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*The marine biogeochemist has entered the chat* Joke aside, you did a great job! I have a degree in biochemistry, and am currently working on my graduate degree in oceanography and astrobiology studying the biogeochemistry of deep marine sediments. I love hydrothermal vents and hope to work on them someday, so it was great to see them covered!! The origin of life is hotly debated, but Chem thug did a great job explaining the basic principles of the vent hypothesis One thing I did want to point out: not only was it those geologists involved in plate tectonics, but an amazing woman named Marie Tharp whose maps of the ocean based off of satellite and the navy research was a huge push towards tectonic plate theory :) If you ever want to chat about anaerobic microbes and the awesome nature of weird life l’m down!

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[@jesarablack1661]

The one thing I am most curious about with hydrothermal vents, that I have never seen a discussion on, is How do all of these species, Especially the ones that are very specific to the vents, get to a new vent when it forms. I want to see more about the process by which all these creatures manage to Start these colonies.

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Bro, I learned a lot yet I slept halfway through cuz both of your voices and passion to what you two are talking about is so lovely. Thanks.

[@mystryvexyll]

i really like this episode! there are so many things to get excited for at the hydrothermal vents and i felt it! i especially liked chem thugs explanation which made more sense than the primordial soup thing that you kinda just have to accept in the same way u just gotta accept that light is both a particle and a wave

[@ZiggyFL]

BETTER MAKE A VIDEO ON THE VENT MICROBES (Also loved the video and Chem Thug feature you’re awesome!)

[@mprojekt72]

Looking back on this video, between the presentations of Octopus Lady and Chem Thug, I keep finding inspiration for speculative ecosystems or the spark of an idea that takes me other scientists.

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Hydrothermal vents: release toxic mineral soup Life: good soup

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My geology teacher at university of Houston was taught by the guy that proved plate tectonics!!

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Thank you for bringing up how young plate tectonics are, I read that in a geology book a couple months ago and was blown away! This is so engrained in common knowledge today, i could not BELIEVE the discovery was so young.

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[@annexhion5343]

I knew hydrothermal vents were freakin' cool, but I had NO idea that they might be the key to understanding abiogenesis. This is crazy cool shit, thank you so much for this video!

[@Connorses]

Just want to acknowledge the funny fake LaCroix ad in the background during the bit about the primordial ocean.

[@appmenezes]

Nice to see you back!

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15:41 Hank Green cameo. Ye-yah!

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Octopus lady is me in biochem class at uni. I’m plant, soil, and genetics. Chemistry may as well be magic.

[@zizkovhoodmoments1590]

22:17 Origin of life student here, it looks like the hydrothermal vent hypothesis is actually wrong, because the membrane-bound micelles can't properly form in saline environments, and the biochemical precursors are extremely diluted in the ocean. Current favored hypothesis is that life formed on land in geyser ponds, and theres been a lot of advancement in this field recently. Critical component to formation of protocells is wet-dry cycling, which can't happen in deep ocean. another thing is the concentration of organic precursors, and simply ocean is too big a diluted, while small pools on land can accumulate these compounds in much higher concentrations

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[@davidlivingston4203]

Great vid on one of my favorite subjects of marine bio. Love the collab, and excited to hear you're on Nebula. Love your channel.

[@oxylepy2]

The entire time Gary Gygax was a youth, tectonic plates had yet to be described and apparently continental drift was considered fringe.

[@TeamUnpro]

"something that leaches stuff realy well" Kirby :D

[@bannertowman]

Read Starfish by Peter Watts It's about a station on the Juan de Fuca vents and living in darkness

[@annix493]

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[@erictaylor5462]

Isn't part of the ridge some place called "Iceland" or the Azores, or the Falklands. There was some bather about that last one in the 80's where England sailed a hell of a long way to kick some Argentine ass. I heard that Margret Thatcher was once walking around London (before she died. They didn't let her walk around after she died) and she saw a beggar in the street with a sign "Falklands War vet." She gave the man a 100 pound note. He looked up at her smile and said, gracias.

[@lainalien]

geologists be like *licks a fish* "hmm what kind of rock is this"

[@michaelbauers8800]

I like to think of plate tectonics as modeled by my computer desk, where I eat while video gaming, and can't be bothered to always clear off dishes until the weekend...they clash, and get in the way of each other, and get pushed around by mysterious forces, like my hands. Yeah, guess I am a slob. But you had me at hydrothermal, because that word is very cool for such a hot topic.

[@poppyfrancis7338]

I approve of the bit of people smoking standing in for art of the vents

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Hell yeah new content creator I can binge

[@cabbagenut]

There are many fields of science that are in their heyday right now. Genetics, medicine, anthropology to name a few.

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haven't watched your videos in a few months and you've gotten Way better at speaking!!!!

[@andreagriffiths3512]

Fascinating, you’ve got a new subscriber ❤

[@spilledink849]

I LOVE HYDROTHERMAL VENTS AND OTHER SIMILAR ECOSYSTEMS!! Especially Cold Seeps theyre so fascinating!!!!!!

[@ShelbySpillers]

16:15 Vavoom? Octopus Lady sounds like a Good Omens fan XD

[@3_14pie]

that little kirbonic acid gag was comedy gold

[@gregc8831]

I liked Chemthug's explanation of this theory but I would love to hear about how the organic chemistry would transition into cellular life. If someone could demonstrate the production of some proto-cell components like amino and nucleic acids under these conditions that would be awesome.

[@dracorex426]

Okay, mantle convection exists, it just isn't the cause of plate movement. The article on screen pretty clearly says that mantle convection is a thing that exists.

[@lagosertergaming3835]

So what youre saying is the hydrothermal vents could be the reason we have to pay taxes?

[@th1nk_outside]

the only ecosystem where predators can get grilled shrimp. i hope there is some kind of hydrothermal garlic, too.

[@SirFloofy001]

Not an expert and definitely not a geologist, but based on the little bit i do know and the very helpfully colored map im guessing volcanic arc's are geothermal vents that occur away from plate boundaries and are caused purely by volcanic activity, back arc basins (based on their locations on the map) im guessing are vents caused by other types of plate boundaries that don't cause oceanic spreading and thus a ridge.

[@roseblite6449]

Not surprised that the one bacteria would be radiation resistant, since heavy metals such as Uranium (among other radiation isotopes) would be prevalent in magma but in larger concentrations than say on land. If you have a Geiger counter, as soon as you turn it on it starts sounding off because every place on earth has some to a lot of background radiation in rocks. Drilling pipes for oil have a certain amount of radiation on them before they are even used to drill, well the motor drills the pipe just houses the mud to drive the drill bits, but once they are used and brought up the radiation those pipes have is larger than when they wend down the shaft.

[@FugueNation]

Just came across this, now that we know about Dark Oxygen, wonder if Dark Oxygen helps with Oxygen for these guys

[@erictaylor5462]

I think it would be so cool to send a submersible probe to Europa, have it spend a lot of time melting it's way through tie ice, then have it turn on it's lights so we can see the bottom of the ice that is the roof of the world. It starts out heading down the the black abyss and we see large teeth close around the probe just before it goes off line. Maybe we should sent 2 probes.

[@lucas_vermeire]

The opening of this video was great because platetectonics will be part of my upcoming exam in like 2 weeks lmao Small refresher

[@rimibchatterjee]

Actually it was Maria Tharp who discovered sea floor spreading.

[@alveolate]

soooo do we have any long-term chem experiment featuring a miniature analogue of that hadean vent with the chemiosmosis system that chem thug mentioned? maybe we can recreate abiogenesis in a lab?

[@kamiochambless2590]

Oh man, I love your videos! Also omg Chem Thug!!!!!!!!!

[@SarastistheSerpent]

Fantastic video!

[@insecurecow4419]

Not really exclusive to marine biology, but Ive always been fascinated by diastereomers and how, depending which one is present, you can get wildly different products or outcomes in use. An iconic Example being Thalidomide. The drug was marketed as a wonder drug to cure morning sickness in pregnant women, but one configuration of the exact same molecules caused horrible birth defects while the other had the desired effects. Chemistry really is the S++ tier STEM field

[@dcrowdyh]

Thats because the hydrothermal vents in the ponds KILLED a bunch of people - they had to install circulation tubes, so the gasses couldn't build up under the water

[@LeCharles07]

I'm sitting here listening to ChemThug talk about proton gradients in vents and I'm thinking, "Hmmm. Sounds a lot like mitochondria(the powerhouse of the cell) and ATP synthesis."

[@reaperwithnoname]

I've heard that the oxygen down there is actually from manganese nodules, not surface photosynthesis.

[@maxwellvindman7212]

when they started talking about chem My psych major ass eyes just crossed and I started drooling

[@playingportal2]

oh i am eating very good this morning. thank you octopus lady and chem thug

[@anthonygeorge3689]

11:05 ok but this is just ragweed season 😭😂

[@Mindboggles]

the yeti crabs remind of the Mi-go from the stories of Lovecraft

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Patiently waiting for the worm vid 🔥🔥🔥

[@speedygoblinshark]

24:49 wublin island reference

[@AMNmrrll]

This is amazing and a perfect jumping off point for research for my book.

[@josephlink4173]

I lost it on Peltospiroid gastropods. Spit my drink out. 😆17:25

[@1d3r]

"Outside... Chillen and then.....🔥"🤣

[@llsilvertail561]

Hydrothermal vents are honestly so fascinating

[@HORIZONNNN]

19:26 YETI CRABS INVENTED THE PINA COLADA?? 😡😡😡 ALSO CHEMTHUG??? 🥺🥺🥺

[@td4190]

Okay I was born in 1982 I remember my first book that I remember reading as a kid. Now it was a book labeled all about dinosaurs and it was a huge book and it was very hard to read. However it explained or covered most of what you just talked about in the first two chapters. Now it quoted as it as a theory at the time which it still is. But I bought a book about the creation of the planet and the history of the planet and it had the same introduction part from that same book when it talked about the first possible building blocks of life

[@Crocy]

So glad we have hydrothermal vents, don't know what I'd do without dogs ;~;

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Soothing yet engaging

[@d0pomein]

I always wondered how do you cook the animals that live on geothermal vents. The water is already hotter than you could boil on land. Do you have to super steam them? Are they just pre cooked?

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[@zizkovhoodmoments1590]

1:10 integrated ecosystems are a kind of organisms too, and definitely "alive". and also ecosystems (and vegetation types and so on) have taxonomical categories too. Every organism is an ecosystem, and every ecosystem in turn is an organism, the whole distinction between them is completely incoherent. Its a holon made of holons all the way both up and down in scale

[@shadetreader]

Before my late mother left university and wound up a housewife instead of a geologist [smash the patriarchy], her favourite teacher promoted plate tectonics. He was denied a doctorate over it.

[@victorboshnyak8518]

...If you wanna get technical you didn't have water you had brine. To begin with. Which at minimum implies an ion of chlorine in there... So it's a little like part-time hydrochloric acid. Hot salt water also rusts stuff amazingly well without dissolving it. It's just more reactive, though not as much as acid. Anyway, it leaches stuff (a little) like hot acid.

[@palpytine]

15:13 seems wrong. "Chemo" is fine, it means chemicals (as opposed to photo for sunlight). "Litho" means "stone". "Auto" means "self". "-trophy" means "Nourishment". Putting it together then: - "autotrophy" describes any organism that produces its own energy. Such as plants or stuff at the vents - "lithoautotrophy" for anything that does this from rocks - "chemolithoautotrophy" for anything that does this from chemicals in the rocks Nothing about the word implies carbon sources or electron donors. The term for electron donor is "nucleophile". "Litho" implies inorganic, but only insofar as it means "stone"

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17:28 SPY!

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I was putting this off cuz i was planning on watching this video with my sister, but i can no longer wait. 💄!

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zefrank1 did mantis shrimp about 10 years ago. He’s done some nudibranchs, sea cucumbers, and other cool creatures in his True Facts videos. He sent us here.

[@codelinx]

Omg he's awesome! I learned so much🤯