she said, 'We think that we're on to something here.' And while she's gotten a lot of enemies, she got a lot of collaborators as well. The Atacama Desert in Northern Chile, the driest place on Earth. NASA goes down there a lot for, for Mars Missions to see what conditions would be like. It rains in some of the places once every 10 years. You know a little bitof rain and yet underneath the rocks, you go down a little bit, you're gonna find again microbial life; something that wasn't known until 5, 10 years ago. I thought you folks
We, in this case, we are looking for someplace with a very low bio burden, this very dry, very desiccated-- it's not as dry, desiccated as Mars, but it's probably-- it's the driest place on Earth. So we can get some of the same effects.
So it's very good, because these warnings are issued by all the national met services. So Dublin actually is one of the driest parts of the country.
high place called Mount Paranal, which is at 9,000 feet. So this is just the road trip and that's how the landscape looks. It's just absolutely dry. Uh, the Atacama Desert is pretty much the driest place on earth. They have in some of these regions, especially near where the telescope is, it hasn't rained for decades. There's not a blade of grass, no sign of life, uh, NASA uses this region to -- to do their tests on their Mars rovers and that's where they're
Why would they grow anything else? Pretty much all of the country-- except for the warmest and driest bits towards the southeast-- has a great growing climate for wheat. And wheat is, in Europe, it has traditionally been the most well paid for grain crop.
a long time. And that is walk across one of these deserts. And the desert that I walked across was the oldest and driest desert on the planet and it's called the Namib. The Namib is a true, old sand desert. It's been there forever and ever and ever and there are few indigenous communities that still live there.
Yay. When most people try to learn to cook, what are they in fact doing? 45 minutes. Because it's the driest environment that you have in your house.
It is the land of superlatives. It's called the windiest, highest, driest , loneliest continent on the face of the Earth, and it is so because it's so far away. It takes you-- if you were to fly from here, like Mountain View, LA, let's say, or San Jose is the closest airport.
So if I knew the forecast for the summer, I would obviously pick the best time. So way back in 1995, it was the hottest and the driest summer on record. Where's . I don't know.
pulled out a book called entertainment industry economics it's written by Hal vogle it's like a classic book I know Hal really well now he's now on like the 19th edition of that book um and it's sort of the driest book imaginable I mean it's just it's all numbers it's old grass you know there's just you know nothing about
And geology not only affects where you live, but also what it’s like to live there, including the weather. Like, the Andes Mountains of South America are so tall, they create the world’s driest desert on one side and keep the Amazon rainforest lush on the other. Geological features even influence the hazards of living in a certain area, like flooding, landslides, earthquakes, and tsunamis.
You know, I'm challenged, or I'm challenging myself every year, trying to find a unique place to go. And here we went to the logical place to take kayaks, which is in South America, the driest place on Earth-- the high plains of the Altiplano in southern Bolivia, northern Chile, and northern Argentina.
And part of it came from minerals in the ground and also from when the ocean used to be here many, many millions of years before. But it gave me the opportunity to talk about how the planet changes and evolves, and what are the driest places on Earth today haven't always been that way.
This object has about 100 or so cells, and it will later evolve into somebody. We ended up taking it to the South Pole, because the South Pole is one of the highest and driest continents on Earth, the Antarctica is.
are here, so-- yeah. rain had fallen. Inches of snow, days above 90, the 10 most populous, the driest , the loneliest, the lone list, the one list, the
And so it's, uh, you have to find your subject matter and it's very difficult and expensive to get around so you need to know where you're going. They call this project hyper-arid because the areas we've been going to are the driest areas on our planet. They all get less than 10 centimeters of annual percipitation.