WEBVTT - The Life Aquatic 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:06.680 Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:14.040 Works dot com. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:17.520 This is Robert Lamb and I'm Julie Douglas. Julie, have 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:20.680 you ever raised sea monkeys? I have? Yeah, Well are 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:24.120 you disappointed? Um? Yeah, a little bit, But I think 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:26.800 I was more intrigued by the atmosphere that they were 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:30.920 living in, Like that seems really magical. Well on the package, 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:34.280 it looks magical because it shows these little creatures living 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:36.839 and they have like a little undersea kingdom, and then 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:39.320 you expect that to take place to up and it 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:42.120 doesn't really happen. Now it doesn't, but I was taken 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:45.360 with that. I thought, oh yes, finally, Well, like like 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:48.800 growing sprouts is I find that to be far more satisfying. 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:50.800 And at the end I have, like something delicious put 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:54.240 on a sandwich. Sea monkeys not that delicious, No, not 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:57.840 at all. Yeah. There are a species of brine shrimp, right, yeah, 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:00.480 I mean not to take away them as stake here, 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.840 but yeah, yeah they're not. They're not actually you know, 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:06.240 hominid's in any way, shape or form. Yeah, tiny seaman. 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:09.960 But according to their packaging, they are a true miracle. 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:14.320 Of nature. Yes, well, I mean everything is really but 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:17.319 but you know there's uh these undersea kingdoms that they had, 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:20.560 like it, like it really captured my imagination. I think 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:22.880 a lot of people's imagination is because because there's something 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:29.280 like in the Psyche that just wants to see underwater cities. Um. 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:32.759 I guess it's just the like the just impossible nature 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:36.800 of it, the sort of topsy turvy world aspect of it. 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.400 Well yeah, I mean if you think about it geographically, 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.800 it is like the Earth turned upside down or not 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:47.120 the Earth, but that what we see there as land lovers. Um, 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:49.400 So why wouldn't you want to hang out in that 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:52.160 submerged mountain range? Yeah? And it's you know, it's the 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:54.880 mystery of it too, like the what's underneath the water? 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:57.880 You know, and see some fish something that looks kind 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.240 of like a mermaid. Yeah, and then there's a whole 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:02.920 tranquil thing. Yeah. Yeah, and you know it's like your 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:06.920 wait list and it's yeah, it's uh so it's it's 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:08.920 a it's an idea that's been exploring in a number 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:10.720 of times, like just to run through like a few 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.440 of the famous ones, like in in myth you have 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:17.640 the Lost Cities of s and Atlantis. Yes, um, yes, 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:20.400 yes you do. Oh. I thought you're correcting because I 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:22.360 wasn't exactly sure how to pronounce because it looks kind 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.040 of like yees and it and it's I thought it 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:25.919 was pronounced like S, but it could be yes, the 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:28.600 city of Yes. Yes, no, I was just agreeing they 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.920 are mythic. You have the City of Rapture in the 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:35.799 Bioshot games. You have Lions in the War and War 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:37.800 Gods of the Deep. You have the Lost City of 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:41.560 Atlanta and Futurama. Did you ever see that one? It's 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.960 like the city of Atlanta, which where we're podcasting from, 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:48.480 is completely submerged and people live in it. Oh my goodness, 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:51.040 I'm gonna have to seek that one out. And uh, 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:55.000 it's not I mean, it's it's like an outsider's critique. Okay, 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:56.560 I was gonna say, does it have Marta, Does it 0:02:56.680 --> 0:03:00.960 have like like for underground Atlanta. Yeah, because an insider's 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:03.200 view of the Lost City of Atlantis, I think would 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:05.440 would be a lot more interesting, at least to Atlanta, 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:08.160 because what happens to Marto when it's when it's submerged, 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:13.160 it's still late. Yeah, you have of course, uh uh 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:17.720 sub Diego of Aquaman. You have the city of and 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:21.679 I'm never sure pronounced this, even though I've read Lovecraft 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:24.720 numerous times. We have the city of really really a yeah, 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.919 I know I've always wondered yea, yeah. I always just 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.320 think of it as like Caulu town, you know, yeah, 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:34.560 right yeah? And then uh, and then you have you 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:38.440 have like various like mechanical underwater cities that have popped up, 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:42.360 like um, I like or not or not always cities, 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.600 but sometimes just habitats. I have anyone who's seen any 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:47.720 of them. Like the late nineties, I feel like it 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:51.880 was when we had just tons of underwater base underwater city, 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:54.720 uh situation showing up in the films you have like 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:56.840 the Abyss, you had Deep Star six, you had the 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:00.920 Leviath than the Lords of the deep Water World water World? 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:03.000 Did they ever go into what I've never seen water World? 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.680 I haven't either actually think that they not having seen 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:07.840 it though, um, I think that they just created like 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:14.920 a bunch of floating areas, floating cities. So nonetheless they 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:16.400 were on the water. Well, they were on the water. 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:19.560 They might have had stuff, yeah, slightly. I bet they 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.680 took a swim every once in a while. Yeah, in 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:28.479 the unfilmed sequel maybe, But but but anyway, outside of 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:31.719 the realm of myth and fantasy and science fiction, we 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:35.080 we've actually looked into this, uh through through a number 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:37.640 of experiments, and it's an idea that continues to capture 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:42.280 the imagination and it and often ends up spilling over 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.359 into a scientific inquiry. Yeah. And it seems to me 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.800 like like the nineteen fifties saw a really big fascination 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:52.599 with us and that this has some parallels with space colonization. Yeah, 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.720 the same sort of idea where we could enter this 0:04:56.000 --> 0:05:01.200 mysterious um quiescent space and live our lives in a 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:03.760 completely different way. Yeah, and he goes back like anytime 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:05.920 you look at like the like the Walt Disney you know, 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.480 I've got Center Visions of Tomorrow or you know, the 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:10.280 World of Tomorrow, and it was, you know, it was 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:13.000 always like we're totally we're gonna do it, guys. We're 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.760 gonna have cities on the moon, We're gonna we're gonna 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:19.160 live underwater and cities. I mean, it was just this 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.400 since that same sense of optimism that that you know, 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.279 that told us that with science at our side. You know, 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:28.039 the stars are ours and it's you know, so of 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:30.640 course the ocean is also within our grass. Of course. 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:32.800 Of the funny thing now is it's driven by pessimism, 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:37.119 I think, because it's like, well, hm, we're really eating 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:39.359 up all the natural resources here and taking up a 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.080 lot of land. Maybe we should explore the oceans a 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:46.159 little bit more. Maybe that's possible to live underneath them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:48.120 where it's like, oh, well, the the environment is not 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:51.800 going too hot. Everything's gonna be underwater anyway, right, so 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.080 can we make it everything float or make it just 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:58.880 all waterproof? So New York City. Maybe it's just a 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:02.120 chain of little lisle ins and underground pods. Who knows. 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:06.960 So one of the first that really comes to mind, 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.560 like like when when this is when people were actually like, 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.440 let's let's do it. Let's let's try it out. Because 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:17.560 on the on the surface, on the on the surface 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:19.680 of things, like the idea sounds pretty simple, you know, 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.560 if you if you're not familiar with any of the 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:25.440 the science involved, just like, well, let's just build something underwater. 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:27.920 You know, you saw it's air tight, pump some air 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:29.600 down to it, and people will live in it, right, 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:33.240 will be like the chunnel. Yeah, but it's it gets 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.240 a lot more complicated than that. And when one of 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:38.640 the the main guys who is really looking into this 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:41.080 UM in the late fifties or like sixties was of 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:47.960 course Custo. So wait, oh, I thought you were okay, 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:49.360 I thought you're gonna do more of a French tech 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:52.440 on Custo because I feel like I'm not getting the 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:57.680 proper Okay, it's just one syllable is that I don't 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:02.520 know anyway, not my forte jacqu Custos. Let's try your 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:08.279 more Italian see okay? Um. But Jacquesto had the con 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:14.040 Shelf project and this was a series of three underwater 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:18.480 habitats that they explored and and it it gets right 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.200 into the idea of the aquanot, which is like the 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:24.640 astronaut except underwater. Basically it's just going down for an 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:27.440 extended period of time and adapting to the pressure. UH 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:31.640 scuba divers living and operating both inside and outsider and underwater. Right, 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.200 and to be in a specific about and we're not 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.200 talking about David Blaine like doing some sort of like 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:39.600 seventeen minutes done under the water. Um, but it's more 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:43.200 about someone living in an underwater habitat or using storm 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.880 sort of device for twenty four hours or more in 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.920 order to explore the area around him or herself. Yeah, 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.800 the first one of these that Jacques Cousteau and company 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:56.520 pulled off was con shelf one. And this is two. 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.360 And this is just off the cop the coast of 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:03.800 France near Marcellus. And uh, they just went down about 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:07.000 they went down thirty three ft ten and this is 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:09.600 this thing just looks like a big steel, yellow barrel 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:13.840 about sixteen ft five meters long, you know, uh, eight 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:17.400 ft two point five meters in diameter. And it was 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:20.640 a you know, it's like a home laboratory. Two guys 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.960 in there one week, thirty people observing from the surface, 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:28.160 monitoring these guys health, um and uh. And they'd leave 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:31.120 the two for five hour shifts to study see life 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:35.800 work on an underwater farm, which sounds fabulous and uh 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:39.200 and and and again they're just like they weren't actually like, 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.000 all right, you know, we got to you know, get 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:42.240 a crop going this week. It is you know, it's 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:45.000 more like, let's let's observe what would happen if we 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.800 actually did have people down on the you know, the 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:51.120 bottom of of of the of the ocean working on something. 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:53.719 Let's let's look at their vitals. Let's see how they're doing. Right, 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.080 And it's a really practical solution to right, because they 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.120 don't have to decompress, they don't have to worry about 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.640 coming up. Um, so if they're able to hang out 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:03.920 there for a while, then they can you know, a 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:06.160 mass a lot of data, look at it, continue to 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.480 go out, so on and so forth. Yeah, because just 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:10.520 just without getting to a whole lot of depth about 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:13.360 the about the bins, but you go down to certain 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.600 you go down to certain depths, you have more pressure 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:20.560 and that causes the gas and the breathable air to 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:23.720 dissolve into your flesh, right, the nitrogen. Yeah, and if 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.720 you surface too fast, you get nitrogen bubbles, which can 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:32.080 be exceedingly painful or fatal. So which means, you know, 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.800 the longer you stay down, the longer you need to 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.439 come back up. Yeah. Right, And it was originally called 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:39.599 the Grecian bend, by the way, the Grecian Yeah, I 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:43.160 don't know what maybe they attributed like bending to the Grecians. 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:46.720 I don't know, they observe people bending over. Oh, Wow. 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:48.680 So it's actually like you would come up and just 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:52.160 be bent over, Yeah, doubled over. And I know that. 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:57.559 So Concheff one was a success there. You know, it's 0:09:57.559 --> 0:09:59.120 just sort of like, let's test it out. Let's see 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:01.160 because this hadn't really been done before. You know, you 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.440 have guys going down the submarine. Sure, you know, you 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:06.040 had people have been diving under water to catch fish, 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.120 and and you know in Jacques Cousto, certainly it's spent 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:11.440 a lot of time developing you know, you know, scuba 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:14.880 aqualung technology. But but this was a real first Yeah. 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.120 I mean it's pretty groundbreaking and um even though it 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:19.560 was basically like a low tech uh sort of, it 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:22.000 was like a shipping container. Basically, it's low tech in 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:24.440 in terms of what we think of today. But and 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:26.360 you you look at images from the inside and it 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:28.640 looks like two dudes living in a big barrel. Like 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.160 it looks kind of it looks rugged. It's not yes, 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:34.040 socks everywhere, it's not pretty. Yeah, it's not very Steve 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:39.080 z sue. It's just like like guys living in a barrel. Um. 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.400 So so that this was a success, so they're like, 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:44.280 let's try something a little more ambitious. Let's um, let's 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:47.880 actually maybe leave you know, our French backyard here and 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:49.800 and you know, improved that we can do this in 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.880 a in a in a more exotic location. So they 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:56.280 went to the Red Sea and uh and and and 0:10:56.320 --> 0:11:01.200 went down this time again ten meters in uh thirty 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:06.840 three ft and con shelf two had like three different facilities, 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:11.000 basically two main facilities. There was a starfish house, which 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.560 doesn't look at so much like a starfish, but it 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:15.640 had like a central hub and like these little areas 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.600 come sticking off from the side. Um, when we do 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:22.000 a blog post for the round up for these podcasts 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:23.760 for this week's podcast, I'll be sure to you know, 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:25.400 throw a link to a couple of good sites that 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.080 have lots of cool images of these. But but yeah, 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:33.719 they the main starfish house contained crew quarters, bathroom facilities, 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:37.680 a dining area, a laboratory. So suddenly everything's at everything 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:41.240 is a lot more life aquatic, a lot more you know, 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:43.280 like we think of as an undersea base and less 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:45.680 like a barrel right there, thinking more esthetically now, yeah, 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.040 and next the next door to this, they have a 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:50.920 structure that they call the aquarium, which was basically a 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:55.480 garage for the fly for the diving saucer vehicle that 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:59.000 they had, which you know, cool little submersible unit UM 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:02.480 for zooming around underwater uh an equipment hangar. And then 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.400 they also had a complex called Deep Station, which was 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:09.720 located UM eight eighty two feet deep, so it was 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:12.480 you know, it's like you know, it was even deeper 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:14.600 than than the main station. And this is a hat 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:18.080 and a habitat filled with oxygen helium mixture, with the 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:22.280 inhabitants divers leaving the habitat to do daily work below 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:24.679 one sixty feet. Okay, is this the one that they 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:29.360 spent a month in? Yes? Yeah, five Yeah, five m 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:33.880 aqua nuts or ocean knots would live Frenchy. No, I 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:38.720 really think that. Yeah, they call uh five. Five of 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.040 these guys with one or of gals. I think they 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:42.880 were all guys in this though, would live for a 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:45.120 month in the Starfish base. Two of them would spend 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:49.319 a week in the Deep Station. And once more project 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:54.520 was successful and Custo began talking about a third project. Yeah, 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:57.800 and again I see the parallels here between this and space. Right, 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:03.120 Like there's you completely isolated, You're with very few people. 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:05.800 I mean that even though they they've gotten a little 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:09.200 bit more pimped out here, you're it's still esthetically like 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:11.319 not like it is at home. The comfort level it 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:14.000 is isn't as great. And you have to wonder about 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:17.320 the psychological ramifications of this too. Yeah, just basic. I mean, 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:19.160 it's like you get down to the basics of humans 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.560 need sunlight, and the deeper you go, the less sunlight 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:25.440 there is, you know, a weird habitat plus being like 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:28.400 soggy all the time. That's gotta it's gotta chief. Yeah, 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:32.160 to say nothing of the athletes foot or maybe it's 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:36.720 called con shelf foot um with those in the new Yeah. 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.360 But but actually, you know, we talked about the space expiation. 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.080 A lot of the data that came out of this 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.800 and other experiments in the in the early sixties. I mean, 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:47.480 it was stuff that they could they were able to 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:51.480 apply to contemplating, you know, the habitats in the orbit. 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:00.560 This presensation is brought to you by Intel sponsors. Tomorrow. 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:07.880 Now we're up to and this is con Shelf three, 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:11.720 the third and final um underwater habitat. And this was 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:13.840 like the Oldman. This was like a large yellow and 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:17.360 black six person sphere which was lowered to a depth 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:22.200 of oft. So the crew lived on con shelf three 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:24.440 for three weeks, venturing out each day to work in 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:27.520 a mock up oil well and uh, you know, just 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:29.480 to you know, test their ability to you know, to 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.640 leave this thing and work and then come back. And 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:33.440 again it was a success. They were they were able 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:35.840 to show that, yes, we can put people down there 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:38.280 on you know, at a at a considerable depth, and 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.560 they can they can actually operate and work within this 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:44.200 you know, this time limits. So right, and actually U 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.040 three hundred feet is is the norm, right for what 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.760 we usually go down to in terms of depth that 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.600 we have access to. Yeah, yeah, because otherwise than you 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:56.520 get down into the really cool extreme a file territory, 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:59.240 so to speak. Yeah. So this was really pushing personal 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:02.200 the envelope um. At the same time, the U. S. 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:05.640 Navy was interested in this too, and so they had 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:08.720 the Sea Lab programs, which this is one of the 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.440 reasons I did not mention s Lab one earlier because 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:13.600 I didn't want to confuse the issue. But this is 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:16.880 the actual sea lab, not to be confused with any 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:21.840 cartoon uh some sixty four Sea Lab one. And this 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:25.120 was this was very like the Sea Lab like con 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:29.000 Shell rolled out in three phases, very similar. Sea Lab 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:32.600 one was a you know, windowless red ciland cylinder had 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:37.040 four guys in it eleven days performing physical biological experiments. 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:40.120 Uh um. You know they were doing stuff with like 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:44.960 ultrasonic beacons and anti shark cages again just to see 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:48.680 how they performed. And this is off the off Panama City, Florida. 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:53.080 And then they they moved it about twenty six miles 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:56.280 southwestern Bermuda and tried it out two hundred feet and 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:58.640 it was a success. So they did Sea Lab two 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:02.520 in sixty five and this was this was out in 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:05.960 San Francisco, and they had ten men depth of two 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:10.640 hundred feet thirty days. Uh. There was another cylinder type situation. 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.640 So it wasn't as cool. I mean, it's just me, 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:16.360 but it's not as cool looking as they cond shelf too. 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:18.840 But that too, was was bigger, looked kind of like 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:23.080 a little submarine. And and they they conducted you know, 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:26.920 physiological psychological studies. Yeah, that's what I think is interesting 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:28.880 about this party. They took a lot of what they 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:32.000 learned from conch off right because cont originally I think 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:35.120 was was pitched to them, and they said no, and 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:38.120 coast and they do their own thing. Yeah, Jacosta said, 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.320 I'll take it on. So it's what I think is 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:43.480 interesting about Sea Lab is that they really are looking 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:47.280 at this like the psychological strains and the physiological strains 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:49.960 on the person as well. Yeah, and the number of 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:52.840 experiments that they did on Sea Lab two was actually 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.360 pretty cool, like that they just really threw a lot 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:59.640 of task at these guys, Like, uh, they were evaluating 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:02.520 the struck full engineering at the habitat they worked up on. 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:04.840 They work on the mock up for a submarine hole. 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:10.840 They tested undersea tools, they used uh um, like like 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:14.360 foam to raise an old Navy jet fighter to the surface. 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:18.760 They experimented with plants um and they also experimented with 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:23.240 a trained porpoise named Toughie to do quote courier work 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:29.920 between the habitat and the surface. Um so tough uh 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:33.119 and Tofy was trained, uh yeah, trained to respond to 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:36.920 a buzzer and uh, Toffy would apparently did a pretty 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:40.439 good job of bringing them male tools and bottles of soda, 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:44.000 which I don't know, it sounds kind of demeaning, but no, 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:46.080 but I mean there's part of that part of that 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:48.080 sounds like a lot of fun. Yeah. I mean, who 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:49.880 hasn't trained their dog to probably get them a beer? 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:52.280 Will not me because I don't have a dog, But 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:54.639 it's always seemed like a good thing to do. Has 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:59.960 the cat been able to succeed in that yet? Okay, 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:02.199 we'll keep working now. I mean he's he's working on 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:07.520 bigger projects. Yeah, that he can't discuss with me. Well. Sadly, 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:10.520 Sea Lab three UM, which was similar to see Lab two, 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:12.919 just kind of like more robust. Uh. It ended up 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:17.439 being kind of a disaster unfortunately, And this was February nine. 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:21.040 They lowered it down to the ocean floor off off 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.840 the coast of California. They sent four divers down to 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:27.639 repair hey, helium leak on Sea Lab three, and enduring 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:30.959 the attempt, one of the divers died, apparently of carbon 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:34.919 dioxide asphyxiation. Yeah. Yeah, so they were concerned about their 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:36.760 safety and they just shut it down. I mean this 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:39.480 is the rub right, the CEO two problem. Yeah, I mean, 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:43.040 this is this is obviously why we can't um colonize 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:46.359 oceans like you for the oceans, I suppose, UM, but 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.359 that doesn't mean that we don't continue to try and 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:54.000 build really like macked out stuff like the trilobus. Oh yeah, 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:58.040 this one's really um, really awesome looking. Uh. This particular 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:03.520 submersible habitat was the cover story for Popular Mechanics back 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:05.960 in two thousand two, so you may have seen it there. 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:09.280 I'll throw a link up to the to the website. 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:12.480 It has the images so cool. It's really really I 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:16.159 dare say, boss, Yes, you know it looks like like 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:18.920 James Bond villain should be living in it and feeding 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:22.840 people to sharks. Um, it's true. And it's it's like 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:28.520 a sphere, right yeah, it's got different levels. Yeah. Um, 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:30.680 it's very like retro to me. At the same time, 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:33.800 it kind of looks like a like a space clam 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:38.280 that lives. It's it's it's really cool, but the clam 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:41.119 part being like the the where the windows are and yeah, 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:42.920 and it has like lots of areas you know, for 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:45.720 uns set by the set by the window and observe 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:49.040 you know, fish and dolphins swimming by. Yeah. Yeah, I 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:51.080 mean it's it's definitely for the godfly of the seas, 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:54.400 right um. And it's got a spiral staircase connecting all 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:57.159 four levels. Yeah. So it's neat. We'll see if it 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:00.320 ever actually gets built, but the designs out there. Yeah. 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:02.080 What I like about it too is that they say 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:06.159 that the shape allows for modular aggregation, creating colonies if 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:08.639 you'd like. So, I mean to me, I think of 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:12.600 it as like this super futuristic suslito. You know, these 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:16.520 sort of they're not houseboats but necessarily, but these communities 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:19.480 they kind of like hook up and yeah. Right, you 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:22.800 can have like a whole community of trilobus if you'd 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:29.320 like trilobi um and and there then there, of course 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:31.440 is We've we discussed this a little bit in Life 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:34.760 on the five Floor. But you have you have Hydropolis, 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:40.760 which is the planned underwater skyscraper in Dubahi, right yeah, 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:43.760 and it's this time right now. It's I think it's 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:48.760 still in the works a k a. Being crushed by 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:51.679 the economy, so I don't know where they are in 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:56.160 the process, but it does sound like this completely crazy 0:20:56.240 --> 0:20:58.480 super fly. Of course, this is in Dubai, right, so 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:01.240 it's it's not going to be a junkie star sure, um, 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:03.960 but it includes a shopping mall, restaurants, movie theater, and 0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:08.520 my favorite, the missile defense system. All sixty ft underwater. 0:21:08.840 --> 0:21:10.560 But you know, the economy has been rough on everybody, 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:12.400 so in Goodbye, they just send to be like, all right, 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:15.320 we're gonna tighten the belt. We're just gonna build the 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:20.160 largest skyscrapers that have ever been erected on the planet. Uh, 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:23.000 and we'll just we'll just hold off on building underwater 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:27.879 skyscrapers that are protected by a town of weapons, right exactly. 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:30.560 But what I like about this is that, you know, 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:35.440 a poor man's Hydropolis is the Jewels Undersea Lodge Um, 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:38.240 which is named after the author of Two Leagues under 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:42.720 the Sea, and that is actually the world's first underwater hotel. 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:45.439 And it was originally built in the seventies as a 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:48.200 research lab off the coast of Puerto Rico, and it 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:52.200 was relocated to Key Largo in eighties six and opened 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:54.800