Ancient brain, fractals are everywhere, the lost first underwater film || EXPERIMENTALS: Nautiluses
This is a story on the theme of nautiluses: A chambered nautilus never forgets. Nature's math equation. And finding Captain Nemo…
What do you see when you picture a nautilus? On the surface, it's a beautifully strange shelled cephalopod. But look closer... Our story starts with Act 1, an ode to the nautilus' 500 million year old brain, nose, and its tentacle like cirri. Because the nautilus doesn't need to see. After all, it experiences the world by smelling and feeling it. Act 2 looks inside the nautilus' shell and finds the cephalopod has something in common with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and disease research. Finally, in Act 3, Captain Nemo's Nautilus ship leads to Popular Science's true blue discovery of the lost first underwater film. It's a story too strange and horrifying to be fiction (and, yes, it involves a horse and a shark).
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[00:10] Act. 1 - Floating in the ocean for over 500 million years, nautiluses have survived five mass extinctions thanks in large part to a big and complex brain that smells and feels better than it can see. That's why Dr. Jennifer Basil, an evolutionary biologist at Brooklyn College, has rethought how humans perceive intelligence. Because with the nautilus, looks can be deceiving.
[02:30] Act. 2 - Depending on how you look at it, the nautilus' shell is either an ever increasing or decreasing chambered spiral. The twisting walls along this curve make what's known as a fractal pattern. And that pattern is a kind of equation occurring all around us in nature. So what's a fractal and what does it have to do with romanesco broccoli, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, peacocks, and predicting diseases?
[04:21] Act. 3 - The Nautilus is also the fantastical submarine in Jules Verne's 1870's classic, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Almost a half century later in 1916, the book's silent film adaptation marked the first time the world saw below the ocean's surface in motion pictures... But, actually, it was the second time. The first movie filmed underwater has been lost in obscurity for decades... until now that is. Popular Science recently uncovered this forgotten footage and found a story too strange and horrifying to be fiction.
To learn more about the nautilus (ancient marine mollusc and metaphor magnet) go to www.popsci.com.
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Video by Tom McNamara
Act 1. "A Chambered Nautilus Never Forgets"
Interview with Dr. Jennifer Basil, Professor and Chair, Biology Department, City University of NY, Brooklyn College
Featuring the Brooklyn chambered nautiluses
Act 2. "Nature's Math Equation"
Narrated by Eleanor Cummins
Act 3. "Finding Captain Nemo"
Narrated by Kevin Gray
Williamson footage provided by the Collection EYE Filmmuseum, the Netherlands
-"Thirty Leagues Under the Sea" or "The Terrors of the Deep" (1914) by J.E. Williamson
-"Wonders of the Sea" (1922) by J.E. Williamson
"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" (1916) by Stuart Paton
"Twenty Years Under the Sea" (1936) by J.E. Williamson
Music
APM
Additional media
Jacopo Werther ("Romanesco broccoli," Wikimedia)
Pat Leahy ("Ferns," Flickr)
Egor Kamelev ("Snowflake," Pexels)
Murray Foubister ("Bolivias' Salar de Uyuni," Flickr)
NASA
Pond5
Burns Library, Boston College ("3D glasses," Flickr)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - Paramount Pictures, 1982
The Information Machine - IBM/Charles and Ray Eames, 1958
-Alan Chan, Jack A. Tuszynski - R. Soc. open sci. (Image of a 40× slide of ductal carcinoma, after binarization and edge detection)
Prelinger Archive
Media History Digital Library
"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: A Tour of the Underwater World" (1870) by Jules Verne
Acknowledgements
Erin Chapman
EYE Filmmuseum
Elif Rongen, EYE Filmmuseum
Leenke Ripmeester, EYE Filmmuseum
Biology Department, City University of New York, Brooklyn College
Naomi Lewandowski, City University of New York, Brooklyn College
Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress
Josie Walters-Johnston, Reference Librarian, Moving Image Research Center, Library of Congress
Brian Taves, Ph.D., Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (retired)
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See some amazing nautilus camera trap footage in a video from the team at the American Museum of Natural History kzread.info/dash/bejne/gICazZiOYMjPdqg.html #cephalopodweek
I'd never heard about that underwater camera, it's really impressive. It's a a shame they killed a shark for no reason, but that with the footage of coral and fish must have been amazing to see for the first time!
@memeboi6017
4 жыл бұрын
they killed 2 sharks actualy
This video is all over the place.
@sirleto
3 жыл бұрын
i came to watch nautilus, there is another video, thats the first 2:37 of this video, its called part 1. it even links to this video. this video starts with the same 2:37, then does a quick 180° turn and shows something completely else. what the heck? what happened here, why is nobody discussing that this video is like a car race documentary that suddenly turns into fast helicopter rescue documentary - but it never again shows cars. WHAT?
The first motion picture documentary of life in the depths of the ocean, and what do they film? A dead, upside down horse used to attract a shark so that they can stab it and then watch "the dead monster" drift away into the abyss.
I wonder if the nautilus will run away from its ancient predators it was evolved to escape from, but are now extinct. Show it pictures of mosasaurs and stuff
@itsohaya4096
3 жыл бұрын
They rely more on scent so it'd be a better response if we could replicate the scent of the predators. But that's pretty difficult to do
Why does not it has more views
This reminds me of the first episode of the docu-series "The Code".
@popularscience
6 жыл бұрын
Cool! Thanks - we'll check it out.
I have the shell of a Nautilus on my shelf, indeed, I'm looking at it right now. Here's the thing: Not only is it an exceptionally beautiful leftover from an exceptionally beautiful animal, it also happened to be signed by none other than Richard Dawkins.
@vinnielalumia
Жыл бұрын
Pretty messed up for u to contribute to its extinction. They are a threatened species because people like collecting their shells
@generalerica4123
Жыл бұрын
@@vinnielalumia I found it on a beach...
Hi
@popularscience
6 жыл бұрын
Hello!
How long do her nautiluses stay alive in captivity before dying?
@popularscience
6 жыл бұрын
In the wild they can live for 20 years (maybe even more). In captivity, they live for a little less than half of that time. But they are always stimulated, treated with respect, and fed well. In fact, Dr. Basil said that lab says thank you to the little critters everyday (maybe they can't understand it, but the care and attention is certainly felt).
@JohnDoe-tx8lq
6 жыл бұрын
Popular Science it would have been worth saying this in the film, I think the vast majority of people interested enough to watch would be thinking the same thing: It's an intelligent animal yet is kept in a tiny, empty environment. But i guess in a short film, you can't include everything. :)
@popularscience
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the comment! You're right, sometimes you can't fit every bit of information in a video. For more on Dr. Basil's nautilus lab, watch this excellent Science Friday video from a few years back- kzread.info/dash/bejne/gn2cx7SSk9Cco6w.html
@JohnDoe-tx8lq
6 жыл бұрын
I've only just 'discovered' this channel and love it... I have a lot of videos to catch up on! :D