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Why Eagles are Overdubbed In Movies
Why Eagles are Overdubbed In Movies
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Hey, I'm Miranda Cosgrove and this is
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part two of my favorite episodes of
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[music] Science Minute with Minute
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Earth, an illustrated segment from my
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show Mission Unstoppable. Wait, let me
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animate myself.
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This is a bald eagle, and it's a bit of
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a fraud. No, not like that. It's totally
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a real bird, but when it's on TV
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[music] it lip syncs. Here's what I
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mean., Whenever, you, see, one, of these, guys
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soaring majestically across the screen
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[music]
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it's usually accompanied by this fierce
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scream.
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But that's no eagle. That sound is
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[music] actually the work of a voice
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actor known as the redtailed hawk. Why
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is that? Well, [music] when we think of
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bald eagles, we think of strength and
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courage and determination. You know
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America. But in reality, the eagle's
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[music] call is less majestic and more
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well, cackly. Here, listen for yourself.
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Old Hollywood movie producers [music]
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realized that in order to preserve the
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bird's symbolic value, they needed to
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give its voice a makeover. Thus, the
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bird [music]
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and switch. [screaming]
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You've heard of ant farms, but did you
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know that ants [music] farm? It's true.
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In the forests of South America, columns
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of [music] leaf cutter ants scurry along
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tree branches, collecting, well, leaves.
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But they don't actually eat the leaves.
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Instead, they do something much weirder.
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[music] They carry the foliage
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underground to their home where they
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feed it to a fungus. This fungus, which
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only exists in leaf cutter ant dens, is
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basically [music] an ant crop. Just like
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humans grow corn, and just like human
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farmers love to munch on corn, ant
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farmers love [music] to snack on their
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shrooms. Ants aren't the only fungal
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farmers in the animal kingdom. Termites
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ambrosia beetles, [music] and even
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snails do it, too. Meanwhile, spotted
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jellies farm algae, and yeti crabs use
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their hairy arms to grow colonies of
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tasty bacteria. Most impressively, the
2:02
long fin damsel fish [music] herd swarms
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of seemingly domesticated shrimp like an
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underwater cowboy. It turns out that
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animal farms [music] are far more common
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than we thought.
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>> [music]
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>> People, come, from, all, around, the, world, to
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admire this giant stone structure in
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[music] the English countryside, now
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known as Stonehenge, which was built
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thousands of years ago by some
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particularly industrious folks who
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[music] dragged huge boulders for miles
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in order to make it. And there have been
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a lot of theories about why they built
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it. Like maybe it was a temple for
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important religious ceremonies or a
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[music] meeting place for rival
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chieftdoms or a cemetery for VIPs.
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[music] One enduring theory suggests
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that Stonehenge was basically used as a
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giant calendar. [music]
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For instance, if you're standing in the
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center of the rings on the first day of
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summer, the sun seems to rise behind a
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particular [music] stone called the heel
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stone. Meaning that people probably use
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Stonehenge [music] to track the passing
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of the seasons. But that seems like a
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lot of work to just make [music] the
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world's biggest sund dial. Perhaps the
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true purpose of Stonehenge has been lost
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to [music] the thing we think it
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tracked. Time.
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Hey, up here. [music] I'm on top of one
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of the tallest skyscrapers on the
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planet. It's a good thing I'm not afraid
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of heights. When buildings [music] get
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this high, their biggest problem is the
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wind. Early skyscrapers would sway
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nauseatingly whenever it was gusty
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[music] outside. That's because when
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lots of air gets pushed up against a
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building, it can create powerful
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whirlwinds that [music] spin off of the
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corners and tug the structure from side
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to side. So, modern skyscrapers like
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this one have a secret weapon called a
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damper, [music]
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which is basically a giant weight
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connected to a wind monitor. When the
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wind really starts blowing, the weight
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shifts to counteract the force of the
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wind and keep the building from swaying.
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Many of the tallest buildings in the
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world have a damper. But [music] the
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tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, at
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over a half mile tall, was instead
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designed to be thin and aerodynamic.
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Basically, it slices through the wind
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like a wing, so the air can't pile up in
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the first place. Speaking of wings, it's
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time for me to fly.
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Spiders, they're on [music] the ground
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in the sky. Oh yeah, they fly lurking in
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your bedroom closet. And guess [music]
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what? They're also all over your face.
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Yep, these teeny tiny arachnids are
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called [music] demodeex and they're
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actually mites that live inside our
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pores. This news may be sending a shiver
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down your spine, but let me assure you
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everybody has these on their face
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[music] and it's completely normal.
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Democks are not visible to the human
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eye. They're.3 mm long. [music] You'd
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need to line up five of them to fit on a
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pin head. And let's be honest, you still
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couldn't see them. They spend their days
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inside our [music] pores eating our
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sebum and come out at night to mate and
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lay their eggs. Scientists say there's
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no need to be concerned. [music]
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And we most likely have a symbiotic
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relationship with these little bugs
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much like bacteria in our gut. If you
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want to view your own demoex, just
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[music] find someone with a high-powered
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microscope. Scrape off some of your
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sebum, put it on a microscope slide, and
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say hello to your face spiders.
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Up in [music] the Arctic Circle, buried
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in 400 ft of perafrost, lies a vault. A
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very special vault. It's not filled with
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money or gold or diamonds. [music]
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This vault holds the world's largest
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collection of seeds. [music] The
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Spalbard global seed vault is home to
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almost 1 million seeds from nearly every
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country in the world. Scientists take
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great [music] care in protecting these
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seeds as they protect the health of our
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planet. Think about it. If a disaster
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wipes out a crop like for example
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strawberries, [music] the bank will be
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able to provide the seeds to replant
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strawberry fields. Because imagine a
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world without strawberry [music] shakes.
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That's not a world I care to see. So not
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only is this an insurance policy for our
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food sources, the [music] seed vault
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also maintains the genetic diversity of
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the crops on our planet. The vault's
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environment was built to keep the seeds
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[music] safe for thousands of years. So
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your grandchildren's grandchildren's
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grandchildren's grandchildren should all
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be able to enjoy that same delicious
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strawberry [music] shake that we know
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and love.
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Oh no, you've cut yourself. That's all
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right, though, because our skin has the
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[music] ability to heal. It's pretty
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complicated, though. The first stage is
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hemostasis, where the wound clots to
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stop bleeding. Next is the inflammatory
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stage, where [music] healing and repair
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cells move in. Then to the proliferative
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stage where new tissue is built and
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[music] finally maturation when your
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skin is remodeled. But I have something
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to tell you that might shock you. The
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skin that grows back is not the same
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quality as your original skin. [music]
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It's actually only 80% as strong as your
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previous unwounded skin. So friends, be
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careful out there. [music]
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This is a map of the Earth's time zones
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and it mostly makes sense. Sure, there
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are a few weird jets and jags, but if we
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roll the map up into a cylinder and
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slowly rotate it next to a [music] light
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source, like the Earth rotates near the
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sun, you can see that when Tokyo is
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getting bathed in light, New York is in
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the dark. So, [music] it makes sense
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that they should have very different
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time zones. But the Earth is not a
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hollow cylinder. It's a slightly
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squashed sphere. [music] and at its
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poles, the Eastern time zone and Japan
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standard time zone, and all the other
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time zones smash into [music] one
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another. So, there's never any agreed
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upon time at those two spots. Thanks to
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their locations, the poles only get one
7:45
yearly sunrise and sunset anyway, so
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there's not necessarily an obvious time
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zone choice. Scientists [music] at the
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South Pole Research Station have chosen
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a time zone based on convenience.
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[music] They use New Zealand standard
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time cuz that's where all their supplies
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come from. And, well, there's mostly
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just ice [music] at the North Pole. and
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the only resident there keeps insisting
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there's no time like the present.
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If you like this, there's a ton more to
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see on the Mission Unstoppable YouTube
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channel. Or if you're in the US, come
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watch the new season on Saturday
8:18
mornings on CBS.
