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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 1 month ago
but i thought the sky was full of blue whales
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ShadowClone23100 1 month ago
How much blue whales does the highway weigh?
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MrMarryharry 1 day ago
Dat face
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Frankie Stine 3 days ago
like if your in the Vsause surprise playlist.
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Mathias Blaaberg 5 days ago
SPIDERS HAS INVENTED BALLOONS AND ARE NOW AIRBORN. FUUUU
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Carl Gasparini 5 days ago
Well fuck, I am never going outside again...
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Patrick Harrington 6 days ago
dawww this is so adorable :3
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Mufungo19 6 days ago
a SQUARE with a RADIUS, hmmmmmmmm quite puzzling
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EnellGmz 1 week ago
how do spiders float? Do their webs attach to clouds?
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55mihael 1 week ago
Vsauce brought me here
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Ananda Krause 1 week ago
I think he thought he was SUPERTERMITEMAN!!!
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fuuuuuuuism 1 week ago
im gonna set the sky on fire 
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