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Bonus Ep 42 - Current Events: Deep Sea Icarus
🕑 Added 2023-06-30 13:16:33 +0000 UTChello, patrons, here's your second bonus episode for June 2023, please enjoy! since we are terminally online creatures of the zeitgeist, we talked about the whole Titanic submarine disaster. we do a deep dive into the lore surrounding the sub's destruction and the hubris that leads someone to do this in the first place. then we talk about why humans should not try to go to the bottom of the sea as there are some places we were not meant to tread, even more so than the vacuum of space.
here's a link to The New Yorker's "The Squid Hunter" article that Luke was discussing: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/05/24/the-squid-hunter
updated: added images of the octopus cities in Australia, aka octopolis.
Comments
A Woodpecker Attacking Gérard Depardieu
My thought was that in my experience, the richer people are the more likely they are to think "It will be fine, bad things don't happen to me."
Hazel Rafter
Hey there's an incredibly loud noise from Luke at 42:30 (seems like it might be a mic issue), heads up so it doesn't blow out anyone's ear drums lol
James Cézanne-Taipale
I want me a dyson swarm of O’Neil cylinders.
lukeisamazing
The tardigrade part was more me talking about another extremophile. also, fusion-fission whatever lol
Omar
Ya'll, Ocean 2, giant lanternfish, mercury-based tardigrades living on volcanic vents, scientists, nuclear fission in the sun? Whaaaaaaaat are y'all on about? I did the opposite of learning, but I was entertained. Loved the show as always and look forward to the next one!
