Why An Undersea Space Station Is Long Overdue

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  • Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
  • Since the 1960s, mankind has dreamed of living under the waves. Some habitats were even built on the seafloor, but our yearning for the stars left them abandoned. Now, Fabien Cousteau, grandson of the most famous explorer of the deep, wants to build "an International space station” down there. Called Proteus, he hopes it will add to human knowledge not just of the seas, but the entire planet.
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Комментарии • 278

  • @DoomGifter
    @DoomGifter 3 года назад +675

    Calling it an underwater space station is like calling the space station an
    “in-space underwater station”

    • @alexanderdora98
      @alexanderdora98 3 года назад +16

      gotta get more views

    • @gabriellsh
      @gabriellsh 3 года назад +28

      we’re all in space man, no matter where you are

    • @14768
      @14768 3 года назад +18

      Yeah the only reason I clicked on this video is to complain about the stupid name. So I guess my house is a land based space station then?

    • @gabriellsh
      @gabriellsh 3 года назад +8

      @FridayGood “the dimensions of height, depth, and width within which all things exist and move”. But I guess you might have a better answer, could you enlighten us with your knowledge?

    • @gabriellsh
      @gabriellsh 3 года назад +11

      @FridayGood oh you mean Outer Space

  • @AlexpxThreeTen
    @AlexpxThreeTen 3 года назад +360

    Nothing more French than smoking a cigarette under the sea

    • @brianisme6498
      @brianisme6498 3 года назад +8

      And giving everyone around 2nd hand smokers lung

  • @dlewis8405
    @dlewis8405 3 года назад +184

    Hilarious that the French guys back in the 1960s continued to smoke cigarettes in that tiny habitat under the waves. Besides replacing nitrogen with helium in that can they had to deal with carbon monoxide coming from burning tobacco.

    • @ericlotze7724
      @ericlotze7724 3 года назад +20

      I laughed at that too! Very 1960's. Reminds me of the other goofy smoking related old thing: The hindinburg had a specially designed room so people could SMOKE.

    • @CHMichael
      @CHMichael 3 года назад +1

      The filter will catch it

    • @ericlotze7724
      @ericlotze7724 3 года назад +4

      @@CHMichael Will it clog up the LUNGS is the important question lol, hard to fit a wet gas scrubber in your throat!

    • @clearcontentment3695
      @clearcontentment3695 3 года назад +2

      Gotta get that nicotine boi

    • @ericlotze7724
      @ericlotze7724 3 года назад +3

      @@clearcontentment3695 I CAN QUIT WHENEVER I WANT !

  • @PhillipAmthor
    @PhillipAmthor 3 года назад +72

    1:28 Limited air supply because you're under water? Lets smoke a cigarette in a closed room!

    • @ben8718
      @ben8718 3 года назад +1

      Its not that deep is it? Why not have a pipe to the surface

    • @justadam1917
      @justadam1917 3 года назад +1

      I think that was the best bit about the whole program smoking underwater trust the French

    • @tk5800thesecond
      @tk5800thesecond 2 года назад

      @@ben8718
      They are about 30 metres deep in that footage from the 60's. the habitat had an open section on the bottom where the divers could enter and exit with ease. In order to stop the water from rushing in you have to have a higher pressure to push on the water. if you had a pipe to the surface then the pressure could escape and the water would rush in. HOWEVER, if you could maintain the pressure you could have a pipe to the surface. Its just very hard to regulate, as far as I know

  • @youknowwhoiam1314
    @youknowwhoiam1314 3 года назад +112

    Lights up a smoke in underwater house. Oh Jaques....

  • @Snowy265
    @Snowy265 3 года назад +58

    Air is a premium down here, I'll have cigarette anyway. lol

  • @JD96893
    @JD96893 3 года назад +13

    I think the advantages of this cant be underestimated! Im no marine biologist, but ive heard that contamination and depresurization of specimens makes research very difficult and obviously costly and slow. Some deepsea creatures cant live at surface pressure as well, a deep sea science station could significantly increase our understanding of the ocean and could lead to many important discovories that could save lives!

    • @trolly4233
      @trolly4233 2 года назад

      It’s gonna get people killed probably, bywater dolphin

    • @todd.aevansgladiatorproper9587
      @todd.aevansgladiatorproper9587 Год назад

      How long before a underwater space station is worth it's weight in gold?

  • @phreak074
    @phreak074 3 года назад +64

    So then in an underwater city would the price of real estate be more expensive when closer to the surface shorline?

    • @2KOOLURATOOLGaming
      @2KOOLURATOOLGaming 3 года назад +19

      Lol, imagine an atlantis. 'Surfacescrapers' and condos that can actually see the sky would be expensive :D
      Damn, I really want to see a sci-fi property where the Earth has undergone some kind of cataclysm and humanity was forced to live underwater. I mean, the sea makes sense as a shelter from the elements.

    • @phreak074
      @phreak074 3 года назад +3

      All radiation would be blocked... cosmic and otherwise. a possible problem we might have since we've evolved to have homeostasis regulate with the sun/earth rotations . . . so as long as have the proper light exposure you'd be fine tho 🤔

    • @zatar123
      @zatar123 3 года назад +3

      Sort of. You want to be far enough down that you don't have to worry about storms on the surface while still being close enough to have some sunlight for solar power.

    • @tangomango8474
      @tangomango8474 3 года назад +4

      @@2KOOLURATOOLGaming Bioshock

    • @2KOOLURATOOLGaming
      @2KOOLURATOOLGaming 3 года назад +4

      @@tangomango8474 Ye, but an up-to-date one.

  • @SubhomMitra
    @SubhomMitra 3 года назад +56

    Jacques Cousteau, here to spit flow. Invented SCUBA, captained the Calypso.

    • @ph11p3540
      @ph11p3540 3 года назад

      The man, the legend, the trendsetter all other ocean explorers look back on.

  • @tec4303
    @tec4303 3 года назад +8

    7:15 Well that's a spontaneous interview... 😁

  • @UnReal31337
    @UnReal31337 3 года назад +12

    Sealab 2021?

  • @ThePortal101
    @ThePortal101 3 года назад +9

    "It was not impossible to build Rapture at the bottom of the ocean. It was impossible to build it anywhere ELSE." -Andrew Ryan

  • @Macx22
    @Macx22 3 года назад +45

    Why would it be a SPACE station. It would be an underwater base

  • @daveslow84
    @daveslow84 3 года назад +7

    TEN THAUSAND fathoms below the surface!? That's, dare I say it.... unfathomable!

  • @obscurereference4398
    @obscurereference4398 3 года назад +38

    If 'undersea space station' isnt an oxymoron i dont know what is.

    • @MumbiYamba
      @MumbiYamba 3 года назад +4

      I know right .....who greenlights posting such titles 😂

    • @WillowRoark
      @WillowRoark 3 года назад +2

      They discussed in the video how ‘space’ used to have a double meaning, outer space (outside the earth’s atmosphere), and inner space (things on earth that we haven’t yet explored, like the ocean).

  • @20_percent
    @20_percent 3 года назад +16

    If you’re going through rough times, please don’t give up.
    Better times are coming ❤️

  • @zennvirus7980
    @zennvirus7980 3 года назад +5

    I think that the real promise this Underwater Habitats (UHs, for short) represent is the actual test labs to create the necessary habitats that would be used in colonizing the Moon, Mars and beyond; they are a sort-of test environment for Lunar Habitats (LHs for short).
    Think about it:
    Underwater Habitats have to deal with the management of pressure which, as stated in this video, involves changing the gas mixture of regular 'air'. On that front, they can be used as test grounds to see what effects they have on the body after, say, a full year of living there; to say nothing of the psychological 'pressure' of remaining inside such an enclosed environment for an equally extended period of time. Now, while the usual crews involved would be scientist, it would be advisable to include regular civilians with jobs unrelated to science as part of the roster. This issue addresses the other matters besides supplying the habitat with food, oxygen, communications and maintenance for said long term stays.
    While it is true that supplies can be sent down to the UH, since in the end it is a matter of letting the packages sink (in a controlled fashion) towards their destination; it would be much more efficient to grow food in-situ... Therefore providing another real-life 'simulator' for LHs. Producing food on site at such depth in enough quantities to ensure both the meeting of health requirements and dietary variety is a crucial factor for any sort of long-term habitat. Yes, the 'logical' choice in this case is to take advantage of whatever the deep sea has to offer; but green food, and more important vitamins like Vitamin C (to avoid scurvy) are not, to my knowledge, readily available underwater. Plus the challenge of doing conventional farming underwater, while not the same as doing it in space, involves the same issues of a land-based lifeform adapting to a pressurized environment, with the different 'air' mixture mentioned above. How would potatoes, for example, fare and develop in such an environment? Or fruits?
    Those are just some examples of the wealth of developments such Habitats can provide. But like stated above, you need to include civilians. By the nature of their work and their goals, scientist have a predisposition to "sacrifice themselves" willingly to pursue their goals. But if we intend to make those Habitats, Underwater or Lunar, viable to the average grunt that would do the heavy lifting, there is the need for us to know if they can cut the mustard, or in this case, "hack the deep". How would a dedicated farmer fare, physiologically and psychologically, under such conditions (pun intended)? And regular 24/7 maintenance crew servicing the facilities, or a communications specialist?
    Mr. Cousteou and his illustrious father already proved that Scientist and trained specialists can survive and perform their jobs in an underwater environments. Now it is time to move to the next stage and address the above issues, and whatever stems from them. Because there lies the actual key for so much progress, just waiting for us to... ahem, dive deep enough to find it.

  • @gorilladisco9108
    @gorilladisco9108 3 года назад +8

    Aquaman : I'm gonna wreck that guy's career.

  • @MoPheenix
    @MoPheenix 3 года назад +26

    Under See Space Station?
    How would it be with undersee sation

  • @phongho8596
    @phongho8596 3 года назад

    great idea I agree

  • @AllvezTV
    @AllvezTV 3 года назад +5

    3:16 Ça va? - heheheheeh

  • @curious5887
    @curious5887 3 года назад +1

    I like underwater city concept, because it was very interesting to do

  • @RealSalica
    @RealSalica 3 года назад +2

    I would love that too

  • @melelconquistador
    @melelconquistador 3 года назад

    Deep see tycoon 2 let's go!

  • @mr88cet
    @mr88cet 3 года назад +2

    Hmmm... The intro suggested using under-sea stations to combat overpopulation, but I’d think that off-shore floating cities would be a whole lot easier!

    • @MubashirullahD
      @MubashirullahD 3 года назад +1

      There is a lot of land. No need to do anything like that.

    • @ratflakes3135
      @ratflakes3135 2 года назад

      Do you mean land based space stations?????

  • @davidsweeney111
    @davidsweeney111 3 года назад +8

    it's not under the sea, it's in the sea

  • @roboco302
    @roboco302 3 года назад +1

    I am a nobody and I have said for 30 years we should be building small cities underseas. We don't need to go to the moon to explore. 90% of the ocean is unexplored.

  • @killerskillet
    @killerskillet 3 года назад +12

    Hey, can you NOT show a zoomed-out shot of a laptop when the actual screen capture is available? What do you think that adds? Why are you deliberately zooming out for no reason?

    • @luckyleafgaming3062
      @luckyleafgaming3062 3 года назад +1

      You'll notice that the "macbook pro" logo is nice and clear, clearly a sponsored segment.

  • @djBlindFaith
    @djBlindFaith 3 года назад

    SeaLab 2021!!! Let’s go!!! Fig Nuts!!!

  • @Anonarchist
    @Anonarchist 3 года назад +3

    *SEALAB 2021*

    • @crocogile2352
      @crocogile2352 3 года назад

      Dont let it be a repeat of SkyLab

  • @Briebabcock8052
    @Briebabcock8052 2 месяца назад

    Underwater stations have their benefits not only for scientists but also for the oil and the mining industries as well.

  • @encalle2869
    @encalle2869 3 года назад +1

    I hate to see videos so cool whit so low views and comments.

  • @courtneyandlashann
    @courtneyandlashann 3 года назад +3

    Excited to see this happen!

  • @benmcreynolds8581
    @benmcreynolds8581 3 года назад

    I so want this to flourish. This science could greatly enhance our future 🤘

  • @dallass1200
    @dallass1200 3 года назад +1

    This is what I want to study and bring to life..

  • @TreDogOfficial
    @TreDogOfficial 3 года назад +3

    I wanna see an underwater greenhouse, close to the surface

  • @zin360
    @zin360 3 года назад +5

    watever u do, make sure u dun wake up cthulhu

  • @oscarvonhelden3141
    @oscarvonhelden3141 3 года назад +2

    Intro music?

  • @Rhb989
    @Rhb989 3 года назад +6

    Lmao I was Hoping for subnautica b-roll

  • @user-hc4ud9vr1t
    @user-hc4ud9vr1t Год назад

    get the grant to build and call me i'm totally ready to do it! i even have new adaptions that can do this!

  • @iamandris
    @iamandris 3 года назад +2

    Sealab 2021

  • @errornthecode2838
    @errornthecode2838 3 года назад +3

    Why hasn't this continued? 😕 It is really just sad how humans don't care at all.

  • @shadykitty7493
    @shadykitty7493 3 года назад +2

    He said, "I've been to the year 3000
    Not much has changed
    But they lived underwater

  • @mastervz4806
    @mastervz4806 3 года назад +1

    That’s a smart ass couple

  • @seansandhagen481
    @seansandhagen481 3 года назад

    So true!

  • @kieran00lawton
    @kieran00lawton 3 года назад +1

    I read the title my first thought
    BIOSHOCK

  • @YaMumsSpecialFriend
    @YaMumsSpecialFriend 3 года назад

    Fascinating 🖖🏼

  • @RadagastTheBrwn
    @RadagastTheBrwn 3 года назад +1

    Weird place for it but anyone with a track id for 0:06 would be much appreciated

  • @andrewallen8703
    @andrewallen8703 3 года назад +4

    Seems like a missed opportunity to not call it Sealab 2021 and hire Capt Murphy

  • @JH-zn9tc
    @JH-zn9tc 2 года назад

    Sealab 2021....where's Stormie and Marco?

  • @joris-rietveld
    @joris-rietveld 3 года назад +2

    Yeah it could be like SOMA or Bioshock :p

    • @XxThunderflamexX
      @XxThunderflamexX 3 года назад

      Hey SOMA only went wrong after the entire planet got wrecked, if anything that's an argument *for* making a few of thess.

  • @Dweller415
    @Dweller415 3 года назад

    How does deep sea laboratory?
    or deep sea station?
    or deep sea research center?

  • @XDTuber
    @XDTuber 3 года назад +3

    underwater robots controlled by vr with hand and finger control

  • @odeezon1585
    @odeezon1585 3 года назад +3

    Outrageous no SpongeBob references... than where do they get their Data from... Space?

  • @______4790
    @______4790 3 года назад +1

    If you're looking for me
    You better check under the sea
    Cause that is where you'll find me
    Underneath the
    Sealab, Underneath the water
    Sealab, At the bottom of the sea
    Sealab 2021

  • @speedstriker
    @speedstriker 3 года назад +1

    Subnautica bros?

  • @rcbif101
    @rcbif101 3 года назад +2

    uNdEr SeA sPaCeStAtIOn

  • @ruimota7447
    @ruimota7447 Год назад

    I believe these projects are very important not only for underwater investigation but also can be used to prepare the future Moon and Mars exploration on dealing with air pressure and very limited resources.
    Remember NASA use huge sized pools for training.
    If the facilities are big enough it may be possible to grow plants, food and whatever is necessary to become a self sustainable environment and apply that knowledge in future space exploration missions.
    If the construction is modular it can be adjusted according needs and can easily be moved to other place.
    These facilities can be safely powered by an underwater nuclear power plant and it can also be a module.
    There are submarines using this technology so it's not something new.

  • @jeronimomod156
    @jeronimomod156 3 года назад +3

    Will there be Wi-Fi

    • @Tagout10593
      @Tagout10593 3 года назад

      could use a bouy to the surface that has a cable that can provide satellite internet or something cool like that. Could even collect solar power or something idk.

    • @Paco1337
      @Paco1337 3 года назад

      well I mean internet cables are on sea and ocean bottom anways so I guess they could connect it

    • @jeronimomod156
      @jeronimomod156 3 года назад

      @@Paco1337 nah you can't just tie into transatlantic cables.

  • @keepitreal2902
    @keepitreal2902 3 года назад

    What was that movie in the first few seconds?

  • @deexener
    @deexener Год назад

    If you're looking for me, you better check under the sea
    Cause that is where you'll find me, underneath the sealab
    Underneath the water
    Sealab, at the bottom of the sea 🌊

  • @jimmyctg9489
    @jimmyctg9489 Год назад

    if the body of the station made of thick rubber with steel skeleton or net like heavy duty tire i think it is quite possible to take the pressure of deep water

  • @garywheeler7039
    @garywheeler7039 3 года назад

    There is a technique of using direct current from something like a floating wind powered generator, that causes accumulation of a calcium like coating on wire mesh. With time that coating can become like a clam shell apparently and resist such things as rust and moisture intrusion. And still act to act as a bubble or enclosure, able to last for generations.

  • @vice.nor.virtue
    @vice.nor.virtue 3 года назад +1

    Bloomberg:: "While our relationship with the oceans started tens of thousands of years ago"
    Me: Are you joking me? Life on planet earth emerged from the sea about 400 million years ago. We've been friends with oceon since we were bacteria, my friend!

  • @mrouncervideos2905
    @mrouncervideos2905 3 года назад +2

    Pressure man its stressful. Its easier to build in zero gravity with zero pressure. Fact

  • @DavidHill-xe6gc
    @DavidHill-xe6gc 3 года назад +3

    You mean a sea station?

  • @toml5047
    @toml5047 3 года назад +6

    i cant even get a tree house

  • @KGDHMF
    @KGDHMF 3 года назад

    _Andrew Ryan has entered the chat_

  • @sycharb8997
    @sycharb8997 Год назад

    How do you know there isnt?

  • @dohminkonoha3200
    @dohminkonoha3200 3 года назад

    welcome to rupture.

  • @KCHii
    @KCHii 3 года назад +1

    Subnautica players would be all over this.

  • @Joso997
    @Joso997 3 года назад

    Subnautica in the making.

  • @KillingDeadThings
    @KillingDeadThings 3 года назад

    Saying we know more about the surface of the Moon than our Oceans is a misnomer. It's just that there is a lot more information to be gathered about our Oceans. So as far as data is concerned we know much more about our Oceans.

  • @mobbossgambino
    @mobbossgambino 3 года назад +8

    The weirdest thing ever, is being able to float beyond the sky, but not sit in the sea.

  • @Oliepolie
    @Oliepolie 3 года назад +3

    Maybe because we're all scared of something like Sphere by Michael Crichton happening

  • @philochristos
    @philochristos 3 месяца назад

    I don't see why they have to be pressurized. Why not just make them water tight and run a hose up to the top? Then it would be about the same pressure as the surface.

  • @UnsaltedCashew38
    @UnsaltedCashew38 3 года назад +4

    Why am I looking at an interview on someone else's laptop?!?! Haven't you heard of recording the meeting and video editing? Is this bloomberg or a high school project?

    • @UnsaltedCashew38
      @UnsaltedCashew38 3 года назад

      @@benschreyer8295 I guess it's the skills a journalism degree gets you nowadays. Nothing.

    • @UnsaltedCashew38
      @UnsaltedCashew38 3 года назад

      @@benschreyer8295 People don't use sarcasm in text anymore, boomer ;)

  • @zaptowee6625
    @zaptowee6625 3 года назад +1

    Living underwater is so complicated. A home is still just some wood, bricks, & insulation.

  • @cdlg000
    @cdlg000 3 года назад

    How cool would an hotel/ lab/ station deep under the water be. If it had windows it would be super cool I think.

  • @FrootilishesGum
    @FrootilishesGum 3 года назад +11

    Welcome to... RAPTURE!

  • @todd.aevansgladiatorproper9587

    How much?

  • @watersport86
    @watersport86 3 года назад +1

    Ive been saying this for years. By the way we should have 10,000 people on the moon by now too.

    • @ziuzz4168
      @ziuzz4168 3 года назад

      Yeah , you're naturally completely right. Problem is social Media sucking the hell and all ambitions out of many people.

  • @CHONcorp
    @CHONcorp 3 года назад +1

    OMG they are fucking smoking in underwater habitat :)

  • @regolith1350
    @regolith1350 3 года назад +5

    Can you imagine the reaction if a woman being interviewed deferred to her husband who then took over the remainder of the interview?

  • @mannymm7887
    @mannymm7887 3 года назад

    But there already is an underwater long term station. Not as big as the ISS but yes it exists. It’s too bothersome to keep taking divers from very high pressures and have to bring them up slowly everyday so they built a long term pressurized capsule underwater so they don’t have to keep coming up everyday. They stay in the capsule for days weeks at a time then come up to normal pressure all at once.

  • @StrangeTerror
    @StrangeTerror 3 года назад

    If you'd like a newly dive certified, disposable, grunt to join you on proteus. I would be happy to get my own certification, and come do dangerous menial labor for your crew while you guys do the science. 😁

  • @billquillin1952
    @billquillin1952 3 года назад +1

    One already exists.

  • @Marcustoday4563
    @Marcustoday4563 3 года назад

    Wasn’t there a go fund me or Kickstarter for one, now looking back at that it might’ve been a scam

  • @Julian-qc9wj
    @Julian-qc9wj 3 года назад

    *subnautica theme intensifies*

  • @doctorbigsmiles
    @doctorbigsmiles 3 года назад +1

    Making hybrid human-dolphins probably dagnum gubbmint

    • @mugfish0
      @mugfish0 3 года назад

      JERRY!!!!!!!!!!?

  • @noahway13
    @noahway13 2 года назад

    Undersea cities are brilliant because it is brutal, like mars-- mainly no oxygen, and one small mistake could be catastrophic. We could learn much.

  • @anyway_anyway
    @anyway_anyway 3 года назад +4

    Start a underwater city before we can start a space station..At least underwater you can run pipe up to surface to get air for circulation...imo

  • @Becauseimme
    @Becauseimme 2 года назад

    What if they did this at EPCOT first? It would be amazing if there where an attraction like “The House Of The Future” or “Horizons” but underwater.

  • @jakebsheppard
    @jakebsheppard 3 года назад

    Great presentation but a little dry. HNY!

  • @mikebar42
    @mikebar42 3 года назад

    I can't imagine 10,000 fathoms of innerspace 🃏

  • @backacheache
    @backacheache 3 года назад +3

    Surely the way the fund it would be as a hotel, similar to the idea of space tourists, given how much some people pay for diving holiday, for the hard-core enthusiast the trip would be the ultimate bragging rights. Obviously the candidates would have to be vetted but it could be a sustained financial model

  • @XerosXIII
    @XerosXIII 3 года назад +3

    bioshock rapture? eeh? eeeh??

    • @ThePortal101
      @ThePortal101 3 года назад

      That's exactly what I was thinking😆

  • @jeanmarcbillod
    @jeanmarcbillod 3 года назад +6

    How convenient that his wife is a marine biologist?

  • @VRtechman
    @VRtechman 3 года назад +1

    Why isn't there an Industry for Undersea Tourism!? Serious answers only please. 🤨🤔😑

    • @VRtechman
      @VRtechman 3 года назад

      Helium enriched air! No thanks! 😬

  • @allanegleston4931
    @allanegleston4931 3 года назад

    whatever happened to seahab?