Mud Flood & the Stumps of Giants | Best Of Questioning Everything Vol. 2

Look down. Star forts on every continent that were supposedly "for cannons." A "temporary" 1893 fair building photographed already buried in mud. Devil's Tower as the biggest tree stump you'll ever see. The 1853 Mammoth Tree and its 1,244 rings. And a whole brick wall in Nottingham that looks melted.

The best mud flood moments from Episodes 8, 29, 80 and 85, in one sitting. Full episodes are right here on Spotify and on YouTube.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
2:53 Star forts: built for cannons? (Ep 29)
6:17 Fort Union, NM & Fort Jefferson's 12 million bricks (Ep 29)
11:17 The "temporary" 1893 fair building, already mud-flooded (Ep 8)
14:32 Devil's Tower: lava plume or giant stump? (Ep 80)
22:14 Giant stumps worldwide & the 1853 Mammoth Tree (Ep 80)
30:05 Nottingham & the melted brick wall (Ep 85)
33:19 Outro & where to find the full episodes

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Music: "Aretes", "Long Note Two", "Ossuary 6 - Air" and "Floating Cities" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0. Archival photos: National Park Service, Library of Congress, U.S. National Archives, NYPL, Wellcome Collection and Wikimedia Commons.