

  • @lazylillies1438
    @lazylillies1438 4 года назад +22

    "i want to make trees"- Freddie Mercury

  • @hindsightpov4218
    @hindsightpov4218 4 года назад +113

    Why trees are out to get you:
    Trees are trying to take the planet back.

    • @TALKINGtac0
      @TALKINGtac0 4 года назад +8

      Rise of the Planet of the Trees

    • @NickRoman
      @NickRoman 4 года назад +1

      @@TALKINGtac0 , I was going to say, I feel a crappy disaster movie coming on.

    • @nybye
      @nybye 4 года назад +2

      We live on a Plane , not a "planet"..

    • @TALKINGtac0
      @TALKINGtac0 4 года назад +3

      @@nybye If we live on a plane then where are the flight attendants hmm

    • @nesss99
      @nesss99 4 года назад +1

      @@nybye ahh.. you one of them

  • @zamodana5541
    @zamodana5541 3 года назад

    you know what, I am in love with almost all of your videos latterly I just hit the like before watching it :) great works

  • @tomarrohan417
    @tomarrohan417 4 года назад +9

    "You're becoming the tree." That's scary.

    • @Faerandur
      @Faerandur 3 года назад +1

      Yeah, but then we eat vegetables, then they become us. ;)