What Makes These Dunes Sing? (ft. @besmart)

Hosted by Joe Hanson from It's Okay to be Smart, Overview uses incredible 4k drone footage to reveal the natural phenomena shaping our planet from a 10,000-foot view—literally.
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[tomkitchen]

Please don't play the marimba while asking us to listen to the dunes.

[JusNoBS]

Why add background music to something you specifically want us to listen to. Poor editing guys

[treering]

That must have been a pain in the ass to scoot down that dune in shorts! Your voice pulls me out of my mind wanderings, thanks Joe

[znavot]

I wish there was a moment of silence so we could hear the singing dunes

[driverjayne]

It's kind of annoying that's you're playing music while trying to show what the dunes sound like. Not really necessary.

[mybackhurts]

Where do the Dumont dunes come from? I camp out there every year for Thanksgiving with my family it’s only 6 mi.² I can ride around the entire thing in less than an hour but I can’t really figure out why those dunes are where they are

[m.pearce]

Fascinating Science investigating the Singing Sands . We have a desert in Quebec where I've heard singing sands a few times

[imperialchalice]

Beautiful narration. I’m happy to see the passion and determination these scientists have for all things on Earth.

[GetOutsideYourself]

I've been hiking Eureka and Kelso Dunes for decades and have noticed this phenomenon. There was an article in Scientific American maybe 25-30 years ago, and I remember writing the author offering to collect sand samples on my next trip. He said yes, please send a cubic yard. Uh, I don't think either of us thought about how much that weighed or how hard it would be to send that, but I did my best.

[SparrowHawk]

It's course, rough, irritating, and it gets everywhere.

But music from the dunes makes up for it!

[beekerbod]

Wow, do the dunes play the marimba! Cool!!

[HARE]

Fascinating episode.
To me, the sand dunes have a grace and beauty that is undeniable.
Increased areas of desertification, however, are of real concern.
Perhaps Arrakis is our future.

[Gelatinocyte]

_"That's not the sound of the drone you're hearing, "_
It's the ornithopter!

[fatherofhope]

The recent flash flood we had in the desert not far from Death Valley deposited a sand dune right next to my master bedroom wall, I hope it starts singing LOL😆. It did teach me, that not only wind moves sand Dunes, desert flash flooding moves them very quickly! And although it is beautiful, I'd love to keep it, I'll need to use an excavator to move it. Having it so close to the house means that it likes to migrate its way into the house. 😕

[elijahclaude]

This is so amazing!! I'd love to hear this in person and slide down one of those dunes... even though it looks really dangerous and aren't they gonna get a bunch of sand in all their cracks and crevices scooting around like that?!?!

[rebmakash]

"Come on an epic journey." I see what you did there.

Thank you so much for this. I love science videos, though I never expected one to make my favorite video game, Journey, with its cello-heavy score, to feel even more brilliant.

[TheyCallMeNewb]

That was a really quite remarkable turn when upon sliding down the dune face, a sound started it's boom. Whoa!

[wilfredotoledo]

excelent, i have learned something i've wanted to learn for sometime, i'am 70 years, and still learning. thank you

[_thomas]

JUST in time for Dune to release soon😄🙌🙌🙌

[nmoran]

This is the first time that I have recognized the mouth of a rabbit hole that I’m about to jump down I hope I remember to eat bon voyage