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Dark Oxygen | CIA Deep Sea Secret Could Trigger the Next Extinction Event (STRIPPED)
🕑 Added 2025-05-22 19:24:33 +0000 UTCTwo miles below the Pacific Ocean, scientists have discovered something impossible: rocks that generate electricity and produce oxygen without sunlight. These ancient metallic "batteries" could be the original source of Earth's oxygen - before plants or algae existed.
The CIA has known about these rocks since the 1960s, keeping their true potential classified for decades. The discovery dramatically expands where alien life might exist, from billions of possibilities to trillions.
These seafloor nodules host thousands of newly discovered species that evolved to harness electricity directly. But now, deep-sea mining threatens to destroy in days what took millions of years to form.
Dark Oxygen forces us to reconsider our understanding of life on Earth and beyond. Could disrupting this hidden electrical network trigger the next mass extinction?
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Redpill94
Hell yeah AJ! The why files has become my only form of entertainment. It not only entertainment though, I often learn something. Thank you AJ and the why files.
Larry
Please Bring back longer episodes and heckle fish.. Maybe with creative editing somehow you can do both.. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
B B
Great episode. Do these nodules have any correlation with ley lines?
Daniel Ducharme
Great episode as always! I suppose it doesn’t change the Drake equation but it adds to the possibilities of environment… very interesting! Thanks and congrats to the team!
Chris
AJ is such an awesome story teller with a big heart. TWF is probably my all time favorite show ever.
Chris
We cant yet make every mineral you find in nature.
Valhalla369
This was a very interesting find. More proof of new unknown life on our own planet. I believe there is unknown life on nearly every planet in our universe. I just seen a story of possible life on Venus. The Russians have kept this secret from the rest of the world for decades. Why? I think our own goverment has covered up more than just advanced beings on our own planet. Life has an extraordinary way of adopting and surviving in nearly any conditions. This is not just something that happens on Earth.
Rocky Berlier
Check me if I'm wrong but aren't the oceans made of H2O with the O being oxygen, right? And when evaporation happens this molecule breaks off into the separate component molecules of hydrogen and oxygen. Sooo, wouldn't that mean that oxygen was present when water became more abundant? Also, isn't it possible for scientist to make these amalgam metals?
Mary WF
Please expand this with more information on dark oxygen.
Amy Bennett
Can't wait for new video with hecklefish really do miss him. 😁 Hope you are well AJ? And say hello to Gino for me 🫶❤️❤️
Branson Gray
I’ve been loving the content for the last couple years. Keep it up. Do you think you’d ever do a video on Hollywood handlers? Like the connect Harley Pasternak and Kanye, Brittney spears, etc. maybe even go into Dave chappelle in 2005.
