This Ecosystem Will Kill You If You Move

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[OctopusLady]

If you don't have the means to support me, that's all right! I understand. Your time and attention is enough. 💜🐙💜

[Mother_of_Pigeons]

The Octopus Lady: The giant tubeworms, for example, have no mouths

My brain autofilling: But they must scream…

[davidjones]

ChemThug is an amazing science communicator! Thank you for featuring him!

[D.UBS.]

Yeti crab: Hmm extreme pressure, acid water, dark.. But hey, there're food from the funny hot volcano, thats an absolutely win.

[vragithemutant]

Dutch person here: You actually pronounced 'Tjeerd' correctly, and even if you didn't, I wouldn't blame you. Most non-native speakers have a lot of trouble with learning Dutch because it's quite a messy language (we even have rules for where to include capital letters in a last name and mine doesn't comply to those rules and this made it so that when I was born, they had to reprogram the computer system in which they registered my birth sertivicate)

[heiskanbuscadordelaverdad]

if there are no volcano snails I would be disappointed now seriously look up volcano snails they are like fantasy creatures

[leeuhen]

Hello OctopusLady,

First of all: thank you for your excellent, entertaining, educational work! Our family is always joyous when a new video drops.

Second: I wanted to mention the existence of Marie Tharp, the woman who actually discovered the Mid-Atlantic Ridge but whose work was first derided as "girl-talk" and then used by Heezen et al without attribution.

Sadly, her name and contributions are, even now, largely unknown.

Marie Tharp, champion of the continental drift theory!

[Capstone]

I can confidently say that magnetizing a metal snail is a new life goal of mine

[ceejno]

Was curious so I skimmed the geological stuff reeeeally quickly, and the gist seems to be that mantle currents are a thing, but it turns out the tectonic plates are causing them rather than being caused BY them. And the plates are actually being moved by... gravity, basically. Colder, denser plates sink into the mantle due to their weight, and the force of a sinking plate pulls the nearest plate closer to it. So they drag each other around. I think I might've seen a similar effect in person when I was pressing vanilla wafers into banana pudding the other day.

[jaysonl]

"We can get a little taxonomical... as a treat."

Never change, Octopus Lady <3

[splatter_proto]

This was absolutely fascinating and incredibly entertaining, and Chem Thug was amazing!

I feel like I'm going to blink and this channel is going to have a billion subscribers, the content is too good!!

[celarts]

Do you think you'll cover brine pools as well at some point? They're absolutely fascinating to me, also amazing video as always!

[slowpnir]

7:00 not only the water _superheated, _ it is also _supercritical_ which makes it an ultrasolvent. The temperature is a non-reason, as hot water can solve _less_ stuff. The reason is the combined level of pressure _and_ temperature which turns water supercritical (liquid and vapor "are indistinguishable" in this state) which makes it an ultrasolvent. When the supercritical solution exits the crevice, it looses the pressure and becomes normal water again, and solved material flakes out of it. This explains why we see the black fountain and not a flame-like structure.

[joshuahadams]

H.P. Lovecraft was into continental drift. _At the Mountains of Madness_ from 1936 has a surprisingly good summary of the ideas of continental drift at the time, and the concept of supercontinents and a global ocean in the far distant past, forming after the moon.

[kovanova]

I saw a geologist lick a rock once to show what it looked like wet once so geologists acting like that with new creatures and ecosystems makes sense to me.

[cassievania]

Vents are like one of my top three ocean obsessions though I'll admit it was a bit early in the morning to grasp all the chemistry 😂

[Ya_boi]

Chem thug was honestly an incredible addition to this video! Not enough people are talking about how incredibly he explained everything, immediate follow

[Psittacus_erithacus]

Fantastic video, as I've learned to expect from this excellent find of a channel.

2:10 So glad you included this bit and even showed the pages of your work that ultimately got discarded. I feel like many folks (myself often included) fail to realize how much more challenging it is to be genuinely conscientious about the accuracy of what you put out. In a world thick with people carelessly shouting over each other waving desperately for attention. I'm so glad to find another creator who's actually deserving of it.

[johnsober]

Your experience with academic papers gives me so much validation. It's such a struggle at times.

[jessybelike]

"tik tok is a garbage platform and it doesn't deserve him"
gurl you spitting facts I have never been convinced to subscribe to someone without at least watching the content but you just done it