SciShow - 2019-12-16
Antarctica wasn't always covered in kilometer thick ice sheets, in fact, scientists have spent years figuring out what turned this once lush continent into its current icy state. Thanks to Brilliant for supporting this episode of SciShow. Go to https://Brilliant.org/SciShow to grab a gift subscription to help your loved one spark a lifelong love of learning. Hosted by: Olivia Gordon SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Carpentier, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg , Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr.Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http:www.antarcticglaciers.organtarctica-2antarctica https:pubs.geoscienceworld.orggsageologyarticle362191130053descent-into-the-icehouse http:citeseerx.ist.psu.eduviewdocdownload?doi=10.1.1.941.3953&rep=rep1&type=pdf https:voluminajurassica.orgapifilesview890382.pdf https:link.springer.comarticle10.1007s11434-015-0973-y https:www.sciencedirect.comsciencearticlepiiS0012821X13002185?via%3Dihub#bib37 https:www.sciencedirect.comsciencearticlepiiS0921818115000570?via%3Dihub https:oceancurrents.rsmas.miami.edusouthernantarctic-cp.html https:science.sciencemag.orgcontent352628134 https:www.nature.comarticlessrep36169 https:www.nature.comarticlesnature08024?proof=true&platform=oscar&draft=collection
So Antarctica is isolated cool and dark
The emo continent
This comment was definitely made by someones dad
Herbert Miller the oil continent
Can you imagine the fossils under that ice sheet?
And all the ancient MEGA diseases .......
No, because sadly they were probably destroyed by the ice
@Noriel Sylvire I think they means the land under the ice like in Antarctica as things will have less access to it especially since there used to be tons of life there
@Ferrets united against soul twisters I know. What I mean is, if I'm not mistaken, ice moves over the land and destroys it, slowly but steadily, at least that's what happens underneath glaciers. So I'm pretty sure a big chunk of the fossil record from antarctica was destroyed by the ice sheets slowly drifting towards shore, and dragging rocks along to erode the surface
Can you imagine the artifacts?
"The Big Chill"
in my head: Like the big bang, but with way more pot
Lmao! Thank you.
LOL
Or like the Big Bang but funny
but in my head, I was picturing big chill from ben 10
And way less semen...
How Antarctica Froze Over
Family Guy weatherman: IT GOT COLD
Thanks Ollie Williams
Wouldn’t you like to know weather boy
"And lots of organisms lived there, before it was 'cool'." ( ¬_ლ)
@That Man call me troll x.
+ĶĮŁĽŔ-X / X-ÇŁÅŇ; Ok, Troll X. I once again leave you to your studies.
@That Man but thanks tho. My class ends in 10 mins
Haha I was looking for this 😂
@james yeung spoken with the wisdom of Solomon lol
30 years later on this channel.
How Antarctica melted
Close to 500 years. It's a lot of ice.
@David Kelly And it's melting quite fast.
@Dieter Gaudlitz not THAT fast. Temps needed for that and we'd already be dead.
Titanic: 1 Humanity: melts all the icebergs
take that?
Man. Climate change looooves its positive feedback loops.
"[...] and lot's of organisms lived there, before it was cool." 🤣
badum tss
+
Damn Hipster organisms!
Cool to imagine what Antarctica would be like today if it wasn’t frozen somehow (what countries would own it, what kind of people/exotic animals would live there, etc.)
soon we will find out
There's a thread on alternate history dot net called Green Antarctica by DValdron that covers this exact topic in detail. You need an account to read it, but you don't have to pay or anything.
@William Koch You can find it on Google Drive too. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lLnX36YVSCsq-TjqeNErG9lS7jMITHDKXfufM9Vw3DY/edit
@Azael Burr Yeah, I could have. I was just about to go to bed so I figured I'd ask in case they had it on hand. I'm aware that I was and that I am being lazy, so I'm going to save you the trouble of roasting me over it by doing it myself: I'm lazy, super lazy, so lazy that I asked someone else to find the link for me instead of typing it into the search bar myself. I also spent more time writing out this reply than I did in just attempting to find it myself last night. Turns out that yes, all I needed to do was type stuff into the search bar and I'd find it. All my laziness rewarded me with was someone else asking me if I couldn't have just done it myself. But I suppose that I wasn't lazy in my writing this reply because I took the initiative to scold myself for you. Maybe there's hope for me.
Have I learned my lesson well enough to not ask other people in YouTube comments for video links ever again? No, I will probably do it again, because I'm lazy and suck at searching for things even though I was an English major and it was literally part of my degree, so I just shut down and ask other people for it without thinking because all my degree taught me was how to be neurotic about searching for things and how to provide over the top long winded replies to something when all I could have said was "ye". Or "yeah, homie."
I'm lazy. So lazy, yet so willing to put effort into extremely specific things, and no I haven't learned my lesson. I'm sorry to have disappointed you like this. I can only hope that my preemptive roasting will have saved you the need to scold me more, because unfortunately, even if you're really nice or really mean about it, I'm definitely going to do it again. And I am sorry, as much as a person who is aware that they're still going to commit sin again can be sorry. There's regret. But not enough regret to make me not do it again.
Now if you did actually read to the end of this, thank you for taking the time to read this. This is the part where I tell you that my reply was partially written out of spite, because I was hoping to waste your time by making you read an unnecessarily long message. The earlier apology was like, kind of sincere though. Hopefully you at least a little bit enjoyed me being playfully malicious. 🤪
They would rule us all
Just imagine what mysteries could be hidden under that 2000 meter thick ice shield.
An alien spaceship...
Or at least a bunch of new fossils.
A strip of paper with Obama’s last name
We are about to find out. If we make it that long as a species
@BingBong Hafu Obama IS his last name. WTF?
Someone else do it
2:37
"Referred to as The Big Chill"
Ben 10 Alien Force Intensifies
05:14 albedo XXD same thing
And albedo at 5:14 as well lol
lol Literally just commented that XD
Fellow dasher
I really wanna know what organisms lived in Antarctica between 65-14 million years ago
I really want to know. Considering the last forests of southern beech trees and conifers disappeared as little as FOUR million years ago. A modern, mostly marsupial and bird polar fauna entirely seperate and distinct from our present arctic fauna? This is the forbidden knowledge we must acquire
That was very interesting and explained nicely. Well done, Olivia.
A hipster joke? Really? It was one of the better ones I've ever seen someone pull, but still.
That sponsorship tie-in was the smoothest I have ever seen.
“Before it was cool” Ha! Love it!
Imagine all the life forms there struggling to survive the cooling. The trees, animals etc freezing over slowly but safety.
It's a really chill topic to approach
Aahh, there it is, the soothing cool aid.. all due to CO2 tyty
Glad she's "pierced" the subject. She "nose" what she's talking about. Her analysis "rings" true.
They look Sh!t
5:55 I didn't know SciShow was so anti-cryonics...
"...before it was cool."
Heh.
1:07 the more things change the more they stay the same: even millions of years ago China and America were in their own little worlds, with America only loosely connected to everyone else and China completely disconnected form the rest of the world.
3:30 first ever plankton footage I saw. Thanks!
"before it was cool" 😏
1:00 i thought the tail was the head and i thought it had 4 legs
OMG, very interesting. We learn all our life...THANKS!
Well.... When it melts i hope we will find Stargate Atlantis <3 !!!
It wanted to go South for the winter, and overdid it. (It was weak on geography.)
"Before it was cool" Nice
There's an interesting suggestion that the Earth's mantle slipped at one point. This supposed slip may have also caused the flash-freezing in Sibera (explaining the frozen mammoths found there).
The Big Chill sounds like a good name for my new alternative rock band/cult
'The Big Chill', also known as The Age of Netflix, nowadays.
Make Antarctica Great Again, bring on the global warming!
Makes me wonder what kind of fossils are under those layers of ice. Since no large animals got the chance to live there since the dinosaurs.
I aspire to be as smooth as Olivia's transition to talk about sponsors.
Wait, so perhaps the reverse is also true. If the ice melts then even more ice could melt.
Naa, that would never happen.
Oops, your antarctic circumpolar current is going backwards 😬 (I study Antarctica in grad school)
Lol...I studied meteorology and climatology and was thinking the same thing.
I think you didn't realize that we were looking at it in a mirror.
Jk
Can yall do a show on the concept of "black dont crack" please? As in the reason African-American seem to have more elasticity in skin giving the appearance of being younger? Just curious about this as an African-American myself. I imagine it is either a myth or that there is some scientific reasoning for it that may have to do skin melanin and sun exposure.
Yes, this ice is made of ice
Hint: It's cold
Antarctic organisms - the original hipsters. xD
So what I'm hearing is take plastic garbage and find a great pit to put it in some place and do a carbon sink. Where's my million dollars?
>The big chill
Bruh the internet has gone too far.
I wonder if there could be a way to use plankton to help us with excess co2 today
Could've put a ring in the other side of your nose too....coz they look so good O.o
Think we’re heading to a greenhouse planet pretty soon
I have a different hypothesis, but who am I to judge...
i look forward to humans finding out whats under antartica when all the ice melts :P
It will take a while. Not millions of years, but even with the current rate of warming the majority of Antarctica is going to remain covered in ice for some time. Well, I'm already too old either way (but yes, it would be interesting to see what's covered by all the ice – but chances are that it is crushed and ground so badly that we can't make anything out of it ;-)).
SciShow - 2019-12-16
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Silentspeaker3 - 2019-12-16
BIB37?
YetAnotherMartian - 2019-12-17
#bib37 !!!
eSKAone - 2019-12-17
I like the speed she talks in this video, so chill. Makes her voice much more pleasant.
mrjaz666 - 2019-12-18
3:30 - So cave formations like stalactites and stalagmites are the result of natural CO2 scrubbing? That's pretty cool :)