The Hidden World of Subglacial Lakes
The world is not out of mysterious frontiers yet. Hidden underneath the earth's poles lies the untouched ecosystem of subglacial lakes, an environment as mysterious as the bottom of the ocean or outer space.
Oh, by the way, that picture I use in this video of the inside of a subglacial lake is not actually a subglacial lake. Tricked Ya!
Wikipedia Articles for the topics if you want to learn more about them:
Subglacial lake: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subglac...
Lake Vostok: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Vo...
Lake Whillans: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wh...
Sources Used:
www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/abs...
astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/an...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27833...
www.frontiersin.org/articles/...
icedrill.org/sites/default/fi...
www.researchgate.net/publicat...
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Note: All videos should presumably fall under fair use, as not only is a small fraction of the video used, but my video and the means I use these videos falls under education.
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Peter Kropotkin was known for a great many things, least of all this! Do some research before saying things that are not true.
@TheBudgetMuseum
2 жыл бұрын
so sorry sir will try harder next time
@moomin2162
2 жыл бұрын
@Mike Roy I can't tell if you are trolling haha :D
@fooob4685
2 жыл бұрын
Real comment
@Drakoak
2 жыл бұрын
R/wooosh
@xavierlehew6746
2 жыл бұрын
Hope you can overcome being mentally challenged Mike Roy.
“Kropotkin, a guy known for this and nothing else”. It’s a shame that so many people will miss this joke. I had no idea that he was a scientist other than one of the most important anarchists in history
@VacuumFridge
2 жыл бұрын
I at least knew that he was into zoology and evolutionary biology but had no idea he theorized about subglacial lakes. Really interesting guy with a wide range.
@dubiusindex8216
2 жыл бұрын
Bread Santa gets more interesting the more you know about him
@craigstephenson7676
2 жыл бұрын
This is still the most surprising fact in this video
@MasterMet
2 жыл бұрын
Kropotkin is shit and evangelion rebuild is good 🥱
@serse8455
2 жыл бұрын
he made me google him lol
Yeah, one time me and my older brother were fishing by a big glacier, and all of the sudden we go sucked under one. You won’t believe what was inside; this bald kid and a giant flying bison. He has a lot to learn, but I believe he can save the world
@freshfufrostbolt962
2 жыл бұрын
Huh
@Ne-u333
2 жыл бұрын
@@freshfufrostbolt962 avatar reference
@gd5639
2 жыл бұрын
underrated comment
@Virgilwontargue
2 жыл бұрын
Damn your lucky you didn’t get hurt bub
@ItsAsparageese
2 жыл бұрын
That's rough, buddy
Jokulhaups is also a Magic The Gathering card, originally from the set Ice Age. I've known the word for nearly 25 years, but never actually knew what it meant. So, thank you.
@Omnimalevolent1
2 жыл бұрын
Honestly one of the best destruction spells that existed during the first 20 or so years of Magic. Not to mention the art was baller.
@juliandedicatoria3728
2 жыл бұрын
That card busted my balls in my edh table because my friend would place it in his Maelstrom Wander deck. Since cascade is a cast trigger, all of our board would be gone and there's a 8/5 staring me down.
@BrazayB
2 жыл бұрын
Does that mean nezahal exists too?
@Purplemasx
2 жыл бұрын
Good to see other MTG players exist still
@squid8520
2 жыл бұрын
Was just thinking the same thing. Nasty card..
this is the last video i thought Kropotkin would be mentioned in
As an icelandic person, the word Jökulhlaup comes from us and it usually refers to when the sun or volcano underneath melts enough of the ice for it to cause a kind of explosive flood/avalanche that often decoys bridges and roads. It can sweep people up and drowns and cush them. I've never heard it refer to these glacial lakes like this exploding, I guess it's accurate but the image in my mind just doesn't fit- I'd like to see how it looks when it happens.
@aaromarkkusaunala
2 жыл бұрын
As a finn I instantly recognized icelandic languege. I also propably knew the word at some point since I have been in Iceland countless times (before pandemic) and also knew quite a bit about the land of ice and fire.
@melissaattaway7426
2 жыл бұрын
What you just described sounds like the ice worm on subnautica below zero. Crazy shit buddy.
@chwig7354
2 жыл бұрын
Is mentioning your race necessary?
@melissaattaway7426
2 жыл бұрын
@@chwig7354 speaking for them, yea. I mean it wasn’t race they were speaking of, it was nationality. But in this context, letting it be known that you recognize the language would be better understood and elucidated by giving a reason as to why you recognize the language. Aka, their nationality. As an example on the opposite, I don’t recognize the language because I am strictly American. They do recognize it because they are Icelandic… again, that was nationality, not race. You can be any race within a nationality. And the Nordic languages are all somewhat similar because they originated from largely the same places. I myself understand some parts of those languages. Despite what I said in my example, I do understand some because I am 2nd generation Norwegian. My daily came here on a boat in the middle of last century. I understand Norwegian quite well and because of that, I can elucidate other Nordic based languages also. So yes. For context sake, they had to list their NATIONALITY.
@melissaattaway7426
2 жыл бұрын
@@chwig7354 may I ask why that offended you? I mean I think i understand. I am also tired of people, especially in America, but other western countries as well, constantly throwing out their race as some sort of credential to make a point. But that’s not what was going on in this thread.
Finding life in a sub-glacial lake is pretty strong evidence that life could exist under the surface of icy moons like Europa. It might even be more complex than single-celled organisms, as they'd presumably probably have access to energy from thermal activity as well. Edit: Nvm! It was mentioned in the video!
@FrogInShorts
2 жыл бұрын
Life already existed in Antarctica before the continent moved to the polls. Life merely adopted to the extreme environment where as the moon it would have had to evolve from scratch. Possible such an environment can harbor life but not provide the means to allow life to develop in the first place.
@JourneyAcrossSkyrim
2 жыл бұрын
@@FrogInShorts it like and
@solsystem1342
2 жыл бұрын
@@FrogInShorts geothermal vents are were we'd expect life to develop, if it exist. There's like 50km of water at the least but most of that would be useless to life since there's no energy source under dozens of kms of ice and kms above the ocean floor and its nutrients.
@Wasabiofip
2 жыл бұрын
@@FrogInShorts Very true, but it at least answers half the question. Life can only evolve somewhere that can support life. So if we've established that Europa probably can support life, then the only question is what are the preconditions to create life?
@DirtyGuerrilla
2 жыл бұрын
The PC game "Barotrauma" is based on this concept, it's pretty neat
Peter Kropotkin was also a very popular proponent of Anarchism, that’s why he says “famous for this and nothing else”, Issa joke.
@formercrow5242
2 жыл бұрын
His Wikipedia article describes him as a "Russian anarchist, socialist, revolutionary, economist, sociologist, historian, zoologist, political scientist, human geographer, philosopher, and activist who advocated anarcho-communism. " Fuckin' try-hard
@DiMadHatter
2 жыл бұрын
Bread Santa 🍞🏴
@Limoredin
2 жыл бұрын
@@DiMadHatter So true
@faizalntd
2 жыл бұрын
@@DiMadHatter 21q
@hmmmhmmm6917
2 жыл бұрын
Que On Authority on Anarkiddies !!!
4000 meter sticks really helped me visualize the true depth of this ice. Thank you for this comparison
Literally just finished reading a sci fi book that takes place on an extremely icy planet and didn't want it to be over, so this video came out at the perfect time for me. Thanks!
@ezequielvargasb
2 жыл бұрын
Book name please?
@benjamincarvajal8519
2 жыл бұрын
book name?
@biggloop7015
2 жыл бұрын
@@ezequielvargasb it's The Left Hand Of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin!
@ezequielvargasb
2 жыл бұрын
@@biggloop7015 thanks 👍
@mrhombreman
2 жыл бұрын
@@biggloop7015 Love the dispossessed. Think Left hand of darkness is placed in the same universe?
Wasn't expecting a Kropotkin reference in a video about glaciers. Rad
@burnbabies666
2 жыл бұрын
fuck yeah right?
@AshesWorkshop
2 жыл бұрын
The Conquest of Subglacial Lakes
i'm not so interested in microscopic life forms since its not as easy for me to understand it. but to think that there is life, even in a unicelular level, under such harsh conditions and that they even have lived there over haundreds of years is truly amazing
@oldtimetinfoilhatwearer
2 жыл бұрын
Millions of years
@jackkraken3888
2 жыл бұрын
Not hundreds of years millions. These are amazing time capsules, millions of years ago no light, no freely available oxygen, locked away in hundreds if not thousands of feet of ice. And here is the interesting part, we could be a threat to them, we would contaminate their world and likely harm it.
Love it when Bread Papa Kropotkin gets a mention.
Loving the kropotkin drop
@ellie8272
Ай бұрын
Hello fellow anarchist! 👋🙂
5:43 “Fumes of the abyss” is such a cool and intimidating phrase
Question. How much of Ice loss would affect the liquid state of subglacial lakes? Will climate change be impactful enough to shave of the glacier that it'll decrease the pressure of it and froze the lakes over???
@westwarden5979
2 жыл бұрын
I would love to know aswell
@NootNToot
2 жыл бұрын
This is a really good question! Also curious about the answer.
@jasonZoo123
2 жыл бұрын
@Bingo i mean. If you're a marine lifeform then of course it is.
@westwarden5979
2 жыл бұрын
@Bingo Good for what?
@purachinachinchin
2 жыл бұрын
@@westwarden5979 fishe
I love your videos so much. You actually manage to be informative and add humor in a way that's natural and not forced.
Could you do a video on the classification of dinosaurs and how it’s done? It’s a super interesting topic!
@dinokaijumaster1254
2 жыл бұрын
He should….
@the_gaming_hyena
2 жыл бұрын
@Vini Yellow yeah
@Max-zz7ol
2 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see that !
Kropotkin reveal made me actually yell “what!?” at my screen.
3:10 it sounds like the guy who named this phenomenon had it happen directly into his face while he was saying it.
"Peter Kropotkin: famous for this and nothing else" I think he wrote a book about baking too or something idk
@endymallorn
2 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah, he did write a bread book, didn’t he?
I liked this one a lot. More like this, please. Maybe Crater Lake in Oregon?
@matthewfinger2381
2 жыл бұрын
Crater Lake is a good one. It's crazy to think that such a gigantic lake was completely empty of wildlife until humans came around to introduce fish. Or that log that's been bobbing vertically for over a hundred years.
Thank you, I certainly did enjoy it :D (just found your channel yesterday, but already loving it a whole lot)
This video was pretty awesome,and I definitely loved learning about Lakes
First time viewer, I really enjoyed this. Your presentation and balance of dry humor and informative content was very good. I'm definitely interested in more.
Loved this video just as much as i did enjoy the other ones! Great work as always!
Even though it was a bit different from your usual topics, it was just as good. I always look forward to your videos.
Hey man, not only are you videos so educational and interestingly written, your voice is so soothing and helps me fall asleep at night and feel calm during the day. Please keep making these!
Incredible. Thank you so much. Please make follow ups on this topic ever also about Antarctica before ice.
Peter Kropotkin and the Conquest of Sub-glacial Lakes
This is fascinating. I love learning about extremophiles, especially ones that get their nutrients in atypical ways. And your point about the implications for life on other planets… I’m going to be thinking about this all day
Brilliantly informative, and absolutely nailing the clever humor around the edges. First vid I’ve seen of yours - better believe I smashed that SUBSCRIBE button. Keep up the great work!
Please continue your wonderful work! I’ve found your channel earlier today and I’m binging it. As an enthusiast of science fiction with emphasis on speculative evolution, your channel offers insight that leads to some profound dot connections in my head 😀👍
i see Bread Santa, i click!
Always look forward to your videos they are well made, entertaining, and educational. Thanks
New favorite channel, great work dude
I appreciate the no-music presentation style. I find a lot of informative creators tend to use music that detracts from the main ideas of their presentation. Thank you for the informative format.
Your videos have gotten really good lately man. Keep it up!! Really cool stuff.
only halfway through the vid, but I feel like in the oldest lakes, there would be a higher chance of having higher order life. Also, since the glacial lakes are essentially completely closed off to the outside world, wouldn't the organisms in each separate lake have evolved completely separately since they were separated? That would be an insane amount of bio diversity under the ice, and all adapted to such high pressures and such low temps. would these ecosystems basically completely collapse if the arctic was to melt enough that their shields were exposed?
@MatthewOstergren
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, these organisms have evolved for a very specialized environment, in isolation of the rest of the biosphere for millions of years at this point. There might be a little exchange once and a while between lakes that are close to each other, but otherwise they are basically different worlds. The last part of the video explains a bit how they have different conditions that would lead to evolutionary divergence. As far as what would happen if the antarctic ice sheet collapse and these environments were exposed, they would probably get devastated in any other environment and may not have the defenses to survive against other microorganisms.
@Chocolate83Bunny
2 жыл бұрын
as ice melted off the surface the pressure of the lakes would decrease, causing them to re-freeze which would probably destroy all the bacteria and any trace of its existence :(
Your channel is a gem. Thank you, TBM
Thanks for putting this video together!
Excellent video. Life is everywhere.
@endymallorn
2 жыл бұрын
Life finds a way.
Absolutely admired the upload! Underrated content!
i only knew the anarchist side of kropotkin's history. glad to learn more
Peter Kropotkin is my Daddy and people should consider reading the book ,Kropotkin The Politics of Community by Brian Morris . Humans evolved to work together not dominate each other . Ok I think I’ve made my daddy proud.
@InkfinityOkamix3
2 жыл бұрын
I sense that you irl have daddy issues.
@saturnhadeswright9170
2 жыл бұрын
@@InkfinityOkamix3 just because my daddy is a renowned naturalist , and also a Russian prince , doesn’t mean u need to be jealous.
@InkfinityOkamix3
2 жыл бұрын
@@saturnhadeswright9170 alright, so you’re insane. Good to know
@saturnhadeswright9170
2 жыл бұрын
@@InkfinityOkamix3 and your boring
@InkfinityOkamix3
2 жыл бұрын
@@saturnhadeswright9170 it’s obvious you’re still a child. No reason to argue with you. Also it’s “you’re”
Love your vids! My kids love watching your content with me!
Very cool topic. Thanks for shedding my some light on it!
This video is was amazing! You introduced me to something i had no clue existed!
Wanted to let u know that i really appreciate ur work. Keep it up
I love these videos. I don’t know how i missed this, but i found it very fascinating.
Finding any form of life there is astonishing. Nice vid.
Fantastic, honestly never heard of you before but I subbed bc this video was so well done.
Loved this video bro keep it up
You make some of the most entertaining videos. Very nice
Another great video. Keep it up!
Great video, incredibly interesting topic. Thanks a lot!
this was super interesting! Great video
Loved it!!
Thank you :D This was an awesome video! Gives so much perspective that no matter where on earth, life keeps on livin. We truly are blessed to be living in this time on this beautiful planet. Stay humble folks
This was a fascinating topic!
Great content on a pretty unknown topic, but if the lake, it´s de-pressurized and contaminated does that ruin a million years ecosystem?
@Chocolate83Bunny
2 жыл бұрын
Pretty much any outside bacteria getting into the system would be contamination, and when the lake is tapped it sends bacteria water flying up a 4km tunnel, i think damage is going to be done no matter what
@jackhazardous4008
11 ай бұрын
Just wait until the bacteria contaminated by drill fuel evolve into motorheads
I appreciate your voice, it’s very relaxing
I just discovered your channel and I love it. Social scientist here but I am addicted to your content
Old video, but I really wish there was something you could just talk about for an hour. Your fun way of teaching actual valuable information is really easy to watch and quite calming
I remember reading that Lake Vostok and other subglacial lakes might have hydrothermal vents, meaning they might be warm spots in those lakes.
Thanks, I hope you do more videos like this
I dig the collage-style graphics!
Glad i subbed your videos are well worth it
Wow, great video!
This was so interesting!
This Kropotkin guy seems like a genius. I wonder what other subjects he has covered? /s
Great video !
Finally. Good content
I did enjoy it, you did a good job.
You always pique my curiosity
Do devils hole, Nevada next if ya find it interesting. This was a good video
Beautiful video my friend
After seeing a ROV explore a subglacial Lake: I found out they are utterly facinating. As well as the surrounding arctic ocean ecosystems ended up being much more diverse and thriving with life that's adapted to that environment. Can't forget the thermal vents, cold seeps, white smokers, brine pools, black smokers.
Amazing! İf only we had studied them all...
Thank goodness's video got the attention it deserves saw this 3 weeks ago and it had like 10kviews for a week straight
really enjoyed this vid even if it is a bit different its still neat info
Excellent video
Interesting :) thank you
Piotr Kropotkin! Before this, I knew him as Communist Charles Darwin, but that subglacial lake theory is geological 🔥.
This Kropotkin fella sounds pretty based. Wonder if he had any interesting ideas about bread. Guess I'll do some googling.
All I can think of is that X-Files episode with the parasite that was found deep under the ice. Good job! Love this channel
Cool subject!
Great videos!! What video editing software do you use?
forgetting about how based Kropotkin was as the father of anarcho-communism
@endymallorn
2 жыл бұрын
Forgetting? No. Overlooking because this isn’t about politics. Focus on the neat science thing.
@InkfinityOkamix3
2 жыл бұрын
“based” you’re kidding right?
Glaciers are so cool in general
I was not expecting it to be this interesting and in-depth (badum-tsh).
1:12 AND NOTHING ELSE I SWEAR
Could you link music you used in this video? It's really relaxing and I thought of studying to it
I just came here to say I was here before your channel blew up
A worthy experiment! :)
It’s Andrey Kapitsa (“ka-pizza”), not Kapista :D sorry for correcting, I know it’s really not that important. Absolutely love all of your videos, please keep ‘em coming!
very cool, i love the edges of science.
cool video watched till the end would love to hear more tone and depth good stuff tho
U didnt have to do Kropotkin dirty like that man
Your humor is on point. "or 4000 meter sticks" lmao