This deep-sea mystery is changing our understanding of life | Karen Lloyd
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- How deep into the Earth can we go and still find life? Marine microbiologist Karen Lloyd introduces us to deep-subsurface microbes: tiny organisms that live buried meters deep in ocean mud and have been on Earth since way before animals. Learn more about these mysterious microbes, which refuse to grow in the lab and seem to have a fundamentally different relationship with time and energy than we do.
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Seeing her being so passionate about the topic made me smile, i love watching people talk about what they love!
You're a babe
I wanna believe everything she says. Why?? Which of buttons does she push?
Happy Happy Jou Joy!
You ... are a writer.
Yes! It's wonderful to see someone love their work. Her enthusiasm is contagious.
We call them "nerd". Don't we? But quite obviously her passion is real, genuine and authentic.
We admire it.
Whoa... Easily one of the best TED talks I've ever come across. Amazing content and she absolutely nailed it. Bravo lady.
Agreed!
came here to say the same. Extremely enthralling!
@@TheCapsulateIon Me too.
Her passion for her work is truly admirable. Awesome talk.
Yes, but she didn't cover the most important thing, how we can kill all these bizarre organisms in the mud at the bottom of the ocean.
And she is a very beautiful person
@@scottcantdance804 Funny you should mention it. I've been thinking of methods all day long!!!!! We'll get there.
Charisma doesn't equal passion.
@@rockwashburn8895 I only wish that, as a speaker, she would learn not to say "thuh ocean" and "thuh Earth."
Everyone would like to have a sympathetic biology teacher like her. How many things we still need to discover about this extraordinary planet that hosts us is that it allows us to live. Many thanks to TED thanks to those who translate these meetings.🙏👏👏👏❤️
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I'm originally from Canada currently living in California ☀️☀️☀️and you where are you from if i may ask?
Enthusiastic, passionate, articulate and candid! She made a fascinating TED talk!! Great one!
0megalvyz1 and pretty
vickmackey24 indeed!
Agreed!
And pretty too!
agreed!
This is probably one of my favorite TED talks ever there was so much about microbes I found fascinating and the way she hooked me to keep on listening was so cool! This is why I absolutely love biology
"Time to get up!!!"
"Just five more centuries, mom."
"That's what you said five centuries ago!"
😂😂😂👍
No cures , Only more defanition of term ....remember though people / or humans or those still in the dish ... lifes still living in it!
Movie! Jason mask making . The it madenella effecting memories and thoughts?
I got an out side hub watching u too! Cc
That other microbe hit me over the head, and took my wallet,, and ran off. Can you give us a description? He did it all within a 1000 years. I didnt get a good look at him because it happened so fast.
I’m nowhere near the level of knowledge of this lady, but I’m blown away by her ability to break it down for the horribly uneducated, like myself. Fascinating, enthusiastic and a great communicator. More please!
Great speaker . She does a fantastic at passing that enthusiasm on.
I couldn't agree more.
Jack Northrup i came to the comments just to point that out.
Hmm not enuf spontaneous but very well prepared and executed
job
She got me exited about deep ocean mud for 13 minutes.
I love seeing a TED speaker who isn't awkward or nervous, or at least handles it well. A lot of the speakers on TED Talks are scientists/specialists in their particular field, and often don't do well with public speaking. So when they get on the stage and really capture people's attention, it's really an enjoyable experience.
Maybe these microbes are earth's backup drive where its keeps the data on how life works.
Earth's testicles?
You are trying giving evolution human like intentionality.
@@peterbartley9155 question, how did such a diverse range of species evolve to form a correspondingly complex ecosystem given that their processes work so slowly?
@DAVID FILER always the magic answer - time. Since we have a common ancestor life originated here or there and transitioned across totally dissimilar ecosystems to take totally different forms. They do nothing when brought up here and we would die instantly without life support to go down there. Any life form that wasn't totally suited to the two different environments could never make the transition no matter how much time.
@Mark Gramm, time and evolution.
It’s never been easier in this age of information to move out of the Middle Ages.
I love how enthusiastic she is! What a great presentation!
Loved this. She genuinely ignited interest in me to study more of ocean biology. She's so graceful and articulate
Pretty much the opposite of Bill Nye and climate change then
Backwood707
I'm pretty sure Bill Nye would also rather have been without man made climate change.
They will make junk food last longer and be even cheaper so people eat worse.
What an awesome talk by a great scientist and a great communicator!
I completely agree it’s the total opposite of watching Bill Nye
She is way better looking than Bill Nye
Guys, the fundamental ability of a good communicator is listening and understanding.
But she is a brilliant speaker.
Very well done. She is an interesting and dynamic speaker. I was fascinated.
I love when Karen Lloyd teach or explain something, because nobody can do better with the pasión and time that she puts in it.
This woman's speech succinctly sums up everything I love about the scientific method.
I love how she loves what she does so much.
I also love her dress
I can watch damn near anything if the person delivering it clearly has a passion for it. This talk affects my life 0% but I still enjoyed it. Bonus fries that I'm now in love.
Brava, Karen!
Only an echo of what many others are saying-Karen is a wonderful speaker, and her passion for her subject radiates an infectious zeal. I want to know more about microbes, time, and MUD! 😊
Outstanding, prominent, conspicuous!! Thank you so much for your notable speech:)
Very discernable indeed!
The most clearly explained subject about something I never thought I'd hear.
Love the passion. Definitely made it more interesting to watch and learn. And it never ceases to amaze me what discoveries we still have yet to make on our own planet. Things move at different rates of time relative to our own perceptions. Very fascinating.
Excellent job. Just the kind of speaker one would want at a conference. She was humorous, articulate, enthusiastic, and knowledgeable. I'm sharing the video with others.
Absolutely one of the best TT I've seen lately. Well done
This blew my mind! Now I know why she can't stop thinking about it.
You're hott!
Especially when she mentioned things in her throat!!!
True. Infinite knowledge, sometimes beyond mind
One of the best presentations I’ve seen this year.
I’m sitting here literally tearing up because I think things like this are so beautiful.
Karen, I love the way you are passionate about your work. It's contagious. Wish you more of such great discoveries to fuel your enthusiasm!
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One of the best TED talks.
Wow. What an amazing, twist and turn of insights, leading to a ponderous self reflection... Bravo!
she speaks so well. it was a pleasure to hear her talk about her very interesting work
Her enthusiasm is so contagious! Great talk!
this is TED so many used to love
And still loves :)
We don't like pedophilia.
Juanchi Cruz Yes you do, you're amongst friends. No need to be coy.
Very cool! Changing understanding of life, yes. Also standing out here is 'changing perception of time'. A while back, i'd gotten interested in taking a pretty deep look into time and wound up writing a short paper on it, more philosophy than physics, with a key consideration being the nature of our perception of time making things very difficult when it comes to trying to reach any understanding of 'what is time'. There was one paper another person had written, more from a scientific perspective, a guy by the name of Rovelli, paper was titled "Forget Time" (i see he's been thinking about this ever since and has recently come out with a book on it). He advocated replacing time with thermodynamic equations (something tells me that would be a hard sell to the general public). Your consideration of the amount of energy consumption/metabolic rate/longevity, with your deep see microbes (oh, temperature/metabolic rate, what's the temperature at the bottom of the ocean? i've heard that methane freezes down there...), would seem to support his argument. Certainly our perception of time is profoundly impacted by thermodynamic factors. We don't actually measure time but state variations compared to other state variations in time and it is the rate of variation we call 'time'. As you have noticed, the slower the rate of state variations, the less meaningful any concept of 'time' becomes.
i've added your talk to my continuing collection of notes on the subject of 'time'. Thanks! :-)
Its wonderful to see someone who can engage you for an entire talk on a subject not many would go, oh I will watch this. Big respect for person.
Well done
Wow this lady is perfect! Passionate, intelligent, dedicated, positive, great at speaking and just straight up beautiful. Great talk! More of these kinds of talks please!!
I like her sm ! She's so intelligent and charming
another brilliant addition to TED
This was and in fact is the most interesting talk about "tiny little microbes" i ever heared in my life. Thank you so much.
She did an excellent job , she is able do condense such a huge amount of information into a few minutes and make it interesting and
understandable , amazing to find life in such impossible conditions, kind of spooky.
Very interesting
Intelligent, beautiful & charismatic thanks TED this one is a winner!
she is a true teacher ... transmitting her enthusiasm and her energy ... inspiring us to learn.
Best TED talk ever, a great example of science communication, her passion is infectious!
I like how genuinely excited she is about it :D
Thank you Ted Talks and Karen Lloyd for a truly fascinating presentation.
This woman is so amazing I LOVE her passion!! So articulate and inspiring ✨✊
Excellent!! Really fascinating! One of the best TED Talks to date.
Okay the oceans are super cool
Amazing! What a wonderful, paradigm-shifting talk! This give me a lot to think about...
I love the interesting challenge that is always thrown in our faces by the TED bits. great work at keeping us all stimulated mentally
cheers@
I like how you can see the love and passion in her face and body language for her profession and field of study. Really good speaker.
Wow this is actually incredible, I just wanna hear more.
Amazing information. Unbelievable. And, great natural speaker, simple presentation with maximum concentration on her words. Very likeable
As a geologist, I can see the "paradigm change" needed here. Not caring about the sun, or petri dishes, is a great clue. Thanks Prof. Lloyd
Fantastic speaker. Great energy. Draws the listener in. Wonderful .
thanks CZcams from the bottom of my heart to recommended me this videos...I am a freak of misteries/space an so!!!
Brilliant speaker, both funny and informative. She has certainly sparked my interest in the subject
I could listen to her over and over and over and over again. She's dynamic.
Karen does such a wonderful job, conveying the fascination of this oddball life-form.
She's a great speaker! Kept me engaged the whole time.
Greatest talk and topic in years. Absolute mind shifting perspective. We appear to be a species, developed from slowly adapted micro-organisms that got used to the pulse/beat of sunlight. From one single cell to a specialized breed, ready to extinct again. And waiting after that - for millions of years - for another deep-see-organism to give it a new try :)
So excited, so passionate with an enthusiasm we all should want. Thanks.Great talk.
Wonderful, passionate speaker, fascinating topic, new material. This is what science is all about. Bravo!
great video again
Good way to store data if you can program them.
And duplicate them. It's not convenient economically to get the "bits" only from the ocean floor
Karen, your personality just made marine biology interesting and fun to learn about! thank you!
What a great speaker! And so passionate about the topic. Well done young lady.
I love how we search endlessly into space for life, justify budgets that could instead be used feed those starving and yet have only explored but a fraction of our oceans - which could lead us to understanding ourselves, as well as all forms of life. Thank you for your research! We need more Karens like you.
If we could learn how to temporarily slow metabolism to this minimalistic state, it could also solve long distance space travel issues. Instead of trying to work out the issues of low temperatures, we could just take some deep sea tech to deep space.
Best Ted talk Ive ever seen...shez so passionate towards her expertise which make me curious to listen to her more...👌👏👍
love her energy!
"So in my job on a daily basis, I get to produce scientific evidence against existential loneliness" Thank you.
She deserved applause at discovering the ecosystem underneath the deep sea. The crowd was mum.
Absolutely brilliant presentation of a fascinating subject - wow!!!
So exciting!! And I love her enthusiasm!
Maybe the petri dishes need to be under several hundred atmospheres of pressure to simulate the conditions that the microbes exist in.
Kevin Deemster ideas worth spreading
I'm sure they would have thought of that being micro biologists
Yep, that would be very hard to reproduce.
My very first thought. She and her colleagues are probably right about the time issue - but, still...
no I don' think this is hard to reproduce. there are pressure chambers existing that can mimic pretty high pressures already. these are used for industrial diving in off-shore environments. it's called saturation diving.
Fantastic talk. But if these bacteria grow that much slower than the ones we knew before, doesn't that mean they have had less generations to change their genomes? So basically they should be very behind in evolution, so can't we get information about early cells?
Reminds me of the David Attenborough show about plants and how when you speed it up they look like animals fighting. Humans are usually blind to most other time scales.
They almost certainly descend from much faster growing organisms. If her theory is right, what's interesting is when and how they slowed down their growth-rate.
@@jocknielsen1101 obviosly it's environmental adaptation, question is - what sort of information or other use we could get from that?
Some started out fast, others slow. It dosent matter if you where fast or slow as long as you ended up winning by passing on your genes or just staying alive by repairing yourself all this time.
That is a really interesting point. Thanks.
Passion is so important and we are learning so much about us self as we apparently all are related
Great talk, she's very articulate and her enthusiasm is clearly genuine. I hope she does talks at elementary school levels; inspire those kids!
Thanks very good
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Extremely interesting talk. I'm curious how the microbes in Lake Baikal's sediment compares.
CJ Calhoun Ha, a shout out to Lake Baikal, wasn’t expecting that. Interesting to me because I was reading about Baikal last week, apparently I had family that lived very close to the ancient lake
Now I go looking for this lake's information... This is how I get stuck in CZcams algorithms and keep putting off doing my school work. I'm not complaining at all. 😄
CJ Calhoun - Interesting thought, Baikal's fresh water though and only a mile deep- would that have an effect? Or would deep sediment nullify that? Ask her before Baikal gets more polluted. Imagine telling your microbes "you have relatives in Russia".
@@haroldwilkes6608 it's still a relatively isolated environment, I don't know how well studied microbial life is there but I'd imagine given the massive diversity in the microbial world that there is plenty unlike anything we've seen, it makes these kinds of environments extremely interesting to microbiologists looking for both novel antimicrobial metabolites and novel strategies.
@@rtendotapiwa306 Glad to know there's somebody else like me - I read something, have a minor question, end up with two lost days on the internet and another in a university library, have to look at my phone to find out what day it is. And have completely forgotten what my original question was. Have fun but don't put off the homework too long. I'm retired so no school work to do.
I really enjoyed this superbly presented piece. Thanks for putting this on.
Wow! Exquisite. So glad you did the work and presented it so enthusiastically.
Thank you for a interesting presentation Karen Lloyd, showing us that life allways find a way. :-)
You mentioned that noone to date has been able to grow the microorganisms you found in a lab and I was waiting for you to mention one component we humans often take for granted. But you didn´t. So I´m curious..
You mention that the Joides Resolution can drill thousands of meters underneath the ocean, and you use the terms deep sub surface microbes. I don´t know what depths that indicate, I just guess it´s really deep, so; won´t the pressure at that depth be massive? Maybe the microbes need that pressure in the lab too, if it´s possible to make there?
Kind regards and thanks again :-)
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I absolutely love these lectures
I find this fascinating on multiple levels. Not only does it speak to the potential diversity of ways that life has adapted to survive on our own planet, but it absolutely informs, if not redefines, our thinking about the search for life on other worlds. If one was to extrapolate Karen's explanation/description of the sun as the source of energy and also the means by which more-familiar-to-us life was sped up in a sense, then we can view both ourselves and the deep under-surface microbial life on a continuum of sorts. If then we are on that continuum, what about other forms of life which may have adapted and grown to function in a difference range of that continuum, in the vast, vast plenitude between us and them? But here's the fascinating part: What about what WE might term as 'intelligent' life that has evolved somewhere else on that continuum? Maybe in between, or possibly even beyond us? What about a life form that's intelligent but has evolved in their world so that their biorhythms are quite faster than the sedimentary microbes, but still far less frequent than our own? Like looking at the hour-hand of a clock, their movements, signals, and processes might be imperceptible to our detection. (Anyone seen Drax around here?) What about an intelligent form of life that has evolved in an environment and world where their biorhythms are far, far beyond us on the continuum? Would this life *seem* to us not only frenetic, but so frenetic and chaotic that we would interpret it as random? There are multi-faceted discussions all the time, by folks far more intelligent than I, as to what constitutes life , as well as what constitutes sentient life. In our lifetimes we have seen this conversation expand to include artificial life and intelligence. This talk by Karen, to me, adds a whole new aspect if not dimension to that discussion. Maybe this is not a new thought at all, just new to me. ;-)
This info is amazing. Just so fascinating to think that organisms exist in ways we think are impossible
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“Scientific evidence against existential loneliness”.. NICE!
You just fell for that. She basically said you were not as important as a one-celled organism.. please don't believe anything this lady says
We're born knowing this.
I've always possesed this understanding.
I didn't listen at school to me it was and still is rubbish and lies
@@nemonemo3898 pfft pathetic.
You rely on your self importantance yuck
@@ThomasDoubting5 oh I am very important. Unique in every way. My own fingerprints, my own voice pattern, my own genetic code, and a blessed soul ,. 👼
@@nemonemo3898 telling people what they should and shouldn't believe #blessed
Does this mean that the more time I spend in doors the longer I will live?
Or is the adapatation to this cycle long ingrained into our genetics and one lifespan is irrelevant to a change.
Honest question since I've heard sun exposure helps prolong life.
As Jack Northrup said below, Karen passes on her enthusiasm to us all. It's great to know people who are so jazzed about science - it gives me hope!
5 seconds in...Her enthusiasm is inspiring and super endearing!
I hate the beach with a lot of heart, because of the heat, sand on my body and etc. BUT THE OCEAN IS AMAZING
ChisCrisKris hello Anakin
i wish that was it, but there is alot of fecal matter in the beaches around here (galveston).
Sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.
Chris Chris Kris....go to Wellfleet Massachusetts..Marconi Beach is fascinating
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"No, mom. I can't just 'go play outside.' It will shorten my life span."
I counter you with special relativity. Get moving!
*mumble mumble mumble* mothers *mumble mumble*
Josh T will you marry me
Are u g**
Thank You, Karen Lloyd, for helping us to understand the significance of these microbes. Very interesting. Love & Peace to All
A beautiful and informative lecture Karen, thank you.
Life finds a way.
4 words in one of the most beautiful sentences ever made.
I'd like to add one more speculation. How about suspended animation. Since it appears we will not be traveling at FTL speeds anytime soon, maybe we could use this knowledge to shut ourselves down for 1000 year space journey's.
nice one
I immediately thought of this as well!
If you look at it another way though, it shows how far we are from FTL lol
Wow... That would be so GREAT
What a genius idea! I’ve heard scientists talk about how suspended animation is silly and not likely but this is a pretty cool idea
It wouldn't be "shutting down" we would be "speeding up" travel to the stars. 1000 years of travel would seem to be a day.
She did a good job of making a complex subject easily understood for us common folk….❤️❤️❤️
Really amazing most simplified explanation ever best!!!