Haiiiii

You better beleaf it because it will stick around for a long time

I thought some of the mycelium networks were the largest organisms.

Nice aspens

this is literally a technicality style of win these trees arent even one percent of the are of the fungus lmao

Nobody claims that LA is the biggest city in the US. New York has more than double that at roughly 8.5 million

Typical America always claiming something is biggest. Don't say worlds biggest if your only including America

@Gabriel Mendoza22 when people say largest lake in an area, I rarely find anyone considering the depth. That's an afterthought. Context is key

@@juliaf_ Lake Baikal, 1642m deep, in case you were wondering. It's also the oldest in the world and largest in Asia in terms of surface area.

But thats only if you remove H2O from that mass, otherwise the fungus likely is largest (by mass)..... I think theres a great @minuteEarth episode about this...... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rL1xdJCE19iqhYU.html At the end its not just about how they measure up, but how you measure them (of course "living tissue" specifically xcludes H2O, but hey, the more context the better)

Not wrong

Sigma male Aspen grindset

Maybe your individual potential. But by not dying future generations are stunted. Future generations will have mutations that make them better. Species that do give way to their future generations will run circles around species with extremely long generations.

@@CarFreeSegnitz You do realise that humans basically kinda stopped evolving genetically through natural selection like thousands of years ago and instead we focused on evolving our shared pool of knowledge that can help us survive and adapt to insane environments. Tell me who is the first multicellular organism that decided to go to space and came back alive ? Spoiler: even the best genetics possible would never just naturally give you that ability. We are in an age of collectively-driven informational evolution, a kind of evolution so superior to plain genetic natural selection that it actually gave us the capability to just modify genes ourselves and skip over the entire natural evolutive process in a blip of time. You are much more than your genes. You are so much more than your body. You are a greater entity that grew inside that body starting from a blank slate with subtle genetic overtones. You are a intricate mosaic of information collected over time from the environment around you, especially other people around you and society in general. In our situation, death really is an inconvenience. Having to spend a fifth of your life learning the same things as your parents and grandparents and so on is an insane burden. Not having enough time in your life to save all of your ideas in a place where others could find them is a greater burden. This forced deletion, this immense waste that has to happen because our genome can’t magically keep up with our modern needs... death... for us people it is truly beyond unnecessary, it is harmful. We have medicine, the vast majority of us (even those who would otherwise be particularly weak on their own) can live long enough to reproduce. Our knowledge and control over our environment completely negated the natural evolutive pressure our prehistoric ancestors felt every day and waiting for immortality to appear naturally through mutations in people is not a feasible method because it would take ridiculously long. The solution is simple in principle: when nature doesn’t give us something we try to engineer it. And “engineer it” we indeed do. Sooner or later we will no longer need to copy and remix parts of ourselves into the brains of the next generations in order for us as a society to stay alive and evolve. Sooner or later we will no longer need to spend our time and energy with the production of new meat bodies and the intricate knowledge transfer that happens after that. We just need a bit more time to figure ourselves out.

but Thanos...

The Humongus Fungus has an estimated weight of 7500-35000 ton making it more massive then Pando. Almost no matter how you define "largest" Pando never wins over the OHF, Oregon Humongous Fungus. If you calculate dry weight (no water content) the Pando weigh 3300 ton and the OHF weigh 1500-7000 ton, the Pando wins in the lower estimate of OHF. But as the video states the Pando in wet weight, so must all the competition do.

pieris.

largest human: your mom

@@henrik.norberg Mass and weight are not the same thing. Pando has the largest amount of living tissue. The fungus does cover more land area, so there is a lot of room for debate, but Pando does fall under the definition of 'largest' in several regards.

@@dqw4w9wgxcq32 Ok, please elaborate on the difference of mass and weight here? As far as I know both organisms live on earth with 1G and are neither accelerating or near a black hole where relativistic effects would matter.

Thank you! The scenery made getting beautiful shots easy

Excatly, it is so beautiful to look at, the colors or something, its a masterpiece.

I know the contrast between the colours and the drone shots as well

@@besmart you look 😎 with glasses joe

@@besmart so they're are male and female trees 🌲😏🤔

And they're worse than ever! 😄

I'm going with the fungus, you see I'm from Oregon too.

I accidentally sat on my biro and now I have an asspen. :(

It’s too clever to be a dad joke. And you didn’t fart.

Unbeleafable

That's my question too

Also if the tree gets killed, how does the root system survive?

That's why most successful species have diversity to promote adaptation. Aspen probably won't last long term for this reason. However blights can wipe out whole tree species anyway..

great proposal! We should really be studying and sampling this for medicine. I'll take a note for my future experiment idea submission website.

Check out “Entangled Life” by Merlin Sheldrake. He talks about how networks of underground fungi might aid in this. It’s such an interesting read, he’s a bit trippy though!

Yay

It’s literally where James Cameron got the idea

@@MUrules2014 wrong avatar bro hahaha Like I know what you're saying is correct but old mate was talking about the nickelodeon show

Other forests are interconnected too, but instead of interconnected root systems they're connected through incredibly large and complex mycelium systems in the soil that the plants use to communicate and share nutrients :)

I don't get it

@@AR_Animates Neither do I

@@rishin5622 but we still like it

@@TheReal_Popming I still don't understand

fun guy (fungi)

Imagine how many it used to have before civilization struck.

I want to visit Colorado one day, the nature is just so beautiful

I'm from Mauritius and I have not heard of this tree! Would love to learn about it from IOKTBS

Ebony is pretty common in india. They just aren't registered properly.

Hey, I've heard of that tree. That's the tree that black people like for some reason.

@@SFVYachtClub oof

There's a lot of critically endangered trees, quite sad. Even natural fraser firs, Christmas trees, are endangered.

Hahaha I gained 15 pounds

@Eastern fence Lizard lol truth be told it started with me having a burger after finishing editing my yt videos as a reward then I started making 2. Then soon I was craving more e all the time I have started working out thought lost 6 pounds so far.

@@AlexeJade I had gained about 25 I am decently muscular person and ate good amount while working out the work outs stoped at some point and boom I bloomed.

No, because the tree part is what collects the energy the entire organism needs. The actual mushroom is like the flowers of the tree.

Joe mama

Nice Iwas not the only one who thought this

thank you joe biden

I immediately thought this

*Joe mama The commentator's name is Joe

Yeah I agree that trees like Aspens are probably well spread and fast growing enough already that they can shift further up North easily enough. Birches are doing something similar in Europe but they are prolific seed spreaders. It's sad to see them disappear from forests where I live, but they'll be fine in the long run.

Lose is a verb that means “to fail to win, to misplace, or to free oneself from something or someone.” Loose is an adjective that means “not tight.”

@@kellydalstok8900 typos happens 🤷‍♂️

Some areas will get wetter, and aspens should be fine there. But areas like mine are getting drier. I live in Las Vegas btw. And yes we do have aspens up at Mt. Charleston in certain elevation ranges. I'm not sure if they can survive drier conditions, and we are one of the areas that will most definitely get drier with climate change, as we have been the last 20 years.

"That's what she said!" was around in Junior high schools for a *long* time before The Office was ever dreamed up, including the original UK version.

I know right i was in aww and terrified both at the same time thinking about it possibilities i imagined ..

If it drives other trees to extinction thats because they aren't good enough. Evolution in action.

They're... cultivars?

Gum trees? :O As an aussie we're all painfully aware of how easily eucalyptus branches break off, but you're making me think maybe I could have multiple new trees in the next 5 years :O

And all this time I thought it was my brother's ex-wife! (ba-dum psht!)

yeah it covers a wider area of the ground but is less massive (weighs less). also it doesn't grow as tall - so it likely takes up less 3-dimensional space. so yeah it just depends how you want to define "large"

@Ray Marshall ..I feel EXACTLY the same way .. EXACTLY !

The earth, and life will go on. We may not, but I doubt even with our worst excesses we could kill everything. And once we’re gone, what’s left will start again. I suspect if people understood we’re not ‘saving the planet’ by changing our behaviour, we’re saving ourselves, they might be a bit more pro-active about it. But probably not. Our Dunning-Krueger civilisation will be a tragedy for eternity. Maybe without anyone to tell the story.

@@julianmorrisco I'm not sure how you believe this makes it more encouraging. Literally everyone claims that they're going to save you: politicians, economics, scientists, astronomers, religious cults... nobody believes they're doing wrong. I'm even literally hearing bitcoin minners claim that they're saving the planet. I think you should focus on what makes the planet better now, as opposed what will make it better in another thousand years. The reason people focus on the ecosystems is because those are the things we can alter within a single lifetime.

I've heard the same. It's a relatively new discovery and worth more attention. But the difference is that these aspen trunks all spring up from the same root and are genetically identical clones.

Yes, other trees can communicate and share nutrients, but they do so with help from fungus that grows around their roots. Nature is truly amazing!

When did he claim it’s unique to Aspens? He just said they’re connected to each other and share nutrients.

Yeah most other forests communicate and share nutients through means of the large mycelium networks spanning the area of the entire forests themselves, there are definitely lots of other interconnected root-system organisms but the mycelium technique is more common and in some cases more effective (since genetic variations as opposed to identical clones make a species more likely to survive disease etc)

No what the hek

You are right

Utah. The state so square that when they tried to improve their street cred, they cut another square out of their square? Yeah, I know, rectangles, but the joke works better with squares.

Especially seeing as some plants do actually make separate clones of themselves through root fragments. He can't just call one thing by the name of another related thing; words have meaning.

thank you book "The Hidden Life of Trees"

See my pinned comment

@@besmart your pinned comment is wrong

Getting through school takes intelligence, not licking metal in a snowstorm takes wisdom.

@@2MeterLP I didn't take Newton's first law of motion into account An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. Bus slowed down but my tongue didn't and left a streak from the center of the window all the way to the scene of the stupid...........

@@lknanml And not licking bus windows takes basic human decency.

@@2MeterLP Ok. This has gone past letting it play out.. So just in case we are not playing with a troll or two it was a joke. I'm in the military and we regularly use the window licker line on people who like to prove Darwin is alive, well and watching and to date has never been said to explain someone who actually got caught licking windows...... LOL

@@2MeterLP But what if they're BOTH my dump stats!?

By area, but it weighs nowhere near as much. Sorry, fungi fans

@@besmart wow thanks! ❤️🍄🌲

@@besmart what a stupid take the mushrooms are on a micro organism scale you cant compare it with a fuckin tree a single apsen will weigh more than kilometers of mycorrhizae but the fungal network is farm more impressive and advanced

@@besmart but thats only if you consider clones the same organism. Cause with the fungus you can debate its one organism.

yeah it covers a wider area of the ground but is less massive (weighs less). also it doesn't grow as tall as the aspen(s) - so it likely takes up less 3-dimensional space. so yeah it just depends how you want to define "large"

Just think, in a forest of aspen, you ain't in a forest but in a tree the size of a forest

@@diablo.the.cheater oh geez! That’s worse!

Depends on what is meant by the term “largest.” For the Aspens they mean “largest mass of living tissue” and for the fungus they mean “largest surface area.” It’s like how both LA and Jacksonville are the “largest” city in the USA; LA has the most people (~4 million) but Jacksonville covers the most area, 875 square miles.

@@jpe1 Thanks. Was about to say this regarding the use of the word largest, but ya best me to it. Honestly, this video is way subpar compared to his normal videos. It shouldn't be "largest", it should be "most massive"... and a few contradicting statements to boot. Extremely disappointed this time around.

@@jpe1 Ah good point. I guess he was basing his comparisons in-video based on mass.

See my pinned comment

@@besmart Interesting, the mobile app doesn't show pinned comments at the top! Sorry I missed it and added to the hundreds of similar posts

@Eastern fence Lizard Never had one fall on you eh? I have not either, but I have been stabbed by the spike ball of a locust tree when I had an overly vigorous backswing with a hatchet gathering dry wood.

@Eastern fence Lizard I learn something new every good day!

I don't think people who are afraid of the unknown tend to become scientists.

@Eastern fence Lizard This implies mammoths are still alive. I know they aren't I was joking.

I wonder how long the researcher who coined that acronym spent writing it :p

Californians are a plague to Colorado, thank you for returning.

It’s unclear whether he meant soccer or American football; however, it doesn’t make that much difference when rounding to 100. It works for both and for all of us. N.B.: While I have no interest in either game, I’m aware of the size of each field.

😂😂

The video is about the largest organism on earth, but it doesn't bother to give us the actual size? "100 footbal fields"? Get real. They could at least lut the size in the notes.

Veritasium has a video on the subject

i am an amature but u have a doubt , so if the clone themself how do they evolve? Evolution won't happen if they clone themself again and again ,so a simple disease or a pest can kill the entire group of aspen right ?

😂😂

But how many space shuttles is it

9/10 for effort 👌😆

Precisely! It’s *like* it was created, but of course it wasn’t, it evolved.

@@jpe1 If it walks, swims, flies and acts like a duck, it's probably a duck.