The Most Expensive Living Creature

what are these people looking at why are their faces like that what did they see they're looking at 450 million 312 500 oh i mean the leonardo da vinci painting salvatore monday but why is it worth this much today you'll find out how the world became a copy machine why people buy land on the moon in advance and why it's so expensive let's go this pearl costs three dollars and this one costs thirty thousand dollars wait or is it the other way around well figuring out the prices of pearls is really hard experienced jewelers know that they can be more expensive than diamonds especially when you consider certain factors the price of a pearl is influenced by its size color shape surface quality and even the luster in short the bigger and smoother a pearl is the more money a buyer will pay for it however i would say the record belongs to a pearl that's neither round nor smooth but it's just giant it weighs 75 pounds and its value is estimated at 100 million dollars so of course it's hard to compete with such a thing but if we speak about pearls of a shape there is one unique kind which is considered one of the most valuable mellow mellow pearls are a magnificent creation of nature made oddly enough by the mellow mellow snail it's said that the chance of finding a pearl in it is one in several thousand so it turns out that such raw high quality pearls are usually worth more than seventy five thousand dollars while some jewelry with them is worth more than two hundred fifty thousand dollars shut up and take my money but i do have one question why the hell are pearls so expensive in the first place it's just a shiny pebble taken out of a clam well that seems to be the point pearls are the only gem that are created by a living thing the formation of pearls is a protective reaction of the mollusk to any foreign body a process that can't be well controlled even when artificial cultivation takes place and if we speak about mellow mellow pearls people still couldn't make this mollusk grow at least one pearl that's to say every single one of them is absolutely natural created by wildlife itself it's even strange that the price doesn't start at a billion imagine someone finding a mellow mellow pearl by accident because people eat these mollusks a very realistic scenario like the story of a man named rick antos who ordered 15 worth of oysters at the grand central oyster bar and nearly broke a tooth on a pearl worth several thousand dollars that was the best oyster pan roast i ever ordered and what do you know about dubai the largest commercial financial and tourist center in the middle east the real kingdom of luxury but where does one city get so much money could it be tourism no it's unlikely that people would have come here before dubai became dubai as it is now oil then but it wasn't discovered until 1966. and the history of the city began much earlier there is a reason i brought up dubai in the first place it's all about pearls before the discovery of the oil fields pearls were the main wealth of the persian gulf and the main source of income for the locals it's said that dubai was even called the pearl coast almost all the male population of the coast was searching for mollusks despite the dangers that lurked in the depths and there wasn't even any special equipment it was the 19th century when people learned how to grow pearls the traditional pearl diving gradually disappeared but the uae remembers its past and that's why you can find something like a museum today at the place where dubai once started it's a village of pearl divers and in just a couple of centuries it's grown into one of the richest cities in the world it's even strange that the capital of the emirates is in abu dhabi but it also knows how to surprise remember the painting from the beginning of the video this unique da vinci painting considered lost for many years was sold at auction in 2017 and became the most expensive work of art in world history and the piece is sold prince batter bin abdullah bin muhammad bin faran assad bought the painting and everyone expected it to end up in the new louvre abu dhabi museum soon but that didn't happen the painting disappeared then turned up on another prince's yacht then art historians doubted it was a real da vinci at all but people really were delighted with the painting look at them with tears in their eyes however maybe dicaprio's just upset that he's not enough leonardo [Music] [Laughter] okay even without da vinci there's a lot to see in abu dhabi the local louvre and yes it really is a franchise if the paris louvre hosts many other exhibitions for example rembrandt's paintings but we're interested in one particular painting by this famous artist the allegory of smell like salvatore mundy it was long considered lost until it was found in a basement from there the painting went to resellers who priced it at a few hundred dollars then there was an auction and the price began to skyrocket 870 thousand dollars 1.1 million dollars but the story didn't end there the allegory of smell was resold for 4 million i don't even want to think how its original owners felt when they found out about it [Music] this is not the first story when the value of a work of art makes your hair stand up it's hard to imagine how a paint-covered canvas could be worth that much i guess you have to be an art historian to know about such things how does it work it all depends on the artist if they're famous enough their paintings will be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and the older the work the more expensive it is for a reason a lot of studies are carried out to confirm the authenticity but this is still not enough because people have long ago learned how to counterfeit works of art okay i'll prove it give me time will you give me time and oddly enough one of the first was michelangelo yes the same one who painted the sistine chapel ceiling and created the statue of david you know those stories of actors in the early days of their careers not making the best movies go back to yourselves did you think of joking in michelangelo's time there were no movies yet so to make money he forged an ancient roman statue in 1496 the future master created a figure of a sleeping cupid and buried it in soil with high acidity to make the sculpture appear ancient when the work was finished michelangelo sold the cupid to a dealer who in turn sold it to a cardinal the cardinal later learned of the fraud and demanded his money back and the sculpture probably perished in a fire two centuries later what conclusions can be drawn from this story well first of all either michelangelo had some very talkative friends or the cardinal had a knack for ancient sculptures and second of all even the greatest creators sometimes borrow ideas from others take disney for example yes nowadays they copy disney rather than the other way around but there are some controversial moments in the company's history one is the suspicious similarity between some elements of the animated movie the lion king and the anime kimba the white lion take a look at the names of the characters and also kimbo was invented much earlier and disney of course said that any similarities are coincidental it seems that every year it becomes more and more difficult to create something truly original and is there such a thing as originality at all especially when the internet intervenes as soon as you think up something new and fresh in a couple of hours somewhere on the other side of the world someone will immediately copy your idea and for sure they will try to make money on it before you've come to your senses and for example this is our case have you seen the video about the lions and baboons we created it from scratch and now look what happened well i'll take that as a full recognition but it's one thing if a person appropriates another person's idea but what about an entire planet okay not a planet just our moon in 1979 the united nations adopted the agreement governing the activities of states on the moon and other celestial bodies also called the moon treaty the document states that the moon and its minerals are the common heritage of all mankind in short the earth satellite doesn't belong to any country the problem is that only 11 countries have adopted the moon agreement and another problem is there are people like dennis hope yeah we actually have been selling property on the moon since 1980. in fact this is a unique person dennis hope claimed ownership of the moon in 1980 taking advantage of a legal loophole and since then has simply selling off lunar land at the local bar and online through his company lunar embassy for 20 or 25 dollars an acre it depends on the mining rights in 2004 hope even created his own state the galactic government with a ratified constitution a congress a monetary unit and a patent office am i the only one who gets the feeling that this is some kind of weird parody of star wars don't fail me again the businessman has been sued several times but here's the thing moon isn't within the jurisdiction of earth's courts today he's in the business of selling other planets and their satellites anything with a solid surface is for sale so since 1980 almost anyone can legally buy that crater or that one you don't like it then get that one it's 50 off now how about our special promo two craters for the price of one only today but seriously how could anyone even think of such a thing apparently the same way people had all other weird ideas take for example kopi lawak coffee the rarest beverage in the world one of the most expensive varieties in the world although actually the name is just a way to process it a method you've probably heard of the fruit of the coffee tree is eaten by asian palm civets they digest the pulp surrounding the coffee beans and well they get rid of the beans naturally these beans are then harvested by humans washed and dried in the sun tell me this the man who first looked at the waste products of the palm civets what were they thinking about something like hey why don't we pack it all up and just pour boiling water on it and after all not only did they come up with it but they convinced the whole world that this processed coffee is cool today 2.2 pounds of such beans cultivated in the wild cost thirteen hundred dollars and if you wanna make a joke about our intro then how much did my coffee cost by the way [Music] so what were we talking about right about weird ideas and animal waste gray amber if the whale were a mollusk gray amber would be its pearl first it appears when a sharp object enters the whale's intestines which the whale has failed to digest and then the object is trapped in a special fatty shell and second well ambergris can be worth as much as 180 000 or even several million depending on the weight and the buyer almost all harvested natural ambergris is used in perfumery to make expensive perfumes when you think about it though it's just whale feces that swam in the sea for a long time and acquired a special scent if you've ever smelled real gray amber post in the comments what it smells like and to not leave you on that smelly note here's a kitty for you see you later you

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Published: Thu Mar 18 2021