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Look Up! The Billion-Bug Highway You Can't See

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Uploaded on Jul 15, 2010

Look up at the sky and what do you see? Well, blue, yes. And maybe a plane or a bird, but otherwise ... nothing. Or so you think. It turns out that right above you, totally invisible, is an enormous herd of animal life -- tiny bugs riding the wind currents.

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  • kinkisudoku

    but i thought the sky was full of blue whales

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  • ShadowClone23100

    How much blue whales does the highway weigh?

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  • MrMarryharry

    Dat face

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  • Frankie Stine

    like if your in the Vsause surprise playlist.

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  • Mathias Blaaberg

    SPIDERS HAS INVENTED BALLOONS AND ARE NOW AIRBORN. FUUUU

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  • Carl Gasparini

    Well fuck, I am never going outside again...

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  • Patrick Harrington

    dawww this is so adorable :3

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  • Mufungo19

    a SQUARE with a RADIUS, hmmmmmmmm quite puzzling

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  • EnellGmz

    how do spiders float? Do their webs attach to clouds?

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  • 55mihael

    Vsauce brought me here

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  • Ananda Krause

    I think he thought he was SUPERTERMITEMAN!!!

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  • fuuuuuuuism

    im gonna set the sky on fire 

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