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Imagine the shock and sadness that the scientists felt when they saw that plastic bag.

No, I don't think I will

@Shuma Atiqunnassa you're right

@Chaos Incarnate insults are not criticism

@Amy Davies Because i want all non muslims to remember, the God , who create us and create the universe . I dont want you to go to hell after this life , Just ask yourself , why god created us ? What is the goal? Try to think and inshallah you get to the right way

@Obada Froukh well I gathered that… but why?

One thing you forgot to mention that's incredibly interesting is brine pools. Brine pools are literal lakes below the sea. They contain water with an extremly high salinity and actual have a distinct surface towards the ocean. Brine pools are so incredibly saline that most fish that enter them die almost immedietly. Except hagfish. Hagfish don't give a flying fuck about the salinity of the brine pool and use them as personal hiding spots. But the most interesting thing about brine pools is that each and every one of them has a unique composition and a unique fauna of microorganisms that exist only at that particular brine pool.

That's awesome

Hagfish just got even weirder for me

Never heard of these. Where did you hear about brine pools?

Are they denser than.watrt

Subnautica being accurate to real life

“At 330 meters, the pressure is high enough to get crushed” Subnautica players: “Those are rookie numbers”

Finally a Subnautica reference!

Minecraft players: I believe 384 is the limit

@Rene Städtler you craft fictional electrical tools, scan creatures, and there are alien sites and creature dossiers. Pretty sure it’s a SCIENCE fiction game

@Rene Städtler different planet different gravity different pressures

I still find it tragically hilarious that humanity makes it to the challenger deep, only to be greeted by a plastic bag.

@mega gatling peawhoever threw a bag in the ocean deserves to get beat.

i wonder, who threw that plastic bag in the ocean. shouldn't the person deserve a guiness world record for "first plastic bag to reach challenger deep"

is there no place we haven’t ruined?

Exactly. We really messed up this planet..

That is the saddest thing I've read today. Humanity is fucked let's be honest

While some kids were dreaming about exploring the unreached wanders of space, during my childhood, I was amazed by the fact that the depths of the ocean were not given as much interest. I always considered the ocean to be a space within Earth—vast, unexplored, so close—yet so far. The video I watched took me back to my childhood fantasies while providing some curious details about biology, in particular, the topic of evolution. It was a bewildering experience to contemplate how life on Earth was able to adjust to the harshest of conditions, such as those present at the bottom of the ocean. Evolution resulted in the creation of truly breathtaking creatures ready to survive in an unnormal environment that, at first glance, shouldn't be habitable at all. Interestingly enough, this chain of thoughts took me back to space and left me wondering—if life can exist in the depths of the ocean, why can't it exist in the vastness of space?

@Reece holy i did not think it that way

Well, it's very likely life does exist on other planets, even if potentially only microbial. But if you mean literally existing in the vacuum of space.. it's because space is extraordinarily hostile to any form of life. Even looking past the obvious issues of trying to survive a vacuum, there's no readily available energy either. Comparing the vastness of the ocean to the vastness of space is like comparing a single electron to a star, so traveling to find energy is unfeasible. Even the deepest spots in the ocean still have resources which can be converted to energy, but space has.. dust. And gas. And radiation. Those can't provide energy. We do have one theoretical form of life that could survive in the hearts of stars (look up PBS Space Time's video discussing life made out of cosmic strings and monopoles), but still nothing that could survive space itself.

@Christopher Carroll What did NASA see down there that they all of a sudden want to build space ships and get as far away from earth as possible 😮

Literally same bro

If we could capture a fight between a sperm whale and a giant squid it would legitimately be one of the coolest things to have ever been viewed in nature. I hope we can in my lifetime

Kurzgesagt could literally talk about the gum on the bottom of their shoes and it’d still be interesting as hell

They can talk about kool aid and how it’s delicious and get away with it

YES...THIS! ⏫

So true

To be honest, I like to eat the gum that has been stepped. A mystery or a Mental Problems, let’s find out!

Don't give them ideas

Shout out to the animator who uses Goldeen, Corsola, Qwilfish, Starmie, Finneon, and Lileep in the coastal water!

I get why Lugia would be down there.

LOL I didn't even notice 🤣🤣🤣

❤️❤️😘😍

​@Joseph Mel Baleyosthose are usual fishes

yessir

There is nothing to fear about what could hide down the abyss The pressure is so much massive that living beings have to be adapted on that level, if they go up or dragged on the surface they would explode from the insides

There is nothing in the Abyss It is perfectly safe in the Abyss But under no circumstances Shall you cause chaos in the Abyss For if a state of chaos happened in the Abyss The worm would notice.

@Florian .C giant squids do exist, but they still don’t go close to the surface for long, and any really big ones like “krakens” would be physically incapable of going anywhere near sea level

How about tales of giant quids... 😉 There are lots of proofs

Unless the things down there start making reverse submarines 💀 maybe ufos are them checking us out 😂

Like that poor blob fish :(

I don't know why but unexplored deep ocean is one of my favorite mysteries. As scary as it is, I want to explore it someday.

Lets all explore together!

Me too

Me too!

This is the one man qualified to carry on the legacy of David Attenborough. Edit: I meant the narrator in particular, the editing team is on a whole 'nother level too.

@Enabi Seira Attenborough After Dark

zefrank is also qualified (although the jokes aren't for all ages)

What?

@Potatoes and Ducks Yes, but he's talking about the narrator

Kurzgesagt is a team, not just 1 person

The little duck wearing a red beanie just like sea explorer Jacques Cousteau is one of the small details/Easter eggs that make the channel videos so enjoyable ❤️

@Zeta Wed Anderson said that the character Steve zissou was based on Jacques Cousteau😉

i personally thought of steve zissou

This whole channel is mind blowing to me. The art, the music, the narrative, the ambience. Everything is perfect. I get goosebumps every single time. Masterpieces, all of their videos.

Agree

Especially pokémon

Whati is the music when the go up from the deep sea

IKR I DO TOOOO...

The deep sea 🌊 in a nuke

Creatures: "chilling at the deepest part of the ocean" Plastic bag: Howdily dodily

No bag there

Creatures: Man, I love chilling at roughly 11 kilometers below the surface of the ocean! That one bag: Sup guys Scientists: bruh

@Hannah bears can I have some of that good shit

@Hannah bears what are u smoking? i want some

So what u at the moment you have to do a smiley thing. 🤢🤢🤢🤢🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🌀

This channel has helped me learn so much. What’s funny is that my friends think I just know this sorta stuff, and every time they say this I credit you guys. Y’all have some of the most interesting material

I love the oceans so much. I’ve always been a fan of highly extreme conditions as they foster such interesting life, things we could hardly imagine. People spend so much of their time speculating about alien life when little do they realize that it’s right on our planet, thousands of meters down.

just imagine someone in this world has the achievement of throwing a plastic bag in the deepest point of the surface

no bag there. never happened

@-SoultheFox- bruh chill tf out they were mimicking the FBI I am not surprised because of your pfp 🤦‍♂️

@F.B.I UR NOT THE FUCKIN FBI

@Ringwraith look up the kola borehole

@E didnt know that

4:07 Amazing that they included a Whale Fall (ecosystem phenomena) in the background just as a detail. A lot of people know next to nothing about that in the first place. Super cool.

@plenty ol' soup A whale fall is a dead whale in the bottom of the ocean.

@plenty ol' soup The final resting place of a whale can be a treasure trove for small marine animals, the decomposing mat and bones creates a cornucopia of sea snow. Search whale corpses in youtube and perhaps you will see what i mean.

I've never heard of it, what is it?

As a human biologist, I cannot emphasise enough how important the discovery of new organisms in the sea is. To give you an example, studies on the jellyfish Aequorea victoria has enabled us to isolate the green fluorescent protein (GFP), which, as the name suggests, exhibits bright green fluorescence. Today, we wildly fuse GFP with other proteins in order to make them visible and observe processes in cells. GFP is so wildly used today that its discovery has been awarded with the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (would love to make a video about the applications of this bright protein). Who knows what else we could find in the deep sea? Feel free to ask anything about that topic (or stem cells, since I am conducting research in this field)!

@Sciencerely What's your opinion or analysis of the progress in repairing damaged hearing, the infamous Tinnitus? Do you think stem cell research could have a role in this?

@Jimmy Mavros Great comments, you just made my day brighter!

@Lucio Yuen Sounds great! However, I am not an expert in Ecology and, therefore, cannot tell you if there are any legal restrictions in doing such investigations.

@J Sal Sounds like a fun experiment to me! This process is called transformation (the introduction of plasmids into bacteria). There are different ways to introduce plasmids into bacteria, but I guess that you used chemically-competent E. coli and a heat-shock method (this involves ice). This is often done in laboratories all over the world!

Paddy Lawn Theoretically, sure. We just need to find a way to integrate the gene encoding for GFP into the genome of the right cells and express it. Although this sounds easy in theory, however, it is very difficult (we would consider it as gene therapy if you want to read more)

I love the way you guys made that coral reef look. This is such awesome animation.

At such depths you can almost guarantee that each new dive will reveal new species. Great place to make a name for yourself.

As an aside, I want to study the volcanic features around the world (unlikely that will be able to do so), and some of the many places I am interested in are these "black smokers," as they are called, at mid-ocean ridges. Additionally, the trenches are key to volcanism, as they mark subduction boundaries for oceanic tectonic plates. I suppose the extremophiles would also be interesting to study, but I am more focused on the _inorganic_ side.

Dude this is one of your best videos ,the animation is top notch and topic is kinda different compared to your other videos. Overall 10000/10

I almost started crying when you mentioned the plastic bags at the deepest point in the ocean. I'm so sick of the transgressions of our species.

Something I’m surprised I don’t see more comments about is the amazing soundtrack you guys used, the music is so calm and soothing yet mysterious and vast.

They apparently compose all their music themselves

i know it but i just cannot remember to mention it

Just like the sea

I’m drunk and it’s making me so calm imma fall esleep

Thank you all for the kind words

Honestly, the song that plays at around 4:27 is so perfect. It really conveys the mysteriousness of the deep ocean, I know it's a little weird but it might be my favourite part of the video.

I like how this wasn’t structured like a science video but more like a story, while still teaching me about the deep

Kurzgesagt: "We owe it to ourselves and to our descendants to preserve oceans as well as we can" Also Kurzgesagt: "What If You Detonated a Nuclear Bomb In The Marianas Trench?"

HAHAHAHA

same

🤣🤣

I remember this one party when I was younger where my friend invited me and some other kids to come play some video games. Turned out, we were much more interested in watching your videos so we sat on the couch and like binged 10 episodes. Stay awesome ❤️

Cool video. As you mentioned plastic bags on the bottom of the deepest deep. I wonder if you could maybe talk about how we may go about cleaning all that plastic out again. Something that at least for me seems as an impossible task, unless we manage to create a micro organism or nano tech that can swarm the ocean and delitter it.

@Jurassics that could probably work, there's a possibility it coule stop working underwater but what's one robot matter, very easy to clean up, it also doesn't need functions to access weapons or attack anything so i don't see anyway it murders humanity lol

@Waltuh • 2.3b views • 3 seconds ago..... I agree. Not a good solution. And it would probably just end up inside all the living things in the ocean. How about slightly larger robots of some kind. Filtering out plastic and resurfacing for emptying. Underwater Wall-E

That would probably be too risky, could become a grey goo nanobot or something like that

Props to the animators who had to google what the deep sea fish looked like to animate them

I was thinking the same!

@Sky for most of the ppl, deep ocean and it's creatures are scary as hell

@Wonder Of U goldeen?

@Arnestashio And Ponyo's mother too.

@iamnotanorange nope. They have experts

I remember seeing the video about the Dumbo octopod, it's so freakin cute! I'm sure it's deadly but the ears it uses to navigate is so cute! It's in one of those underwater videos from scientists that uses a drone submarine. Just search about the Dumbo octopod, I'm sure it'll be the top video.

Props to the diver who survived going down 11,000m on the deep waters for our entertainment!

Thanks a lot! This is officially the most sensible video on deep-sea creatures.

I was always extremely interested in the Twilight Zone since a little kid, and by the life down there. It makes me want to go down there.

Re-watching this video makes me wonder, if we say it is possible, what would be the best way to put a deep sea base in the Hadal Zone or Challenger Deep

What’s crazy is that The Challenger Deep is probably not even the deepest point. It’s only the deepest point that we have discovered, and we’ve only explored 5% of all the oceans. So there’s gotta be a place that’s even deeper.

Maybe not

@Ryan Mahoney I appreciate it

@ghost2131 I know this is two years late but that profile pic is just 😏

We mapped the entire ocean :(

Great content! Thank you for continuing giving us such quality videos.

Kurzgesagt: The deep sea, let's dive down! Cthulhu: NO, GOD PLEASE, NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

@Gooze Oh my god, are you even serious? God damn it...

@Idk the name of this tree it is evolved into Another Great Old One but much much stronger than any other

@Gooze [in an american accent in a japanese accent] OH MY GODD!

@Gooze God damn it

Don't use God's name in vain please :(

I hope you aren't overworking yourselves guys. thank you so much for everything, take your time

Anybody else get anxiety while watching this? I am equal parts fascinated and horrified by the open ocean. When i go to the beach i always force myself to swim out the the point of almost having a panic attack and then let myself float. I have yet to conquer my fear response to this great unknown. I wish to take a trip in a deep sea sub even though I would likely vomit. I cant tell if I'm afraid of the deep ocean itself or just the unknown or if it is something else entirely. I have done many thing on land other would say is insane and life threatening and had not an ounce of fear which leads me to believe it is not a simple fear of death... Hmm. God bless you all. Have a great day!

when I get panic attacks, the deep sea is my safe space 🥰. I imagine a narrow trench with caves and such along the side of it and a beautiful long haired man who talks with me about all sorts of things. the pressure is like a soothing weighted blanket in my safe space - nothing like it would be in real life haha

Just imagine if this guys did a film, or a documentary, it would be wonderful

Stanislav Kotzev Because the second Blue Planet season is on the oceans and it’s related to the video.

James Cameron already did; 2005's 'Aliens of the Deep.'

*I worked my as/s off to create an animation about Chernobyl. Please, help me to get a feedback! I would really appreciate it. Thank you *

Well these are all documentaries of a sorts, but I agree

This is both of them, tho? What are you even on about?

“Sometimes the world feels..boring” -Kurzgesagt, circa 2019 Dammit guys look what you did..

As someone with Thalassophobia, this felt almost like a horror movie rather than a documentary, still a great video.

i love the music used. sets the ambiance really well. also damn props to the animators for making that bioluminescence!

it breaks my heart knowing that even in the deepest sea the plastic bag are still there😔

Very informative and well done. But the "cars on top of you" (or eventually the elephants) is misleading, as the pressure is isostatic, i.e. not just "on top of you," but coming at you from all possible directions. And since your body is largely incompressible (like the water around you there), you might be able to swim. If you don't try to breathe, I guess. There is a world of complications with that of course. (Even if you breathe compressed gas, as they do up to 300 m deep, it will still lead to all kinds of complications. A kilobar is hard to deal with when you have lungs.)

Imagine swimming above the Mariana Trench, and knowing what’s below you

I don't think I will imaging this, thanks

@Dynesius oh wow a Northern Mariner, didn’t think we had many of those on YouTube, what’s it like there?

you'd drown before you even got to a decent depth

Big worms that hug you

The fearsome plastic bag

i love how midnight zone is like the wild pvp where everyone has an optimized build

Very interesting video. What especially struck my attention was the fact that plastic bags were found at the bottom of the deepest place on Earth. I think it is especially important to start concentrating on finding ways to clean all that plastic. Nonetheless, such issue currently appears to be an insurmountable challenge, barring the development of a microbe or nanotechnology that can swarm the ocean and clean it. The video made me feel anxious about the future of the ocean and all marine animals inhabitating the water depths of the planet.

If I could, I'd genuinely prefer to just explore the midnight zone for a long time, so dark and peaceful

I recommend googling that sea creature they mentioned, siphonophores. It was hard to figure out the spelling but there are some awesome photos online of the real creature.

I like how you made the frilled shark look slightly intimidating

Pokémon?

This might be one of Kurzgesagt´s best videos yet. Mainly because they let the audience be a part of this journey. They always say something like "WE have arrived our destination". They also show certain parts of the video from inside the submarine, which really feels like that I´m sitting inside, if I´m in fullscreen mode! It´s like I´m part of this adventure. Its awesome! Please, please do this more often!

that's what he just said

Yes, he's using collective nouns ie "We, us" to make the viewer feel involved. In this case it's a journey.

Agree

We were born too late to explore Earth's land, and too early to explore space, but at just the right time to explore the depths of the abyssal oceans.

I love what you do and hope you continue doing what you’re doing love your videos (:

I want to be marine biologist when I grow up so this was super fun and interesting to watch

Think about this: the deepest part of the ocean is the same distance from mean sea level that commercial aircraft cruise at above the earth (on average, 36,000ft)

It's pretty cool how light and sound swaps roles in the twilight zone

Kurzgesagt - One of the few channels with such a high quality that I'd prefer quantity rather than improvements

@Jacob 1 true

Yeah but quantity = lower quality or shorter videos

Antarctic still holds some mystery and needs exploring. But the sea is definitely wide open and very interesting.

That's just.. disgusting, to know even in places that we barely know, there's already pollution from us. Sadly, even if every person on the planet knew that, it wouldn't change a thing, they'd keep doing the same things they already do, and just make it worse, hell, some people would even see it as a "challenge" to make it even worse.

Humanity : *literally goes to the deepest point in the ocean* Pollution : you couldn't live with your own failure, where did that bring you ? Back to me

For centuries the bottom of the the deepest seas have been shrouded in mysterious and superstition, Some says it’s a hostile place inhabited by the strangest creatures, Others that it’s a prison for the most dangerous outcasts, Legend has it that the only hope of ever getting out of there is a mask that every deep-sea creature has been craving for years, A mask they say everyone is prepare to fight for and risk their life to possess, But the only way of ever finding out is to go there and see for yourself.

I love all the mons you guys have hidden throughout your videos. Excellent touch

Do you ever feel, like a plastic bag, drifting through the *M A R I A N A T R E N C H*

Don't mock anyone yo, have kindness

You must not

No such thing. Period

I don’t understand how the hell a plastic bag ended that deep into the ocean.

ah just something that happens in day-to-day life, completely normal thing

“Detecting multiple leviathan-class lifeforms in this area. Are you sure whatever you’re doing is worth it?”

@rockstar 5934 funnily enough it is

Looking back on this, I find it hilarious that I even had to look up the quote

There it is

@Lavender Tears I know right.

@rockstar 5934 nice to see a copied comment.

Duck: Gets to midnight zone Reaper leviathan: wanna hug?

@coolcow 5 yes even in the void

Duck: *goes deeper* Ghost leviathan: GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!!! >:(

_Insert a roar and rapid beeping here_

Subnautica fan

I lost my shit when sea dragon leviathan started breathing out fire under water

i'm digging the graphical styling and elements in this presentation - great information as well

Hey I can notice just by the animation that this video is... well not even 2 years old, but you can easily tell it's gotten so much better. Pretty cool.

The world is never boring when kurzgesagt is around.

you guys out did yourselves on the animation this time around.

I feel like it gets a lot better with every video

@Rodi Doesburg lilleep!!!

I looked on how they made the animation this impressive.This is one of my favorites.

Very true

They always do. Thats why i Iove this channel. The commentary and animations is amazing

Question: if you ever possibly could get to the bottom of the challenger deep and hang onto something and then let go, how fast would you fly back up to the surface?

I think you got instantly crushed

The animation on this one is so damn good I actually feel bad for not having to pay to watch

I like that they animate the pollution in the water. No matter what the video is about, if they show water, you’ll be able to spot a little bit of trash. One of the scenes in this one had a literal keyboard underwater, lmao

outstanding animation as usual, i got the extra shudders from this since i just started playing Subnautica too 🤣 the cultural references were [chefs kiss] too :L

I like the Pokémon references in the Coral reef bit. Great job Kurzgesagt!

Imagine if Kurzgesagt did an hour long documentary-- I'd listen to his voice for hours lol (I've been notified that the voice behind Kurzgesagt is Steve Tylor.)

All I can imagine is how u would drool for an hour long without learning new.

@Square Root why it was a cool vid

"...help your landlady carry out her garbage..."

Bruh, that would be a dream come true!

please actually do this kurzgesagt

Thanks so much for all your videos. It's like reading a ton of books. Very well explained. Very well researched. It makes me praise God even more and strengthens my faith further.

On one hand it would be mighty interesting to come along with some scientists to the deepest parts of the ocean, but on the other I'd also feel pretty uncomfortable going down there inside a metal box. Especially after I've heard an unsettling story. In short, an oilrig decided to send down a thermal camera along with a normal because they saw teeth marks on the camera's !STEEL! pole. On the thermal camera they could see something that looked a lot like a mosasaur.

I want to become an astronaut someday, though one of my biggest fears is the ocean. The other is heights, ironically enough.

God damn it would be scary AF to go so deep in the ocean. Imagine you're in one of those pods and as you're descending, you literally see a giant squid outside the front window. That would be terrifying, god damn

The deeper you go the harder is to survive. Is like if a series of very bad things happened to make life so deep safer that near the surface...

I wish there were more movies set in the deep sea. It's such a cool setting with so much potential.

Deep star six, Leviathan.

Try subnautica. Very terrifying and fun video game.

not a movie, but there's a game called "Narcosis" (if i can remember) that's set in the deep sea. Basically the plot is your submarine crashed, everyone is dead or missing, and you have to get back to the surface alone. But i think it was more of a psychological horror. I loved that game for the plot, but the deep sea creatures were kind of repetitive.

i think it's better off without them .. them corporate people will start making machines and what not to exploit these regions as well to make them tourist spots

The second Avatar movie coming out next year is meant to be set primarily underwater

There’s something creepy about thinking that right now as I sit on break at work, there is the bottom of the ocean, it’s dark, cold, dead silent and so far down it’s hard to comprehend, something about that is just eerie.

I'm curious how the creatures there survived against that huge pressure that can deform an iron bar.

I heard once that the ocean has been explored only in 3% and we now know many things about dark holes, worm holes, machines in Mars and all that space stuff. What did they find in the deep ocean that stopped them from searching?

it's moreso a lack of anything that stops people from searching. the ocean is absolutely massive, but contains only 2 percent of biomass and is mostly empty beyond a certain point. in fact, it's just mostly empty.

From designer babies, to viruses to the deep sea, and beyond keep them coming 👌🏼

as a fan of hte octonauts, i feel like the deep sea is underrated. it's basically space, but you arrive on a dangerous place with many monster-like creatures.

Imagine preparing for years to be part of a biologist team wanting to discover what's in the deepest point of the ocean only to find a plastic bag chillin' down there

They are like "what is that? A new species!!! It has a weird body and moves really weird it has to be a new species. Lets get in more deep to get a better look , zooms in , woowoooowowoow its just a plastic bag!!!!!".

realistic

If you pay attention at 0:50, you can see that they have accurately shown 90% at the surface and 10% at the bottom. They have taken 90/100 as 18/20. You can see 18 fish at the surface of the water and 2 at the bottom...

These videos are the closest I'll ever get to going to space or the bottom of the sea

I had goosebumps the whole video, I'm terrified of the sea and this was so hard to watch even with the cute animation 😵‍💫

Challenge: play subnautica

Going to space seems like so optimistic compared diving to the deep ocean

*Mariana Trench:* You can't defeat me. *Living creatures:* I can't, but he can. *Plastic has entered the chat*

the effort that gets put into these videos never ceases to amaze me.

Some of the best content creation I’ve seen in my life ❤️

Wow, that’s actually really sad, that the bottom of the ocean holds the rarest specimens living in insane conditions and right there as well….. a plastic bag.