June 30, 2025

35 thoughts on “The Most Dangerous Lake on Earth

  1. I like how you freely admit that no one is entirely sure what will happen or when.

    This is a part of science that a lot of people hate, but it is how things work. 40 years ago no one knew these things were possible. Given the rarity and isolated location of the events it is difficult to study them. The important thing is that there are scientists working on it and trying to refine what they know.

  2. This makes me think of Lake Nicaragua, being in the tropics, surrounded by volcanoes, while also being one of the biggest Lakes in the world, couldn't this be a risk?

  3. Mixed carbon dioxide and methane?
    Ok. HOW would the methane "explode"?
    It needs oxygen to burn. Mixed with CO2 would reduce the explosive possibility greatly. It would have to mix well enough with the overlying air in order for it to burn.

  4. Once again Africa is sitting on insane amounts of natural resources but can’t figure out how to stop fighting and have literal free energy bubble up from a fkn lake

  5. We don't have to speculate to see this happening often back in time when the planet was it's normal, ice free state and many lakes in the world were always warm like this. It could explain the existence of certain dinosaur fossils we find which are un-scavenged, even by insects and seem to die healthy and uninjured.

  6. These are the type of events that in prehistory would create stories/mythologies that would last centuries. A mist that kills all. What would think happened if you lived back then?

  7. The scientist that initially presented the co2 saturation…Well I'm guessing at some point he thought "I hate it when I'm right" and "why didn't these fools listen to me"

  8. So for years the Yellowstone super-volcano was considered a first strike target by Russia in the event of nuclear attack, in the hope that it would cause a pre-emptive eruption and dramatically harm US infrastructure and ability to respond. It seems like lake Kivu is a similar kind of target for that area of the world. Imagine if a terrorist or rebel organization targeted the lake with several tons of explosives snuck in and distributed throughout the lake bed on a timer. It could be disastrous.

  9. fyi, calling Haraldur Sigurðsson by the name "Sigurðsson" is completely wrong. Any person in Iceland would call him Haraldur. It's considered somewhat rude to call someone by their patronymic name. It's essentially saying "hey, you're john's kid, right?" every single time you refer to them.

  10. You don't have to say "p.m. at night" or "a.m. in the morning." Saying p.m. already means it's at night, and a.m. already means it's in the morning. The fact that you don't know this makes the viewer wonder if you know what you're talking about at all.

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