The Amazing Hidden Liquid World That Lies Beneath Antarctica
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Imagine feeling cold...
What's the background music
Probably just super salinated water
Simon: There is liquid water under Antarctica!
Nestles CEO: *nervous sweating*
One thing Simon's channels have taught me is that Russians really love their boreholes.
In Soviet Russia, bore drills you!
Am I right, Pyotr?!
@@tanglewife Touché!
Boreholes and similar principles are the only ways we have to explore (through) the deep _solids_ of our world. There other ways today of _roughly charting_ some of it, but drilling / "drilling" down is the only means of sampling and actual observation (in person or by aid of tools).
He he he, boreholes...
Russians go deep....
The fact that we have more success in exploring Mars than we do Lake Vostok shows just how difficult and remote Antarctica is.
well then should we open it up to non government companies
@@twixt999 I mean as long as they don't screw everything up,I don't see any reason,no to
@@PirateCat822 yes. great name
@@twixt999 Except they'd only be interested if they could make money off it and we're trying to sustain Antarctica
The government only access should give everyone an idea that there's stuff there we don't want being found by the public. They have a very specific understanding of history and the events that lead to our current civilizations and understanding of such. I'd guarantee there's something under the ice that would rattle the foundation of our understanding of history / civilization as a whole that they're intentionally keeping hushed.
They've found Pyramids beneath the ice, that alone is something to question. When you consider the age of the ice shelves themselves, for a megalithic man-made structure to be beneath the ice. It'd suggest we've been inhabiting earth, and intelligent, a lot longer than any historic textbook tells us. That alone is enough for them to conceal it. If we begin to question our history with evidence that they're wrong, or lying.. We begin to question everything else they've taught us.
They cannot afford to have us questioning our reality. Because we'll starting seeing it's not as they've made us believe.
"NOOO! You can't drill into the lake, it's a perfectly preserved environment!'"
Russians: "Look Sergey, drill go brrrrrrrr"
And we can pour all these toxic pollutants down there as well...
@@jamesharmer9293 as nature intended.
@@zachaliles its funny because it's apparently true
This made me laugh out loud lol on a more serious note, some Russian engineers really know what they are doing and are in some ways far superior to their western counter parts (look at soviet union rocket engines for example). But the other ways where they aren't superior is where the pouring in kerosene comes in potentially causing contamination of whole new ecosystem lol
Russian are oddly funny people almost like a different species
Lovecraft has me scared that maybe the ‘perfectly sterile’ environment would not become unsterile from being breached but instead contaminate the world. >.>
Tbh I want to find the giant blind penguins
Reminds me of an X-files episode where they drill into Arctic ice and find parisites that infect them all.
This is why I don't read of watch horror. It's not worth it.
I'm more worried about giant prehistoric critters being alive.
I'm sure there's plenty of similar isolated pockets of life around the world. Having made some closed ecosystems in jars really made me appreciate just how little is required to keep life going.
I would be really surprised if they didn't find specially evolved life down there. Same thing with Europa and Enceladus deep under the ice. To quote Jeff Goldblum....
the only lake on the planet that doesn't contain a plastic refuse collection YET
Don't worry the Chinese are trying to be the first to have trash there as we speak
Challenge accepted.
Give it time.
We don't know that. Maybe there's alien or first civilization trash down there, perfectly preserved Z Phones
Well, we gave contamination a good, solid try with shit-tons of kerosene, apparently… because what else would you do upon finding pristine, 25 million year old water? Fuck it, there’s a hole there now; may as well drop a nuke down it.
I know what's in the subterranean lake under Antarctica. I read Mountains of Madness.
"That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange aeons even death may die." HPL
Exactly what I was thinking the entire time too lol
Tbh I want to find the giant blind penguins
@@electricimpulse7 They'd have to be giant blind penguins with gills.
@@Devin_Stromgren I'll take what I can get
I still can't wrap my head around 4km of ice. Its amazing wondering what's in it or under it.
Up until about 15,000 years ago New York City was under that much ice.🤠👍
@@ferengiprofiteer9145 They pulled new york out of the ice?
"Ecclesiastecese" is a new one on me, but it's good to know that we have found something new under the sun... in the finding of a millenia old subglacial lake. I mean it is definitely "new". Sorta like a Jerry Seinfeld or Friends episode that Simon hasnt seen. "If you havent seen it; it's new to you".
It goes back to the popular agreement (not saying I agree) that we have not fully explored Earth's oceans but yet we want to explore space!
I'm old enough that I've always dreamed of space but the ocean terrifies me.
Humans are just weird 🤣💞
Nothing is new under the sun you just haven't been here since the beginning only God has.
Because we are incapable of leaving shit alone....and we're dead.😂😂😂😂
We find the world’s most pristine water source, and what do we do? Grab some kerosene, freon, and a contaminated drill and go to town!
The Vostok Station crew better not watch, “Deep Freeze” aka “Ice Crawlers”. Drilling into untapped sub-glacial lakes is a good way to irritate large, hungry Trilobites that have somehow survived for millions of years /s
Wow! i had totally forgotten the name of that movie, but images immediately popped into my head when you began to describe it. 😀
Or it could be a buried pyramid full of face-hugger eggs waiting for the next hunt. But only if you like bad acting and poor scripts.
The "oil worm" from the X Files...
@@paulroberts3639 AVP was a decent movie imo. Only watched it a hand full of times though.
@@Dank-gb6jn I thought it was ok.
neat! I named my cat Vostok after the coldest place on earth. I heard it was also a lake but had no idea that the lake was this interesting. Vostok is also the name of the first manned space shuttle.
I watch your videos
Hey, you brought me here.
Hey, Jared.
Will pumpkin ketchup? I recently figured out it will curry very nicely.
Ok
"...Ads. Who needs all that nonsense?" Said Simon in an ad.
Apparently, one of the new things under the sun is "Ecclesiastes" having grown an extra syllable.
Scientist: We've found the most pristine place on Earth! Russian: Let's see about that, hold my beer...
😎Wouldn’t that be “hold my Vodka?”
@@markkarasik2211 I was sooooo close to saying that, but then thought I would hold to the beer meme.
They wouldn't need anyone to hold it for them.
You misspelled Vodka
@@OzzyZorda Well maybe if you’d have just held my vodka while I drilled into the pristine frozen over lake my spelling would be about the same😎
I can see clearly now the square is full
I can see all the videos it displays
And the infection spreads.
My sympathies to all who see that which should not be.
"say what you want about (blank) but at least its not trying to co-opt your IP address" is now my favorite thing to say about any inanimate object
The top comment on every video on youtube should be about, without exaggerating, the downright insane amount of advertising we have to ignore. Double ads at the start, double ads at the end, and a portion of the video itself is just an ad for a scam service that somehow convinced people it's legitimate
When you get a "free" service, your either watching a commercial or having your information recorded and sold. Otherwise nobody would pay the money to run the server that hosts this video.
Lake Vostok is full of tiny penguins who are mining the ice for snowcones. :)
One of today's facets in my usual quest for knowledge was the existence of freshwater lakes under the Antarctic ice sheet. I had perused several videos. Eventually came to the face of my old friend Simon. Dear sir, Kudos Bravo Etc. To you and all those that help you do what you do. When fact-checking(as I do) I find you to be the most correct and even more importantly in-depth then most presenters I have observed. Thank you. Peace.
The way things are going. They may have to just wait for the ice to melt.
this is the plot of Thing waiting to happen.
It's literally the story of "who goes there?" The novella the thing was based on. It's aight if you want a quick chilling read.
Damn, Simon is two-timing Surf Shark… what a Capitalist!
Remember what happened in the mountains of madness by H.P. Lovecraft !!!
Was just thinking that.
“Say what you want about the South Pole but at least it’s not trying to co-opt your IP address” hahahhaa
but are you sure about that?
The music in Simon's videos are bomb. Always have been, and they always will be.
FANTASTIC episode Simon. Thank you 👍🏻
@13:38 There's a type of bacteria that lives in/feeds off of kerosene?!
I can't articulate why that freaks me out, but now that I know it, I AM freaked out a lil' bit.
@Ryoku Y There are bacteria that feed on diesel fuel and create sludge that can block fuel filters. These bacteria need water as they live in the water and feed on the fuel, so draining water condensation from fuel tanks can eliminate the problem. As for why bacteria would eat fuel, that's simple, it's a rich source of energy and they have adapted to live on it.
Kill it with 🔥!
@@Pete856 Wow--I had no idea. That's wild!
@@drummer1977 I love learning something new! Thank you for the insight :)
Bacteria are part of the reason there even is kerosene
This is the first vid ive found of yours that was found in a search for something i was looking for info on... every other time i stumbled onto your vid it was on something i hadn't heard of.. but im halfway down the rabbit hole on this lake... cant wait to hear what youve learned..
"Ecclesiastesis" sounds like either a forgotten philosopher or an unfortunate medical condition. Or maybe a specific type of punctuation used in the bible. @16:39
Pretty sure it's the person who said the famous line, "There is nothing new under the sun."
One of your best, most informativo videos! Great. 👍🏻
this was one of the very best of these things y'all have done.
Scientists - want to collect pristine samples from lake Vostok
Also scientists - let's dump a ton of highly toxic chemicals down the bore hole.
I bet they find a shopping trolley from off of 250m years ago at the bottom of that lake 😂
I am currently reading Cold Plague be Daniel Kalla, and the book opens at the submerged lake in Antarctica. What did you say about synchronicity?!
First time I've heard of a six-syllable Ecclesiastes... Love you, brain boy!
i cant believe we STILL have not send a robot there.. or any kind of camera.
I'm sure there already has been but it's not being reported.
The comments from the first upload were so funny. You should have kept it up just for that😄
"What the fuck are you doing, Russian scientists? You're gonna contaminate the ancient lake"
"Xaxaxaxa kerosene go brrrrrr"
Me being Australian...
Finally a thumbnail that makes sense👍
Russia: consistently gets invaded during winter
Russians: move to winter 2: electric boogaloo
*Yoopers eagerly grabbing fishing poles and putting ice shanties on planes*
I am so curious about what's under the ice of Europa. I hope we will send a probe to check it out within my lifetime. There are number of problems that we would need to overcome exploring Europa, like high radiation and immense cold of -200'C which may mess up the probes, and how to actually melt or drill through the sourface ice cover, which could be many kilometers thick. The drill probe would have to remain connected to an antenna on the surface so that any data gathered could be sent back to Earth. And to top that off, the entire thing would have to be fully autonomous.
Sweet! We get the graphic this time around
4:10 Looks like a very annoyed Robot XD
PLEASE do a Biographics episode on Pyotr Alexeyevitch Kropotkin!
I'm relatively confident that once we truly get to explore Lake Vostok, we'll find some Russian's summer home down there.
I swear I've watched this already Simon
Stop messing with us
He has a similar video on mega projects about the drilling operation, maybe that's what you are remembering
"There is always something new under the sun." Except Lake Vostok isn't under the sun, is it?
No, on earth, nothing is under the sun. It's all to the side of it.
@@StormCrownSr Hmm, good point, but given that 'up' is the direction opposite of gravity's pull, wouldn't that make us 'above' the sun?
@@johng6350 No, gravity pulls towards the centre.
That's why the suns are always in the middle.
Just like how Australia isn't really "down-under".
@@StormCrownSr Yes it is.
@@nodiggity9472 I don't think you understand spacial relativity.
(Where things are in space relative to each other)
love the tracks laid down on the ice showing off donut, doulies, & 4 corner barrel racing patterns! they need to give the cloverleaf a try! after all, they are the modern cavalry!
Wow! At 14:15 -- Simon's shirt matches the illustration perfectly.
It's messed up. Stan Lee knew about the lake in Antarctica in the 80's and 90's. The X-Men go to Antarctica and meet up with tribes and dinosaurs.
Almost sounds like Jules Verne's antarctic stories, but replace the dinosaurs with a giant magnetic statue. At least one of the stories was basically commercial fanfiction, Verne working in Edgar Allen Poe's world, lol, and crediting him.
Fascinating!!
Marvel comics have been using Antarctica for decades. There is a special area called the SAVAGE LAND. Kazar and the X-Men have many stories based there.
Behold, we have constructed a new SangriLa in Antarctica. New Schwabenlan.
Next project: find a way to absorb or somehow remove that freon and kerosene
Ah, one of our last existing sources of potable water forever contaminated by nosy busybodies.
Now that's some high quality H2O
Anybody else craving a big glass of ice water, after watching this?
Love knowing this
Haven't even gotten through the ads yet... but I'm gonna venture a guess here, it's water
More discussion about ads and ads than USA network TV. That is saying something.
I live in Michigan. Thank you for comparing this to the lakes close to home.
I’m rewatching the Video just to see what I missed in the Graphic Square the first time… Nicely played Simon.
it is surprisingly difficult to work out if lake Vostok has had a submarine in it, I was sure there wasn't one, but a lot of places seem to want to pretend we do, with video of black smokers, and no clear statement that we have not been there.
Thanks for easy to access, timely, well researched information, presented in that chocolate-smooth voice.
(most videos are from 2012-2015, so have no new information).
Good video 👍
Do we ever choose to not study something that is prestine? Nyet, we never do anyway.....
All the time, you just don't hear about it because it wasn't studied.
For instance, you've almost certainly heard of the Terra Cotta Army, but haven't heard that most of the site, about 3/4ths, is banned from further excavation, preserved for future archeology.
@@westrim That was one of the first things that I learned about it, nearly 30 years ago.
@@ThePdog3k "you"
"almost"
The life unexamined isn't even worth living.
I've read enough Lovecraft to know that what lies deep under that ice is best left undisturbed.
I think we need to quit messing with isolated places before we release something we can’t put back
We're the thing that was released and can't be put back.
It would be nice, if the editor would stop using the same stain texture on every picture, including modern ones.
It's especially irritating seeing them on digital and synthetic images.
They have to alter the images used in some way to avoid automated copyright strikes against their videos so they can keep paying bills.
It would be nice if they could find a new alteration, but I guess they've found one that works; changing it would be risky.
Ah, I take it the graphic had been added to the blue square this time? 🤓
Huh?
@@derekg5674 This is a re-upload of a video that had been published earlier today, that had been missing some of the graphics.
What was your first clue? Seeing the graphic? Well done!
Yup
@@joshwhite5407 Thanks! I wrote it both tongue-in-cheek and several seconds after it was uploaded! Have a great day! 🤓👍
and here i just watched the other version of this video. the one that had no pictures, just an empty blue square. now time to watch again but with visuals.
Antarctica is such an interesting and mysterious place.
Someone needs to drink some of that water... and that "someone" is Simon!
I wonder if that expedition got any video footage of lake vostok?
Uhhh...not sure now is the best time to unleash whatever is trapped underneath that ice 😐 a definite "PUT THAT THING BACK WHERE YOU FOUND IT OR SO HELP ME" instance 🤣
Just leave it alone... bloody humanity!
Round 2
There is a hidden pyramid under Simons beard
Amazing!
Imagine if the lakes inhabitants sent _their probe_ up through the dense 4km thick blanket, to explore what lies above.
And then our probes passed each other
😮...Hey! ...Hey! 😮
"Fred, I just don't get it. HOW does the cable keep breaking? And so cleanly?!
…
Hey, do you hear that?
…
Fred? Where'd you go?"
…
👾👾👾
@@PrezVeto lol 🤣
Colder than dry ice... does- does that mean there is naturally formed dry ice in Antarctica some days?
I'm back to watch this again... For the visuals.. 🤪 r.i.p blue square
Jeepers, I love it when you talk science.
The elites don't want to mess up their drinking water
Remote sensing is something that Mulder looked into.....cheers.
Thumbnail had me thinking this was a video about Australia!
"There is nothing new under the sun". But the sun doesn't reach subglacial lakes.
I'd think "under the sun" doesn't mean "under the sunlight": when you're in a house at noon you're still under the sun, but when it's nighttime you're no longer under the sun even if you're outside looking at the moon which hits you with reflected sunrays.
The defined colloquial sense I propose is thus "all matter located in/on the hemisphere of the planet currently illuminated by the nearest star regardless of elevation/concealment"
Second proof is in the intent of the author stating "There is nothing new under the sun" wherein your interpretation would allow the alternate description "there is nothing in direct sunlight, but new things happen all the time while indoors" which isn't the commonly understood conveyance.
I hope you enjoyed this extremely long and pointless counterpoint; I'm bored and typing in between Warframe missions.
@@aislingvandegejuchte9818 lol
Simon how do I know the South Pole isn't trying to get my information?
I had to listen to the temperature part again because I had checked it and it was -128° Fahrenheit and I thought there was no way that could be right, I didn't realize we could get temperatures that cold on Earth
I love the idea that there is potentially fully fleshed ecosystems living below Antarctica, unaffected by humans and living their best life
One ticket to there please.
@@zachaliles no you'll ruin it if you go
It terrifies me because of what it can contaminate the world with
@@silverhawkscape2677 fear not: most of the planet is nothing like 4 kilometers below the surface of Antarctica. And if there is danger we've got the universe's biggest stockpile of kerosene and Freon to keep the invaders at bay...
well until we dumped that kerosene and freon on them and all that but yeah.
Anyone notice that this guy is the British version of Hank Green from Sci Show?
Is it something new under the sun or just something old that we haven't seen yet?
No mention on specimen 46-b?!
Re-upload?
9:23 If I understood the video so far, even though it's fortunate that they didn't drill all the way to the lake with the freon and kerosene, all those pollutants are still there and will eventually be pushed down into that lake or others with the normal flow of the ice, will it not?
Hopefully not. I think from what they were saying about the top layer of the lake freezing and the water being replaced after thousands of years it might work in the other direction where the pollutants will move up and away.
Either way.... "Science" polluted another Natural Environment.
@@andrewthomson870
No, the ice is the water source. They were talking about water sucked up the borehole freezing.
No, the water is pressurized. Water wasn't sucked up, it was contained like capping a geyser. andrew is correct about which direction the water is moving. Watch the video again.
@@Thouhand.
I can't tell if you're talking about the source of water for the lake or the "water" mixture which ultimately plugged the bore hole.
The source of water for the lake is the antarctic ice sheet which forms layers that sink downward over many thousands of years. The water that filled the bore holes which got all the way down came from the lake, and it was either sucked up by the lower pressure of the hole or pushed up by the weight of the ice on top (either way, the direction is up through the hole).
Why did this get hidden and re-upload while I was listening, idk how far in to skip to 😭
They had uploaded a version without any graphics in the blue square, so this reupload was the fixed version
I have never been this early to a youtube video before Huzzah