I read the Dark Oxygen paper and the amount of oxygen that is produced above background is smaller then trivial. I don't know what is going on but to say that it's a new source of oxygen that is useful is a stretch. Count me as not convinced.
Regarding the whole space tug concept. I'm not getting the emphasis on "de-orbiting" of objects in decaying orbits. It cost a bloody fortune to get whatever is up there, up there. Why are we not talking about cleaning up the mess of potentially hazardous objects and round up essentially free raw materials. Robotics is developing at such a pace I can't believe it will be long before we develop the ability to fabricate in orbit. An orbiting scrapyard would seem an obvious business model. It has to be a damn site cheaper to round all that shite up than it took to get it up there.
This is a interesting idea. I would think that the cost of putting the junk in a very long orbit (non-decaying) would be expensive per piece as apposed to just deorbitting it.
It's not a bad idea, but the problem is that we don't know much about these space debris objects. For better or for worse, the governments of the world want their space agencies to give them a clearly defined plan with deliverables, so they have some assurance that the benefits come back to their constituents. I'm sure a few representatives would be willing to take the risk, but it would probably never make it past the bureaucracy. I can only imagine some space company taking the risk, and that's only after the market is already saturated. At this point any aerospace startup is already taking risks. Honestly I believe in the idea of a space junkyard and I think it would be the best solution to the space debris problem, but as a science educator I would have trouble convincing people of that notion. For the forseeable future I really think the public will see it as too much of a risk to put political or economical support behind it.
"I can't believe it will be long" saying "why aren't we there yet" was found to be less effective that actually doing something. you sound like you support "environmentalists" and hate "rich people" and think "why can't things just be simple and people not talk about bad things" - grow up. if you want to "clean up the mess" then start a space company and do it, stop being a whining critical weird commenter. Who exactly are supposed to be cleaning up this mess?
I remember during the Columbia disaster, it was narrowed down to a lump of foam as the cause. Hopefully, the stranded astronauts come home safe and sound, otherwise, the cause for not only a disaster, but an inevitably huge backwards step in space exploration will be narrowed down to the company boeing.
Landing and then sinking into Dimorphos sounds like a problem but if you can extend a sufficiently long antenna maybe it's a good way to study the interior?
Dark Oxygen also poses yet another challenge for discovering potential life, because previously it was thought that you needed life to generate free Oxygen, but now its confirmed that there is a natural process for it.
Weve known oxygen can have non biological origins for decades via many different chemical processes, we even found it on Io, Ganymede and Europa and Io is a volcanic moon so gl finding life over there :p. Ganymede and Europa have liquid sub surface oceans under their icesheets tho, if there is other life in our solar system, thats probably where we will find it, and maybe kilometers under the soil of Mars, but thats all speculation for now, need to smelt/dig holes for miles on a different world to actualy verify any of this.
I've several proposals about removing large pieces of space debri. Yes, it's important to clear the large pieces. I'm wondering if there are proposals to remove small pieces. I'm talking about marble size or untrackable objects.
I'm glad someone out there is trying to figure out ways to rid of space junk, i don't know if we can vacuum most of it away but at least parts that could pose threat to future missions.
Aerogel shield panels with ablative layers. Let the micrometeors smash into shields, but the aerogel contains all meteor and ablative fragments. I can't imagine micro meteor aerogels being more dangerous than flakes of metals...
With the sea water composition (NaCl+KCl... solution) the research team should've detected a huge amount of chlorine alongside this dark oxygen if it was really produced by some electrolysis process
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I just have to say Fraser, you're a phenomenal creator. You explain things well & passionately. You seem like a genuine nice guy & I thank you SO MUCH for your videos!
Why would you de-orbit Space 🚀/junk etc When you can recycle, harvest the materials,components in orbit or on a Future 🌕 colony , the Mass has been sent up/Paid for. Isn't Space All about " In-situ Resources Utilisation"
EVERYONE SHOULD BE SPENDING $10 A MONTH FOR THIS INCREDIBLE RESOURCE - I spend more time watching your content than I ever did when I had streaming services!
Dark oxygen is cool, but it has me panicking for a different reason. Does this mean that the earth is slowly depleting its water by turning it into Oxygen and Hydrogen, the latter of which presumably escapes to space more than being recycled back? And does that mean the oxygen cycle as we know it is not alone sufficient to maintain the biosphere?
@@busybillyb33 I think it's not something to worry about, the ocean has been there for billions of years if it affects the ocean level we won't see it disappear in our lifetimes
The amount of water is so vast that it should not be an issue. The seas will boil off before all the oxygen and hydrogen are split from each other. (Edit: Maybe the boiling off do not make you less worried. But we are talking about a timescale longer than humans have been around.)
Sunlight can split water into H2 and O2, so Earth has been depleting its water ever since it was acquired. However, the process is very slow. Nothing to worry about. As other people have commented, the sun will boil the oceans faster than it will split them.
💯 absolutely by this time next week, the oceans will be gone and the sky will be Hindenburg. We must stop dark oxygen. All you need to do is believe 🙏❤
An admittedly trivial correction but one which you might find interesting: it's a common misconception to see the solar cycle as 11 years when it's actually 22. The reason is that the polaroty is swapping so it actually takes two cycles to return to its original state. That said, from the point of view of the Earth, it obviously doesn't make a difference and the 11 year states are effectively equivalent. Interestingly, the maths describing the solar cycles is very similar to quantum objects called spinors which likewise can take two rotations to return to their original state. Meh, maybe someone found that interesting.
Honestly, it resembles ramblings of a crackpot. First, I'm pretty sure the astronomers 300 year ago didn't know about magnetic field swap when they were defining the term "solar cycle". Second, the solar cycle has nothing to do with spinors. "Discovering" connections like this is a sign of poor understanding of both sides of the connection.
@@Milan_Openfeint Do try to remain calm, I upfront said it was a trivial point firmly in the "fun fact" category. Both the sun and half spin fundamental particles take two "rotations" to return to their initial state and that one fact alone can be abstractly represented by the same rotation matrix. It's because the phenomena are so completely unrelated that someone might find that single connection interesting. Clearly not you. Zero crackpottery, just a simple reference which someone with a basic grasp of linear algebra might have given a quick "oh yeah, that's cool" and moved on with their lives.
That imagery of sinking in to the ball-pit regolith made me think about the Moon landing and how they really had no idea if that might be their fate or not - I mean, sure, it looks solid enough, but then so does the surface of these rubble pile asteroids while they're not being perturbed. Imagine if the moon's surface had turned out to be a lot more "sinky" than anyone could have foreseen and the lunar module landed, only to slowly sink into the lunar ball-pit!
Interesting, maybe we could plant spacecraft in those sorts of asteroids as protecting from radiation, making a great relay station for lets say water and somevfuture superfuel.
If the metallic nodules take millions of years to form, they cannot possibly provide significant amounts of oxygen in what is essentially a corrosion process. Either they would have to corrode more slowly than they are forming, providing almost no oxygen. Or they would have to corrode quickly, providing significant amounts of oxygen but then being gone after a couple of days or months. That would mean we wouldn't observe many nodules existing.
What's more, the proposed method of clustering nodules to reach the necessary voltage for splitting water appears highly improbable to work. If nodules touch, they are connected in parallel. To increase voltage, a serial connection is needed. That's really only possible if some of the touching nodules are electrically isolated from the surrounding water.
Dark oxygen? Nuts! Splitting the water molecule requires huge amounts of energy. Where does the energy come from? Besides, the electrolysis of saline solutions release chlorine and oxygen. What happened to the chlorine?
Source of energy? The arrangement of metal ions creates a weak natural battery, so I guess the energy would come from natural sources like the wind, waves, gravitational and solar energy.
your fears are well founded. as a tech entrepreneur i'm already running the math \o/ sorry not sorry i'm sure we can find a sustainable mesh to leave behind to pay the ocean for the free-standing cobalt with no child labor
I'm not worried at all. The ocean is HUGE, and mining is all about concentrations. These 'rocks' are likely to be scattered across the ocean floor in such low density that bringing them up to the surface would require so much energy and effort as to make it cost prohibitive.
if there is any multicellular life (or life at all) on Europa or Enceladus, what would be the chances for said life to be unfortunate enough to beach on the surface? And how big would beached life have to be to be visible from space or even from earth? Would there be any evolutionary pressure for the ability to survive at least short-term on or near the surface? Be it to avoid predators or to use the ice mantle for some sort of nests, burrowing deeper and deeper into the ice until they reach the outer surface?
I subbed because you stated directly when you disclosed your own business information. I was gonna keep track of your videos because of your content but I subbed because you are respectful of my time.
Space does bite. Say, Fraser, in Ontario near the Sudbury Basin, there is a metal mine that produces most nickel, but also copper, cobalt, platinum, palladium, gold, silver, and rhodium. That isn't your mine, is it? I hadn't heard you were such a wealthy fellow. It is called "Fraser Mine."
Those starlink satellites could use a boost from a laser beam on it, not enough to damage it but enough to propel them out a little further. If their solar panels are deployed they should be able to get a few ounces of thrust for long periods during each orbit. It would be better to do this from space from a nearby ship with several medium power lasers.
The term "dark" oxygen seems like a calculated false association designed to imply that if "dark" oxygen is real, then "dark" matter and "dark" energy must also be real, when they are not. Also, it seems like another mystery has been solved by my new favourite thing...electricity!
4:59 hurray! Nodules emitting oxygen! Ok, nice, but how did the oxygen get in to the nodules in the first place? If the oxygen are extracted from the water/ocean in the first place, its a "zero sum" process, is it not?
The dark oxygen thing just does not make sense. It takes a lot of energy to crack water, and when that energy is used up, what recharges the “batteries“? It’s a simple energy balance problem. If you’re going to have significant amounts of oxygen produced continuously, you need a significant energy source to produce the power required continuously. Those nodules can only contain a finite amount of energy. I would guess that in the best case area they might be able to produce power for a few hours to days. And they take millions of years to form? Something does not add up. Also shouldn’t hydrogen be formed and be detectable?
Yes, we've also discovered the singularity inside black holes is made of dark chocolate, and there's a hidden Jupiter behind Saturn called Dark Jupiter. Also the first Dyson Sphere is going to be sailed to the Sun next week, the first manned mission to a Neutron Star has been launched by Antarctica Penguins, and David Copperfield is a real magician !
Fraser cain Can you do a interview with solar (sun) expert, that can explain how both the solar minimum and maximum effects earth, the history of us observing the sun and what we are currently researching about the sun, im sure there is alot we really dont know about it. Huge thanks in advance for all the content! Edited for spelling mistakes 😅
Ive seen ideas about how these nodules could have contributed to the great oxidation event, i doubt they had that big of an effect since they are more localised and not covering the floor of ocean around the world. But during the great oxidation event when iron was oxidising out of the water and covering the oceanic floor with iron bands that still make up some of our best mines today, i guess it was covering the entire floor? I'm really guessing here, i dont know lol, but what if all of those iron deposits were acting in the same way as a battery like these small nodules? That could potentialy create alot of oxygen, maybe not more then biological oxygen, but probably enough to have a big impact. Would love to get some thoughts on this :)
Thanks for all the news, Fraser! 😊 But yeah, things aren't really good right now for ads... Let's see what happens in the future. If it has a future. 😕 Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
The Earth is a sphere and in a sphere all areal or parts of the sphere is equally important to hold the shape and form of the sphere. It is a form of oneness which sustains itself. The dark depths and the inner Earth creates our surface where we dwell. Also our body is a unity where all parts are part of a beautiful shape. Some parts are more important than other, but they all are important to create the human body and our beauty. The dark depths of the ocean is as important as the mountains and volcanos on our crust. Together it is the Earth. The day we humans understand that love and oneness connects all humans. Then we will have peace. Much love.
“Avenging the dinosaurs” Revenge is a dish best served cold.
It's very cold in space.
In space no one can hear you fart.
I dunno, man. Revenge is still pretty good in a luke warm stew, on burned toast, or piping hot.
@@jamesgeckle489 Or smell it so you won't know if someone dealt it.
@@ageofatheism6638 Can't smell? At least the silence isn't deadly!
How to make something sound cool:
Just put “dark” in front of it.
Dark matter.
Dark oxygen.
Dark Uranus.
It doesn't sound cool, it insinuates "poor hygiene", especially the last one.
It sounds so assinine that I refuse to view this vid. Pure sensationalism. Frasier lost some credibility points.
@@nadahere he just reported on it, he didn't invent the idea
@@JamesCairneywhat? Wait? ..has he invented anything he "reports" on...
@@ItsWillLee no, which was my point.
You're not good at keep up, are you?
9:30 I think it would be more hilarious for Boeing if those two returned on the emergency Soyuz that's always stationed on the ISS. 😆
a lot safer for them if they did.
I read the Dark Oxygen paper and the amount of oxygen that is produced above background is smaller then trivial. I don't know what is going on but to say that it's a new source of oxygen that is useful is a stretch. Count me as not convinced.
Yes, it doesn’t make sense from an energy balance proposition either.
@@mbmurphy777 Yeah, a lot of people talking about it should be way more skeptical of that paper.
@@mbmurphy777 Exactly. alarm bells started ringing immediately when I heard it.
@gilgingras5599 don't forget with that oxygen twice as much hydrogen is produced. The residuals is a much saltier water.
@@billferner6741 And isn't chlorine gas produced with salt water?
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The Discovery of Dark Oxygen is by far the most exciting news this summer
Solved all the problems in this universe,, until..😂
This gives some hope for Waterworlds & Hycian planets developing life.
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Regarding the whole space tug concept. I'm not getting the emphasis on "de-orbiting" of objects in decaying orbits. It cost a bloody fortune to get whatever is up there, up there. Why are we not talking about cleaning up the mess of potentially hazardous objects and round up essentially free raw materials. Robotics is developing at such a pace I can't believe it will be long before we develop the ability to fabricate in orbit. An orbiting scrapyard would seem an obvious business model. It has to be a damn site cheaper to round all that shite up than it took to get it up there.
thats because space is emptier than you understand it in your head.
This is a interesting idea. I would think that the cost of putting the junk in a very long orbit (non-decaying) would be expensive per piece as apposed to just deorbitting it.
@@jarretpaul Not nearly as expensive as putting that raw material up there in the first place. Short term vs long term thinking.
It's not a bad idea, but the problem is that we don't know much about these space debris objects. For better or for worse, the governments of the world want their space agencies to give them a clearly defined plan with deliverables, so they have some assurance that the benefits come back to their constituents. I'm sure a few representatives would be willing to take the risk, but it would probably never make it past the bureaucracy. I can only imagine some space company taking the risk, and that's only after the market is already saturated. At this point any aerospace startup is already taking risks.
Honestly I believe in the idea of a space junkyard and I think it would be the best solution to the space debris problem, but as a science educator I would have trouble convincing people of that notion. For the forseeable future I really think the public will see it as too much of a risk to put political or economical support behind it.
"I can't believe it will be long"
saying "why aren't we there yet" was found to be less effective that actually doing something. you sound like you support "environmentalists" and hate "rich people" and think "why can't things just be simple and people not talk about bad things" - grow up. if you want to "clean up the mess" then start a space company and do it, stop being a whining critical weird commenter. Who exactly are supposed to be cleaning up this mess?
Thanks for the great space news, been a follower for years. Consistently good quality. ❤
I remember during the Columbia disaster, it was narrowed down to a lump of foam as the cause. Hopefully, the stranded astronauts come home safe and sound, otherwise, the cause for not only a disaster, but an inevitably huge backwards step in space exploration will be narrowed down to the company boeing.
Landing and then sinking into Dimorphos sounds like a problem but if you can extend a sufficiently long antenna maybe it's a good way to study the interior?
Dr Ben Miles easter egg at 5:45 XD
I wonder why this is in there?
I cant give enough of my thanks for the minimal adds
The amout of quality and thrustworthy content You put on youtube is insane. I don't miss a single question show and space bites.
@@neliotuga the most thrust worthy content on youtube
Lol..🤦♂️
Dark Oxygen also poses yet another challenge for discovering potential life, because previously it was thought that you needed life to generate free Oxygen, but now its confirmed that there is a natural process for it.
Weve known oxygen can have non biological origins for decades via many different chemical processes, we even found it on Io, Ganymede and Europa and Io is a volcanic moon so gl finding life over there :p.
Ganymede and Europa have liquid sub surface oceans under their icesheets tho, if there is other life in our solar system, thats probably where we will find it, and maybe kilometers under the soil of Mars, but thats all speculation for now, need to smelt/dig holes for miles on a different world to actualy verify any of this.
I've several proposals about removing large pieces of space debri. Yes, it's important to clear the large pieces. I'm wondering if there are proposals to remove small pieces. I'm talking about marble size or untrackable objects.
Agreed; the small pieces are capable of doing a LOT of damage. I'm reminded of the space shuttle that copped a paint chip in a window.
I'm glad someone out there is trying to figure out ways to rid of space junk, i don't know if we can vacuum most of it away but at least parts that could pose threat to future missions.
We could hardly vacuum them any more than they are already
Aerogel shield panels with ablative layers. Let the micrometeors smash into shields, but the aerogel contains all meteor and ablative fragments. I can't imagine micro meteor aerogels being more dangerous than flakes of metals...
With the sea water composition (NaCl+KCl... solution) the research team should've detected a huge amount of chlorine alongside this dark oxygen if it was really produced by some electrolysis process
Yes, or hydrogen. It doesn’t make make sense.
Great, now we can destroy even more of the planet and its fauna.
Thanks, Fraser
A question about the YT inserted advertisements,
Does watching them all the way through help the channel?
If not i'll just keep skipping as soon as possible but if it helps i'll watch them
Don't close your eyes during the ad, also; Google knows.
I just have to say Fraser, you're a phenomenal creator. You explain things well & passionately. You seem like a genuine nice guy & I thank you SO MUCH for your videos!
Why would you de-orbit Space 🚀/junk etc When you can recycle, harvest the materials,components in orbit or on a Future 🌕 colony , the Mass has been sent up/Paid for. Isn't Space All about " In-situ Resources Utilisation"
EVERYONE SHOULD BE SPENDING $10 A MONTH FOR THIS INCREDIBLE RESOURCE - I spend more time watching your content than I ever did when I had streaming services!
Can't afford it- glad to have this and other great education for free though, as I'm sure are many other poor people.
Or at least watch all ads & give a thumbs up
Dimorphos out there going, "I didn't even KNOW Chicxulub! I met her maybe once and only in passing!"
The Ball Pit Effect 🖖♾
Dark oxygen is cool, but it has me panicking for a different reason. Does this mean that the earth is slowly depleting its water by turning it into Oxygen and Hydrogen, the latter of which presumably escapes to space more than being recycled back? And does that mean the oxygen cycle as we know it is not alone sufficient to maintain the biosphere?
@@busybillyb33 I think it's not something to worry about, the ocean has been there for billions of years if it affects the ocean level we won't see it disappear in our lifetimes
6 H2O + 6 CO2 → C6H12O6 + 6 O2
Do you know this formula? 😉
The amount of water is so vast that it should not be an issue. The seas will boil off before all the oxygen and hydrogen are split from each other.
(Edit: Maybe the boiling off do not make you less worried. But we are talking about a timescale longer than humans have been around.)
Sunlight can split water into H2 and O2, so Earth has been depleting its water ever since it was acquired. However, the process is very slow. Nothing to worry about. As other people have commented, the sun will boil the oceans faster than it will split them.
💯 absolutely by this time next week, the oceans will be gone and the sky will be Hindenburg. We must stop dark oxygen. All you need to do is believe 🙏❤
Scandalous asteroid relationship, she’s so much younger! ☄️
Dimorphous sounds like a giant space dust bunny.
The fact that human beings caused the orbit of an outer-space asteroid to change is mind-blowing.
"mining" ocean bottom is frequently an excuse for other top secret activity. Hopefully, we won't really mine the dark O2 nodules.
Thanks for the video.
An admittedly trivial correction but one which you might find interesting: it's a common misconception to see the solar cycle as 11 years when it's actually 22. The reason is that the polaroty is swapping so it actually takes two cycles to return to its original state.
That said, from the point of view of the Earth, it obviously doesn't make a difference and the 11 year states are effectively equivalent.
Interestingly, the maths describing the solar cycles is very similar to quantum objects called spinors which likewise can take two rotations to return to their original state.
Meh, maybe someone found that interesting.
Honestly, it resembles ramblings of a crackpot. First, I'm pretty sure the astronomers 300 year ago didn't know about magnetic field swap when they were defining the term "solar cycle". Second, the solar cycle has nothing to do with spinors. "Discovering" connections like this is a sign of poor understanding of both sides of the connection.
@@Milan_Openfeint Do try to remain calm, I upfront said it was a trivial point firmly in the "fun fact" category.
Both the sun and half spin fundamental particles take two "rotations" to return to their initial state and that one fact alone can be abstractly represented by the same rotation matrix. It's because the phenomena are so completely unrelated that someone might find that single connection interesting. Clearly not you.
Zero crackpottery, just a simple reference which someone with a basic grasp of linear algebra might have given a quick "oh yeah, that's cool" and moved on with their lives.
That imagery of sinking in to the ball-pit regolith made me think about the Moon landing and how they really had no idea if that might be their fate or not - I mean, sure, it looks solid enough, but then so does the surface of these rubble pile asteroids while they're not being perturbed. Imagine if the moon's surface had turned out to be a lot more "sinky" than anyone could have foreseen and the lunar module landed, only to slowly sink into the lunar ball-pit!
Great video! Loved it
Interesting, maybe we could plant spacecraft in those sorts of asteroids as protecting from radiation, making a great relay station for lets say water and somevfuture superfuel.
"Dark oxygen" and Krytonite of course. They also found Batman's Cave and that is where the flying saucers come from.
Your show is very well done and quite informational. Keep up the great work !! Thank you.
I wonder how relevant the dark oxygen could be for Europa
If the metallic nodules take millions of years to form, they cannot possibly provide significant amounts of oxygen in what is essentially a corrosion process.
Either they would have to corrode more slowly than they are forming, providing almost no oxygen.
Or they would have to corrode quickly, providing significant amounts of oxygen but then being gone after a couple of days or months. That would mean we wouldn't observe many nodules existing.
What's more, the proposed method of clustering nodules to reach the necessary voltage for splitting water appears highly improbable to work. If nodules touch, they are connected in parallel. To increase voltage, a serial connection is needed. That's really only possible if some of the touching nodules are electrically isolated from the surrounding water.
Now we know that the Starliner crew may come home on a Crew Dragon in February of next year!
Dark oxygen? Nuts! Splitting the water molecule requires huge amounts of energy. Where does the energy come from? Besides, the electrolysis of saline solutions release chlorine and oxygen. What happened to the chlorine?
Source of energy? The arrangement of metal ions creates a weak natural battery, so I guess the energy would come from natural sources like the wind, waves, gravitational and solar energy.
Thanks
Blood, when you said avenging the dinosaurs I coughed up my weed smoke and laughed into oblivion, what were we talking about??😅😅😅😅😂
An asteroid killed the dinosaurs. We showed asteroids that they're not all that tough if you ram them with a spaceship
@@frasercain this was informative and I'll share with my kids
Send a Dragon to get them and return the Starliner empty.
I’m terrified companies will take advantage and mine all the dark oxygen rocks.
We should study it first, to be safe.
@@frasercain The shareholders strongly disagree
your fears are well founded. as a tech entrepreneur i'm already running the math \o/
sorry not sorry
i'm sure we can find a sustainable mesh to leave behind to pay the ocean for the free-standing cobalt with no child labor
@@garetclaborn share holders say we can't do a net sorry
I'm not worried at all. The ocean is HUGE, and mining is all about concentrations. These 'rocks' are likely to be scattered across the ocean floor in such low density that bringing them up to the surface would require so much energy and effort as to make it cost prohibitive.
if there is any multicellular life (or life at all) on Europa or Enceladus, what would be the chances for said life to be unfortunate enough to beach on the surface? And how big would beached life have to be to be visible from space or even from earth?
Would there be any evolutionary pressure for the ability to survive at least short-term on or near the surface?
Be it to avoid predators or to use the ice mantle for some sort of nests, burrowing deeper and deeper into the ice until they reach the outer surface?
Fascinating!
Thank you.
Great content!
Thanks!
I subbed because you stated directly when you disclosed your own business information.
I was gonna keep track of your videos because of your content but I subbed because you are respectful of my time.
It would be so neat if we found Dark Oxygen was a normal process on the Solar System's Icy Moons.
Thank you so much so very very interesting 😊👌
Great video
Nice work.
Did you watch the Dark Oxygen video as well - may make for some interesting discussions on finding oxygen on other planets
There was a new study that proposed the dark oxygen idea. We're all reporting the same news.
Space does bite. Say, Fraser, in Ontario near the Sudbury Basin, there is a metal mine that produces most nickel, but also copper, cobalt, platinum, palladium, gold, silver, and rhodium. That isn't your mine, is it? I hadn't heard you were such a wealthy fellow. It is called "Fraser Mine."
Always watch your news and question videos
Those starlink satellites could use a boost from a laser beam on it, not enough to damage it but enough to propel them out a little further. If their solar panels are deployed they should be able to get a few ounces of thrust for long periods during each orbit. It would be better to do this from space from a nearby ship with several medium power lasers.
The term "dark" oxygen seems like a calculated false association designed to imply that if "dark" oxygen is real, then "dark" matter and "dark" energy must also be real, when they are not. Also, it seems like another mystery has been solved by my new favourite thing...electricity!
Love it.
4:59 hurray! Nodules emitting oxygen! Ok, nice, but how did the oxygen get in to the nodules in the first place? If the oxygen are extracted from the water/ocean in the first place, its a "zero sum" process, is it not?
The dark oxygen thing just does not make sense. It takes a lot of energy to crack water, and when that energy is used up, what recharges the “batteries“?
It’s a simple energy balance problem. If you’re going to have significant amounts of oxygen produced continuously, you need a significant energy source to produce the power required continuously. Those nodules can only contain a finite amount of energy. I would guess that in the best case area they might be able to produce power for a few hours to days. And they take millions of years to form? Something does not add up.
Also shouldn’t hydrogen be formed and be detectable?
5:44 unknown person jumpscare
I used to call it dark oxygen when I would fart into someone’s snorkel.
Yes, we've also discovered the singularity inside black holes is made of dark chocolate, and there's a hidden Jupiter behind Saturn called Dark Jupiter. Also the first Dyson Sphere is going to be sailed to the Sun next week, the first manned mission to a Neutron Star has been launched by Antarctica Penguins, and David Copperfield is a real magician !
Fraser cain
Can you do a interview with solar (sun) expert, that can explain how both the solar minimum and maximum effects earth, the history of us observing the sun and what we are currently researching about the sun, im sure there is alot we really dont know about it.
Huge thanks in advance for all the content!
Edited for spelling mistakes 😅
I love your channel, you make all the latest information interesting and digestible and it’s really cool. 🚀
Ive seen ideas about how these nodules could have contributed to the great oxidation event, i doubt they had that big of an effect since they are more localised and not covering the floor of ocean around the world.
But during the great oxidation event when iron was oxidising out of the water and covering the oceanic floor with iron bands that still make up some of our best mines today, i guess it was covering the entire floor?
I'm really guessing here, i dont know lol, but what if all of those iron deposits were acting in the same way as a battery like these small nodules?
That could potentialy create alot of oxygen, maybe not more then biological oxygen, but probably enough to have a big impact.
Would love to get some thoughts on this :)
Thanks for all the news, Fraser! 😊
But yeah, things aren't really good right now for ads... Let's see what happens in the future. If it has a future. 😕
Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Interesting video.
Where there’s metal there’s life.
"Dark oxygen" is the craziest name 😂
“Dark” oxygen is a dramatic way to describe the metallic/ salt (sea water) battery that electrolyzes H2O into H2 and O2. The O2 is not being created.
Thanks! I love what you do!
Ah, but what about Dark Darkness!? Huge discovery that will chance Physics.
Thanks for making great videos!
Dark oxygen ... ill just giggle and move on
Avenging the dinosaurs!!! 😂😂😂
If they have been formed millions of years ago how have they not been covered by sediment?
The Earth is a sphere and in a sphere all areal or parts of the sphere is equally important to hold the shape and form of the sphere. It is a form of oneness which sustains itself. The dark depths and the inner Earth creates our surface where we dwell. Also our body is a unity where all parts are part of a beautiful shape. Some parts are more important than other, but they all are important to create the human body and our beauty. The dark depths of the ocean is as important as the mountains and volcanos on our crust. Together it is the Earth. The day we humans understand that love and oneness connects all humans. Then we will have peace. Much love.
Hi Fraser, if an advanced civilization wants power why create a Dyson sphere? Wouldn't fusion be more efficient?
Why create a "sun in a box" that is a fusion generator when you can just use a sun?
Wow. Have anything we haven't heard of?
one of my favorite astrophysics communicators on CZcams got a Quest 3. I bet Elite Dangerous...
"Naaw man...come one NASA...It´s not like the planes...i swear!"
It turns out that when future mankind mines the ocean for those nodules it will be destroying life in the oceans. How entirely predictable.
5:45 what was that?
5:45 who is the photobomber? 😆
I selected Lunar lava tubes because I think creating Moon base(s) should/will happen before humans travel to Mars.
I don’t understand how anyone uses CZcams daily and doesn’t have premium.
Fraser, could you explain why dark oxygen is such a big deal? I've seen it referred to as an inconvenient discovery. What's the issue?
15:00 Reconnaisance of a reconnaissance satellite?
Question 🙋♂️ if we discovered a black hole heading straight for us, would it be possible to alter it trajectory?
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Good Jesus.. so much haha .. oh this is great can't make it up. So much facts of what they truly know is not oddly being shared.
Hope deorbiting space junk can happen quickly before a dreaded chain reaction of collisions renders low earth orbit impossible
Has anyone questioned this "dark oxy"? I sure have a few.
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I hope we don't mine the bottom of the ocean.