What's the Longest River on Earth?
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Published 2018-02-06
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Next they will include the distance between a cloud and the ground to measure rain's length and add it to the river.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What if the ocean is just one very wide river
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Everybody knows that the longest river in the world is 37 million Toyota Corollas long
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You remind me of that one teacher in every school who asks questions, make students guess but never give the correct answer. 🤣🤣
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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.
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TLDR; The Amazon River and if you disagree you’re just in deNile.
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When he said “sadd = barrier” I felt that
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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.
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10:26 Difficult for explorers to reach? Not if you have 3 second hand estate cars.
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2:20 You basically explained integral calculus
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Amazon hands down. Why? Because I'm southamerican, long live regional bias.
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10:27 Breathtaking picture. The nature of the earth is absolutely beautiful
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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!
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I think you'll find a brave British expedition led by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May found the source of the Nile.
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Well thought out & great River info Sir. We thank you for your time putting this together.
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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.
