Why We Owe Our Lives to Phytoplankton
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Some of the amazing creatures on the ocean floor have immense power to reshape the planet's atmosphere-and you've likely never even seen them before! These microscopic critters are called phytoplankton, and almost all life, both on land and in the ocean, depends on them. Learn about this world changing little friends in a new episode of SciShow, hosted by Hank Green!
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Hey ... Could y’all please do the difference between Alzheimer’s and Dementia?
The waste product of plastic production is spent sulfuric acid. It is dumped in the oceans killing the phytoplankton.
SciShow muscle hank kick weak ass
Ted Phillips not surprised 😭😡😳
SciShow 😍 I’m from Monterey!
6:48 "They're here to *kelp* and hope to *sea* you soon."
Ughh, somebody *krill* me.
Shore will... soon's school's out :D
*Whale*...... if you say so...
It "shell" be done.
I seem to find your comments on a lot of videos.
I didn’t know my eyes could roll that much till hank said that
Hank said "THEY hope" as if he was trying to tell us: "this pun was not my idea".
I usually love puns, but i could hear him cringing at his own jokes.
Levon Oganyan clearly you haven’t listened to Dear Hank and John. Every week Hank opens with a dad joke and he loves every second of it
@@laurensomething1899 I know, but this time it was especially painful
@@levonoganyan6183 : It's because of the "Sea" bit. There's no way to do that properly without it being painful.
I bet he facepalmed straight after
When you produce 80% of the world's oxygen but people just want to talk about trees
#TeamPlankton would like to raise $20M to plant 20 million diatoms.
Skiiman because it’s difficult to hug plankton
@@massimookissed1023 you could fill a bowl with 20 million diatoms
plants also consume same amount of oxygen as much they produce .
The oceans cover over 70% of the world, so it would be weird if trees, which have to expend loads of energy on structural support, produced more free oxygen.
"Plank-ton" probably isn't a lot, because Plank lengths are the smallest units of measurement possible ...
but a ton of planks weighs the same as a ton of feathers. So surely a ton of planks is a really, really large number?
Zebobez good one!
@@mozismobile
Not only must it be a really large number, but inevitably begs the question at exactly what time do a standard inch really weigh in relation to its original energy frequency measured in a vacuum when observed directly from a fixed distance on opposite sides tickling a cat for reference?
That, my friend, we may never find out for sure. Until then it is best to avoid Plancks all together, or at least wear safety goggles when thinking about them.
Thank you, I'll let myself out...
Plank ton is the weight of 1000 wooden planks, so about 15.625 (15 stacks +40) stacks of wood.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who had that thought.
New tinder bio: I need you like the world needs phytoplankton
I need you like plankton needs the krabby patty formula
Just put them in your unused form of water an let them thrive
The world needs phytoplankton. Phytoplankton needs the world...
The carbon footprint of the military industrial complex czcams.com/video/oMozyspFuBM/video.html numbers still underestimated for obvious reasons....
Although I'm working in a different field I know a colleague who works on phytoplankton. Intriguingly, they produce secondary metabolites with known antimicrobial properties. These compounds can, for example, reduce the risk in Daphnia of being infected by pathogens. Who knows what kind of medicine we could find if we study phytoplankton closer (would actually love to make a video about that one day!)?
Or by mass manufacturing them produce a whole lot of immune microbes and thus wipe out the phytoplanton that rely on those antimicrobials?
Life Lab Learner YOU would like to do a video on this? I wish you would because I would love to watch it. In fact, I tried using your username to see if you had a CZcams channel or any videos. I came across “Lifelabs”, but I don’t think that’s you.
Good luck making the video if you ever decide to do it!
Woooo yay phytoplankton!! 🌊🍃🔬💙
The Monterey bay aquarium is super cool, I live kinda nearby there
Me too in Sac. We go every few years. Its amazing
me too, we even had yearly passes last year. very cool place
Kinda live? Meaning your life isn't exactly what you'd call living? Well don't worry because the phytoplankton biomass has decreased by 50% since 1965. If this process continues we are toast.
nice
@@paxwallacejazz interesting. Can you back this up please? Here is some more interesting fact : the carbon footprint of the military industrial complex czcams.com/video/oMozyspFuBM/video.html numbers still underestimated for obvious reasons....
Edit. About the decrease of phytoplankton, You could write "green in blue" perhaps...?
"PlankTON of fun. "
Oh Hank
Max Plank is worth looking into too.
Oh “one of the many writers of this series”
Considering all scale of measure are the minimum measurement possible, a Plank ton of fun would be no fun at all xD
fight, o plankton! fight like all life depends on it!!!
oh, just a note, as a former California resident, I can confirm, the Monterey Bay Aquarium is NOT something you want to miss. They're an amazing experience and I can't wait for the next time I get to go there.
My mum : what have you learn't?
Me : *frezbee covered football*
Ah, I see the magic school bus was just my introductory course.
*Sea
Magic School Bus was a great introductory course on many topics!
"Mama why is the sky blue?"
"It's the phytoplankton sweetheart."
😶😮
Great vid as always.
Just to add in: Coccoliths have been rock forming and contributed to controlling ocean acidification since at least the mid-Late Jurassic, and have had calcified tests since at least the Rhaetian in the Late Triassic. To me the best example of them regulating oceanic ph and being incredible carbon stores would be the PETM recovery.
~ A micropalaeontologist
Wow , Wow
Imagine if humans were dumb enough to mess with the place where these things live. I don't know by heating it up, filling it with plastic or changing its pH.
PH
I can tell you what happens. You end up with a blue-green algae bloom that gets into the water supply and shuts down a city (and then some). See: greatlakes.org/2019/08/five-years-later-lessons-from-the-toledo-water-crisis/
@@jsEMCsquared it's actually stylised pH. The H stands for hydrogen that's why it alone is capitalised.
Or removing several species in the food chain necessary for the continuation of a stable ecosystem.
I was literally about to find a scishow vid in my watch later lmao
I actually thought this was an episode of Into the Microverse at first
May as well be tbh
Watch Later? Micro-verse?? Heresy!
@@limiv5272 I always watch it at night because the tone of the narration just straight up knocks me out to sleep lmao
I watch so many shows that this guy narrates, but it's always the way he narrates that one that makes me so sleepy
It's like 10pm rn, so I could have actually done with a Microverse upload actually
@@alexbenavidez4500 They did upload today, the video was about Tardigrade sex
Sweet dreams (-:
Limi V: Great. Now how am I supposed to get any sleep with this weirdboner? It's not like XVideos caters to phytoplanctonic fetishes!
Alex Benavidez
wait, isn't it called into the microcosmos?
I just love phytoplankton. They're just so helpful and useful. Cool little guys.
You better eat some of those whales hunting innocent phytoplankton 🐳🥩😋
@@OmmerSysselno
One of these Planktons just wants the Krabby Patty secret formula
I think thats zooplankton that appear in SpongeBob
While I knew a few basic things about phytoplankton I had no idea of its diversity, importance, and contribution to the formation of the atmosphere that allowed life to flourish. This was very fascinating and yet another example of why this channel is one of my absolute favorites on YT. Many thanks for the thought-provoking content.
I feel like we need to farm Phytoplankton at an industrial level. Find a nice patch of barren ocean and mix up batches of plankton and nutrients. Maybe we could make it a joint operation to clean up all the plastic floating about once we're there.
This is taking me back my Environmental Science classes at Cal State Monterey Bay. Love everyone at the Monterey Bay Aquarium!
Watching this video was almost like a journey to the micro-cosmos :P
Especially the Diatoms.
2 of my favorite channels working together? Perfect
Journey to the Microcosmos bleeding into everything. I am delighted.
Evi1M4chine soon JttMC will be all things.
I love marine bio, plus this was like Scishow meets Microcosms 👏😍
Thank you, plankton. Thankton.
Thank you❤️😊
From Sri Lanka 🇱🇰🤗
6:06 I just got that angel fish in my reef aquarium today. It’s a Majestic Angelfish. Beautiful.
Wow... just wow! So much information in this video and so much strength in so little creatures!
I adore the Monterey aquarium ❤
Hank was in a very poetic mood in this video :,D
The one dislike must be the last surviving oxygen intolerant cyano-bacterium.
Wow, i don't think I've ever watched a video this soon after it was released XD
omg so many missed "1st" comments .wat r u doin with yor life smh.
Monterey is beutiful. Thanks to the aquarium and regulations. It will stay that way for future generations to enjoy 😃
Futur generations will enjoy. Let's hope so. Meanwhile, let's talk about the carbon footprint of the military industrial complex czcams.com/video/oMozyspFuBM/video.html numbers still underestimated for obvious reasons...
Before this showed me the correct spelling of "Phytoplankton", I thought just as there is an imaginatively named dogfish, there must also be a dog-algae ...'cause I had THOUGHT it was spelled "Fidoplankton." Thanks for clearing that up for me, SciShow.
3:44 I believe you mean the "Great Oxygenation Event", right?
Good video, though. Everyone likes trees, and for good reason, but I'm glad to see the little phytoplankton getting some love.
Upon further research (well, Wikipedia), apparently it goes by both names! Carry on, then. 😊
BTW, for anyone wondering what the difference is, "oxygenation" means "enriching with oxygen", whereas "oxidation" is a particular kind of chemical reaction (which can involve oxygen, but doesn't have to). So, just adding oxygen can be oxygenation even if doesn't cause an oxidizing chemical reaction. But the GOE did both -- oxygenating the atmosphere, and also oxidizing the iron that had been disolved in the oceans.)
You summarized the past 15 years of my life's passions in 7 minutes.
Can we create artificial mechanical plants or phytoplankton that scrub carbon in the air and give us oxygen? Can we create that in robotics?
A Journey to Microcosm video on this topic is now due.
At first I heard Planck-ton of fun, but then realized what you actually said. 😆 was like wtf, they hope I have a very small amount of fun!?
Oh the puns!!!
Secretly loves them.
I would kill to see a timelapse of all of this. No joke.
LOOOOVE this video. Thanks so much, it's wonderful!
Why was the first think I thought: Spongebob?! 😍
Even my first idea!
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
@@TheCimbrianBull SPONGE BOB SQARE PANTS
80 million years ago isn't that long ago for such a world shaping microorganism evolution.
Will you do a video on the novel coronavirus ?
I was wondering this too.
this is like a mixed episode of microcosmos and eon
Furthermore, it will always be Rainey in Monterey. Any bike fans from back in the Gram Prix era will attest to that fact. Great aquarium too, so I'm told.
Good information thanks
Monterey Bay Aquarium!
One notable plankton would rather spend his time stealing the Krabby Patty formula then something very important.
Please wish the Monterey Bay Aquarium incredible luck.
From: Michael S. Alderete
It was April the forty-first
Being a quadruple leap year
I was driving in downtown Atlantis
My Barracuda was in the shop
So I was in a rented Stingray
And it was overheating
So I pulled into a Shell Station
They said I'd blown a seal
I said, "Fix the damn thing
And leave my private life out of it
Okay pal?"
While they were doing that
I walked over to a place called the Oyster Bar, a real dive
But I knew the owner
He used to play for the Dolphins
I said "Hi Gil"
You have to yell, he's hard of herring
Gil was also down on his luck
Fact is he was barely keeping his head below water
I bellied up to the sandbar
He poured me the usual
Rusty snail, hold the grunion
Shaken not stirred
With a peanut butter and jellyfish sandwich on the side
Heavy on the mako
I slipped him a fin
On porpoise
I was feeling good
I even dropped a sand dollar in the box for Jerry's squids
For the halibut
Well the place was crowded
We were packed in like sardines
They were all there to listen to the big band sounds of Tommy Dorsal
What sole
Tommy was rockin' the place with a very popular tuna
Salmon Chanted Evening
And the stage was surrounded by screaming groupers
Probably there to see the bass player
One of them was this cute little yellowtail
And she's giving me the eye
So I figured this is my chance for a little fun
You know, piece of Pisces
But she said things I just couldn't fathom
She was too deep, seemed to be under a lot of pressure
Boy, could she drink
She drank like a...
She drank a lot
I said "What's your sign"
She said "Aquarium"
I said "Great, let's get tanked"
I invited her to my place for a midnight bait
I said "Come on baby, it'll only take a few minnows"
She threw me that same old line
"Not tonight, I gotta haddock"
And she wasn't kidding either
Cause in came the biggest, meanest looking haddock
I'd ever seen come down the pike
He was covered with mussels
He came over to me and said
"Listen, shrimp, don't you come trollin' around here"
What a crab
This guy was steamed
I could see the anchor in his eyes
I turned to him, I said
"A-balone, you're just being shellfish"
Well, I knew it was going to be trouble and so did Gil
‘Cause he was already on the phone to the cods
The haddock hits me with a sucker punch
I catch him with a left hook
He eels over
It was a fluke but there he was
Lying on the deck, flat as a mackerel
Kelpless
I said "Forget the cods Gil
This guy's gonna need a sturgeon"
Well, the yellowtail was impressed with the way I landed her boyfriend
She came over to me, she said
"Hey, big boy, you're really a game fish
What's your name"
I said "Marlin"
Well, from then on we had a whale of a time
I took her to dinner, I took her to dance
I bought her a bouquet of flounders
And then I went home with her
And what did I get for my trouble
A case of the clams
Mr. Crab should watch this video.
Love it! I hope you partner with Monterey Bay Aquarium again in the future!
Phytoplankton changed the atmosphere with its waste, causing a mass extension event, that lead to complex life as we know it.
Makes me wonder if humans could be changing the Earth for hyper-complex life to evolve.
good guy microorganisms. Cant even see them but world would die without them.
Gotta squeeze it out - Hank looks so cute with that hair! 🥰
Omg hank said they need love 🥺🤯
I love the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Those were some serious dad jokes.
Those puns are a little water down.
I would love to know how many times Hank stumbled on "coccolithophores". :)
That's also an easy phytoplankton name. I identified phytoplankton for my master's thesis and there were some algae I ID'd that took a lot of practice to ensure I could pronounce the names correctly for my thesis.
I’m so proud of myself, I actually knew everything in this video. *phycologist self-hug*
Everyone - Taking notes, and filing away important facts on phytoplankton in their mind palaces...
Me - Trying WAAAAY too hard to figure out what shirt your wearing... Phyto-wha?
Love your guys vids! I always learn something new. Keep it up, and thanks!
00:13 Oh! Banging style today, Hank!
simp
I'm a member of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and on their behalf I deeply apologize for the terrible, terrible puns they apparently demanded in return for sponsorship. They otter be ashamed of themselves.
As a physicist, this Planck Ton you speak of intrigues me...
"Nature's Wrath cometh"
How do you weigh a Phytoplankton?
With the Plank Scale.
Introduce phytoplankton to Mars. See what happens.
Thanks lil Phyto's!
Loved it
Great topic and video! An amazing book to read about phytoplankton and cyanobacteria producing Earth's oxygen is "Oxygen: the Molecule that Made the World", by Dr Nick Lane. Even though the book was published in 2006, (and a few ideas have changed), it is a fabulous look at how oxygen levels changed over geologic time, and how species adapted. Dr. Nick Lane is a researcher in abiogenesis and Origins of Life, and has a writing style that is engaging, passionate, and humorous.
Isn't a plank like one of the smallest forms of measurement? Soo wouldn't that mean a "Plank-ton" of fun is almost the smallest amount of fun you could actually experience?
Planck's constant is the smallest possible distance that anything can be.
Could you do a video on why\how anyone could EVER thumbs down one of your video's?!
Dude did you do Journey to the Microcosmos? Like I looked up Diotoms on youtube cause yeah... those looked super interesting and who's voice is narrating the first video I click on? Looks like Hank Green with a chill voice on but the same mannerisms.... so IS IT YOU HANK? ;)
Yay Monterey Bay Aquarium!!!
Those puns are 'abyss'mal.
Good luck on the interview
Hank, you forgot to say "but humans are better". You're making progress...
Talking about the negative sides of phytoplankton (like Red Tide), cyanobacteria shut down Toledo, Ohio for three days when their toxins went undetected through our water treatment plant and made their way into the tap water. That was crazy.
I grew up and was living in the Toledo area at the time and this was definitely crazy! Trying to find water was a struggle.
What’s also crazy is the fact that something like what happened in 2014 isn’t an outlier. The blooms get out of control most years and disrupt local ecosystems but fortunately never get to the tipping point of not being able to drink the water.
thankyou bro
Awesome video, exactly what I was looking for. So! With this in mind, and putting interplanetary ethics aside- how would Humanity trigger the Great Martian Oxidation event?
If we developed underground/protected lakes filled with genetically modified hyper productive phytoplankton, we could scale indefinitely by digging more capacity for liquid h2o to exist and harbor these organisms. And we already have tech to convert martian air to water and other stuff. I feel like this could be do-able with our existing tech and knowledge.
Only wonder how long it would take to make habitable zones/ecosystems.
The puns gave me a chuckle 🙃
Puntastic episode.
Go phytoplankton u r awesome
Type in Phytoplankton biomass. If it's true that phytoplankton biomass has decreased by 50% since the mid 60s then we should be very very alarmed.
These puns make me laugh out loud. Literal lol
The Monterey Bay Aquarium of one of the best in the world but I follow their twitter and I can confirm they are unbearably enthusiastic about puns.
kool t shirt!
A plank-ton of 👏!
MBARI explores, MBA explains and exposes.
This makes me want to visit the aquarium, but looking at those public transit times means i definitely gotta find a buddy with a car.
Why cant we use them as carbon capture technology. We harvest the nutrients from desalination plants and we pipe them through our deserts without the sea water interacting with the land. more sun, more nutrients from desalination plants. what do you guys think
2:32 How does that work out? Animals eating each others? Minmaxing the food intake?
Is there any way we could genetically alter phytoplankton to pull out massive amounts of CO2 from the ocean and thus the atmosphere? Could we "cultivate" them on the sea using a large fleet of autonomous ships to monitor nutrients and make them grow and sequester carbon?
2:52 wow
Would be a good idea to farm tons of phytoplankton and dump them in the ocean to reduce acidification and CO2 levels? Would it be practical?
No idea if this could be done without destabilising the ecosystem. But I heard about research that the mineral olivine could be ground up and used to sequester CO2
Evi1M4chine it’s not that simple, if a cycle that was stable isn’t anymore, there’s more than one way to solve it