This Ecosystem Will Kill You If You Move

[@OctopusLady]

Hey everyone! So I usually try to make some goofy joke here to encourage you to go check out my Patreon, but I think I'm gonna try a more honest approach this time. Between doing the research, writing the script, sourcing the videos/photos, and editing it all together, these videos take _a lot_ of time, effort, and energy to make. So if you can, supporting me over on my Patreon is always a really big help: www.patreon.com/theoctopuslady It makes this rather unstable job of being a KZbinr a _little bit_ more stable, which makes it that much easier for me to make these videos. If you don't have the means to support me, that's all right! I understand. Your time and attention is enough. 💜🐙💜

[@PredictableEnigma]

You know what this comment and my love of all of your other videos has convinced me. I'm in. Also great tier names.

[@gamerlex8894]

my friend Carl will probably enjoy reading that part of the script that you sent to the shadow realm

[@Andrewbert109]

Ok you asked too politely to not sign up ❤

[@Mistfall254]

The wonder of God's work (probs going 2 get flack 4 that)

[@raya.p.l5919]

❤ Jesus power Level 1 portion of youth longevity digestion an self beauty Jesus energy wash. Negative energy will creep out yr feet tell it's time.

[@Mother_of_Pigeons]

The Octopus Lady: The giant tubeworms, for example, have no mouths My brain autofilling: But they must scream…

[@idioticsweet_potato5346]

i remember that game

[@OphanAzirafel]

i remember that game

[@dadrising6464]

Sad ppl remember the game and not the book

[@k.h.production22669]

I'm using the term "brain autofill" from now on lol

[@holysol]

if the word hate was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one billionth of the hate i feel for humans at this micro instant...

[@kovanova9409]

I saw a geologist lick a rock once to show what it looked like wet once so geologists acting like that with new creatures and ecosystems makes sense to me.

[@wombatiferous]

The official way to tell halite (salt) and sylvite (potassium chloride, used as a "healthier" salt substitute by people who apparently can't taste bitterness, apart in the field is to lick it. Licking it is also a pretty common way to tell small tooth fossils apart in the field, but you have to be super careful not to accidentally put some dry animal scat in your mouth (most vert paleontologists have done this at least once).

[@udontseemeiseeuuseemeiseeu]

i seen jerma eat a rock

[@kovanova9409]

@udontseemeiseeuuseemeiseeu That... Doesn't surprise me...

[@JoltedAlive]

@@udontseemeiseeuuseemeiseeu man eat stone, stone good

[@esuterunokitsune3556]

When geologist collect samples they need to be careful not to damage themselves. You hit yourself with a rock and the rock will be fine. Rock is, in fact, well known for lasting a while. So it does not surprise me that their aproach to biological samples, which are well known for being unstable, is a constant cause of stress to biologists.

[@davidjones6661]

ChemThug is an amazing science communicator! Thank you for featuring him!

[@ZachieChan7]

I love his shirt!

[@ozzymand1as]

Oh, I thought he was ChemFrog

[@TAPriceCTR]

I struggled initially because his voice is close to Tyson. But I very much like his explanation... he says things in a simple but NOT dumb way.

[@LeCharles07]

@@ZachieChan7 shirts*

[@wwondertwin]

He is! He's quickly become a new favourite of mine, added to the long list.

[@vragithemutant]

Dutch person here: You actually pronounced 'Tjeerd' correctly, and even if you didn't, I wouldn't blame you. Most non-native speakers have a lot of trouble with learning Dutch because it's quite a messy language (we even have rules for where to include capital letters in a last name and mine doesn't comply to those rules and this made it so that when I was born, they had to reprogram the computer system in which they registered my birth sertivicate)

[@vragithemutant]

Certificate

[@CharlieApples]

It’s okay, English is just as messy. Germanic languages just went insane 1000-2000 years ago and nobody stopped them.

[@the-letter_s]

somehow "sertivicate" seems like a more appealing way to spell that word, to me

[@dranoradragonqueen1494]

lol

[@dranoradragonqueen1494]

@@CharlieApples can confirm the English's side

[@leeuhen5485]

Hello OctopusLady, First of all: thank you for your excellent, entertaining, educational work! Our family is always joyous when a new video drops. Second: I wanted to mention the existence of Marie Tharp, the woman who actually discovered the Mid-Atlantic Ridge but whose work was first derided as "girl-talk" and then used by Heezen et al without attribution. Sadly, her name and contributions are, even now, largely unknown. Marie Tharp, champion of the continental drift theory!

[@harrietharlow9929]

Thank you very much for mentioning her. She saw the mid-ocean ridge before the male scientists did. You rocked, Marie!

[@Capstone2266]

I can confidently say that magnetizing a metal snail is a new life goal of mine

[@hedgehog3180]

Immortal snail hack.

[@th1nk_outside]

this shell is the childhood dream of every hermit crab. but to get the iron shell they must finish the main quest...

[@megan00b8]

I did a thing made some metal shells for hermit crabs, you might find his video interesting.

[@croozerdog]

@@th1nk_outside making iron shells and giving them to hermit crabs is my new life goal

[@mimisezlol]

​@@th1nk_outside this is because they need a high strength stat in order to renovate a metal shell

[@D.UBS.]

Yeti crab: Hmm extreme pressure, acid water, dark.. But hey, there're food from the funny hot volcano, thats an absolutely win.

[@reves3333]

Crab Rave plays

[@metal_pipe9764]

There is*

[@danolantern6030]

If i fits, i niches

[@sephikong8323]

A yeti got lost to the place most opposite to where Yeti live, as he wished to be left alone by other Yeti and never have to deal with them ever again, and then he was suddenly hit by Carcinization Truly the modern equivalent of King Midas' story : be careful of what you wish for, you might just get it. Share if that made you cry 🥲

[@ceejno7861]

Was curious so I skimmed the geological stuff reeeeally quickly, and the gist seems to be that mantle currents are a thing, but it turns out the tectonic plates are causing them rather than being caused BY them. And the plates are actually being moved by... gravity, basically. Colder, denser plates sink into the mantle due to their weight, and the force of a sinking plate pulls the nearest plate closer to it. So they drag each other around. I think I might've seen a similar effect in person when I was pressing vanilla wafers into banana pudding the other day.

[@TlalocTemporal]

Ah, so instead of subduction happening because playes are being pushed together by the mantle, the mantle is dragged by plates that are pulled by subducting plate edges! I wonder how much the newly forming oceanic plate pushes or drags the rest of the plates.

[@c0dy1287]

Well now all I can think about is banana pudding

[@disgusted2704]

Do they teach these new stuff now? We are still taught the Continental Drift, so I was actually shocked to find out that it's actually not in favor

[@albertnonymous1886]

These are big claims without any evidence, I'm gonna need video of the pudding phenomena.

[@stevenclark2188]

That kinda sounds like a description of convection. just of a solid?!? I guess?

[@heiskanbuscadordelaverdad8709]

if there are no volcano snails I would be disappointed now seriously look up volcano snails they are like fantasy creatures

[@whatthewhatthe9117]

I’m more looking for chimeras or yeti crabs, the fact they even exist is astounding

[@shadowhenge7118]

Theres a Pokemon about them. I once thought all Pokemon were BS made up, but apparently Magcargo actually exists. The Scaly Foot Snail.

[@lXlDarKSuoLlXl]

They're so metal they'll probably get a whole video about them 😅

[@medusianAllure]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zp2XhH2nosRlpqMsi=Gn6jn8LLxgYTjYvJ This song. How everything we do is interconnected and how it connects to exploring the stars.

[@Friedbaboons]

Lives in volcanos Shell comprised of METAL Scales Yep, that’s a dragon

[@slowpnir]

7:00 not only the water _superheated,_ it is also _supercritical_ which makes it an ultrasolvent. The temperature is a non-reason, as hot water can solve _less_ stuff. The reason is the combined level of pressure _and_ temperature which turns water supercritical (liquid and vapor "are indistinguishable" in this state) which makes it an ultrasolvent. When the supercritical solution exits the crevice, it looses the pressure and becomes normal water again, and solved material flakes out of it. This explains why we see the black fountain and not a flame-like structure.

[@melandor0]

Hot water can dissolve more minerals. It also dissolves them faster, but it can definitely hold more mols of stuff per mol of water.

[@jaysonl]

"We can get a little taxonomical... as a treat." Never change, Octopus Lady

[@celarts5752]

Do you think you'll cover brine pools as well at some point? They're absolutely fascinating to me, also amazing video as always!

[@OctopusLady]

Oh yeah! I forgot to mention this in the main video, but I wanna do brine pools and whale falls, too. And wood falls. And deep sea coral reefs. And the abyssal plains. And just...everything in the deep sea, basically!

[@benmcreynolds8581]

Yes i was thinking the same as the OP comment. Brine pools is such a fascinating topic

[@paigemarcum5586]

​@@OctopusLadythe deep sea is one of my favorite "biomes." The real aliens are at the bottom of the ocean!!

[@cadneemountai2791]

​@@OctopusLadyBrine pools and whale falls are so cool.

[@TheSticknstone2]

​@@OctopusLadydeep sea! Its like the regular sea, but not at all!

[@splatter_proto]

This was absolutely fascinating and incredibly entertaining, and Chem Thug was amazing! I feel like I'm going to blink and this channel is going to have a billion subscribers, the content is too good!!

[@claude3429]

It's criminally underrated fs

[@geekdivaherself]

A _MILLION_ BILLION❣

[@AnnoyingNewsletters]

*_Almost_* at the 100k mark, now 😮

[@SuziQ.]

zefrank1’s shout out/crediting didn’t hurt. I don’t think I’m the only one who came here from one of his videos.

[@timothymclean]

"...but then there's a little gust of wind and it's suddenly a bajillion degrees, all the oxygen is gone and has been replaced with poisonous gas, and-oh! A bunch of acid just showed up outta nowhere. Do you know what this sounds like?" Venus.

[@joshuahadams]

H.P. Lovecraft was into continental drift. _At the Mountains of Madness_ from 1936 has a surprisingly good summary of the ideas of continental drift at the time, and the concept of supercontinents and a global ocean in the far distant past, forming after the moon.

[@killermmouse8874]

Man really was an enigma,

[@altejoh]

Given how against all concepts of math and science he was, this is hilarious.

[@TsunamiWombat]

@@killermmouse8874 Lovecraft was extremely contradictory yeah. Extremely anti-semetic, railed about jews. Loved his Jewish wife very much, at least till they got divorced. Some versions i've heard even suggest it was an amicable seperation.

[@propyro85]

And if you look into some of the books Lovecraft name drops in other works, it's hilarious. Seriously, read W. Scott Elliot's "The story of Atlantis and lost Lemuria". It mostly used earthquakes heaving and dropping land masses to explain changing continent shapes, but Lovecraft used it to hint to how R'lyeh sunk and caused Cthulhu to go into his deathless slumber. It also talked about occult clairvoyance to explain how the authors knew that ancient Atlanteans were made of energy, left no fossils, and had domesticated dinosaurs. Also, bees and wheat were gifts from aliens on Venus ... I think. Seriously, read it, it's bloody hilarious.

[@louieburnham8090]

@@altejohwhere did you hear that? Dude was an amateur astronomer. Several of his unpublished writings are on the subject. He was also relatively well informed on subjects like relativity for a non-physicist in his time.

[@copperlocke]

You talk about plate tectonics being a new scientific principle, but I remember going to school in the 1990s and we still had indecision over the cause of the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous, and the "all the volcanoes in the world or an insane super volcano erupted and killed everything" explanation was actually more accepted than "Big space rock bonked us". Science changes quick, it's a great thing.

[@Ya_boi00]

Chem thug was honestly an incredible addition to this video! Not enough people are talking about how incredibly he explained everything, immediate follow

[@charlieburzynski603]

Thanks Todd Howard

[@Deadpool3E]

@3:50 Paleontologist here. Wegener's theory of continental drift weren't proven by dinosaur remains, but of four non-dinosaur species: Mesosaurus - a Permian coastal marine reptile with long jaws and an array of needle sharp teeth found in South America and Africa. Cynognathus - a synapsid from the Middle Triassic very close to the line leading to true mammals found in South America and Africa. Lystrosaurus - another synapsid known for it's abundance and evolutionary hardiness that survived the Great Dying and loved in South America, Africa, Antarctica, and India. Glossipterus - a widespread seed-bearing plant that's been found on every Southern continent.

[@cassievania]

Vents are like one of my top three ocean obsessions though I'll admit it was a bit early in the morning to grasp all the chemistry 😂

[@Psittacus_erithacus]

Fantastic video, as I've learned to expect from this excellent find of a channel. 2:10 So glad you included this bit and even showed the pages of your work that ultimately got discarded. I feel like many folks (myself often included) fail to realize how much more challenging it is to be genuinely conscientious about the accuracy of what you put out. In a world thick with people carelessly shouting over each other waving desperately for attention. I'm so glad to find another creator who's actually deserving of it.

[@johnsober]

Your experience with academic papers gives me so much validation. It's such a struggle at times.

[@camrenbranch1684]

Chem thug is literally my uncle! Hes the coolest, thank you for shouting him out

[@jessybelike]

"tik tok is a garbage platform and it doesn't deserve him" gurl you spitting facts I have never been convinced to subscribe to someone without at least watching the content but you just done it

[@ninjaperson27]

*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!

[@wildworld6264]

Wow, I can't believe I didn't find your channel sooner. This video was so fun!

[@vampbat]

Miss Lady! Today, my friend made an abstract art piece that reminded me a lot of these deep sea vents. I told my friend, “Hey! The octopus lady taught me about these!” and my friend went “Ursula” and…I STILL HAVE NOT RECOVERED… I am sending them this video right now but oh my gosh. Thanks for teaching me things, in a way my brain understands! Your videos are very soothing and nice.

[@springbok4015]

Oh boy oh boy! I can’t wait! It’s a good day when OctoLady and ChemThug upload. But an even better day when they’re together ❤️

[@Cat-tastrophee]

This is top-notch KZbin. Seriously. Your channel makes me rejoice that KZbin exists. The information you share is the perfect balance of scientific and hilarious (and often scientifically hilarious) and the animation is chef's kiss. Thank you for persevering with your videos! They're amazing ❤

[@jamesdriscoll_tmp1515]

So cool to hear a shout out to Schmidt Ocean Institute. They have a nice live stream of their ongoing exploration of the deep sea. Currently they are sending a remote vehicle to newly discovered vents in the Pacific ocean.

[@endersolo5332]

NO WAY, I'M WRITING A PAPER ON THESE FOR CLASS RIGHT NOW Edit: I could never mean this more than now, *thank you* for the resources

[@arglebargle42]

Best Ecosystem Ever!

[@OctopusLady]

Indeed! Step aside, temperate rainforests! Move over, arid deserts! Show's over, alpine tundra! Hydrothermal vents are here! (Also, thank you so much for your support! 💜💜💜)

[@cameronhunt5967]

A video on plants that bioaccumulate metals would be cool. Like there’s a tree that bleeds blue green sap because it has so much copper in it

[@scottgardener]

You and Chem Thug really made my day! About half-way through Chem Thug’s description of hydrogen ion transit through the vents, it dawned on me that he was describing something that sounded an awe full lot like Kreb’s cycle, and suddenly t clicked… life from lifelessness! I promise not to build a monster or to use protomatter in the Genesis matrix, but it is really amazing that I can come home after a long work day, check KZbin, and in my own kitchen eating leftovers learn a very plausible theory answering one of the greatest questions in human history! Thank you both! (Hoping a paper doesn’t disprove the whole thing next week!)

[@floorpizza8074]

I can't believe that PBS hasn't given you your own channel. Your writing and production quality is just out of this world. I just found your channel yesterday, and it was instant thumbs and subs. Honestly, I hope that you do stay independent; it would be a shame for anyone else to have a say in what content you produce or how you produce it.

[@spacellama7851]

Always very excited for a new Octopus Lady video!

[@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.

[@darkonyx6995]

3:47 I think you are talking about the Mesosaurus genus, right? Those actually weren't dinosaurs, but ancient parareptiles! They aren't really that closely related to any reptile living today, and certainly were pretty far away from dinosaurs, but they are still fascinating!

[@jackhinkley8133]

I heard that there is life UNDER the ocean around hydrothermal vents as well, and that they often connect to other, relatively far away vents as well!

[@jackhinkley8133]

33:52 omg, she mentioned it!

[@koukhang9118]

That theory would make sense as she said in the video, vents are temperamental and most of the creatures would either have to constantly migrate or switch into another form or stasis to survive. Like where do all the tube worms go when a vent shuts down and then when a new vent forms, where did the organisms come from?

[@Volti-Vagra]

wait so an environment that if the water moves weird or anything like that, suddenly there can be whole "neighborhoods" wiped out but people think the same animals that get double deepfried when the water *slightly wobbles* can GO INSIDE THE VENTS? im done with the internet for today, i cannot even fathom

[@KingNedya]

I've been watching for a few months now and I just wanted to say your channel is perhaps the most underrated one I've seen, hope it gets the love it deserves :)

[@arglebargle42]

Ok hydrothermal vent ecology is my favorite crazy animal subject and has fascinated me since I first heard of them as a child. Most of my life I've occasionally wondered how they could possibly exist in such conditions and I am so thankful to see the answers so entertainingly presented. And Chem Thug just got a hard subscribed from me, can't wait to binge his content too!

[@littlehivetyrant2383]

So what I get from this is that apparently Barotrauma is now canon and at some point we will be fighting fish beneath the ice of Europa But in all seriousness - fascinating! Great video with lots of cool info and presented in a way that is easy to understand. First time I heard about hydrothermal vents and the fact that those are pretty much oasises for deep see life it was so mind blowing. Marine biology is so cool man. Usually you are not exposed to this kind of stuff as a normal dude and finding out that actually there is a whole different process other than photosynthesis than allows life to use highly toxic stuff to LIVE at the bottom of dark cold ocean where animals are usually eat dead organic matter is reminding me that we have a lot of stuff to learn about the rock we live on

[@chloesibilla8199]

Oh man I feel that so hard! That feeling of getting so far down the rabbit hole that you forget that what your searching on Google isn't obvious for a second and get confused when it recommends the disambiguation of what you just typed.

[@chloesibilla8199]

Also try the reverse of this; looking up something general and getting a specific movie named after it instead of what I want. No I want to research bumblebees! Like the insect! Not the giant yellow robot!

[@AlyxForest]

I took my time to read the bit where you filled up the page to supplement the deleted script, and I must say I enjoyed that little dive into your thought process behind one of my favorite games. I'm terrified of Subnautica (hence why I play it lol), but I'm terrified of it in the same way that other games terrify me. The fact that it's the ocean doesn't change anything. I think it's actually beautiful and mesmerizing to explore unfamiliar places in the ocean. I still feel fear though, because it's unfamiliar.

[@purplehaze2358]

"But the giant tube worms, for example, have no mouths or stomach(s)" I genuinely thought she was about to say "have no mouths and must scream".

[@0xEmmy]

21:10 according to a recent Microcosmos video, some species of bacteria can photosynthesize using the infrared light from the vents. Admittedly, these are sulfur bacteria, but it wouldn't surprise me if something figured out how to make oxygen down there. (Either that, or using some other chemical.)

[@regulate.artificer_g23.mdctlsk]

I think splitting water molecules into oxygen molecules takes a lot of energy that I doubt is posible with infrared photochemical reaction.

[@Negative_Clover]

Ok ive said this before. I love that you are not afraid to say "I don't know?" And not only that you are very candid about subjects that frustrate you... But you are a true scientist... The literal second there is something that challenges your understanding you just radically accept it and rather than lie or cover you sometimes bless us by kinda get amusingly irritated that you were wrong and kinda storm off the subject because you have NO IDEA anymore! But I love your refusal as an edutainer to give false or contested information. And your willingness to stick to your strengths and accept that its okay to have weaknesses in the sciences. In a world of "well actually" science educators you shine a special light I hope you work in an aquarium or something amazing. You should try and tour aquariums I would pay for a ticket for a denver thing

[@geekdivaherself]

That thumbnail-what a heap of funky lipstick. (I know. I know; they are tube worms or something similar.)

[@RedKincaid]

I don't know what I love more, the subject matter or the quality of presentation. Either way they add up to one of the best and most underrated KZbin channels ever.

[@mottmatt7844]

The cool thing about Europa being potentially inhabitated is that space exploration agencies do their very best to not contaminate it at all. When the Galileo probe's nuclear batteries were running out NASA did not want risk the very low chance that it could crash into Europa. So they steered it into Jupiter on purpose.

[@WyrdNexus_]

You keep this whole thing deeply interesting, wildly entertaining, authentic, and wholesome, all at the same time. Keep it up!

[@OctopusLady]

Oh, thank you so much! 💜

[@imdawolfman2698]

OctopusLady is educational and loopy, as usual; Thank you, but an extra thanks for introducing Chem Thug. He seems to have a way of creating a graphic in my head as he explains things.

[@fbi6179]

What makes this amazing is that it shows us a glimpse of how animals survived the Cambrian and the Pre-cambrian period.

[@OlyChickenGuy]

This was a super fun episode, as always, and support informative! I also enjoyed your guest, Chem Thug! As a side note, I used to have a house mate who was studying for a BA in Geology, and I'm pretty sure she'd have taken the badge of "Ne'er-Do-Well" with pride.

[@nattravn8445]

I love how we can hear her nerdiness 😊

[@omniphage9391]

Rock broth. Hydrothermal fluid is just rock broth.

[@DrachenGothik666]

You're edging sooo close to a major milestone, too, Octopus Lady! Getting close to that 100K! I remember when you had a mere 2K subs (that was around the time I hit that button, if I recall right--could easily be wrong)! And now you have a Nebula subscription? Sweet! You rock all around. And Chemthug was awesome. He was a great science communicator! I really enjoyed his segment & I hope you have him back in another video.

[@mrpathfinder7274]

I’m so glad I found this channel I love the way octopus lady explains complicated things and makes them sound fun and look fun ❤❤❤

[@atarisidequest]

So this video is pretty old now but considering the recent discovery of galvanic rocks on the seafloor, o2 production via electrolysis could also be viable, further decoupling these vents from solar influences.

[@mandibriar9837]

I’m so excited! I love this channel and her voice!

[@SuziQ.]

She sounds so much like our vet, it’s eerie.

[@ariannay766]

"exploring the earth will help us explore the stars" YES!! one of the reasons I'm so interested in hydrothermal vents right now (i've always thought they were fascinating but am especially fixated at the moment) is because I'm doing a creative project where I make up alien species that could live on Enceladus, Europa, and other places in the solar system! and this was super helpful to that bc Enceladus + Europa very well might have hydrothermal vent ecosystems Admittedly what I'm doing is more specfic than science but I really do like drawing on real science and how earth ecosystems work for it

[@claude3429]

Awesome started watching just about a month ago, I'm all here for more content from you!

[@ashleyphoenix3962]

Thanks!

[@redo1122]

nebula crowd got to watch it already! great vid, can't wait for more!

[@ACitizen1984]

Shout out to Chem Thug, I'm here because of his video and I'm very happy about that. Another excellent science youtuber. Thanks for the collaboration to both of you

[@incoggneeto6937]

😊You do good stuff. And you're fun! Keep it up, my lovely! We appreciate you! 😊

[@BagelBlood]

Multiple leviathan class organisms detected in your environment. Are you sure what you’re doing (simply existing) is worth it?

[@nschannel826]

I think you're _genuinely_ my favorite science KZbinr. And that says a lot considering how much of those I've followed over the years. You're just so passionate and always go as in depth as you possibly can into the topics you cover, and open when you genuinely don't understand a subject. Also I love the way you explain things to make sure it's understandable for the viewers

[@theimperfectionist3383]

13:50 AND HERE COME THE HYDROTHERMAL VENTS WITH THE STEEL AIR

[@noahbeem2394]

Don’t forget Marie Tharp! She was the person that discovered the mid Atlantic ridge and sea floor spreading!

[@appropinquabamusne]

Can you do a video covering glass sponges? The chemistry of how they build themselves out of glass they create from seawater blows my mind!

[@ThylineTheGay]

2:23 yeah it's not a _horror game_ and the devs didn't really intend for it to be, it's just kinda a side effect of the fear that a lot of people have of drowning, being trapped in an underwater cave with not enough time to find the exit while slowly getting more and more panicked as you run out of oxygen aanyway yes i'm scared of deep water

[@PredictableEnigma]

Incredible work on this one. I really enjoyed learning about this. I also had no idea that plate tectonics is so young!

[@SuziQ.]

Neither did I. My physical geography professor (in 1984/85) didn’t mention that it was a new field.

[@SirValiantIII]

This is the first video I’ve ever seen of yours and just have to say, in addition to your awesome narration and style, the editing is awesome, and clearly took a ton of work. Great vid!!

[@user-rr2qj1ck1n]

Fun fact: Worm is actually a body plan not the creatures. Worms are called Worms because of their body plan.

[@arianapetitcollins]

Soy una estudiante de animación digital en latino América y de alguna manera terminé viendo 2 videos tuyos que me llevaron a este y aunque no soy una persona que se considera inteligente y de hecho me cuesta bastante concentrarme y entender las cosas debido a que tengo TDAH y dislexia, logré entender bastante bien y sobre todo me resultó en extremo interesante cada minuto del video. Tienes una manera de explicar las cosas que resulta muy entretenida, llamativa, divertida y atrapante. Creo que es muy admirable teniendo en cuenta lo complejo que puede llegar a ser el contenido que abarcas en tu canal y lo conviertes en algo tan fácil de ver, comprender y como dije antes, que sea tan interesante y entretenido que personas como yo que quizá nos cuesta asimilar temas mas científicos o simplemente no sean mucho de nuestro interés nos sintamos atraídos a este contenido y nos mantengamos pegados a la pantalla con ganas de saber aún más. Sigue así, tu canal es maravilloso y en serio este fue un video muy genial, ambos lo hicieron increíble y se nota que son personas adorables. Gracias por el contenido y sus esfuerzos, son muy buenos.🫶❤️

[@samuelezanieri6486]

Hi OctopusLady

[@Cat-tastrophee]

For what it's worth, your English is impeccable! I'm pretty sure 90% of Americans don't know what "presumptuous" means, or that the word even exists 😂. Thank you for giving our language the respect it (probably doesn't deserve, but still) receives outside of English-speaking countries. The Octopus Lady is probably genuinely struggling with pronouncing the scientific names (understandably), but could also be using the struggle for comedic relief. Many Americans like to make fun of ourselves, and we don't mind looking stupid if it makes others laugh and feel more comfortable! She might want the help with pronouncing the names, or she might not, I don't know, but many thanks for offering regardless!

[@octochan]

I think part of her appeal is her struggle to pronounce words that she's only ever read, but I think she'd appreciate the offer

[@samuelezanieri6486]

⁠@@Cat-tastrophee thank you very much

[@samuelezanieri6486]

@@octochan I understand, I also really enjoy hearing his pronunciations. In any case, I wrote the message anyway because maybe it might be of interest to her as knowledge, even if not to be implemented in the videos. (Thanks for your comment, I also hope she can enjoy my comment).

[@BloodyMobile]

23:05 I can see why she's such a fan of the guy. He made me understand more about chemistry in ~10 min than an entire year of early highschool chemistry managed...

[@kombatwombat6579]

Octopus Lady and Chem Thug together, double win. Let's do this.

[@gonzalofraguasbringas8617]

You made it to Nebula!! Congratulations!!! I was counting down the days ❤️❤️❤️

[@cf453]

This was so enjoyable and informative, I watched it twice. Chem Thug absolutely nailed that explanation, and you two synergize really well. I hope you find opportunities to collab with him in the future.

[@gersoncuevas8137]

I feel something I can't describe after hearing from about just worms and crabs in a living hot soup, to getting nearly explained how life started. And the while metaphorically playing in the background Hans Zimmer piano music about certain space and black holes movie, when the music gets that BOOM, and your mind does so as well.

[@mortified776]

The Octopus Lady and ParallaxNick uploading 40 minuters on the same day feels like witnessing a rare planetary conjuction. Thanks for the intro to ChemThug and congrats on joining Nebula!

[@coleroberts1773]

This is the first time I've come across your channel but you've instantly hooked me. Remarkably well researched with a clear passion for the topic. Thanks for the great videos I can't wait to check out everything else you've made!

[@altejoh]

Also: I believe the more favoured reason plates move is that they are being pulled down at subduction zones. Like, the colder part of the rock plate is more dense, and sinks, and that pulls the entire rest of the plate with it. Also I am pretty sure that mantle convection *still happens*, it's just no longer believed to be the main driving force anymore.

[@dsm5d723]

For those interested, Nick Lane has the most complete model of genetic information collecting at hydrothermal vents as the event that had to come before "life." Assuming the self organizing aspect of cellular automata, the real problem isn't "how did the first cell come about," it's "how did genetic information in the form of RNA first get sequenced in nature?" Lane is very compelling on the topic. And, his lab is working toward proof of concept experiments on origin of life, which is pretty remarkable. Well done Chem Thug.

[@disasterbi8610]

I am BLOWN AWAY by the brilliance of both these people, TheOctopusLady and ChemThug. I deadass watched a chemistry lesson and loved every minute of it. I stan

[@runelessruneless9024]

The Octopus Lady's ridiculous grudge against geologists is the funniest thing I've ever seen- and I love this science on the vents! I find this life, life that knows nothing of the sun, yet grows anyway, fascinating!

[@timobensch3904]

It still baffles me that even though they already had some maps of the earth that already show continents fitting together like puzzle pieces and they still called the guy stupid for believing they were once one big continent

[@notreallyhere6451]

I just found you and I enjoyed every second of it #subscribed ❤😂

[@silverthorngoodtree5533]

Almost forgot, Also writing this prior to end of vid, did you know about the ocean in the Ocean? Really neat, and deadly. On the edge is a graveyard of dead everything that could not escape when they walk into it or swim in or slightly above it. Divers wouldn't be able to go in it f it was in shallow water. They sent a probe into it, check it out.

[@regulate.artificer_g23.mdctlsk]

Brine pools. The thing you're talking about is brine pools.

[@PotooBurd]

Boosting for the algorithm 🙌 Love your work, keep it up! 🌻🐝

[@MDudleyfromTexas]

Thank you very much. Mr. Scaly foot snail aka volcano snail aka sea pangolin didn't get his own video, but this was waaaay better. Chem thug really cleared up all those questions I had bouncing around in my brain about the origin of life. On top of that I learned that everything I was taught about magma convection was wrong so there that. Thank you again. You are awesome!

[@bzzimabee9595]

that iron snail thingy is so metal... transition goals

[@theperfectbotsteve4916]

everyone gangster untill there are flat ocean floorers in 2080

[@strangejuice4971]

I loved the video you made a new fan! Would love to see a video on brine pools if that sounds interesting to you!

[@LeoiCaangWan]

That's so cool, the mineral catalysts created by serpentinization continue to encourage chemical reactions between simple organic compounds at an accelerated rate eventually bubbling together early single-celled life... This was actually rather instructive to understand how one physical or chemical reaction leads to the next in a single step by step narrative. Just add enough time (like 3 billion years) and then you end up with complex life. This is also a another potential great filter as to why we don't see any advanced extra-terrestrial life; there is almost certainly single-celled life out there but the odds of multi-cellular life are so low in comparison because there are so many factors that need to be just right.

[@muhammadshais5546]

Video title and the thumbnail 😂😂❤, I just loved it

[@RanEdgar-ok3wk]

I’m so excited ❤❤❤❤

[@purplehaze2358]

Octopus Lady out here straight-up bullying geologists.