Maya's Mini Episode #17
Added 2023-07-27 19:00:02 +0000 UTCMaya takes us on an animal adventure! This weeks animal is the oarfish!
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there are some really cool VR experiences to go explore the deep sea. one i really like that is more story based is called biolum it's sold on steam for like $5. i highly recommend it!
Dindonmasker
2024-03-06 15:33:14 +0000 UTCI have always loooved learning about the deep!
Limelight
2023-08-07 23:02:11 +0000 UTCthis just convinced me mermaids are definitely real
Bailey
2023-08-03 03:43:03 +0000 UTCMy favourite episode so far! The ocean is fascinating
Katariina
2023-08-01 06:26:27 +0000 UTCI only know about oarfish because of animal crossing
bakedLaska
2023-07-31 19:42:17 +0000 UTCYeah I was gonna say, that fishing pole in AC must be long if it can catch one of these lol
Shinyeevee
2023-07-28 22:21:45 +0000 UTCThere could be a whole civilization of water people down there that think we're crazy because we breathe poisonous air!
Darren Hertenstein
2023-07-28 21:33:44 +0000 UTCGiant Squids are pretty wild too. Another great episode, the bonus Mushroom content was nice 😊
Mitch Mitcherson
2023-07-28 21:04:42 +0000 UTCI first learned about them from animal crossing and I've been obsessed ever since
Ash
2023-07-28 17:25:47 +0000 UTCThe only reason I know about oarfish is because of a tapping video game that explored ocean life. The fact that there have been TWO encounters with oarfish in the past month has made a few scientists concerned about the state of the oceans.
Shirley Grace
2023-07-28 14:41:32 +0000 UTCDo you know why they are called doomsday fish? I read few articles about it and people making out its a bad omen or something haha.
Simon Hanson
2023-07-28 04:37:04 +0000 UTCloved the ocean facts
melmo
2023-07-28 03:12:17 +0000 UTCThe ocean is incredible and terrifying I’d love to learn more
Jack Grimm
2023-07-27 23:35:32 +0000 UTCalso, this is pretty wild and could be a fun episode if there's enough to talk about here-- scientists just revived a worm that was frozen in Siberia for 46,000 years and it started reproducing. maybe not enough on this specific worm for a whole episode but it could be a good educational piece on permafrost thawing and on the one hand releasing methane and on the other hand also thawing random ancient organisms and viruses that might revive. https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/07/27/nematode-revived-siberian-permafrost/
Rasmus
2023-07-27 23:35:10 +0000 UTCSo I was curious to find out what "we've only explored 10% of the oceans" means. Like, what is the definition of "exploring" here? Turns out, we have mapped all of the oceans using satellites, but they have a very poor resolution of about 3 miles or so, so anything smaller than three miles can't be seen on that. It's good for mapping out those massive geographic features like underwater mountains Maya talked about, and it means we can be pretty sure that the Mariana Trench is the deepest point in the ocean (because otherwise it'd need to be, like, a small super deep hole in the ocean floor which would be weird). But we have only mapped about 20-25% of the oceans with sonar imagery which has a better resolution of 100 meters or less. (It was 10% only about a decade ago, we are making good progress on this). People are hoping to have mapped out the ocean floor fully by 2030 at this resolution. By comparison, we have had 100m resolution maps of Mars and Venus for a long time and we have maps of the moon at a resolution of 7m. But all of that would only get us a decent understanding of the ocean floor geologically, and maybe help find ship wrecks and such. In terms of exploring deep ocean life, it's actually much less than that-- that's really limited to the occasional submersible deep dive. Imagine trying to get a handle on what surface sealife is like from having gone scuba diving like 50 times across the globe.
Rasmus
2023-07-27 23:30:08 +0000 UTCIm down for calling Oarfish sea serpents, I get it honestly
Dakota Sanders
2023-07-27 21:33:20 +0000 UTCCrazy that we know so little about the Ocean
Akumu2100
2023-07-27 21:08:49 +0000 UTCMUSHROOM, also super excited for the marine arc
Snacboi
2023-07-27 20:40:00 +0000 UTCOcean Pog crazy to think about how far we went into space but only made it about 10 km deep into the sea.
soloPFL
2023-07-27 20:13:52 +0000 UTCWait that's crazy that I've neeeever heard of these before? Like finding Nemo hellooooo why wasnt this in it?? This is sick
Ochain224
2023-07-27 19:04:24 +0000 UTCwowie
AxialMars
2023-07-27 19:00:08 +0000 UTC
