We Might Be Wrong About Our Own Planet

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:16:11 +0000

We think of Earth as the one planet we've actually explored, mapped, populated and photographed from every angle. But that's an illusion. There are places on it we still cannot reach, cannot see and cannot read: 2 miles under the Antarctic ice, 4 miles down in the dark of the deep sea and deep in our own past.

Over the next 2 hours, we'll travel to the parts of our own planet that science still can't fully explain: the ice that's collapsing before we've finished reading it, the seafloor we're about to mine before we've even seen it and the near-miss in our own past that almost ended the whole story.

00:00:00 Intro
00:01:23 Why Scientists Are Terrified About What They're Finding Beneath Antarctica
00:27:30 Antarctica's Oldest Ice Core Could Solve Earth's Climate Mysteries
00:37:43 99.999% of the Ocean Floor Is Still Unexplored
00:51:58 The World Is Running Out of Water — Can Cloud-Seeding Save Us?
01:007:55 We Might Be Wrong About Humanity's Near Extinction

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