Metallic Rocks That Companies Want to Mine Produce Tons of Oxygen in the Ocean
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Published 2024-07-26
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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about an incredible discovery of metallic rocks on the bottom of the ocean that seem to be responsible for a lot of oxygen on the planet
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www.discol.de/initial-impact-study
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S221…
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#nodules #deepseamining #earth
0:00 Intro
0:35 Manganese nodules
2:00 1980s attempt to mine them
4:10 Results of mining
5:00 Production of oxygen by nodules
6:50 How they make oxygen
8:00 Biodiversity and dangers of mining
8:35 Origin of life implications
10:30 Conclusions
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All Comments (21)
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The oddest fact was the study that showed that after ocean mining, after it was over, (and they only removed metals), the area became a virtual desert for decades, and even microbial life was not fully sustained. These systems are more complex than out greed for the metals either understands or cares about.
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This channel is peak internet.
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Very interesting as usual! No clickbaits, no illogical thumbnails, just pure and simple data!
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We still learn something new every single day about our planet. We need to tread lighly.
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Some of us have been raising awareness on this for years. They rake the sea floor near the vents that are basically underwater cities for sea fauna.
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It shouldn't surprising that mining stopped because of prices dropping over realizations of their importance. That's just how people are today. There's a section of ancient forest left untouched in socal only because the owner of the land lost his deed to it. It was halfway turned into a golf course. It's not surprising at all
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They shouldn’t mess with those rocks, man.
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If any other channel had that title / thumbnail, I wouldn’t have trusted it.
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Incredibly detailed and well reasoned argument to not disturb the ocean floor and destroy those environments
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The oldest oceanic crust on the planet is Early to Mid Jurassic in age, approximately 200 million years old. It is poised to enter the subduction zone off the Kamchatka Peninsula in the northwestern Pacific. All the sea floor areas with nodules must be forming them on crust younger than that
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Hello wonderful Anton 👋
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I love the consistency and definitely appreciate your fully-informed background, in EVERY topic! You da best. Keep it up Anton 👊😀
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The more I learn about this planet, a lot of it from you Anton, the more it amazes me.
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I remember reading about these when they were entertaining the idea of running those massive scoops along the ocean floor years ago.
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That animation at 4:30 is heartbreaking.
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Glad you are covering this one. Scary how much we don't know about the oceans.
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This tells me two things: 1: this explains the discrepancy between flora biome sizes and oxygen levels in our atmosphere 2: that even if we burnt every forest on the planet, (eg asteroid strike) in a few hundred thousand to million of years, the oxygen would build up enough for life to emerge again, explaining weird gas levels recorded in core samples going back millions of years.
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Dark Oxygen.....ooooooohh👻👻👻👻👻👻. Thanks Anton for not using this term in the title for clickbait. You are a wonderful person.
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Hey Anton I'm just taking a moment to stop and say you're awesome and I'm a long time viewer though I don't comment. Thanks for being a wonderful person!
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Remember the oxygen producing rocks in Robinson Caruso on Mars?
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