 Do you wanna send your far away lover a kiss? A Chinese contraption with warm, moving, silicon lips appears to have just the answer. The device advertised as a way to let long-distance couples share real physical intimacy as causing a buzz among Chinese social media users. Wanna see what it looks like? Sure. Now hear me out. Tell you what, when Andrani and I had a long-distance relationship, we didn't need artificial lips. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying. I don't. What do you say? Juice! Hey, welcome back to our stupid rags, it's The Corbin. I'm Rick. You can follow us on Instagram, Twitter for more juicy content, thanks for watching, subscribe to our YouTube channel. I will say this. I remember the first time we- Say it then! The first time we gave each other a kiss goodbye on our videos. Me? I've never kissed you ever. Me and my wife. I just happened to lean into the camera as if to give her a kiss and she leaned in to do the same thing. We both pulled back from the camera and freaked out because it actually felt like we gave each other a real kiss, but I would not want the silicone lips. That's freaky. I'll give you some silicone. Anyways- If mom has silicone lips, keep it going everybody! Today we have a information of why most Indians live above this line. Which line? It's in their thumb now. Oh, I thought it was like Ricky Gervais' joke line or- No, so like- Oh, wait. I'll show it to you. I'm assuming it's a line on the map. Yeah, so this line right here. So it looks like it has Delhi. I think Delhi's probably above there. Maybe a fun job. Why most Indians live above- They live above that? How can that be true? That's what it says. Oh, don't they live below that line? 50% leave here. Delhi looks like it's below that. Mumbai is below that. All of Tamil Nadu is below that. Yeah, it says most Indians live above this line. But it says 50% in the thumbnail. 50% live here, 50%- Are you kidding me? That's also not most. That's half. But anyways, I'm guessing the video will explain to us what and why- I'm utterly flabbergasted. Well, there's a lot of people in India. I am gobsmacked. Thank you, gob. Here we go. You want a cough drop? Need a lozenge? Hundreds if not thousands of years. India has remained the world's second most populous country behind China. Passing China soon. Only a few more months. Yep. That historical reality will change forever. Sex. Sex. Sex. Keep doing it, Indians. The population will finally overtake the Chinese with more than 1.4 billion people. Suck it, Chinese. Clearly, they did. Or they would be here. There'd be more of them. Well, maybe that's in you to remain- Maybe that's what. The world's most populous nation. And it has been a long time coming. As recently as 70 years ago, back in 1950, China's population of 552 million was still significantly larger than India's three- And then they said, only one kid. Over the seven- And then 1950 had a larger population than us. India's population grew while whopping 390%. While China's only grew by 255%. And while China's population is beginning to stagnate and decrease, India's is still growing. By the midpoint of the century and 2050- They're a grower, not a shower, if you know what I'm saying. India will lose around 30 million people from the previous day. Well, India may have another 200 million people. That's such a corp in reaction. We're hearing an entire Brazil's worth of additional- Way to lose 30 million people, idiot. But the massive explosion in India's population over the past several decades has not been even across the whole country. Whoa. India's continued growth across the- It's in the cold crimes. It will not be even right. Well, they stay inside more often and need to get warm. The states within India already have fertility rates, the amount of children born per woman, that are lower than the natural population replacement level of 2.1. This means that the birth rate across most of India is actually already more comparable to countries in the West and elsewhere who are experiencing natural population decline. Like Japan, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Oh, Japan's and- The only states in India that are still- Scott's serious problems. And the states that will add the vast majority of those additional 200 million Indians by 2050 are all up in the north of the country. Hell yeah. These states, Bihar, Meghalaya, Odhar Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Manipur and perhaps unsurprisingly, these are the same general areas that have been leading the majority of India's population growth now for decades. If you draw a line across India up here in the north, you will discover a startling population imbalance within the country. Nearly half of India's population of about 1.4 billion people live to the north of this line. Damn. It's just a relative sliver of the country's total population. Would have never guessed that. But half, of course, live beneath it across the majority of India's landmass. This line of population distribution within India can come as a shock to many Americans and people in the west who are unfamiliar with India. Because the majority of India's largest megacities that most Westerners have heard of are actually in the south of the top five largest cities in India. Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and of the top 10, Chennai, including the largest of the densely populated city in India, of all, Mumbai. The sheer scale of Mumbai's population is difficult for a lot of people to understand. So let me try and put it this way. Mumbai is a coastal city and located across an island called Salsett. This island is only 619 square kilometers in size, which is smaller than Singapore, and yet it is home to more than 20 million people, which is greater than the entire population of Kazakhstan, the world's ninth-est country. To put it another way, all of the boroughs of New York City combined, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx out of just 784 square kilometers, which is 42% more land than Salsett Island where Mumbai is located. Wow. Yet, New York City's population is less than 8.5 million people. Salsett Island, therefore, has the same population as Manhattan. You could fit at least 12 million more people. But we've been there. But across an area that's 8 times the size of Manhattan. It didn't feel that way, though. Including this place called Dharavi. Did it feel like it was over twice the population of Manhattan? No. And not because of its area. The whole place is only about two square kilometers in size. We're about three-fifths of Central Park in the middle of Manhattan. And yet, there are about one million people who live crowded within here, making it one of the most densely populated places anywhere on the planet. And yet, insanely crowded Dharavi within Mumbai on Salsett Island is still south of the population line within the area where the minority of Indians live. Three-fifths the size of Central Park, and there's a million of them in it. India through the lens of population density, where you can now clearly see the nearly unbroken chain of people with clusters of people across the north of India above the line. And only scattered clusters of high population urban areas across the area south of the line, including most of India's big mega cities like Mumbai, Bangalore, and Hyderabad. But why is India's population pattern shaped this way, with a massive amount of people living within the interior of the country up in the north, and relatively fewer people living around the coasts and in the south? A very big part of the explanation is simply the Indian subcontinent's geography and its influence on weather patterns. And we'll begin here by swapping out the population density map for a topographic map. One of the biggest keys to the puzzle are simply the enormous arc of mountains to the north of the subcontinent, the Himalayas, and the Hindu Kush. These mountains are the tallest and the most formidable in the world and are among the youngest mountains as well. Do you like smoking that? There were four millions of years ago. Anybody ever smoked the Hindu Kush? First crashed into the Eurasian Plate, a geologic process that is still ongoing, just as it has for tens of millions of years. Look at that. Indian Plate, oh my God. Trashing northward to the Eurasian Plate. At a pace of around 67 millimeters a year, which is contributing to the already towering mountains of the Himalayas growing even higher. Mount Everest, already the highest mountain in the world, is continuing to grow even higher at a pace of about four millimeters a year because it's part of the process. Just call me Mount Everest. You're growing at a pace about four millimeters a year? Yup. Across the Himalayas that soared more than 7,200 meters above sea level. And they all serve to create the most significant barrier across land anywhere on the planet. Yeah. Most significantly for India, these towering mountains basically act like a wall and they block nearly all of the frigid and dry polar winds that blow down from the north from Siberia across Central Asia. As a result, the land to the north of the mountains in Tibet is effectively a high, dry and cold desert because there's nothing to stop all those winds until they hit the wall of the mountains. And because of these mountains, they cause the opposite climatic effects over to the south in India. Without any of the cold and dry winds blowing in from Central Asia, northern India is kept significantly warmer and more tropical. Yeah. And consequently, the temperate zone extending across northern India is significantly warmer than any other temperate zone on the planet, especially during the winter months, which means that the growing season also has better air quality here around and longer than pretty much anywhere else. But then the other big thing that the towering mountain is due for northern India and its population potential is significantly affecting areas monsoon winds and levels of precipitation. During the summer months, moisture evaporated from the Indian Ocean will be pushed into the subcontinent. And when that moist air reaches the mountains, it will rise and cool, but fail to climb high enough to reach over the mountains in a Tibet, which is another reason why Tibet is so dry and airy. Then that cool and moist air will have nowhere left to go but back down from the mountain slopes and across the open plains of northern India and Bangladesh, which often means that the summer months between June and September will see an absolutely ungodly amount of rainfall here in an annual process known as the Southwestern Monsoon. The vast plains of northern India don't get most of their water from rainfall. Instead, they get most of it from the rivers that also come down from the towering mountains up in the north. You see, the mountains here store the third largest concentration of freshwater ice and snow in the world, remaining only behind Antarctica in the Arctic Circle. As a result, the Himalayas alone contain an estimated 15,000 separate glaciers that collectively store somewhere around 12,000 cubic kilometers worth of freshwater, roughly equivalent to the entire volume of water found in Lake Superior within North America. So as a result of their height and their enormous volumes of water, three of the world's mightiest rivers all begin up here and they all flow to the south through the plains of northern India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, the Indus, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers. And these rivers are what grant the wide open plains of the northern subcontinent, their name, the Indo-Gangetic Plains. The Ganges rivers of big draw. People live around water and it's important. And there's a lot of spiritual significance to the Ganges for them. Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. Ah, man. A lot of porn in this video. Poor puppy. This is a really well done video. I've got some rich power from natural fertilizer. Every morning. To support a lot of people. It's no surprise then that when you compare a map of India's population density with a map of India's elevation with a further map of India's agricultural productivity, you'll see that most of the agricultural productivity is up in the population belt of people across the flat plains of the north. While much of the Indian interior to the south of the line is simply a lot less agriculturally productive and consequently has a lower population density. It's also a small wonder then how the northern Indian state of Udhar Pradesh alone became home to more than 240 million. It's a powerful place. Greater than the entire population of Pakistan or Brazil and all in an area that's no larger than the United Kingdom. Conversely, the southern portions of India beneath the population line don't have this same scale of advantages towards agriculture and population growth that's seen in the north. Much of the area beneath the line is dominated by a large geographic feature known as the Deccan Plateau. A largely arid, rocky and hilly expanse of land with an average elevation of about 600 meters. And while the Himalayan mountain range greatly improves the north's ability to grow food, another mountain range down here across the south and the west inhibits this region's ability to do the same. The Western Ghats here that extend across the western most fringe of the country. While they may not be as dominating as the Himalayas, the Western Ghats are still a significant mountain range nonetheless with many of their peaks over 2,000 meters in height which are higher than the biggest mountain range Suck it, Australia! Good eye! Sorry, I hear Western Ghats and I think about somebody saying you don't know who Ghats! I can deposit my rainfall. I'm over them and so the lands to their east across the Deccan Plateau are drier and more arid than they otherwise would be were the mountains not to exist. This is why when you look at a precipitation map of India you can clearly see the effect that the Western Ghats have with abundant rainfall across the narrow strip of a coastal plain in the west and significantly less rainfall immediately beyond them in the interior where the Deccan Plateau is. And then to compliment the continuous Western Ghat Mountains there is a similar mountain range across the east of India as well, the Eastern Ghats. These aren't continuous and they're a little smaller than the mountains across Western India so they don't block as much moisture coming in from the Bay of Bengal but they do serve to block some of it. So the vast expanse of the Deccan Plateau in the interior is less flat and receives less rainfall than the plains of the North which of course makes agriculture a more difficult practice here but then there is the further disadvantage that the rivers across the South of India here are not fed by glaciers like they are in the North and instead they're fed by rainfall. The biggest three rivers here to consider are the Godavari, Krishna and Kavari all three of which begin within the Western Ghats mountain range and flow eastwards across the Deccan Plateau before emptying into the Bay of Bengal. But of course the Western Ghats are nowhere near as high as the Himalayas are and they're located a lot further south where there aren't any cold winds blowing in from Siberia so they don't have any glaciers and that means that all of the rivers here are entirely fed by the rainfall blowing in from the Arabian Sea and that means that they aren't as suitable for agriculture as the glacial fed rivers up in the North like the Ganges and the Brahmaputra for two critical reasons. One, they don't get the same kinds of minerals and nutrients as the glacial fed rivers do which means that when they flood they don't deposit the same levels of nutrients into the soil and two, the water volumes are left to the mercy of the weather. So when it doesn't rain for a while the rivers have less water in them and there's less water available for things like irrigation that's necessary for agriculture. While conversely, the rivers up in the North almost always have a lot of water in them for irrigation because they're fed by the world's third largest system of glaciers that aren't dependent on the erratic winds of the weather. While there are locations of high agricultural productivity in the South of India they're more limited in area and scattered apart from each other in stark contrast to the huge continuous piece of farmland across the North of India and thus this is why you also have smaller and more scattered concentrations of high population density across the southern section of India beneath the line in places like Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bangalore but not large stretches of continuously high density like you see in the North. But it's not like the population of India beneath this line is low. There's still more than 700 million people who live there which is about the entire population of Europe. It's still pretty densely populated at about the same scale as Germany all throughout it. It's just that the overall density to the North above the line in places like Udhar Pradesh and Bihar is just absolutely insane and the most crowded stretch of land anywhere in the world. And with what's arguably the most productive piece of farmland anywhere in the world it's really no wonder why. Now, if you're anything like me you're probably intensely curious about why our world works the way it does. But the world is a complicated and sometimes difficult to understand place. Science and math serves the primary tool zone. Add for him now, great video. Great, so much info. Very informative. I think we've seen some of his videos before. EDE did a great job in this channel with 6.64 million subscribers and wow, deserving. Cause a lot of good information and obviously confirmed that it was good information but it seems like it was pretty well researched to me but yeah, that makes sense. Most times large cities are built by water. And where the most and obviously it probably has something to do with in India is around it being also very spiritual part of the country as well. Yeah, I know for sure the Ganges. Yeah, yeah. Except in LA, it was not built around water. This is the dumbest big city anybody's ever built. And the rain falls that we're getting right now which, you know, SoCal's totally dependent on snowpack. So in our mountain ranges, we need a big snowy winter up there cause then it melts and it goes into the central valley which is north of us, which is where all our farming takes place and comes down here. The big problem we have here that's so stupid. Any rainwater we get, not necessarily the meltdown, they channel that stuff really well but torrential amounts of rain that we're getting right now just goes into the ocean. They're now starting to talk about how do we start this stuff? Cause we live in an area with guns. We need to make sure we have an area with a place for our water to be coming in but we don't have enough water. Yeah, we do in the winter time. Well, what should we do with that water? We're just gonna let go into the oceans where all the fish have more water to drink. That's specifically right there, Gavin Newsom. Well, spot on Gavin Newsom. Well, it was way before Gavin that they were built. I know. And I'm not making fun of Gavin. And they were built because our city is not built for a lot of rain. It's very flat and so prone to flooding. And so I think it was in the 40s. And the way California is set up, we do get these torrential rains every once in a while. Yeah. Like every 10 to 15 years, whatever. At least not like in Spain. We'll see what it's gonna be. A really big one, about 100 years, almost maybe 80 years ago that flooded Los Angeles and killed, I think, over 100,000 people. And so they built these things to just get the water out as fast as possible. As fast as they can. Yeah, we have actually, not too far from here, the Sepulveda basin and when it gets, we haven't had that as much as the rain's been really bad. The Sepulveda basin has, they always close it so it gets flooded. But there's a dam there and the water levels can get five, six, seven meters deep in that basin. But yeah, that's why that is the way it is. Los Angeles was never intended to be one of the largest cities in the world. But we are. No. It was agricultural. And then Walt Disney came. And the rest is history. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, very informative video. Wow, I had no idea on a lot of that. I'm guessing, I know we have a lot of stupid, some UP. The two, some of the stats that just staggered me were that that area with 1 million people in it in Mumbai is only three-fifths the size of Central Park. Guys, if you've never been to Central Park, you wouldn't have that idea in your mind. But that's, I can't imagine a million people in Central Park. I mean, that's a lot of fricking people. I mean, if you think, you see the million people that show up to rallies in Washington DC, that's about half the size of Central Park. And then the other stat that's mind-boggling to me is how Mumbai has nearly three times the population of the boroughs of New York. Yep. Wow. Where are they called boroughs? I don't know where the term came from. Oh, the mob. Probably, I don't know where borough came from. I know where the term, I know why it's called the great, the Big Apple, but I don't know why it's, where the term boroughs, I know what the five boroughs are. And usually when people say Manhattan, they think of all of New York. And Manhattan is just one of the five boroughs. But it's called the Big Apple because that has horse racing origins. And horse racing was really popular in New York at one point. Anyways, yeah, fantastic video. Let us know what you thought about the video. 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