Could You Survive The Carboniferous Period?

[@eons]

We’re publishing the Eons podcast right here on KZbin during our off weeks! As usual, we’ll be back with another regular Eons episode next week.

[@AlmightyRawks]

If we can have a special episode or podcast dedicated to sounds of ancient creatures, I'd love that. I am the most curious what meganeura might have sounded like. I already love the deep hum of bumblebees, but I expect meganeura would have sounded even more bonkers!

[@nothanks9503]

You evaporate the sweat by running naked

[@BuildNumber42]

it's called carboniferous because of CO2 levels, not high oxygen levels

[@shinigamidad]

"How to Train Your Dragonfly"

[@drimachuck]

>"You find yourself enveloped in a dense, humid mist. Every breath of air you take is so thick you can practically drink it." Me going home to Singapore and stepping out of the airport

[@magnolia1253]

Anywhere in the Southeast US for me (Florida and South Carolina specifically)

[@bifuriousaf]

or Florida

[@Findecommie]

Me visiting my family in the Philippines, having to retreat to either being in the water or somewhere with AC every few hours

[@diebesgrab]

I know this feel exactly, stepping out of terminal 2.

[@drimachuck]

@@magnolia1253 🤝🏻 tropical gang gang

[@SB-qm5wg]

Kallie has a great voice to be a dungeon master 🐲

[@Infinite_Curiosity00]

In general. Joyful and sincere. You can tell she loves what she does.

[@L1teralsatan]

Okay but hear me out, a dnd campaign that is just the survival in deep time episodes. You could use typical dnd characters, or more realistic self inserts, either way, it would be super cool!!

[@AlexanderTheGoodEnough]

we'll see how shrill her voice gets when I get the party into fights at every opportunity and justify it as "roleplaying".

[@nilsqvis1337]

Honestly I wouldn't be at all surprised if she has been or is also a dm

[@blockmasterscott]

'Oh she'd be AWESOME!'

[@freddyP300]

Im barely surviving this time period

[@RealMTBAddict]

Why

[@LanceHall]

Rationality has gone extinct.

[@TheGhostOf2020]

Mood

[@barbarianvee]

Fr

[@jimr513666]

@@RealMTBAddict Why not?

[@bingcringing]

I LOVE THIS SERIES

[@rositasultana3958]

Ah, there’s more of these…I will look for them 😂

[@aldencrispin1086]

Me too! Not only is it fun, but it paints a much clearer image to me, for what these times looked like!

[@eertikrux666]

“The leathery egg is a sign of a common ance-“ Me: “we can finally eat eggs”

[@davidclayton579]

The opening of this had me thinking I was playing D&D.

[@shinigamidad]

Prehistoric Zork...

[@tomholroyd7519]

0:43 "and it wasn't alone" (not the intro I would have chosen)

[@Kedai610]

I need a monster manual for the Carboniferous now

[@nyeti7759]

That's pretty much how Gabriel is treating it and I love it 😁

[@alexwixom4599]

​@@Kedai610 just sub in carrion crawlers and anything buggy from the underdark. Like those crazy humanoid lobster things.

[@POTATOEMPN]

"The Tree moves in..." Nope. "Unusual way"" Nope "It's a centipede" N. O. P. E.

[@scaper8]

More of a millipede, to be fair. But, yeah, big and definitely unnerving.

[@horsethehorse3969]

Atleast they’re herbivores, I’d be more afraid of the giant spiders, giant scorpions, or whatever giant crap nature decided to let loose.

[@Bhoddisatva]

The thing is going to end up on the menu. Probably tastes like crab or lobster.

[@jan_Masewin]

Rain World!

[@CelibateCetologist]

@@horsethehorse3969Bold of you to assume herbivores are the friendly ones.

[@shahab_shawn_siahpoosh]

I have a master's in biology and I have to say, during my school time, I never got to remember the significance or even highlights of each geological time period very well. This series of your videos has helped me a lot not only to remember, but also understand and differentiate each period (and hopefully epoch.)

[@dishevelleddev]

I love so much that you kept the vivid vignettes from the original version of the podcast. They're so evocative I feel like I'm there. It's incredible.

[@amniote69]

Starting a fire in 30% oxygen might not be the best idea!

[@Level70-x4d]

Humans wouldn’t be able to start a fire. They would be dead from Oxygen toxicity..

[@technopoptart]

@@Level70-x4d you would think if they came in with the clothes they had on that making a multi-layered wadded mask would help? if you need to halve the oxygen level then making sure to mix in plenty of spent breaths might help

[@MrMadsci7]

It would make it considerably easier.

[@johnbennett1465]

​@@Level70-x4dscuba divers exceed 40% O2 equivalent all the time. Admittedly this is only for around an hour, or day for some professional divers. So there may be long term problems, but short term there is no problem.

[@Level70-x4d]

@@johnbennett1465 I think the intent here is to survive without technological assistance. If so your ownly hope might be to head towards a nearby mountain where oxygen levels would be lower higher up otherwise you would suffer severe lung damage. The ironic thing is to get to the mountain you would accelerate lung damage because of physical activity. Also it would depend on the atmospheric pressure at the time.

[@skeepodoop5197]

People who fear insects: "Hell no." People who don't fear insects: "I mean, maybe?" People who know about the extremely high oxygen levels, and the fact oxygen poisoning exists: "Sorry, I choose life."

[@pmc609]

A A

[@Fullchristainname]

Kept waiting for them to bring this up

[@jamesmnguyen]

Are you sure you would get oxygen poisoning? A quick google search says humans can endure about 0.5 bars of partial pressure of O2 indefinitely and the estimated partial O2 pressure during the Carboniferous period was about 0.3. Maybe I'm missing an important factor here.

[@crayonzii]

I wonder how a high oxygen level would’ve felt like

[@banukaii]

they did mention it early on and said humans can survive oxygen-saturated air for a day or two, so the leveks during this period would prooobably be fine

[@Zal1810]

I would watch 10 hours of the intro. Kallie's voice is so soothing, and the subject so fascinating. I love this, I hope one day we would have enough material for a compilation

[@legitreason3973]

Honey, I wouldn't survive in the local park.

[@technopoptart]

lol, same XD

[@SaxandRelax]

Love thiss

[@Katkit91108]

Lmao 😂

[@gabbysmith7579]

Like I’m not making it out of Yosemite spawned 100 ft from a marked trail 😂

[@legitreason3973]

@@gabbysmith7579 yo so true XD

[@bolggamer]

I'm waiting for Could you survive the Triassic. I feel like the early Triassic would be the ideal point to live in because everything was dead and small from the Permian, but I really don't know.

[@norarivkis2513]

There were an awful lot of lystrosaurus around that you could hunt...

[@roxyamused]

It would be awful. The early Triassic was noxious, suffocating, CO2 through the roof, dry af, there'd be dry spells that mummified a lystrosaurus so we know what it's skin was like; there'd be acid rain and gas clouds that suffocate animals; the entire biome was trying to recover from the shear intensity of methane and CO2 from the Siberian Trapps. Even in the late-early of the Triassic the CO2 ppm was like 600. Early triassic is 1200-1900ppm. Also those crazy bipedal crocodilians roaming the dead landscape with only a few trees dotted around with the only food probably going to be lystrosaurus eating those trees, very little fresh water and a global temperature that's 4C above our current. Did I also say how dry it was? Middle Triassic is far more tolerable as the CO2 ppm was down to 350-400, and it was less dry, more forests, more temperate despite the huge desert in the middle on Pangea. Middle Permian to middle Triassic was intense, the world was trying to kill everything.

[@norarivkis2513]

@roxyamused By the time you hit the middle Triassic, you've got coelophysus running around chomping on everything. Plus a ton of different kinds of crocs. I'm not saying it wouldn't be better than the early Triassic, because it definitely would... but it sure wouldn't be a walk in the park.

[@bolggamer]

@@roxyamused the thing about the bipedal Crocs is I could outrun them. That's the main thing

[@hurgcat]

​@roxyamused get these things off of me! Gaia screams for 100 million years

[@3rdDimensionFox]

This is my favourite show on this channel! I can’t wait to see how we do with actual dinosaurs

[@MrIan1086]

Poorly. We would do poorly. See the multitude of studies by Speilberg et al.

[@bloobangs7224]

​@@MrIan1086why are you a bummer man? We're excited to see the show, chill out

[@MrIan1086]

@@bloobangs7224 a bummer? Dude, I just cited Jurassic Park as a scholarly work.

[@buzzyinurface]

The initial monologue by Callie was absolutely enthralling

[@darylcase88]

What a wonderful host Kallie is. Beautiful voice, intelligent and fun. Has Eons ever done a show introducing all the staff?

[@dianewallace6064]

Yes, look at the Live show section

[@Hardy_Oxide]

No. I can't survive without youtube

[@RealMTBAddict]

🙄

[@renanlll6542]

You're better than this! I believe in you!

[@scottmccrea1873]

Yes. I wish to live in the wilderness...as long as I can get wifi & Amazon deliveries!

[@RealMTBAddict]

@@scottmccrea1873 Internet, not wifi 😭

[@AWMul]

It's the music !

[@obmjustz]

I'm hearing you guys reference DnD and Dune and Pokemon, and my immediate gut reaction is that y'all are a bunch of total nerds and I love it so much

[@xyzpdq1122]

Kallie has such a warm smile, all of the Eons hosts should be my friends IRL

[@victoriaeads6126]

Lol, I like watching her do the narration sections. She has a natural gift for this sort of thing.

[@TronForlox]

creeper weirdo

[@technopoptart]

that.... is such a creepy thing to say

[@recycledbeansalad]

Don't worry about the critiques in the replies. There is nothing creepy about thinking that you could be friends with someone, or group of people. If that was creepy, only creepy people would have friends IRL. Sheesh.

[@kamoroso94]

​@@recycledbeansaladthis is called a parasocial relationship. They are not considered healthy and are different from real social relationships.

[@JenniferRosales-q6m]

As an entomologist, I would be more than happy to be there. Not sure I could survive tho. 😂😂😂

[@90klh]

What you think about them pigeon sized dragonfly? Id be terrified cuz as a kid I watched one eat a fly and that mouth...... Scary

[@JenniferRosales-q6m]

@90klh Well, I just love insects. I understand many people are afraid of them, but to me they're just amazing.

[@Lexthetician]

I freaking love this podcast its such a fun way to think about these concepts :)

[@christiancolindres5103]

Probably one of the coolest intros for eon's yet 😊 setting the stage for this wild Ride

[@tricky2917]

It just randomly struck me how much these are like DND campaigns. You start with a story, a goal, and you have to prepare for all these eventualities. Fair go, Eons.

[@alinaserafimova3368]

I’m lying in bed, looking for something to listen to before sleep, and see a new video from the Eons surviving podcast. PERFECT.

[@grimmbartrides]

How about moving high into the mountains? At high altitude there'll be less oxygen partial pressure so you wouldn't have to worry about oxygen poisoning; it would also be significantly cooler thus more comfortable; you should be able to find a nice freshwater spring, and there are probably different but viable food sources.

[@LanceHall]

The giant centipedes only want to cuddle with ya.

[@scottmccrea1873]

Fortunately they were probably herbivorous!

[@Kehk-in-a-MiG]

[@MistSoalar]

Narrator Kallie and Show host Kallie sounds almost different individuals. Also Kudos to Gabriel. I like your creative survival insights and hair care tips in carboniferous period.

[@jacksonstarky8288]

Playing D&D with the PBS Eons team is now on my bucket list. If there's a Patreon tier that might allow this to happen, I'd seriously consider it; I'm in southern British Columbia, Canada, about an hour from the border, so considering the size of North America, I'm not *that* far from Montana, and I've been playing since the mid 1980s, which means (a) I'm probably older than everyone on the Eons staff, and (b) I'm within fifteen years of retirement, which would make the travel easier. 🙂

[@hydroac9387]

They both have such charming smiles!

[@markusmeldre]

Carboniferous seems like a very interesting time period to live in until you get mauled by wolf sized bugs

[@brianreddeman951]

Most were more chihuahua size. Be more worried about big chompy amphibs and eel like freshwater sharks.

[@SunsCam0531]

That 30% oxygen might be too much for our bodies to handle

[@mathildetanghe865]

I love this host! He's funny and smart

[@bbytyat]

Carboniferous is my favourite geological period 🌱

[@ricardorodriguesrr18]

No way lol it's not it can't be lol

[@chandra_has]

Awesome introduction

[@jennyskipworth]

Yay! I've been waiting for the animal heavy time periods!

[@williamfrom6021]

The wife and I are really enjoying this series. We even purchased some Mussels after listening to the cambrian episode to pretend we are eating some sort of ancient sea life.

[@megan5867]

Even though most humans today would struggle, this is what's actually amazing about our species. We are sooo freaking adaptable. We can eat an extremely wide variety of foods, and can adapt pretty well to most environments as well.

[@patrickfitzgerald2861]

Yep . . . adapt to it, and then destroy it.

[@megan5867]

@patrickfitzgerald2861 sadly, too true.

[@CelibateCetologist]

If we can make underwater bugs a culinary delicacy, we can do anything

[@megan5867]

@CelibateCetologist or flavor our food and perfume with beaver secretions 🤢 Honestly, whoever figured that one out really took one for the team.

[@mikel1338]

So hope this is just season 1 of this sort of format. This needs to be a mainstay, 100%

[@LittleWaffle]

Oh my goodness, the Carboniferous 😍😍😍😍 I love love this episode, so happy for the co-host choice as well ! You guys rock!!!

[@insectilluminatigetshrekt5574]

The scorpions today with medically significant venom are those with mammal specific toxins in their venom as a result of co evolution with mammalian predators. Scorpions in the Carboniferous of course did not exist in such a context, so its unlikely their venom would be that bad.

[@meltemfahliogullari]

Ah this was loads of fun!!😂❤. The intro allowed me to really get into it with you guys.🎉

[@DinosDragons]

I love how the beginning sounds like the start of a D&D campaign! I wouldn't mind playing a prehistoric campaign!

[@Graham-p7k]

You are more likely get eaten by a fish, than you are a frog lol.

[@TimYoshi]

That new cycle of yours has perfect timing as I'm currently preparing for my first time travel. Will be using those podcasts as an instruction manual, as there's not much of such kind of info, at least prepared this way! :)

[@TheMiniWitten]

Cant wait for this to be on Spotify! Love you upload there as Well

[@OldmanNix]

I adore these pods. Such a treat. I savour them. Thank you.

[@maccamac9965]

No woody trees = No sticks, bats, spears and no decent cooking fire.

[@derrickthewhite1]

Carboniferous has lots and lots of wood. Wood is what gave it its name. This was before wood could decay.

[@LordProtectorPepper]

I read “bats” as in the animal and I was like duhh no bats why does that even matter

[@angelitabecerra]

Love that Pachirisu in the corner, Gabriel. Ok, I effing dig your gamer brain and creativity Gabriel

[@jpopelish]

35% oxygen sounds high, but this was for dry air.. When you get to a temperature where water vapor makes up a significant fraction of the air, the effective oxygen concentration goes down.

[@iriandia]

I'm at the stuck in the mud part, and I remember one of my archeology profs telling the story of how he was so weak from getting dysentery that he got stuck walking across the dig site after a rainstorm. Cue Oregon Trail jokes.

[@latheofheaven1017]

With all those broken branches, slippery mud on the ground, and the humidity, you're going to have to watch out for cuts and scrapes getting infected. No?

[@magnolia1253]

They mention that...

[@EarpDerp]

Hi Eons, I’d love to see an episode on the late Pliocene, right before the beginning of the Ice Ages

[@norarivkis2513]

I'm sure they'll get there in time! So to speak. 😂

[@2727daqwid]

This is the best series on yt currently

[@cvaneyken]

I could not have so much as defined a geologic period for you two days ago, and thanks to this podcast I have now dived head first down a new rabbit hole of discovery. Thank you very much for this content.

[@d.overbeck94]

OMG! Fascinating! Will be looking this up! Thank you!!!❤❤❤

[@rositasultana3958]

Guys, I just had the best time of my day with you! Much love ❤

[@ladysugarsama]

37:14 I'm so glad he finally mentioned it cause that's the first thing I would do!

[@SaxandRelax]

This is such a great series

[@t1sk1jukka]

Carboniferous is my one of my fav periods, because of those cool plants. Also freshwater sharks! Among other things

[@davesatxify]

love these Callie

[@S.Sparrow]

I am loving this series, and just seeing all of your facial reactions as you think about, and react to, the scenarios.

[@josephd.5524]

Giant shrimp cocktails

[@hermask815]

No eggs for the mayonnaise, yet😢

[@crypto66]

I'd gladly take giant bugs over regular-sized ones any day. I can at least punch a dog-sized roach, but the little ones get in all sorts of nasty places.

[@Toxondomo]

Their babies would get at you and your food. Imagine hundreds of baby roaches storming your kitchen and growing bigger while eating away all your food 😭

[@Roland14d]

Flashback to Damnation Alley

[@TragoudistrosMPH]

But it could punch you back... and it has an exoskeleton... Zefrank just did a vid on parasatoid wasps, and one kicks a wasp...hard...

[@brianreddeman951]

There's big and small. So as you are swatting away the big big bugs the little ones will right there to irk you too.

[@taffypulller]

I tell myself if I'm gonna have dreams of bugs, my brain better make them giant so it's not a nightmare. Brain has taken the challenge

[@magnolia1253]

It's funny that Gabriel mentioned pokémon, because the game was based on the bug catching games of kids. They would find impressive bugs and in some cases even make them fight each other. He's literally going back to the roots of Pokemon

[@whittenaw]

34:50 I got stuck in mud once and had to have help getting out. I was walking like normal and the ground looked normal and suddenly I was waste deep in mud or silt or whatever. It was pretty scary lol

[@magnolia1253]

I have also been stuck in mud, but my class was on a wetland field trip, so almost everyone got stuck in the mud at least once. It was past my knee. But the really scary thing happened after I got out of the mud and accidentally kicked a stick. The stick stuck itself through my skin and we had to wash the foot thoroughly to make sure I didn't get any pathogens.

[@whittenaw]

​@@magnolia1253 Jeez that's a nightmare lol

[@SaxandRelax]

This is the best series ever please never stop this one

[@DrawnByDandy]

Me making chainmail as I listen to this podcast: roll dexterity to not give yourself a cut while crafting the armor 😩

[@Rose-yx6jq]

I just woke up and I read "can you survive the Cretaceous" in the notification.

[@jimmyohara2601]

Hey hay heigh, me too 3 😄

[@jerrodbroholm4338]

We'll get there! Totally my choice to attempt survival.

[@grandmundi7107]

I don’t think any of us could have if we were on the day when that thing hit the earth

[@lashadi1445]

This is the period I have been waiting for!! Let's goooooo....🌲

[@AnimeShinigami13]

oh wow, you guys have been BUSY!!! I LOVE IT!!!!

[@harperm1389]

I think this is my favorite episode so far. I was already really looking forward to the Carboniferous Period (because it's my personal favorite), but then Gabriel came in with fern armor and riding the arthropleuras. XD

[@madskofoed1094]

You have really learned a lot of reading out loud and making the text alive.

[@jacquesbaker1557]

It would suck if you accidently ate your direct ancestor before it reproduced.💀

[@ExaltedCoffeeShaman]

loving this voiceover format

[@darianharrell4783]

Great podcast! Gabriel was so creative!!😆

[@Y-Yumi82]

Im loving this series 😸

[@totticosta2977]

OMG I love this, your podcasts are the bests

[@zhanglei3470]

Love love your opening narration! Is caterpillar a thing at that time? I have a phobia against those crawlies and I will die of heart attack

[@DanG802]

I can't even survive Monday morning at work lol

[@Tmpp88]

Something that wasn't touched on in the environmental hazards section was that the thunderstorms in that period would have been *insane* given the high air oxygen content and humidity! And every lightning strike would've had the chance to light a wildfire of biblical proportions 😱

[@anthonyschroeder521]

I think the swampiness is my #1 concern. Managing to stay dry, but not having your dry area start on fire randomly is going to be a very fine balance. Clean fresh water as well is going to be in rare supply unless you get lucky enough to be around very deep water.

[@therealtelles]

This is my type of podcast. Its not polarizing and i can imagine everything

[@Hatchitis]

As a Filipino who loves dnd, I relate so hard

[@jamesfra1311]

You know what? This reminds me of that britsh TV show "Primeval" with one episode where one guy got stuck in a similar time period after going through a time portal! He survived by hunting critters. Best dinosuar show to date!

[@kyoatbites7865]

why would it smell like stagnation ? are the rivers not turbateing, did the oceans tides stop isthere no more rain ?

[@thekaxmax]

Shallow seas, shallow lakes, slow rivers, standing in a swamp. As per the intro.

[@coolmantoole]

I'm not sure that we would survive the super high oxygen levels of the carboniferous.

[@takenname8053]

Monster Hunting in the Carboniferous with my Arthropleura armor and Temnospondyl Sword and Shield!

[@briannaselhorst9200]

When you asked Gabriel what was one thing he knows about the Carboniferous I yelled "BIG BUGS" I love bugs 😂

[@clairekurdelak2913]

This was a particularly fun conversation/ thought experiment

[@thedeepseacat]

I'd be dead in mere second from heart attack 😅

[@everfour5388]

Kallie you have a beatiful voice, perfect for this documentaries

[@ssflg]

This is so fun. When I was a kid I used to do this all the time.

[@turquoisewitch.wild-owl]

I love humidity! As for the fire, if it's so humid, there might not be as much of a worry about things catching on fire that thought.

[@duybear4023]

Time capsules!!! If you could leave anything from the Carboniferous in a time capsule for future people to discover, what would it be?

[@duybear4023]

I'd leave a hand written note encased in amber. I'd include an extinct insect in the amber so it can be dated.

[@Unknown07-ic6kr]

You'd just cause an extinction by being there

[@jaybeachy9729]

With a fibrous plant you can make a net to catch dragonflies

[@jl3039]

Sorry but as soon as you started describing the centipede, I'm out, don't want to live. Bugs win man

[@hermanlau4431]

That's the Mecha King Ghidorah in the back!

[@Karthonic]

Digging this ARK Roleplay 😂