What's Hidden Under the Ice of Antarctica?

[@buttaman34]

The fact that Antarctica was part of Australia means i dont want to discover whatever is living down there

[@robertaries2974]

Valid

[@StenGilles]

Fair

[@TheHurinThalion]

giant frost spiders?

[@smalltime0]

Spiders, the answer is obviously spiders. It's ridiculous that we're even discussing it like we're going to find something else there.

[@nathanielreichert4638]

Three words: Giant Ice Crocs.

[@caitymarie-o8s]

Colby Gura is my husband and he worked incredibly hard on this research. Makes me very happy to see his research shared❤️

[@13infbatt]

Amazing work , must have seen some amazing sites .

[@frankiethefrog1752]

He’s my husband when out of town.

[@d0p3w1z]

Yeah he’s my dad too

[@tobymdev]

my dear son Colby

[@walk_in_solo1543]

Ehhhhhhh Colby, My cousin!

[@scorpx3790]

Remember captains, when crossing the Drake passage, keep your families away

[@gabrieltan4170]

naahhh 💀💀

[@SaadAhmadSMMA]

We finding the one piece with this one

[@Mesopotamia-v6d]

Specially the kids

[@turezak]

💀

[@ありがとう7]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@eliascorrea8573]

This whole video has so many moments where you have to stop and just be in awe

[@mrb7094]

The video is annoyingly good 😆. I wanted to dislike it. But the information it conveyed was just too fascinating. There are some superb content creators on YT, amongst the dross.

[@bena2357]

@@mrb7094why did u want to dislike it 💀

[@mrb7094]

@@bena2357 It was the guys chirpy, infotainment voice and the fast, seemingly irrelevant edits. Both bespeak short attention span crud. I expected it to be terrible. It wasn't. It was good. Take the win.

[@xxxstellarxxx]

@@mrb7094At first i was like “Why is bro thinking like this” and then I remembered how many times I’ve been in the position of being like “I want to dislike this thing but it turned out to be better than I wanted it to be” so id be a hypocrite to be like “wtf”. Carry on hahaha

[@92Locutus]

Dear RealLifeLore, you forgot about one of the most important factor called 'isostatic rebounding'. After the ice melts, the continent will rise around a few hundred meter, so it will be a continent again, not a bunch of islands. Rebounting also affect nearby continental crust, so australian and south american crust will shrink aswell. I would 100% add it to a video about antarctica. All the best from Hungary, great video nonetheless.

[@dudleymills1427]

Sea level does not delineate continents. Continental crust does. Oceanic crust is not continental. Further, Oceania is not a continent. It is the name of a region used by those who don't know any better. For those who do know better, it is called the south west Pacific Ocean which is underlain by oceanic crust and the continent Zealandia. Australia is a separate continent to the west surrounded by oceanic crust.

[@allanroser1070]

Rubbish ​@@dudleymills1427

[@vanstryke78]

Yes, Antarctica is a candidate to experience isostatic rebounding if it loses all its ice. Isostatic rebounding is a geological process where the Earth's crust rises due to the removal of a significant amount of weight, such as ice or glaciers. If Antarctica's ice were to melt completely, the landmass would gradually rise as the weight of the ice is removed, leading to isostatic rebounding. This process could result in significant changes to the landscape and potentially cause shifts in ocean levels.

[@Incomudro1963]

It's not going to lose all of its ice. Not for millions of years anyway. And just how far up do you think it could rebound?

[@highfive7689]

Does the traditional map take into account the land mass "without" the ice sheets?

[@FNLNFNLN]

Oil? Sounds like Antarctica needs some freedom.

[@haidara77]

lol

[@edlevani7424]

I was looking for this

[@Litron6]

get ready for the great antartica oil war in 2048

[@Tilvent]

WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER

[@masada2828]

@@Tilvent- 1000 metres or 3281 ft.

[@Jermaine2099]

Nobody: RealLifeLore: *V A S T* *M A S S I V E*

[@SonnyDarvish]

Massively vast 😳

[@francescortegaporti9708]

A colossal massive vastness​@@SonnyDarvish

[@george.vasilev.reyner1916]

*A S* *A S S*

[@GURken]

*H* *U* *G* *E* *E* *N* *O* *R* *M* *O* *U* *S*

[@cs8712]

I N C O N C E I V A B L E !

[@jess500texas]

Fun fact, Metallica is the only band to perform in Antarctica. Thus, they're the only band in the world to perform on every continent

[@josephramey6913]

Yeah not true every year they have a thing called icestock. A concert every new years for 30 years.

[@davecannabis]

Its a pity they are not very good

[@owoahxd]

@@josephramey6913 icestock's only performers are the people who work at mcmurdo station, not artists like metallica who've had the chance to perform on all the other continents. I suppose if one of those researchers goes to each continent and peforms, or icestock has a special guest, they could share the record with metallica then. 🤷‍♂️

[@odioalospoopers]

haven't Los Jaivas also performed there?

[@dayewalker9408]

Too cold for the Beastie Boys...........and WAY TOO COLD for Ice Cube or Ice T too.

[@calliesummers1943]

So nice to get a RLL video that's not 99% scary/sad/frustrating lol. I hugely appreciate the modern conflicts videos, and they're a solid part of why I'm generally able to feel informed about what's driving world affairs. But I do also miss the days of the videos about quirky geography trivia.

[@tanner6035]

Agreed

[@Lam-ba-Lam]

I honestly prefer the fun/quirky kind of content. Hope we see more!

[@zeffmalchazeen3429]

@@Lam-ba-Lam this was his content way back pre covid times and the reason I subbed

[@scrappydoo7887]

If only he could actually pronounce words

[@Mofuwu]

Well not for you, I'm Argentinian I'm scared sh*tless of what's in store for in the next 20 years

[@PettitFrontiers]

Antarctica is no joke. My father has been to Antarctica twice for meteorite-hunting expeditions, and he had to perform emergency snowmobile repairs, and emergency dental surgery on a colleague by punching out a tooth with an iceblade. Hardcore place.

[@EmpressMermaid]

I'd imagine you'd need a very broad skill set to get on there.

[@PettitFrontiers]

@@EmpressMermaid My father is a literal polymath, so he's a good choice.

[@EmpressMermaid]

@@PettitFrontiers I bet he's got lots more fascinating stories.

[@--36--]

@@PettitFrontiers Your father is a little liar

[@balinthehater8205]

​@@--36-- im guessing yours went out to grab cigarettes and never came back?

[@focalized]

Under the ice are millions of single socks, car keys and guitar picks.

[@CrystalM]

And remotes and forks... I'm pretty sure Antartica is where all my home's silverware is going... smdh

[@fwdsmatter1117]

and millions of 10 mm sockets and wrenches

[@philtorrez4198]

Lighters, lots and lots of lighters.

[@MeaHeaR]

Wood the geetar picks evolve to become Ice Picks

[@CrystalM]

@@philtorrez4198 yup I forgot about the lighters 😆

[@mayflower6058]

Learning about the warm cave system beneath the volcano blew my mind

[@skessisalive]

It’s like the fortress of solitude

[@sleepymanager3190]

This channel has single handedly made me 10x more interesting in conversations.

[@TimeCells2035]

Now, go listen CNN so you can balance yourself to -10x 😂

[@wordzmyth]

That is a great compliment, also a nice conversational skill

[@teck1756]

Unfortunately, being interesting doesn't always intersect with being right. This guy brings up a lot of neat topics, but he's also very loose with the actual facts. If you're inspired by one of his videos to learn more on a topic, I highly encourage exactly that, with study into the matters from better sources. On the topics I know about, I honestly find the truths more fascinating than the exaggerations I hear here.

[@sunablast]

I feel like you're an employer

[@teck1756]

@@sunablast ROBIN-CHWAAAAAAN!

[@himbourbanist]

The implications of the Mt. Erebus volcanic cave system are immense for xenobiology. These are conditions that are replicated frequently on icy bodies in the Solar System, like Enceladus, Europa, and Titan. If there's life in these tunnel systems here on Earth, the chances are pretty good that there's life on these worlds in our own backyard. Really fascinating stuff

[@RenegadeMaster137]

Incredible implications if we can discover life forms in other parts of our own solar system, the extrapolation of that across an entire galaxy is so mind blowing that it’s tough to comprehend, let alone express!

[@jordanrussell345]

​​​@@RenegadeMaster137It's all but certain there is life all over the galaxy/universe; the problem will lie in one of Fermi's Paradoxes. Likely the Great Filter if talking about intelligent life. If you've never heard of it, check out The Drake Equation. My personal belief is that space is too vast and we can only violate the laws of physics in our sci-fi books.

[@matthewm7867]

Not unless God created it - evolution is a myth and unprovable

[@RetroTinkerer]

Don't we need first for very simple life forms evolve in suitable places with adequate conditions before they can evolve into something as complex as extremophiles?

[@maxthibodeau3627]

​@@jordanrussell345 or the Dark Forest theory.

[@bungalo50]

8:30 You probably meant Arthropods instead. Anthropod has *disturbing* implications

[@Thrillhou]

"Crab people crab people.."

[@needfoolthings]

Especially if an odd number of "pods" is specialized into eating tools.

[@maxwellvandenberg2977]

Human foot

[@codyrush8780]

what if he meant anthropod😂😂😂

[@payrysdoscs4903]

@@Thrillhou hehehe

[@austinallen169]

I remember reading in 2nd grade that Antarctica was classified as a desert due to the dryness/lack of rain. I told my teacher and she laughed at me and said “Antarctica is most certainly not a desert. It is the exact opposite.” I showed her the book and she gave an entire lesson the next class on why Antarctica was considered a desert.

[@Meitary]

We weren't born too late to explore Earth after all.

[@logic.and.reasoning]

I feel like that would have been the best thing in human history.... not knowing, and going to find out. Awesome

[@oahts5906]

Turns out, I love you

[@FireJach]

i hate this. you can still visit many places on earth for the first time IN YOUR LIFE. that's why tourism exists and is a big market

[@Settiis]

There’s still so much to discover. The amazon, the ocean, antarctica and sahara, and probably many more things that don’t even come to mind.

[@raymondtonns2521]

it is forbidden for individuals to go to Antartica

[@awabaziz7029]

"Whats hidden underneath the ice of Antarctica?" *More ice and penguin bunkers*

[@bababababababa6124]

I wonder what the penguins are plotting in those bunkers

[@BIGMark-wx6gn]

​@@bababababababa6124 To visit Madagascar.

[@m.otransformers4855]

Well I think there's more then that, cuz China wouldn't be inviting in research and building boats that can handle the rough terrain of sailing there

[@NickyBlue99]

Yo mama is

[@angamaitesangahyando685]

And those penguins sell sex (yes, really). - Adûnâi

[@michaelscott5653]

For those curious, PBS Eons did a whole episode on this about when Antarctica was green and supported a lot of animals. It was an extremely informative video and worth a watch.

[@chrimony]

Make Antarctica Green Again.

[@utxex97]

That would be catastrophic.

[@tonymurray814]

Make America Greenlands Auntie!

[@chrimony]

@User-w8k7k MAGA, of course.

[@keltongonzales8514]

Flowers. Blooming. Antarctica

[@captainsensiblejr.]

Living in New Zealand means that we are very conscious of of Antarctica as it generates icy Polar blasts in our winter months. We are also part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, with several active volcanoes in our North Island

[@Paul-nn9oj]

theres a song about 'fire & ice' I think I heard some of your hobbits sing it

[@drewbreezy9370]

Living in New Zealand also means there are New Zealand bitches. I love New Zealand bitches

[@drewbreezy9370]

Living in New Zealand means there are New Zealand bchs. I love New Zealand bchs

[@alexfischer7876]

Double Standards: Geography Edition.

[@lovepet4565]

I am so envious of your country!! I want to emmigrate so badly I have the $$$ net worth But i think im too old at 60 Im super young looking from being on antiaging protocol last 20 years.

[@GenericInternetter]

Fun fact: Antarctica is the world's largest desert. The small amounts of rainfall there fall within the classification of a desert.

[@mikiqex]

But with the twist the rainfall is actually snow which in the interior never melt.

[@lewis7315]

The funnier fact is that all that is left of Admiral Perry's 100 foot tall radio antenna erected around 1903ish? is the top five feet !!! So, 100 feet of ice accumulated during the global warming of the last century!! :)>

[@asdconservative]

ANTARCTICA FOREVER 🇦🇶🇦🇶🇦🇶🗣️🗣️🗣️💯💯💯❄️❄️❄️☃️☃️☃️🥶🥶🥶🧊🧊🧊⛄⛄⛄🏔️🏔️🏔️🌨️🌨️🌨️

[@hadiisaboss5307]

​@lewis7315 wow who couldve guessed, snow is still falling on Antarctica, you sure did expose them "global warmers"

[@qwertyuiopaaaaaaa7]

@@lewis7315 Most of the warming has occurred recently, it has not been 100 years of evenly distributed warming. Global warming is also, as the name suggests, a global average. It doesn’t mean every inch of land and water are getting warmer at the same rate or warmer at all, only that the average temperature is increasing globally. Go learn to tie your shoes before pretending to know anything about climate science.

[@jonsayer]

He kept saying "Anthropods" when he meant "Arthropods" and I am imaging either bug men or bugs with man feet.

[@arthas640]

Tiny humans riding ants like cavalry

[@EchoLog]

There's literally photos of inside the caves. So there's human DNA in there, now for sure.

[@lolz6449]

I caught that too! Anthropod 😂

[@pyrrhicvictory5844]

Well either way, I think it's better for everyone if these creatures stay below the ice

[@Pillarguri]

😂

[@redlady222]

Great. Unknown, Subaquatic, arctic spiders. Only a matter of time before that becomes an exotic pet.

[@jfpOne23]

I'll take 10 in assorted colors.

[@UselessKnowbody]

Don't forget super GIANT underground Ants! It isn't called Ant-Arctica for nothing. One day the queen will emerge to take over the world!

[@Paul-nn9oj]

Still got those giant spider ancestors (google Tasmanian Giant Cave Spider: Hicmania Troglodyte)

[@sieglindesmith9092]

@@UselessKnowbody 😂

[@PAULY-P]

​@@UselessKnowbodySome aliens 👽 look like ants. Interesting. 🤔

[@KerliYN]

This place should be kept an untouched paradise forever.

[@dianachin4849]

Ikr? Plus the gorgeous looking polar bears should remain there

[@battlefrontnews4035]

@@dianachin4849well that would be a problem considering there are no polar bears in Antarctica

[@dianachin4849]

@@battlefrontnews4035 is it too cold for them? Just curious

[@battlefrontnews4035]

@@dianachin4849 it’s not necessarily that it’s too cold but the fact that they would literally have to cross the whole planet to get there. Even if they did make it there, they would end up killing off all the penguins and probably seals and sea lions as well.

[@KennethKrueger-p4i]

I promise not to touch it.

[@SpeedCam8]

Antarctica is not only a reservoir of important resources but also a scientific research area with great discovery potential. What lurks beneath the ice could include unexplored ecosystems, valuable minerals, and even traces of ancient life.

[@FreakTesticals]

Antarctic border wars?

[@richardberlund2427]

You are correct and in Earth is there inner earth is there it's in Richard Ebert's diary

[@mikezappulla4092]

Or it could just be mostly water and some rocks.

[@BigCogInASmallContraption]

Antarctica was icy b4 people, we never lived there

[@choco.es.unlimited]

You had me at alien

[@Keith_Ngcobo]

Wouldn’t be a real life lore video without a pinch of geopolitics

[@DrBunhead95]

Yeah, in the end felt kinda like old Discovery Channel document-esque things which repeated themselves 10-15 times over the span of 15-45 minutes.

[@JackBlack-py4en]

And climate change.

[@abranitaelizarraraz9045]

@@JackBlack-py4en climate change bringing us back this beauty

[@fabian2062]

​@@JackBlack-py4en Bro it's Antarctica what did you expect

[@julianlongoria6227]

Please RLL... more of this! Been a fan for years and even though the geopolitical videos the channel has produced over recent years are great this is what made the channel so unique in the beginning... Back to the roots!

[@4islandlynx]

Great video!! I spent a month there in 2008 as a lecturer, field guide and zodiac driver….crossed the Drake 6 times…This video caught me up on the changes and clarified many of my questions… good job!!!

[@TDMHeyzeus]

Its not true we don't have a precise explanation for the Permian Extinction. The Siberian Traps are widely accepted to be the cause and are pretty well understood by the standards of something that happened 250 million years ago. Even the people pushing impact hypothesis directly tied their theory in with the Siberian Traps and argued that the impact drove the volcanism.

[@larry9243]

Funny seeing you here

[@balinthehater8205]

I think the word "know" might be doing a lot of heavy lifting there, as knowing implies certainty and, as it is an event that happened hundreds of millions of years ago, certainty is rare.

[@iiiiii7680]

Why are you here and not opening cases? Unacceptable

[@kopsi.]

Heyzeus it was 100% an act of god what are you on about. Anyways start editing times ticking!

[@SpazzyMcGee1337]

Would the Siberian Traps happen to have formed directly opposite of this potential Antarctic crater?

[@JoeBlowUK]

I'd like to live in Antarctica. The fact that it would be extremely difficult for people to get to visit me sounds like the perfect place for me to be.

[@therealuncleowen2588]

You probably are too young to realize this, and I can tell you are joking, but the truth is, the only thing worse than getting visited often by annoying relatives, is not getting visited at all.

[@FoolishPrince]

The vast isolation wouldn't be to discourage visitors from seeing me, as I never had visitors; but rather to further dissuade myself from leaving. 🃏

[@WhiteHawk77]

@@therealuncleowen2588and yet I’m nearly fifty and feel that way more than ever.

[@BeanieDoggerson]

@@therealuncleowen2588People are horrible, stop pushing you opinion like it fact

[@MissesWitch]

me too haha ^ ^

[@nono6167]

A 40-50km asteroid is way more than 4-5 times bigger than a 10kn asteroid. A ball with a diameter of 40km is 64x the size of one with a diameter of 10km. Asteroids aren't perfect spheres but not accounting for the fact that volume is 3 dimensional and just scaling asteroid size linearly with width is an egregious oversight.

[@Quickshot0]

It is surprising how many people overlook or forget that volume increases far quicker then you think.

[@caffetiel]

Maybe it was just 4-5x lemgthier. Lomg rock.

[@DSTKO-w7z]

Chixulub asteroid hit the Earth with more power than all of our nuclear bombs combined. It would make sense that an even worse extinction than the one that ended the dinosaurs was caused by an even larger asteroid impact.

[@craigbaker6382]

...yes but the physics of making a crater with triple the diameter itself negates some of your complaint about volume as the area also is more than triple and also craters are 3 dimensional in that they are a negative volume of sorts resulting from a mathematically more significant energy of impact than a quadruple sized asteroid would produce. It takes more than a triple sized asteroid to make a triple sized crater.

[@dontyouworryaboutit_]

square cube

[@Didymus20X6]

1. A ruined city full of Shoggoths. 2. A flying saucer with a shape-shifting alien. 3. A land of full of living dinosaurs and cavemen.

[@UselessKnowbody]

4. The ancient Zohar stargate known as Worlds Edge Temple connecting with 390 other planets. I wonder if the Empire of Light still exists.

[@padraig-bobotia-maria5176]

@@UselessKnowbody is that not in hyrule under the north pole?

[@fleetstreet11]

@@padraig-bobotia-maria5176 also known as Hyperborea

[@BG1435q]

you got it right, but we are not cavemen. we have internet here now! trump visited couple of months ago. he is a great leader. he strangled one of the dinosaurs that has been terrorizing our village for decades with his bare hands. thank you sir! come back any time!

[@err4071]

A untouched land Very rich in gold.

[@SamuelHikida]

I miss these old videos that werent about wars and doom, keep bringing these back!

[@Subreon]

the oil field, and possibly the crater, will be the biggest incentive for the world to go into war and doom

[@SamuelHikida]

@@Subreon No kidding

[@poetryflynn3712]

There are two ways to win in this world - either become so negative about the world you become a prophet or become so positive about the world you become a salesmen.

[@itsvmmc]

Also when there weren't any shitty sponsorships in every single video

[@Qwuebz]

As soon as I saw that thumbnail it reminded me of your older videos.

[@JMG0305]

Same haha😊

[@soundscape26]

Except they're now triple the length.

[@ksonestudios8963]

Facts my guy been real political lately

[@Qwuebz]

@@ksonestudios8963 I am talking about the green in the middle of Antarctica.He use to do like videos on Russia about melting ice caps will make it a superpower or something.And it looked green to show it melted.

[@Qwuebz]

@@soundscape26 Yeah true I like that though.Too short might feel rushed and the way he keeps producing them for me it good length.

[@aalsmeerdiary]

Amazing video thanks for that insight.

[@stellacollector]

I love how this video spends enough time on Antarctica's unique geology, geography, and biology. I assumed that the video would dive straight into the discussion of rich natural resources and that we should...... you know, "liberate" Antarctica.

[@dianecernak7130]

That's in another vid for the government

[@grahamgregory8363]

Just having resources doesnt mean you will become rich. There are many resource rich countries that are broke. Angola, Venezuela etc

[@andrasszabo1570]

They call it the "resource curse". Many countries that are blessed with natural resources have lower economic development, lower HDI, more conflict, etc. precisely because of those resources. Still, it won't stop countries from competing for unclaimed resources.

[@smalltime0]

@@andrasszabo1570 Angola was/is mostly devastated after the USA (with apartheid South Africa) and Cuba fought a proxy/civil war there. A war the USA lost btw. It lasted almost 27 years (until 2002), the US thought they were fighting the USSR for a large chunk of it. The country is still covered in landmines, so no. Its a little ridiculous to say that Angola is poor because it has mineral wealth.

[@gigachad6885]

The main factor for a country's success is its average IQ. Low and high ressources doesn't matter as much as the ability of a population to improve. Most neighboring countries have huge gaps in ressources, and yet they have the lame level of development (because they have similar average IQ)

[@kaladore6798]

Russia can’t sell oil

[@andrasszabo1570]

@@smalltime0 Its (sic!) a little ridiculous to fixate on Angola when I didn't even mention it and even OP only did it in passing, as an example, no?

[@romeufrancisco7041]

18:50 microbiologist here. I have participated in sampling missions by drilling methods and also at abyssal plains using ROVs. I am shocked by seeing the absolute absence of any precaution concerning contamination in that video. I certainly hope none of that was replicated when drilling to study biodiversity. I know the video is not of the microbial sampling drills, but if it is anything of the sort.. my gosh....That core of ice that was collected can only be used by geologists. (look at how they clean it and smooth it out using their gloves.... that they were using with the equipment. All is biologically compromised.)

[@Michallote]

My concern is that maybe they introduced bacteria to the site that maulled the existing ecosystem

[@bigmacstack3468]

@@Michalloteyes I had that thought too

[@Six_Gorillion]

Is okey. Ivan wash with vodka. Is fine.

[@THECRABSPILOT]

“Which might not really sound all that exciting or sexy” 💀 18:52

[@OneEyedJackNLD]

2030 anyone?

[@awabaziz7029]

Underrated as hell 💀💀

[@NateTheOhioan]

Nah 2040

[@Owlinaicecube]

200 BC here!

[@dipeshchand9109]

Yes I am a citizen of Antartica from 2030

[@GizzyDillespee]

2024: It's the brutal weather of Antarctica that keeps people away. 2044: It's the temperate climate of antarctica that serves as a beacon to refugees.

[@backroomserklärt]

1:59 Drake Passage? Especially dangerous for minors

[@racheller8753]

😔

[@peter7582]

Hug me brother

[@Noor-Ali19]

Say drake heard u like em young

[@LamborghiniLegends]

Bro its to late for these jokes😭

[@sideshowbilly3755]

Everyone who was old enough to watch the 1982 Antarctica documentary narrated by helicopter pilot R.J. MacReady at U.S. outpost 31 knows what's under that ice.

[@Subreon]

what's under it is obvious. incentive for the biggest winners of capitalism to encourage global warming to reveal the contents below. it's pretty realistic to imagine one day they'll achieve their goal and the archipelago will feel the sun

[@Frostbytedigital]

Did the documentary get destroyed? You speak of it like you had to encounter it at the time lol.

[@erik7271]

what was it? was it aliens? I bet aliens are there

[@DougLarsen-g8t]

😂

[@michaelgaloppa6669]

Big trouble in greater Antarctica

[@MadisonAtteberry]

With all these steam vents and volcanic activity, I'm surprised that no one has tried to fund geothermal power.....I mean, it wouldn't be as easy as I made it sound, but still, that would solve some problems when setting up research and outpost on the continent. Power being one, freshwater, and possible if you set up a series of pipes to channel the steam, a better source of warmth.

[@martinlutz5446]

I REALLY don't want to be the scientist that gets eaten by a Skyrim Frost Spider in the Antarctic tunnels!

[@sterlingnerdling]

Don't be selfish. Do it for science!

[@bosh6604]

I did independent research on the internet and they are quite easilly seducted gifting you their loyalty and love

[@Skyforger23]

Giant alien spiders are no joke.

[@samjohns662]

​@@Skyforger23they throw snow balls

[@umopapisdnpuaq]

@@Skyforger23 WTF FTL in RLL

[@thr33swords16]

As the club captain of the local aero club, I am responsible for planning and running events. A popular event is one we call “pilot nights” where we invite someone to do a talk to club members. This week we had a member of our club talk about how they did radar glaciology in Antarctica and Greenland. They fitted US C-130 aircraft with various radar equipment to scan beneath the ice to determine what was underneath. And now I’m watching this video, fantastic!

[@rickh5454]

Question. If around 10% of Antarctica has been radio echo sounded and 90% has not, how is it possible to draw a land map without the ice, which shows the entire continent? If the land map shown is mostly imagined, it's reminiscent of 15th-century world maps which are intriguing to look at, but were the cartographers' guess of what the topography might look like. I hope one day we'll radio sound all of it.

[@anonymousaylin4609]

im guessing by satelites maybe?like how we have a rough ocean floor map because of satelites

[@bengoodwin2141]

I would guess that either the 10% represents the amount of precise detail rather than full area, or that we have enough patches of information to draw rough lines between the patches. You can imagine having a map with blobs missing and still see a rough shape despite the missing parts.

[@a2falcone]

I imagine they map lines and make a grid, and just average out the gaps in the grid.

[@williamkern1839]

It's possible larger areas have been mapped, but at low resolution.

[@and__lam1152]

If Antarctica was discovered in the 1800s ... how was it depicted, although inaccurately in those 15th century maps, which were copied from earlier maps that no longer exist.

[@blessedbeauty2293]

- 13:06 What part of Connecticut though hehe. 🤔

[@Mark-uh3un]

The scramble for Antarctica will be a monumental event in human history

[@jacktheripper2537]

Only if we are still there when the ice is gone..

[@asdconservative]

ANTARCTICA FOREVER 🇦🇶🇦🇶🇦🇶🗣️🗣️🗣️💯💯💯❄️❄️❄️☃️☃️☃️🥶🥶🥶🧊🧊🧊⛄⛄⛄🏔️🏔️🏔️🌨️🌨️🌨️

[@payrysdoscs4903]

@@jacktheripper2537 I guarantee no human currently alive will see the Antarctic ice thaw.

[@payrysdoscs4903]

@@jacktheripper2537 I guarantee no human currently alive will see the Antarctic ice thaw.

[@CB21001]

Argentina's claim to the Falklands/South Georgia/South Sandwich Islands is one of the most bullshit territorial claims in existence. Regarding the Weddell Sea, the "race" can only be won by the British & Chileans, unless anyone else decides they fancy invading a NATO member's territory

[@texasroccogaming]

This is one of my favorite videos your team has put out on the channel in recent times. Thank you and great work!

[@mw...]

Nice work. This is an excellent channel. Very informative

[@joelhungerford8388]

5:20 you forgot to take into consideration the amount of land that would rise due to the height of the ice sheets being removed. This lifted would also cause even more volcanic activity creating even more Antarctic landmass Edit: weight.

[@tofupanda8168]

Most of Florida would be a goner

[@louiscrasher]

@@tofupanda8168 who's complaining ?

[@tobyrice719]

😂

[@michaelhammond7115]

Nope

[@RosefMudson1414]

​@louiscrasher you liberals are always complaining

[@Klyis]

It is debatable as to how lucrative those oil and gas deposits in Antarctica will be by 2048. The world is slowly starting to transition away from fossil fuels, more countries are prioritizing energy independence, and oil producers like Saudi Arabia are already scrambling to diversify their economies. Of course oil still has other uses besides a source of energy, but in two decades it's questionable if demand will be high enough to incentivize anyone to develop new oil fields in such a remote part of the world.

[@Quickshot0]

I was thinking the same, especially as it would be 24 years before the treaty expires . If countries are even remotely close to their stated plans in reducing CO2 emissions, then oil usage would be dropping so quickly already that there would be no point developing an expensive new field. Because at that point they'd already be struggling to keep their far cheaper fields still in production, meaning a new field would only be a ton of expenses to sideline an already usable current field. So yeah, I also don't think oil would be a real problem here. But civilizations our size always need lots of materials in large quantities, and Antarctica certainly will have large deposits of other materials. Though if we ignore the ones under kilometers of ice for now, the only realistic option would be deep sea mining and the few places with exposed rock. Which may for now limit how usable they are.

[@a2falcone]

@@Quickshot0 It's not a date for expiration of the treaty. My other reply explains it.

[@a2falcone]

Furthermore, the importance of the 2048 date is heavily overblown. From that year on, any member state of the Antarctic Treaty will have the right to call a review conference where amendments to the Environmental Protocol of the Antarctic Treaty (not the Antarctic Treaty itself) can be adopted by a 3/4 majority of member states (a very high quorum). Currently it can only be modified by a unanimous decision. The Antarctic Treaty itself has a similar rule that has allowed any member to call a review conference since 1991, and yet no such conference has been called to date, even though conferences to review the Antarctic Treaty only require a simple majority (50%+1) to adopt amendments. Members states are satisfied with the way the Antarctic Treaty System works, so no one has much interest in changing it. There's a high probability that nothing will happen in 2048, especially considering you can't get nowhere close to 3/4 votes even if all the countries with territorial claims voted together.

[@Quickshot0]

@@a2falcone So basically the oil thing is even more overblown yet. Making no sense from any angle of looking at it.

[@Fido-vm9zi]

People can't just take whatever they want.

[@mangogo44]

"Most people alive today don't have a solid grasp". We drew Antarctica's map with heights and ice shelfs as a school homework when I was like 12. I'm grateful for that, I wish more people could access better quality education

[@louiscrasher]

not in the usa indeed

[@SavageSmoke74]

I did this in a USA school. US schools themselves are so disparate in quality just within each state. So, saying US schools are bad shows the people who went to the bad ones.

[@Techaro]

I’d argue that’s not practical or useful knowledge. Good for quiz shows or random fact spouting, but doesn’t prove you got a great education.

[@Freya_Blue]

I'm glad it seemed to be a fun activity to engage student interest in learning new things ... but I don't think that specific activity/information is the sign of a good education. There are so many more important things to learn. But fun activities are important for kids development, so it was important in that way.

[@rossstewart9475]

29:55 3,600 British citizens, greater than 95% of which work for either the Ministry of Defense, the Meterological Office, or are dependants of someone who does; For the UK government *directly*. It feels like quite an oversight not to mention that the UK has "stacked the deck" in terms of it's claim to the Falkland/Malvinas islands - particularly in regards to the referendum ran there, which many residents of the UK rolled their eyes at the announcement of it, understanding the details of the demographics being canvassed. I'm sure Argentina are just as dishonest when it comes to reinforcing their claim, but if we believe in justice and accept that the world is unfair, then it is each of our responsibility to ensure that justice exists: That means being willing to call out your "friends and allies" when they act injustly.

[@ellec7188]

Imagine if RLL went off the deep end and went on a Ice wall tangent or something lol

[@kungpaochicken89]

He's not that far off tbf

[@johnbroadfoot5148]

Operation highjump. if you know you know.

[@isaiahebert1475]

If RLL started mentioning the ice wall, I think I'd believe him. That would be so funny 😂

[@GabibboReall]

What the fuck are these nicknames people make and then cant spell

[@DuranmanX]

A future war in 2048 between Argentina and UK over 44 trillion of oil in Antartica sounds just as crazy

[@limericklad2000]

Another great video. One minor correction - I'm not sure if you're aware but the simulated footage you used when describing the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event/Great Dying, was footage depicting the Chicxulub Asteroid/Cretaceous-Tertiary event that lead to the extinction of the dinosaurs. There aren't very many serious scientists who ascribe to the idea that the Great Dying was caused by a different impact event, the Siberian Traps hypothesis is backed up by so much evidence it's highly unlikely there's a different explanation. Again, great work.

[@Quickshot0]

Some people occasionally speculate that extremely large impacts could cause the materials in the Earth to start flowing more to the roughly opposite side of the planet. It's hard to know how realistic that idea is, but it would create an interesting dynamic between some impact events and massive volcanic traps.

[@FerociousPancake888]

Why in the world isn’t NASA building prototypes of probes and testing them on lake Vostok?? It’s literally the perfect Europa practice run!

[@ROVA00]

How do you know they’re not?

[@ronjon7942]

I recall a documentary that touched on exactly that: that NASA was using Antarctica as a potential test area.

[@EinMann123]

because theyre fraud and dont want to do even more fake projects than they have already

[@DoomFinger511]

They have to be careful not to contaminate the lake. If they introduce any outside life then it could taint the entire ecosystem of life inside the lake ruining any new discoveries.

[@BKF0]

Because turning Lake Vostok into an industrial lab testbed would completely ruin our chances of ever learning much from it

[@ElkoJohn]

Much obliged for this presentation.

[@Friskydingle]

I bet that ice water under Antarctica would be so refreshing at 2 am when I’m parched.

[@jordanrussell345]

Mmm, shrimpy.

[@reinakim5820]

I was having so much fun with this video right up until about 22 minutes in, when my heart sank. Please, please, please keep corporate interests out of one of the last places on earth preserved from human greed, forever. Never support the breaking of the Antarctic Treaty. The idea of this beautiful, mysterious, almost otherworldly environment being ravaged by mining and fracking just so that some company can see their stock price rise makes me want to cry.

[@J8922-o4v]

Agreed!

[@SmolPotatowo]

Then they wana mine the oceans too. Yet another poorly understood biome being destroyed :^)

[@brianquigley1940]

Thanks for the timestamp... I am only watching to see how the corporations are going to fight over it.

[@sjwhitney]

I have a nice piece of Mt. Erebus lava right on my bookshelf. It was brough back by my father who was on the US Navy's Operation Deepfreeze II.

[@usernameunknown1910]

I guarantee you, that if u put that sample of rock on sale ,the prices will be insane !😂😂

[@Chadborn-j8p]

We need a post apocalyptic movie /book that takes place on an Antarctic mountain or desert..

[@sethhughes2163]

What an adventure! I thoroughly enjoyed learning so much more than I ever had dreamt concerning Antarctica! Thank you so much... KUDO'S for you sharing this with us all. Respectfully, Seth

[@jimmyliendo8249]

So, At the Mountains of Madness is looking more plausible now, i guess

[@CheeseNacho_]

it bothers me a little that you didn't talk about the potential contamination that extracting that oil could do to the BIGGEST RESERVE OF FRESH WATER IN THE WORLD, it really gets me worried that by 2048 a lot of countries could be willing to sacrifice anything for the money that those oil deposits could give, and worsen even more the climactic crisis that are already in

[@bigdeal5394]

We're not in a climate crisis. Stop believing the propaganda

[@TJSaw]

It’ll be cheaper to fix the problem at home.

[@abranitaelizarraraz9045]

Humans don’t care. They’ll label it as natural somehow and helpful to our economy

[@vipermikes5547]

Then you should follow Dr. Steven Greer. He has the proof that we never needed oil, and that we were misled due to greed. Watch the Lost Century and get involved with disclosure.

[@EmeranceLN13]

It will be cheaper to just let us all die, no worries mate

[@jamesgage7155]

Awesome documentary! I've researched topics that intertwine with Antarctica in one way or another, and this adds to my knowledge. Thanks for the effort!

[@andreasviken2949]

The map in the beginning instantly made this video worth watching.

[@1OAK_X]

Yeah good clickbait for sure 😂👍🏾

[@justinlane1980]

“What’s Hidden Under the Ice of Antarctica?” I’m not going to say it’s Aliens, but it’s Aliens.

[@justinlane1980]

@@hadiisaboss5307 It was a joke. I wasn’t being serious. 😆

[@johnchess-y7h]

You were joking? Clearly antarctica has aliens​@@justinlane1980

[@stusch1]

Should get some Predators there, stat.

[@fandroid6491]

Did RRL collab with History channel? That's so 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂

[@jonragnarsson]

Shoggoths, mostly

[@mecamine1391]

Antarctica is the new map you unlock when buying Earth's DLC

[@xoelcolon6259]

The typical Snow area DLC where enemies one shot you 🫠

[@MYSTERIES_NVH]

Thanks for giving me more knowledge

[@ZayMadeITBeats]

Thank you for teaching me about Antarctica

[@danieljordan9004]

Only thing standing between Russia and drilling for oil is the treaty and the roughest stretch of ocean in the world, -50 degrees, constant ice sheets and ice bergs, drilling miles deep, and the United States Navy. Other than that it’s a breeze

[@ajdz1840]

Strange RLL didn’t mention any of this. The cost to extract a barrel from there compared to Saudi Arabia would be what? Completely uneconomical. Not to mention that the move to EVs should also greatly reduce the demand

[@balinthehater8205]

​@@ajdz1840it will reduce it but not remove it entirely as oil is still needed for the chemical industry as a base material. I guess its comforting to know that we can boil the entire planet with greenhouse gases before we run out of a critical resource.

[@Quickshot0]

@@balinthehater8205 While some oil would still be needed. There definitely would be an economic logic to prefer using up currently producing cheap fields, rather then developing a highly expensive new field who's only use would be shutting down more of their most profitable currently existing fields. Though even the chemical industries need for oil will probably decline a fair bit over the decades. Quite a bit of research has been done to find alternate ways to producing chemicals and plastics after all. Probably to much to expect it to replace all oil use any decade soon, but one should probably expect a decline as such.

[@offtheoffeffect]

MAD RESPECT for putting ads in the end, you are the hero!

[@RanEdgar-ok3wk]

Amazing video!:D entertaining!!❤ Nunavut gets colder than that(as in reference to -30 but I don’t think ever above -50) but people live there.. but I think it’s cuz there’s actually recourses there- I’m sure the ant artic gets REALLY cold like -40 or more I only know a few winters in Canada that got the lower provinces to that, Nunavut is always the exception in January lol Dude I googled it The coldest temperature recorded in Antarctica was -89.6°C at Vostok station in 1983. The average winter temperature at the South Pole is about -49°C. Your home freezer is only about -15°C That’s insane!!:D poor penguins imagine trying ti incubate a egg in that weather

[@AaronGeo]

18:53 "which might not really sound all that exciting or 𝓼𝓮𝔁𝔂"

[@fandroid6491]

RRL almost said 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 there

[@DraconiaProductions]

This turned into a Huggbees video for a second

[@MikaelK5]

lol I came to the comments right after hearing him say that

[@The360MlgNoscoper]

💀

[@OFFLlNE_PLAYER]

Yeah ok I didn't know that's what we were looking for lmfao 😅😂

[@Dangur2]

Actually, they haven't took the water samples from Vostok, only from the ice boundaries of water body, in order not to contaminate the lake itself. And since than drilling was moving centimeters closer to the liquid water level, but never reached it. New bacteria that was found, was frozen in the surrounding ice, it was not taken from the water.

[@petartonkov469]

very, very interesting video. Truly fascinating the scale of Antarctica and how much of it isn't yet discovered. Needed to pause the video from time to time to check the terms, however curious and entertaining content. Hard to find such on youtube nowadays already. Keep up the good work with nice topics !

[@halicon7475]

well done on this enjoyed it very much

[@YannicksChannel]

Love the high-quality videos you make, man, Literally every video you make has been a question I've had and didn't get answered. Been watching you since ages, and thank you for inspiring me to make youtube videos!

[@own4801]

Really only sinks in when you say it upfront just how crazy it is that there's a landmass larger than Europe with a total population smaller than most rural towns.

[@greatcanadianmoose3965]

welcome to canada

[@clivewynnciel9530]

Antarctica is even bigger than that. There are habitable places in Antarctica, warm lakes and underground caverns. You'd be surprised to find people living there, but then people seem to manage to live anywhere.

[@my_channel_44]

nice

[@davedavidson8208]

you are smoking some good weed

[@my_channel_44]

@@davedavidson8208 Ok, boomer.

[@davedavidson8208]

@@my_channel_44 dog you're like 4 years late with that youre like a time traveler lmaoo

[@my_channel_44]

@@davedavidson8208Whatever boomer.

[@Lefejame123]

This video has absolutely sparked my fascination of this mysterious continent which really is the lost world.

[@luc7478]

11:27 Hello, I want to point out that there's a mistake in the unit name in this section. the Gravity anomaly unit is Mgal (Mili gal) the nT( Nano Tesla ) units are for Magnetic anomaly maps. 5:48 and I also want to talk about the Isostasy of Antarctica, when the Ice is melted the continental crust of Antarctica gonna be uplifted and rise up from the ocean, (less weight) so more exposed land masses I mean the Surface of deglaciated Antarctica is much large and more connected than the apparent Map in this video.

[@olisama6283]

Drake passage- Rough for everyone passing through it... especially for kids

[@larryfoster8820]

Stop it

[@theprincemonster7575]

Even Antarctica dissing drake 😭🙏

[@stepanzpevak]

this is much more interesting than 1000th geopolitical/conflict video, i dont even watch those anymore, more videos like this please

[@beatjunkybg]

The only video about Antarctica on youtube that doesn't focus on aliens and ancient mysteries 😂

[@DreHayn]

Whoever sent two meteors to earth definitely a madra or sephiroth fan

[@circleancopan7748]

Or Fujitora testing his Gravity Devil Fruit.

[@cookiecola5852]

Espaniol

[@ThwipThwipBoom]

One Winged Angel: Starts playing Dinosaur: Lol I'm in danger

[@Ar_sole_hair_fiddler]

You'll never find Agartha, we won't let you

[@indie8845]

Overlaying the actual size of Antarctica over Mercator projection of North America and Europe broke my brain.

[@TheAlex29494]

and still it's a small patch on the bottom of earth which gives some scale regarding the planet

[@dontyouworryaboutit_]

same lol

[@grindhardt]

didnt realize this was a horror video. 10/10.

[@Thermalnuclear]

I feel like we should put a museum of all human achievements and data so it can be preserved for the next 10,000 years

[@balinthehater8205]

Nah, we'd start killing ourselves over who can put what in it.

[@Mortarion-xt9wp]

Just make it forty thousand years.

[@RJS2003]

Sailors would probably have an easier time going through the Drake Passage if it was called the Kendrick Passage instead.

[@benoithudson7235]

If it was the Swift passage it would really reduce shipping times.

[@petes_ventures]

most informative video about Antarctica on youtube

[@j3ffcoop]

This is absolutely incredible

[@MVball69]

The drake passage gonna be touching your little ships

[@MilösiaSecondAcc]

Drake Passage vs Drake

[@Fleezblarp]

Phew. I was worried that we wouldn't have enough oil to facilitate rendering the planet uninhabitable for us. Glad Antarctica can rectify this. Plus we can taint a previously untouched sanctuary of life with microplastics at the same time! What a positive discovery.

[@christiansenator]

Ironically, burning fossil fuels will melt the Antarctic ice sheet enough to open up drilling for access to more fossil fuels

[@WigneyR]

Theory: the reason there’s so many countries research teams there is so they can all take a slice of the continent once the ice finally melts 😅

[@YouandLife5.0]

21:05 500 meters beneath the ice, in complete darkness, and they find shrimp-like creatures thriving?! If life can exist here, what does that say about life beyond Earth? Mind-blowing!

[@sswpp8908]

The ice tunnels are straight out of At the Mountains of Madness.

[@prashr4075]

Nobody : RLL: Massive oil Usa: those Penguins are oppressed by Ice. They need FREEDOM

[@КАБы_да_КАБы]

Democracy to penguins 😊

[@michaelhammond7115]

Don't worry Communist China is already to keep democracy from Antarctica first.

[@ythegamerita]

That's why we're melting all the ice

[@K113-A]

Soon the US would unveil a 6th gen fighter that's capable of operating from anywhere from the world INCLUDING Antarctica...

[@КАБы_да_КАБы]

@@K113-A It's all Hollywood, don't count chicken before they hatch. The US still has to "unveil" hypersonic missiles that Russia has had for quite some time in its arsenal.