What If Humans Lived Underwater?

Hundreds of years in the future, the surface of the Earth has become unlivable. Vacating our terrestrial settlements, our species migrates into the ocean and begins a new chapter underwater. Could humans build neighborhoods and cityscapes on the ocean floor? Could our species colonize the ocean with bio-domes and giant air bubbles? If the surface of our planet can no longer sustain us, will humans ever live underwater?
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Sub biosphere 2: Designs for a Self-Sustainable Underwater World
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Dr. Caroline Palmer-Puschendorf (PhD)
Dr. Sean McKenna (PhD)
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Nicely stealing from Kurtzgesagt here....

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This Channel Is Copying Another :(

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@@hanselmartinez762 Which one?

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@@LuchtLeiderNederland I think he is talking about Kurzgesagt

[@kingtutlearning]

Having a surface level habitat with a home underneath would be the best solution. Living underwater is a challenge despite the technologies we have because of underwater pressure. Who knows. Maybe some genius will find a solution to underwater pressure.

[@RexGalilae]

It's not like there are no solutions. It's just that living inside a bubble that potentially has to fight off 100s of atmospheres worth of pressure to keep you alive sounds risky af, no matter the technology

[@bruhtonbruhkkinson6848]

@@RexGalilae To be fair, we're still looking at the stars despite how dangerous it is.

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I'm assuming you're thinking of artificial floating islands. They would be a great option, albeit one that would need extensive tsunami and hurricane engineering as the high seas are notoriously rough! I'm sure we could engineer the islands and the buildings on them to withstand the waves of weather.

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@@bruhtonbruhkkinson6848 I think it's mostly just PR from Elon. I'm sure nobody, Elon included, thinks we can just mass migrate to Mars

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@@RexGalilae I didn't even mention Elon nor was I thinking of him, it's undeniable that within the century - we'll be at minimum, mass migrating to nearby planetary bodies and more likely beginning a dyson swarm. There's just too many reasons to move off of Earth to consider the alternative.

[@gediminaszalys1124]

Great video, but the initial reasoning of why such an endeavour would be needed is flawed. Even if the atmosphere is toxic for humans on the surface , it’s much easier creating habitats that are air tight protecting you from the elements on the surface. Dealing with challenges of creating underwater colony adds so much more unnecessary complexity, such as water pressure and much more

[@roberteischen4170]

I mean, that's cool and all. But it isn't the purpose of the video.

[@steelcommander9918]

@@roberteischen4170 the first two minutes are about how we might need to live underwater in the future. It’s the entire premise of the video

[@cnbkyn4139]

Plus the space exploration is never about “finding a new home” . even though video production quality is spot on, script is too elementary

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A fair point. When such cities are constructed, it will likely be due to research purposes, or perhaps for recreation. Sure, building such cities would be “unnecessarily complex,” but so is scaling Mount Everest (at least in the unnecessary part).

[@scdijkens]

Even if earth becomes more flooded and temperature rises, ruining liveability of places, cities, maybe countries and thousands die because of it... Even then, there will be liveable places still that make the ludicrous idea of ocean colonization void. Edit: its just clickbait is all

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I've actually always wanted to know this. This and cities on the surface of the ocean would be awesome.

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Do you know Venice

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@@KennyNGA Venice isn't so much floating around on the ocean as it is just sitting in a shallow sea, but I get your point.

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@@lucasharvey8990 im retarded didnt get that

[@alicorn3924]

Subnautica gives me a general idea of sorts, of how humans could live underwater.

[@baigandinel7956]

Doesn't the pressure come from the water itself upon the body? So, we are able to go down in a submarine and not be crushed to death (and likewise to not hallucinate). It would be the same living there.

[@rezs-tech]

that's what I was wondering. They were showing a home deep in space. If the habitats are airtight and pressurized normally, then we wouldn't have to worry about the bends until we go swimming...

[@scientchahming5]

The main key would be to not live too far down.

[@terricon4]

There's a few reasons, but one of the simpler ones is if you ever go in/out of something it's a problem. Second though is if you build something super far down, then the less pressure inside the harder it is to sustain its shape, so even small increases in pressure inside can considerably lower the weight and materials needed to make something safely operate at depth. Something fun to think about is even modern nuclear submarines, capable of going down to considerable depths, actually get deformed when they dive. If you hang a string across an open section of the ship, when on the surface so it's tought and tight, as you dive it will start to hang and sag because the submarine is being squished and crushed. It's at a level it can survive happening for the ship, but that already, without a lot of extra careful systems for managing atmospheric pressure inside the submarine on the fly, means you're air pressure is going up a bit. Making a submarine so rigid that doesn't happen is again just prohibitively expensive in resources to build and the final weight of the vehicle.

[@qwerasdliop2810]

@@rezs-tech maybe the pressure inside will be the same as the pressure outside to make the construction possible. Otherwise the enormous weight of the water would probably crush the whole thing

[@DigGil3]

inside the habitats the air will be pressurized to near the ocean pressure, allowing the habitat structure stand without being crushed.

[@izzynobre]

What a fascinating video on a topic I know next to nothing about. I've read so much about space stations, Dyson spheres, generational ships, that I know all the scifi tropes about them and the engineering challenges in building them. But underwater habitats is something I never read about, and as the end of the video highlights, this could be a more feasible way to extend humanities exploration potential...

[@ontoya1]

I heard older sci-fi was about stuff like underwater, deep sea habitation and Antarctica.

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Nuclear submarines can support their crews fairly independently, and Oil companies regularly build sophisticated structures on the seabed

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Those are very expensive and I'm pretty sure they need regular restocks from ports.

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@@TheBardSM probably because self-sufficient wasn't in the interest of nuclear submarine crews, designers and commissioners. Who knows, maybe there are ways to make underwater habitats self-sufficient, it's just not being discovered yet.

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Using technology already available for building oil-drilling operations in places like the North Sea, it might be possible to build floating "iceberg cities" with 90 percent of their volume underwater. Building cities on the ocean bottom will probably always be impossible, though automated mining of the seabed is a virtual certainty since it's already known that chemical processes have concentrated a number of useful elements into what amounts to nuggets.

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4:51 Kinda being nitpicky here but why would I have to deal with bends while navigating my own home? Wouldn't the pressure inside be regulated to a uniform

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I imagine that in this future, where we live underwater, we’re still looking towards the stars. It would slow us down for sure, but I can see the image of people funneling onto a ship, squinting at the sun and breathing whatever fresh air there is for the first time in their lives. Generations of people will have gone without seeing the surface, and the one time that they do, is the last time that they ever will

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The concept is interesting but I see no future in which it would make more sense to retreat to the ocean instead of make similar enclosures on land.

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Even if we were to prevent man made climate change, unless we developed technology to control the climate itself, the climate would always be subject to change over the long run.

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I've played subnautica before and I can tell you we can 100% live underwater

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As this video has convinced me, humans do best living on the surface of the ocean. A large amount of Styrofoam is floated so as to cover the sea inside the harbor, and a relatively lightweight building is installed there. This will at least keep prices down in dense cities. However, the covered sea completely blocks sunlight and completely destroys the environment for marine life.

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Video: Could humans build neighborhoods and cityscapes on the ocean floor? Me who has played Bioshock: ...Ahh shit here we go again...

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I mean the option of just building underground or building some specially designed hubitat on the surface wich can withstand the surface conditions seems much cheaper and easier

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I remember reading a book in middle school called Deep Blue where this kinda happened. It was super cool to consider, it was the first time I'd really thought about it. Of course it was a sci fi book so it wasn't very realistic, but it got me interested in what underwater habitation might be like.

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It’s awesome just to think that we can live and hold more humans in the ocean, like huge city’s in a bubble dome in the ocean. Maybe we can do this instead of going to mars, don’t get me wrong both are very cool and awesome.

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Honestly, this would be a political hell and we don't want any more pollution underwater.

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If you're not actually exposed directly to the water pressure, you don't experience any of the problems this video talks about regarding air pressure. It's why submarine sailors don't need to decompress. If you want to go outside the underwater dome to go swimming etc, you'd need to compress / decompress, but other than that you can build as deep as you like and as long as the atmosphere is at 1 bar, then no problems to come and go as you want...

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If you can build cities in domes to keep out water, you could build domed cities on land that keep out toxic air, but easier & cheaper

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I think the biggest question to surviving underwater, on our planet, with oceanic acidification would be: How viable would our fortifications be in a world where most of the sea life died because of what happened to the surface?

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