The Most Important Deep Sea Discovery

Thank you to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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Writer/Narrator/Editor: Stephanie Sammann

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[bobcunningham]

There's also the parallel story of how taking samples at these depths had to evolve. Many initial samples were contaminated by the materials used and their interaction with the environmental conditions, and things got worse when samples had their pressure reduced to atmospheric to permit study in conventional labs. The engineering needed to respond to these challenges is fascinating, and may be worthy of a corresponding Real Engineering video.

[flytrapYTP]

Kinda makes me feel regret that I'm not a marine scientist, because seeing how mysterious the ocean is... It's thrilling.

[TallBison]

Literally just read this paper for my biology capstone class, y'all did a really good job of distilling the main points into a more understandable form.

[conradkolo]

Cells are.. capacitors?

I'm studying electrical engineering right now, and seeing how I can draw some knowledge from completely different areas of study is fascinating.

[grdprojekt]

5:53 I thought she's gonna say "made possible by curiosity stream"

[mrspookypoo]

Real science and real engineering should start a podcast. I personally don't listen to podcasts but I would definitely listen to these if they made them

[jadoei]

I'm completely new here but this was great! I had known some vague details of this for years, but this make it all click together and made me realise just how special it really is. Thanks a lot!

[lordodysseus]

Something that had never occurred to me was "the sun's energy" meant more than "the sun's energy". I had never considered it was a chemical formula. I learned something really cool today.

[wiseboar]

0:39 somebody left his Subnautica pipe network there

[PedanticPlanner]

Maybe turn down the music a tad, it can be distracting. Otherwise, great video.

[simonpiolo]

Its wonderful that this channel exists now because I’ve been wanting more technical explanations of things in biology, chemistry, and other sciences.

I appreciate this! Thank you!

[achingbach]

It was a very good video. I can't think of any way it could have been better. It was well researched information, well presented format, and concise.

[grobsop]

This makes me think there is life on almost any planet, in one form or another

[davidschaftenaar]

This has me wondering: What other forms of potential energy could life arise from?

[Davethreshold]

This is about the coolest doc that I have ever seen, and here is why: Maybe 15 years ago, I saw an article in Time Magazine about this. The ocean floor PSI was over 1, 500 pounds and it showed a little creature living down there, next to poisonous, heated water. It made scientists rethink what it takes to start life. It is so alien, only because we have never seen this before. I LOVE the film Andromeda Strain, about inorganic life, accidentally brought back to Earth by scientists. That film makes you think outside the box like nothing else before it. ❤

[DocBree]

One of the best You Tube science/nature videos I’ve ever seen - fantastic work.
Did the water outside of the cooler Atlantic vents have a pH of 8 or less? Do bacteria that live by harnessing the energy from the pH gradient live in the porous chimneys there, as hypothesized?

Just one critique: cells existed as prokaryotes (no membrane-bound organelles, including nuclei, king before eukaryotes, unlike what is suggested in that part of the video.

[twenty-fifth]

As a writer, content like this inspires me to write more science fiction.

[olbradley]

The second I heard "documentary" and "David Attenborough" I immediately went to Curiosity Stream and searched for it.

[KuriusOranj]

Your narrator is excellent! Clear, and without the hideous vocal drag and uptalk that is all too common. Fantastic work!! I hope your future is wicked awesome. :)

[Appalling]

All the chem and biochem I took and studied during my days at UC Davis just lit up like a christmas tree in my head. What a freakin KICK ASS video! Thank you!