The SuperDeep FUNGAL INFECTION Explained | Why are we driven to dig really deep holes in the planet?

[@RoanokeGaming]

Thanks for watching guys! Hope everyone enjoyed!

[@kingshadow8782]

This video was terrifying.

[@kingshadow8782]

Happy Thursday!

[@513v35kal]

I’m sure I will. Should look at the wildfire virus from TWD tho!

[@woadblue]

Big oof forever. Long live big oof

[@elecspark]

I still say oof and whoever said you can't say oof from beyond 2021 is pretty cringe. Like me.

[@andruism7]

To be fair, poking around where we shouldn't is just the kind of thing people do in movies. Otherwise the film would just be a crew going "Hey, what's this?" "It's dangerous. Leave it alone and file a report about it." *80 minutes of a man filing paperwork*

[@edwinpritom6336]

Or you can make it the ending of a movie. Like you see the story through a previous victim until they meet their end and the new protagonist just ends it with taking any chances.

[@MrPrussianjester]

Ironically, the soviet union probably would do this. Like the thing they were most known for other than the nukes was the bureaucracy. Layers and layers of bureaucracy. The cold war was only cold because a spy couldn't be bothered with the 'red' tape.

[@leatherlass6730]

Thats why a good horror story needs a good thing forcing the protagonist into a shitty situation. Dead space is pretty good at it.

[@hex9077]

Nah you can still make Your characters be smart while making bad things happen, or have an actual explanation around bad decisions

[@luclin92]

That is kinda why I like the ones where even if they are smart or have common sense there is something that changes how they think or what happens was forced upon them

[@thetacticalpuertorican]

I love the fact that Roanoke never skips the chance to point out how inept Government is at being Government.

[@SirIsaacClarke]

It's so immersive.

[@cookedewok8675]

Governments are gonna government

[@infinitetroll03]

I refuse to attribute the world governments actions as inept any longer. They are outright malicious. We are living in a Dr Richter mouse experiment

[@PatchyConvert]

Ain't off the mark either! XD

[@PureCountryof91]

Anyone who understands what the government does, and how badly they do it, are prone to call that shit out.

[@JustAnotherLawyer]

The vodka/ice water combination actually makes a great deal of sense. Alcohol causes your veins to dilate, leading to increased blood flow to the body’s surface and extremities. In a cold environment, that will help lower your core body temperature. If the fungus can just barely survive at a regular human body temperature, lowering it just might prevent it from taking root. Hopefully without killing yourself through hypothermia. (this is also why you should never try to counteract hypothermia by drinking alcohol, despite a depressing number of people and pop culture pieces seeming to think it helps; drunking alcohol does make you feel warmer, sure, but you are directly counteracting your body’s efforts to conserve heat near your vital organs, making the problem worse)

[@chiefavagef0x837]

Misinformation is a really big issue .. it's such a common problem that even ppl who actively try to counteract misinformation can sometimes cause it without meaning to of course. It's especially awful when misinformation can put your life in real danger.. 😓 I wish & hope in the near future more & more ppl help try to counteract this problem but all we can do is individuals is try to help others see the light it's really up to them to follow

[@cvi4057]

Instead of carrying a bottle of vodka into the cold with you, carry a chocolate bar or some sweet cakes! It just might save your life in a pinch

[@thetacticalpuertorican]

@@cvi4057 I carry some tic tacs. They're pure sugar even though they claim to claim to be 0 grams of sugar per serving. They're like .5 of a gram. If you start feeling dizzy out in the wilderness or long hikes and you know you're hydrated its more likely than not hypoglycemic shock. It can happen even if you are not diabetic.

[@looksirdroids9134]

Oh, just the veins, you say? Wrong. Not just the veins. Further, dilated veins doesn't lead to increased blood flow to extremities and surface because veins do not transport blood to those places.

[@cvi4057]

@@thetacticalpuertorican Smart. People focus too much on carbs and protein when they go out into the woods. They aren't entirely wrong, having a light source of dense protein and carbs in your pack is necessary, but so to is sugar. Thats why trail mix usually has M&Ms or something mixed in with it. Not the best choice personally, but it works. Personally I go with freeze dried fruit or dehydrated berries. Your Tic-tacs work too. Specially the orange ones, but I can't remember why off the top of my head. They're light and you get a lot more than just the sugar you need. But specifically tying into why sugary things can save your life in the cold is because it forces your body to produce insulin and that raises your core temp for anyone wondering why. Be safe out there, and have fun 😁

[@mountagony4776]

"Spicy egg" and "led dispenser", your creative way with words on avoiding the video getting taken down is amazing.

[@misskirika2043]

Hey Roanoke! I worked with bronze for a time, doing both crucible work as well as being the person who unloaded the burnout kiln. When unloading the kiln (1500+ degrees Fahrenheit) I had to wear what I call the space beekeeper suit. Every inch of skin was covered, and the material itself was a metallic silver on the outside and wool on the inside. Certain kinds of wool are actually fire resistant! Alright, I’ll get to the point: the worst burns I got weren’t from the kiln or the crucible, but from accidentally touching a bronze piece after belt sanding it. Contact burns like that don’t hurt so much at first, so a lot of people think they’re fine. They’re not. It’s important to run the burnt area under cold water IMMEDIATELY to stop the heat from getting ‘trapped’, I guess. I don’t know exactly how it works, but while the top layer of skin feels fine, the heat just kind of compounds in the layer below. It’s likely that the protagonist dousing herself with cold water could stop her from becoming one big blister, but I’m not sure how she would survive the shock from going to extreme heat to a colder environment. When leaving the kiln we have to make sure to not just strip everything off right away to avoid shock. In addition, extreme ambient heat can give you a weird kind of high, making you less worried about literally boiling. Sorry this is so long, but I hope I can give a bit of insight into how humans react to extreme heat.

[@wonkybiscuit2760]

It works the same way that resting grilled meat after cooking works. Your exterior layer of skin is really moist. The hissing sound you hear when you burn yourself is the moisture in your epidermis evaporating really fast! But the muscles and dermis beneath your outer layer of skin doesn’t have this added layer of fat and moisture. Even after you take the piece of meat off the grill, it’s still cooking inside. Let your burgers rest 5-10 minutes after grilling to lock in the flavor ;)

[@fulcrum7455]

Was very interesting

[@caracalcontinuum3118]

I got burnt the other day and immediately ran it under freezing water for like 10 minutes and it actually kept me from blistering and experiencing more pain later! It was the first time I’ve tried it.

[@Learn.The.Hardway]

I've also heard that using heat will help the same, had a buddy on an oil rig run his neck against a hot pipe. Went to the rigs nurse ASAP and she used a hair dryer on high heat, then med, then low, then cool to draw the heat out. He doesn't hardly have a blemish now. Figured I'd share.

[@ASaltyGhost]

Being aware while your body moves on its own is probably my ultimate, most existential fear. 10/10 video

[@solidsnakeshugecake]

That and being set on. Fire alive.... Two things I absolutely dread.

[@theexchipmunk]

The scariest part about cordiceps has to be that it does not take over the nervous system. It basically builds a second one by itself and takes over. Which also has one really weird implication. The fungus has to make decisions itself as it cannot depend on the ant to do so.

[@domvasta]

It isn't like it's a bunch of neurons, it's much simpler, the fungi that made the ant go higher and made it bite down once it got high up spread much better, all the fungus originally would have done is infect the ant and kill it, grow from it's corpse and sprout, then it would be found by other ants and moved into either a garbage pile or buried in the dirt they dug their tunnels with, probably not infecting many other ants since it won't get much airflow. Any mutation that made the ant climb would help, but the ant would probably keep climbing and fall off it would still be better than not interfering, so the next iteration would be using the ant's visual input to figure out where the highest point is, then biting down and locking the mandibles, so it can't fall.

[@domvasta]

Even so, it's less of a problem for ants than covid was for us.

[@domvasta]

In fact it's only the O. unilateralis core clade that cause the ants to bite down, there are several subspecies like O. unilateralis kniphofioides which don't seem to affect behaviour in such a seeming beneficial way, ants infected by it just walk to the mossy base of a tree and die. Neither of these fungi make decisions or do anything to the ant's brain directly, they exhibit what's called secondary metabolism, which a lot of fungi do, basically it's metabolic pathways for producing enzymes and hormones that don't affect the fungus, but the ant, the enzymes that allow the spores to get into the ant's exoskeleton are part of it, the neurotransmitters that make the ant want to climb, and the neurotransmitters that make it bite down when it is dying. That's all it needs, because unlike human brains, ant's neural ganglia are pretty simple, you give it one chemical and it goes and gets food, another it eats food, another it digs a hole, another it climbs a tree, a mix of a few, it digs a hole in the tree to look for food.

[@travisadams6279]

@@domvasta Fascinating really. And I wonder if the same concept could apply to humans, but since our neuronstransmitters are more complicated, could a fungus exist that just ups what it does to the ant? A fungus that can create cocktails of chemicals instead of just the couple it needs to coax an ant? A fungus that could coax us in simple ways, effectively making us zombie like, with only a few commands being issued to our bodies. Or perhaps unlike a zombie, and just push us in subtle ways to be more social or whatever the fungi needs to propagate, at least at first. Or! lol, like in the movie where our muscles are being pushed to do certain things, but I dont think that would go very far as it would call too much attention and be stopped by outside forces too easily. Still freaky though.

[@chadcuckproducer1037]

You are going to have have problems with humans like that because there are a few types of people like fight, flight, and freeze.

[@X525Crossfire]

What's really unnerving about this is how it basically blends the fungus-based zombie infection of The Last of Us with the Cronenberg-esque meat agglomeration body horror of Dead Space, just add bioluminescence.

[@miguelperez9906]

So kinda like what would eventually happen in splinter

[@X525Crossfire]

@@miguelperez9906 Oh my god someone else who's seen Splinter! And yes.

[@miguelperez9906]

@@X525Crossfire it was a really fun movie really wish more people had seen it

[@X525Crossfire]

@@miguelperez9906 Back when Syfy/Sci Fi consistently had solid original programming and didn't just let the Asylum run the place.

[@miguelperez9906]

@@X525Crossfire it was sad to slowly watch their downfall

[@zuttoaragi8349]

You know, to me this seems more horrifying than any of the other zombie infections. In a lot of them you're just "gone". Your body is operating entirely on autopilot and you no longer have awareness of anything. But here? You're fully aware of what's going on, what your body is doing, and that you aren't the one at the helm. It's also horrifying with the body horror stuff, as you'd be experiencing and feeling all of that, rather than your consciousness being completely gone or your body controlled by something else.

[@funkyweapon1981]

So you're more like a Voodoo zombie?

[@zuttoaragi8349]

@@funkyweapon1981 Don't Zombis lack consciousness too?

[@James_Randal]

​@@zuttoaragi8349do you know how to play the bongos?

[@zuttoaragi8349]

@@James_Randal No? Bizarre question

[@korokseed1619]

@@zuttoaragi8349do you know how to play the theremin?

[@RagingSpartan24]

i love all the creative names he keeps giving for all these "monetization impairing" terms he needs to reference in these videos. "Giving themselves a new mouth" and "spicy egg" were great.

[@mikaross4671]

Giving themselves a new mouth is extremely creative. I love that he is using fun terms instead of defaulting to unaliving like lazy content creators.

[@shamWOWexpert]

I love lead dispenser, such a great visual lol

[@steel8231]

This actually seems pretty easy to contain, just seal the hole. It's too cold outside for it to live on the surface without a host, and it's infection is obvious enough to catch early.

[@a_Minion_of_Soros]

Or use a few megatons of Soviet engineering?

[@steel8231]

@@a_Minion_of_Soros so it can seep into the water supply for half of Europe over the next 60 years?

[@comradekenobi6908]

Nuke the hole lol

[@schadowization]

@@a_Minion_of_Soros making that much Borscht takes a long time tho...

[@carlosdgutierrez6570]

​@@a_Minion_of_Soros yeah, risk to blow up the spores up to the upper atmosphere and risk to get it to land in hot weather palaces where it could actually take hold. Yeah, the upper atmosphere temperature could kill it but I wouldn't take the even the slimmest chance for it to happen given the option.

[@thisaccountnameiscompletel8949]

I looked at this film, it turns out a lot of it was practical effects, including the larger monster. It astounds me the Russians did a better job at doing a mold version of the thing than Hollywood could

[@therealjohndarksoul4151]

The thing came out in 1982 bruh what

[@randomman5592]

@@therealjohndarksoul4151 i think he is taking about The Thing remake

[@therealjohndarksoul4151]

@@randomman5592 alpha shit

[@fotherphrogg]

@@randomman5592 That was basically all CGI though

[@randomman5592]

@@fotherphrogg yup that is why it was bad

[@jordanmckellar6737]

This was a movie I loved, monster/creature features where humanity discovered something it shouldn’t.

[@RoanokeGaming]

Classic humanity

[@DustinBarlow8P]

I discovered something I shouldn't Poop Porn.... shudder..... I have never been the same.... sob sob sob

[@esper2233]

@@DustinBarlow8P I'm sorry WHAT you know what don't even tell me

[@brickbraker5033]

@@DustinBarlow8P i was having a decent day , then i saw this

[@c.andrewrdrgz4096]

@@DustinBarlow8P link rn

[@DustinBarlow8P]

Only got one question..... How the hell did they build the facility at the bottom with the giant fungus growth sitting right there. Did the Fungus growth write the construction crew a pass? that it wouldn't mess with them? Maybe the fungus and the crew hung out, talked about their dreams, and what they did for fun. They all exchanged numbers before they left, Fungus is now a KZbinr, talks about 16th Century Art on his channel..... Great stuff.

[@jakefromspace4659]

The fungus crawled up from the depth to say hello?

[@ImperativeGames]

The fungus mold was at the very last level. They have built levels, did their subterranean research and everything was fine. And at the lower levels they had to wear protective suits with oxygen tanks anyway - because of 200 °C. They couldn't get sick because they had suits on them. It was OK for a while, probably for a few days, so they even built something at the lowest level. But someone must have bring the mold on the exterior of their suit to the living area on the lower levels at one point.

[@DracoSafarius]

I want to guess that it was down there and fairly inactive, dormant if you will, but by them breaking in they introduced enough air to slowly reinvigorate it after they built a bit

[@Thedeepesttruth]

What’s funny to me is that the actual bore hole is only 23 cm wide. No one can go down it and it’s not like a mine shaft. It’s just a hole that looks like they were drilling for water or oil. But the did cap it with thick steel plates and huge bolts.

[@zhulikkulik]

There was actually an explosion deep down the hole in 1995. Nobody can really explain what happened there. Maybe just some gas bubble but nobody knows for sure.

[@CoreKatalyst]

Losing my mind over “making himself a second mouth” and “lead dispenser” ,, your creative ways of censoring is my new favorite thing lmao

[@Tentin.Quarantino]

‘Spicy egg’ (grenade) was my favourite.

[@AC-hj9tv]

top keks

[@elijahcasey4389]

I wish KZbin didn’t censor everyone.

[@superade101]

I love every time Roanoke talks about breathing he feels the need to point out that we’re not breathing manually, all just to screw with us. I laugh every time!

[@alericantonelli4656]

Just one of the many small ways he interacts and engages with his audience, and we love him for it.

[@DeltafangEX]

You are now uncomfortably aware of the size of your tongue within your mouth. 🎩 🪄 🔮

[@maccurtis730]

I have asthma so I do both.

[@Ishmari]

It kinda feels like being told about breathing is a memetic or cognitive hazard!

[@srgforge2993]

@@Ishmari sounds like the scp foundation is gonna have to make a new file named "manual breathing"

[@jaredrobinson7071]

"Do you want an old god? cause that's how you get an old god." lol priceless

[@RoanokeGaming]

we really gotta stop messing around lmfao

[@discordiacreates6669]

... But what if I want an old god? 🤔 Just less mold please 🤣

[@funkyweapon1981]

@@discordiacreates6669 What if I am an Old God? I can lower your sanity just by talking to you.

[@discordiacreates6669]

@@funkyweapon1981 jokes on you, I lost my sanity a long time ago! If an old god likes hugs... 👀 lmao

[@Hewbert_Cookie]

@@funkyweapon1981make that eldritch wussy clap

[@geraldkuklinski9543]

I was so young when I got tinnitus that I just thought it was normal. I didn't know about it until I was 23 years old.

[@NeverwascooL]

This movie sounds like it was partially inspired by the SCP "The Flesh That Hates" that also fuses people together and turns everything into flesh carpets everywhere and is funny enough, also located in Russia.

[@Simonk_6]

Doubt it, the concept has been around for a long time, before scps became a thing

[@mad_swammi]

I'm a young artist/writer working on a scifi story, and I've gotta say, thank you for posting what you post. Your explanations give me so many ideas, and motivate me to continue working on my own project. You have no idea the impact your channel has made on me in the past two years, and I really appreciate it. Thank you

[@alexischavez3238]

may you never have writers block! as a horror writer my self I also love how inspirational this channel is haha

[@UGNAvalon]

Wow, this thing is basically an ancient Flood supercell: fast enough to quickly overrun the body’s natural defenses, fuses multiple infected together into a single giant neurological mass for food, could easily wipe out the world with just a single spore, but ultimately is too old/weakened to fully control the host and resorts to just puppeteering the meatsuits while the brain is fully conscious of all the pain & mutilation it’s experiencing. 😱

[@Luna.Tenebra]

Yeah but the Flood takes the nervoussystem and not only muscles

[@silent_stalker3687]

@@Luna.Tenebra not in Jenkin’s case. And the analogy above explains why

[@Luna.Tenebra]

@@silent_stalker3687 even then it was still going for the nervoussystem, it just couldnt kick Jenkins out of it completly

[@SUPERFunStick]

a Gravemind I believe you mean. Also it's more like Gravemind mixed with the rat king. They even got the red lighting when they show it

[@AlphaWolfShade]

@@Luna.Tenebra To be fair, realistically, nothing could kick you out of your own nervous system without killing you. Your spinal cord is the highway for your nervous system, connecting everything to the brain, and the only way to stop it would be to severe the link. Consequently, this would prevent you from breathing and kill you very quickly.

[@theodorehodbor5080]

I want whoever dubbed the general Hitman guy in this movie to dub other stuff. That man has one of the most powerful voices I've ever heard.

[@thothtrismegistus4865]

At this point I've been watching your videos for about 4 years and I have to say Roanoke you never disappoint! I have an idea, the Protoss and Zerg from the starcraft universe. Now that would be extremely fascinating. Much love from Kentucky Roanoke, I look forward to anything you put out there!

[@DarkVeghetta]

This movie's infection is quite reminiscent of SCP-610 - The Flesh that Hates / The Red Death. Interestingly, the SCP logs within that article talked about a site located near Lake Baikal in Southern Siberia, within Russia. The article was first published in 2009. This movie might be completely unrelated, but the similarities are rather uncanny.

[@Blackbird0098]

I gotta admit, the scene where Kira walks out of the mold cloud talking to herself was actually pretty damn disturbing

[@ruinsleepless9098]

Oh man these are getting even more inventive, I love it. "Concussive baseball" had me wheezing with laughter, keep it up man, truly epic.

[@andrewwestfall65]

I always get excited when I hear about electron microscopes. My uncle used to be a computer scientist, created the OS the Ohio state mainframe back in the day. He got into genetics and used his computer skills to optimize the microscopes while creating some of the early GMOs. Why did he transition from computers to creating GMOs? He wanted to make a banjo out of a gourd, but gourds are too thin and break from the tension of the drum head

[@ashardalondragnipurake]

did he succeed? was he able to grow his gourdbanjo?

[@andrewwestfall65]

@@ashardalondragnipurake Yeah, got him a doctorate in genetics for it.

[@ashardalondragnipurake]

@@andrewwestfall65 thats awesome, did it sound good?

[@andrewwestfall65]

@@ashardalondragnipurake I couldn't tell you the difference between it and a regular banjo

[@aurorasalamander]

Bro, that's awesome

[@tristanbuckner1170]

The line “It’s been a while since we last checked on Russia, I wonder what they’ve been up to: ________ so nothing good then” has so much meme potential that it genuinely is both hilarious and terrifying

[@tristanbuckner1170]

@Slavic Melodies ok

[@squidtentacles]

Just stumbled across this channel love that he incorporates science into his explanation! Subbed

[@G-Manfromhalflife]

to be honest this mold actually reminds me of the mold from resident evil 7 but i say it has both traits of the cordyceps and the mold combined which is quite terrifying to think about

[@DemonsFlame]

I love how Roanoke added awkward pauses in between some of his sentences after pointing out how the movie does it as well, nice touch.

[@JudgeNicodemus]

Fungi are always so fascinating yet terrifying to me.

[@TheHorreK2]

This makes me wonder about mind altering parasites... are their victims aware or do they get tricked as if it were a decision of their own?

[@notsae66]

Depends on the parasite. Some subtly alter brain chemistry, some highjack the nervous system and aren't subtle at all.

[@censoredduetowrongthink]

Toxoplasmosis is a good example of a fairly subtle parasite in the context of humans, don't know of one off the top of my head for not so subtle

[@foxchicka15]

I just saw a movie recap of this movie on Monday, and checked to see then if you'd done the science on it! So loving that it got posted the same week!

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Mold turning people into zombies basically? This really reminds me of The Last of Us

[@RoanokeGaming]

Id say its almost a worse fate in this movie

[@robertnelson9599]

What about the Rat King? Or the mold thing from Splinter?

[@jare3459]

fungus

[@plasmaxl8626]

the music playing in the background is really fitting, eh?

[@katsucksatvideogames]

nah re7 for me

[@Bananabob3]

If you ever want to do a book based one there is an extremely interesting book series called Alex hunter, it has a lot of microbiology in the second book as one of the main characters is a microbiologist. The first book also has a underground lake in Antarctica that has a completely seperate evolutionary tree that I think you would find extremely interesting.

[@RoanokeGaming]

I would love to cover books, the biggest issue is footage acqusition

[@Bananabob3]

@@RoanokeGaming this is true

[@Bananabob3]

@@RoanokeGaming I’d imagine that the majority of the people here wouldn’t mind if you used books because a lot of law Channels for games like warhammer and star wars get a lot of subs without footage

[@Bananabob3]

The creepy ghost guys from spectral might work as they seem to have some type of biology in the ghost bodies

[@camarofan2008]

Book series is ok but kinda jumps the shark around books 5.

[@LivingUnicorgi]

So happy to see Roanoke cover one of my favourite movies at the moment!

[@Ravenpaw1313]

Also dude, you are not longwinded as you put in one of the chapter breaks. I really enjoy your very in depth, logical, and excellent breakdown of content. It one of the reasons I love your videos!!

[@greyvii511]

Hh, bruh. Notifications on, subscribed for months on this account and again. I find myself in the phase of having to look up this channel in order to keep up. Is there something cursed about this place that just tickles the algorithm the wrong way? I try not to get paranoid but there’s something so out of whack in terms of this channels reach. Its cool medicine education, movies, fatherly vibes. This place deserves more recognition but I cant imagine how destabilising this platform is for Roanoke.

[@saffronjin9500]

as much as the concept is a fairly common one in horror media I still really enjoyed this movie and its special effects. When using earthly biological ideas in horror you get a lot of similar themes in games and movies etc. I don't mind though i feel like there are lots of different ways to use it and i like to see different takes on it. It's just another genre of entertainment, like zombie genre or ghosts. The part that I really like is that it's just doing what it does to survive and isn't intentionally hurting people. THAT is the true horror. No malicious demon or mutated rabies could ever be so terrifying as nature itself. You can't reason with it, or bribe it or do some magical spell to stop it, you can't even put a bullet in it's head to kill it. I love it. Absolutely horrifying.

[@totalguardian1436]

But mutated rabies is nature too

[@dungeaterfancam]

@@totalguardian1436 I think that's slang for zombie virus, though I guess it depends on whether you see something natural that's been modified in a lab as nature still or not.

[@kreevisful]

@@dungeaterfancam Truly a scary idea. 💡 Thank you for that chain of thought.

[@WereRea3807]

I'd love to see you do an episode on some Stargate creatures, the Goa'uld and the Wraith. The way you science things is just perfect.

[@diegobarrios7677]

Nice of you using the Last of Us soundtrack as background music. I love it!

[@imscary2]

one of the best horror scifi monsters is a fungus that take over the body but leaves the person's mind intact. so you have this scream person yelling that "you need to run away", or "save me". as the mold monster charges you

[@AC-hj9tv]

Pissed my pants with that imagery

[@retrooni]

I Don't think you're long winded, you share fascinating info and intriguing analysis, that's why i'm subscribed

[@jonathanmendez5403]

With a few years of watching your channels, I love watching you evolve finding ways to to describe people dying

[@itsMeUhDanii]

What’s up y’all?! I had a dream i stole fudge rounds and some chocolate chip cookies.

[@farkbett699]

That's almost as bad as stealing 30 cakes. 30. Cakes.

[@RoanokeGaming]

delicious

[@itsMeUhDanii]

@@RoanokeGaming one of the best decisions I’ve made in a dream! 10/10 would highly recommend.

[@Haidonomus_Rex]

So that's where my cookies went. Magnificent.

[@itsMeUhDanii]

@@farkbett699 cakes will be next on my dream steal list😈

[@genericwd6290]

i've always felt like fungal infections are probably gonna be the thing that destroy us or they'll be around long after us. They're incredibly strong resilient and adaptable if they can't get something they will do whatever they can to get it they are ruthless (they literally make ants kill themselves) i just hope we can learn a lot more about them their incredibly interesting

[@AC-hj9tv]

Hard to treat bc they're eukaryotes like us

[@jordantheallmighty]

I'm not the type to comment on videos, I usually like and lurk. This is video is a great example of the type of content I enjoy and they're the reason why I use KZbin. The fact that creators struggle with censorship, exposure, and being fairly compensated for ad revenue makes me frustrated with the platform. I hate that I have to leave a comment just for the sake of manipulating an algorithm that doesn't even benefit the audience I'm a part of. That being said, here we are. Keep up the good work and fight the good fight.

[@Bona_Tempora]

So would a theoretical cure be an ice bath? Lowering your body temp till the fungus dies then recover?

[@zeradus]

No because it just goes dormant at best since you will never be able to get your core temp low enough to kill the fungus in your body.

[@scarletsblood8510]

Technically yes. So we know this mould's living range only just covers 37.4 degrees C (which funnily enough means birds are ideal/superior hosts for it as they average 41 degrees C). The lowest recorded human body temperatures which people survived are 11.8 degrees from a toddler and 9 degrees from 51 yr old undergoing controlled treatment. So with that in mind and 37 degrees being on the lower end of the moulds range in a controlled setting with equipement and experts a person could be lowered to a temp the mould dies while the human can be revived. However. Given that the mould crystalises upon 'freezing' any person infected could survive the infection only to die to crystal fragments being in their body.

[@cvernon5256]

@@scarletsblood8510 I'm curious now as to the physical properties of the mold crystals. They could perforate the internal anatomy when the freeze, causing hemorrhaging. If that doesn't happen, the destroyed mold could cause artificial clotting - assuming muscular action grinds them down or it hardens into a form of calculus.

[@cvernon5256]

@@paulj.thaddaios I'm listening.

[@somedudeintheinterweb8665]

​@@paulj.thaddaios to quote Salt 'n Peppa "chill for a bit"

[@MrNocturnalEmission]

Seems more like the Flood from Halo which was also inspired by mold. So the Captain Keyes reference is pretty on point.

[@BartEmbregts]

Wow man, that's like... super deep.

[@RoanokeGaming]

Like totally my man

[@ProfessionalRtard]

It's at least, like, 10ft

[@renstal7638]

Yes Roanoke. You are long-winded and we love it.

[@RoanokeGaming]

wait till you see this next episode, I had to enter a discussion about another dimension entirely lol

[@PricklyBehr]

So, something to note with engineers, they tend to be very ingrained in their way of doing things. If he's an electrical engineer he won't think about the mechanics of the elevator as much as he would the electronics.

[@Fizz7471]

If you’re wondering why we are driven to to dig really deep holes in the earth. It’s the same reason we keep trying to go deeper and deeper into the ocean. Humans naturally have an innate desire to explore their environment to see what they can find. What better way is there to do this than to search the deepest most crevices of our planet? The answer no other way.

[@AltoStratusX1]

Speak for yourself. I just wanna find the Arkenstone.

[@appalachiabrauchfrau]

the faustian spirit eventually bites us in the ass, but it never stops us from digging a deeper hole.

[@raphmaster23]

If we have such a strong desire to explore than why haven't I ever completed the Meridias Beacon quest 😉

[@funkyweapon1981]

That's how to awaken something that would destroy us all!

[@thth-sv4bt]

Hey roanoke, there's a movie where ships crew finding a russian spaceshuttle wreck with a mutated seabears inside. It's called Harbinger Down and it has Lance Henriksen playing a grumpy grandpa captain. Any chance you're gonna take a look at it?

[@captainleonox3818]

That sounds amazing

[@MechanicaHelios]

I remember watching it on prime under the name inanimate, good watch!

[@aaront4494]

Yes, please look that movie 👍🏼

[@minecraftslover]

@@MechanicaHelios is it still on there

[@tinfoilhat3268]

Comment for visibility

[@TheChildofAuraReborn]

Just curious, but would you ever cover short film-type content by any chance, like from Love, Death & Robots? A couple of fun ones I can think of would be episodes like Suits, The Secret War, or Bad Traveling.

[@christopherseguin3886]

Can I just say that I love your background music choices! I'm always so happy to hear the Last of Us themes playing

[@norielgames4765]

13:42 lol your impression of "that guy" is immaculate 😂😂😂😂😂

[@sirenofthesea7802]

This is both fascinating, & complete nightmare fuel that I want to douse in fire. Also makes me think back to the Mold from RE7 & RE8, especially with it crystalizing when it gets too cold. Love your work Roanoke, can't wait for what you come out with next. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@il1680]

I'm pretty sure fire will make it stronger

[@kscholes1385]

Great video man personality I think you should do the H5G9 virus from Sweet Tooth next

[@RoanokeGaming]

I'll check it out!

[@sand-in-the-timepiece9836]

@@RoanokeGaming you should!! Sweet Tooth is a really fascinating and bizarre series

[@Dagnylokibarn]

Thanks as always for making me even more terrified of mushrooms….

[@pinstripe4254]

I definitely get him calling that dude hitman. When he was messing with the panel in the elevator I was expecting him to sabotage it to lure a target over

[@UFC_Buffalo]

Ur 10

[@pinstripe4254]

@@UFC_Buffalo actually 20

[@Litvagopnik]

Fun fact: the television in the beginning with Gorbachev mixed with the helikopters, tells me this was set in the 80s or 90s.

[@horse-headstudios7265]

just made lunch, perfect time for this type of video

[@RoanokeGaming]

Perfect!

[@gerardcatindoy7492]

Mmmm mushroom soup -w-

[@johnathanjones3251]

"Cause youtubes not forever." *Moment of silence.* I really though Roanoke was about to put a second advertisement spot in!

[@RoanokeGaming]

Im experimenting with like actual natural breaks rather than mid sentence cut off-

[@johnathanjones3251]

@@RoanokeGaming Do it up dude. I enjoy your sort of fast paced way of explaining but I'd listen either way. Nothing wrong with experimenting.

[@discordiacreates6669]

Your videos are always interesting and I love the scientific portions. Honestly, I've always loved making up fictional organisms and have tried my best for physically (at least, proportionally) accurate designs, but with Roanoke's help, I can now make them more biologically accurate as well, so thanks. Although, it's fair if you DON'T want me to thank you as I've taken more to the horror genre in the past 6-7 years ^^'. Hehehe... Assuming I ever get so far with a single idea, I hope one day you find one of my "children" and grow to love/hate (or both, both is also valid) it as much as movie monsters like this one ^^ Ngl I don't watch movies anymore and haven't in multiple years since my old glitchy laptop with a dvd player died so these are always fun, and no need to worry about spoilers for smth I'll probably never get to watch anyway. This movie seems like a fun one to watch if it's not taken too seriously but not so much if you expect normal, practical human responses to an unknown and highly dangerous threat lol. Idk about everyone else in this universe, but I'd of asked more questions and been a bit more hesitant to.... Well, participate in any of that honestly. Oh? No one has returned in how long exactly from an underground facility housing an unknown organism that's known to be infectious? Really sorry for them but I choose life. Thanks ... Also I want an old god 🥺. Maybe summon a tad bit less mold though if we get to make requests lmao

[@Shiningforceking]

One of the things I love about this channel , is I get nice movie recommendations.

[@cornflowerpower]

Roanoke talking about Upside has to be the most dad thing I've ever witnessed

[@IHappyDays]

Watched this about a month ago with low expectations, was actually a half decent movie.

[@RoanokeGaming]

was pleasantly surprised as well

[@RedAlchemist]

Nice to see SCP-610 get some movie love.

[@ghostofronin4917]

Can you do the Chimera parasite from Rainbow Six Extraction? I love these, I've never really been into science but these are always interesting.

[@RoanokeGaming]

been playing that, figuring out what it is

[@longhairgetinthere]

"Spicy egg"...made me 😁😁😁. Very creative.

[@lordwoods8631]

Ahh, my favourite song, “MOSCOW MOSCOW TURN YOU INTO MEATBALL HA HA HA HA HA”

[@BlueLizardKing]

YES! This movie was really good, so I have no idea why it had such low ratings, when I found it. Thank you for doing this movie!

[@dawnofthederp5460]

How does the multiple screaming head monster even work, do they each have their own respiratory system? Or is it like a bagpipe kinda thing?

[@oldraaa4368]

Hey Roanoke it will be interesting if you cover contracted phase 1 and 2 and how the disease progress, great video as always 🤠

[@DeathByBlue583]

I was subscribed to you in the past but recently I checked and I am no longer subscribed, I never unsubscribe from people so KZbin is definitely doing something here

[@miaa7968]

Love the little aside about specialties. My parents are both medical doctors with additional Masters specialties - Dad's is in Microbiology and Mum's is in Epidemiology. Match made in heaven.

[@Banzai_AWOS]

this reminds me of GTFO, It's got pretty much the exact same plot and has a very similar infection. Dig super deep whole? Check Some sort of infectious disease? Check Send more people down? Check Infected have bioluminescence? Check Infected mutate heavily? Check

[@wrenkennedy]

A someone who had perpetual mould growing in her lungs....can confirm is very painful and debilitating

[@shastealyomeal]

😨

[@notsae66]

Yikes

[@sylviarohge4204]

She was probably already infected. In the Lower Cave, when she got the key, she had the mask off, and judging by the film, the whole air down there was full of spores.

[@rubenkym6904]

ngl I respect that you didnt let that oof comment reply go 13:38

[@xaelch.official]

Man ngl the more I watch this channel I feel like I’m learning so much knowledge of science lmao

[@stepheneverhart5083]

“Btw you’re breathing manually” you’re gonna be the first one we sacrifice to our new/old mold god

[@jare3459]

This is why it needs to be a human right to own a flamethrower.

[@ivayloivanov7231]

Fun fact: Kola Superdeep Borehole was in USSR. Drilling began on 24 May 1970 using the Uralmash-4E, and later the Uralmash-15000 series drilling rig, and it became the deepest manmade hole in history in 1979. The 23-centimetre (9 in) diameter boreholes were drilled by branching from a central hole.[1] The deepest reached 12,262 metres (40,230 ft) in 1989, the deepest artificial point on Earth. There was urban legend or just a lie, that microphone down there was hearing screams from hell.

[@johnwicked1132]

Screams of heck! pogchamp, if you go looking you'd be suprised by the amount of creepypastas surrounding that hole

[@rozu7772]

Some of the sounds they captured from just the earth moving or from distant earthquakes do sound kind of scary though. 😅

[@ivayloivanov7231]

@John McAlister Well they dont make or is missing a tape some how and not every working there made such claims about "creams from hell".

[@johnwicked1132]

@John McAlister ???

[@johnwicked1132]

@@ivayloivanov7231 I had a storke reading that

[@MerlinsJester]

8:18 that be a mosaic, my sir

[@TotallyToonsTV]

I always have and always will hate those characters who decide kissing an infected person is a good idea, therefore infecting themselves, because the writers need some kind of romance arc for some reason.

[@garretbrown3098]

Roanoke: *complaints about gas being below $4.50 a gallon* Me: *currently paying 7 dollars a gallon* 😑

[@RoanokeGaming]

P A I N

[@rozu7772]

I think the Netherlands were doing $14 a gallon last I heard.

[@Haiesta]

If possible, could you cover Shaun of the Dead and it’s zombie virus, I think it could be interesting (and I think it originates from a pesticide) so if you can, please cover it

[@colinsmith1495]

This mold would almost certainly need to interact with the human brain/nervous system directly. I say this simply based on the fact that it makes people walk. Do you have any idea how complicated bipedal motion is? It's the fine art of constantly falling with grace (well, less grace for some). Even if we assume that larger fungal masses may have some analog to brain tissue and higher thought functions, the simple infection of a single human body would almost certainly need to hijack that portion of the human brain rather than figure that stuff all out itself. Add in location seeking behavior more complicated than 'The Nearest Source of X Stimulus' and this is only reinforced.

[@ImperativeGames]

Cordyceps control ants mostly with enzymes. If it makes you want to walk and want to get into warmer place... maybe it doesn't need to interface with the brain.

[@dungeaterfancam]

idk the opinions seem to differ. I suppose the best solution would be to just try this irl and see what happens

[@novi6521]

"Seems to be a human trait to 'fuck around and find out'" - Yes

[@abductedbyaliens9425]

The Shaun of the dead reference 😂 “Oh lord he’s got an arm off.” 13:05

[@iamgroot8510]

Thumbs up from France.👍

[@RoanokeGaming]

Thanks for watching man!

[@harrisjordan7492]

Body horror is such a primal fear. It can really rattle the bones of any one. The idea of having your body hijacked, bent, and broken by that thing is horrifying. All the while you are still conscious. Bleh

[@D3dans]

As bad as the acting/dialogue was, this movie still was an amazingly pleasant surprise to find on Shudder; the second I saw the "creature" was created via practical effects and heard the soundtrack, Superdeep secretly snuck itself into my list of "guilty pleasure" films. I'm so stupidly excited to watch this video, especially because now, I can both pester friends about this movie further AND share Roanoke's channel as well! :D Win win!

[@crownvetch92]

"What's Russia up to?" *unholy screaming* "Yep, that's about right."

[@mattj.7756]

1:05 And there it is, an iconic phrase that I find myself quoting more often than I should have to. “Do you want an old god? Because that’s how you get an old god.”