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Amazon River

Amazon River
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About Amazon River

The Amazon River in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the second-longest or longest river system in the world, a title which is disputed with the Nile.

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He's a Slovenian long-distance swimmer. He swam the entire Amazon River, first person ever to do that.

from No Such Thing As Mould Juice, 2015-08-28 at 00:05:49 · read transcript

Other times Amazon River came up

  1. If there was a bridge that went over that there, They would have to be a charging pipe on that bridge. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to get a drive. That's that side. That is insane. I like that the Amazon River is part of effectively an Amazon River sandwich. It's the meat of a sandwich in that... Go on. This is a tortured metaphor. I know what you're talking about.

    No Such Thing As A Rubik's Tube, 2023-03-09 · listen

  2. Shooting out these huge bullets of water. They actually think that that's how water is getting seeded around the universe from these kind of stars. These huge, like huge amounts of water. and so they say that if we picture these jets as giant hoses and the water droplets as bullets, the amount of shooting out equals 100 million times the water flowing through the Amazon River every second. Wow.

    No Such Thing As The Brilliant Billion, 2015-12-04 · listen

  3. It's like a sun like star shooting out these huge bullets of water and they actually think that that's how water is getting seeded around the universe from these kind of stars. These huge, like huge amounts of water. So they say that if we picture these jets as giant hoses and the water droplets as bullets, the amount of shooting out equals 100 million times the water flowing through the Amazon River every second. The velocities are reaching 200,000 kilometers per hour.

    90: No Such Thing As The Brilliant Billion, 2015-12-04 · listen

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