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What Happens If We Throw an Elephant From a Skyscraper? Life & Size 1

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell | August 15, 2025



Size is the most under appreciated regulators of living things. Let us demonstrate that by throwing animals from buildings.

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  1. @kurzgesagt

    August 15, 2025 at 6:39 am

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  11. @anaelkarthik

    August 15, 2025 at 6:39 am

    This video came in my recommended 7 whole years after i had first watched it! Apparently, i had forgotten to like it???

    I remember being so excited when watching this! What a wave of nostalgia. I'm not gonna rewtach it for now. I just want to savoyr this feeling. I was in middle school when this dropped, maybe freshman year of high school. That was ages ago.

  16. @Crassus_Auratus

    August 15, 2025 at 6:39 am

    Thank you! 🙂 Whenever I catched insects in my flat, and throw them out the balkony of the 3rd top floor, I asked myself if I would harm them by doing so. Now I can sleep a little better. 🙂

  25. @baraskparas9559

    August 15, 2025 at 6:39 am

    This issue is dealt with in detail in a new book published by Austin Macauley Publishers titled From Chemistry to Life on Earth which outlines abiogenesis in great detail with a solution to the evolution of the genetic code and the ribosome as well as the cell in general using 290 references, 50 illustrations and several information tables with a proposed molecular natural selection formula with a worked example for ATP. Cheap as an e book.

  26. @anotherguy5038

    August 15, 2025 at 6:39 am

    Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
    But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
    For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
    Matthew 6:19-21

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