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Speaker 1: So when oxygen sensors on the ocean floor came back positive,
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Speaker 2: They tried again, same result.
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Speaker 1: Oxygen was being created, not by plants or sea life.
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It was coming from rocks, ancient metallic rocks that generate electricity.
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Speaker 2: They produce enough current.
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Speaker 1: To split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen.
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Speaker 1: The Clarion Clipperton Zone or CCZ looks like an underwater desert.
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It stretches across one point seven million square miles of
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the Pacific. It's bigger than India, almost two miles down,
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cold dark pressure that would crush any living organism, or
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so we thought. In nineteen sixty eight, a Soviet submarine
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Speaker 2: In the Pacific. The Soviets couldn't find it.
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Speaker 1: The US government wanted that sub The CIA launched Project
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Azorian to locate the sub They needed a cover story
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Speaker 2: It wasn't.
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Speaker 1: It's only task recovered that Soviet sub. The crew spent
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months searching for it. On March eighth, nineteen seventy four,
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they found it. But they also found something else, something
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far more important. The seabed was covered with strange, metal
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rich rocks called polymetallic nodules, each one about the size
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of a softball. To maintain cover, they actually studied the nodules.
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They weren't expected to find anything unusual. That's when a
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simple recovery mission became a scientific breakthrough. These aren't ordinary rocks.
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They're ancient. A single nodule takes millions of years to form.
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Some are older than the oldest forests on Earth, older
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than the dinosaurs. They've been sitting on the ocean floor
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for millions of years, silently generating electricity. Each nodule generates
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about a vault, not much on its own, but they
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don't exist alone. They form vast fields billions of nodules
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clustered together, connected through seawater like batteries wired in series.
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Speaker 2: Their power multiplies.
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Speaker 1: The CCZ has about twenty one billion tons of nodules.
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This could generate about twenty megawatts, enough to power a
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small city unlimited clean energy. Fast forward to twenty twenty two.
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Marine biologist Andrew Sweeben was studying seafloor ecosystems. His sensors
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detech did oxygen where none should exist, not just trace amounts.
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The levels tripled in just two days. His team confirmed
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the nodules generated electricity strong enough to split water molecules
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to produce oxygen in total darkness.
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Speaker 2: The scientific community was shocked. Depentaon wasn't.
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Speaker 1: The CIA kept their research classified for decades, and the
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reason was simple. These metallic rocks have electromagnetic properties, useful
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for weapon systems, for power generation, maybe even gravity manipulation.
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Speaker 2: But there's a bigger mystery.
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Speaker 1: Oxygen, water, and electricity are fundamental to life.
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Speaker 2: These nodules might be the original source.
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Speaker 1: Of Earth's oxygen, the original spark for life. And if
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they exist on Earth, they exist everywhere else, on frozen moons,
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with underground oceans, on distant planets, orbiting distant stars.
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Speaker 2: NASA knows this.
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Speaker 1: They're already redesigning their alien life detection instruments. Their next
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mission to Europa won't just look for microbes, it will
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look for electric rocks for dark oxygen produced without sunlight
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on a moon hundreds of millions of miles from Earth.
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Europa Jupiter sixth moon is covered in ice. It's three
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hundred and ninety million miles from Earth. It's also the
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best place in our solar system to look for alien life.
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Why because under the ice is a vast, dark ocean.
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Speaker 2: It's been there for billions of years.
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Speaker 1: It's one hundred miles deep, ten times deeper than any
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ocean on Earth. But does Europa have polymetallic nodules on
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its ocean floor? The answer is almost certainly yes. Until recently,
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scientists thought finding life on Europa was a long shot.
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No sunlight penetrates the ice, there's no photosynthesis, no oxygen.
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But the dark oxygen discovery changes everything. Europa orbits Jupiter,
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the largest planet in our solar system. Jupiter's massive gravity
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creates enormous tidal forces. It squeezes the Moon, makes it
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expand and contract. This creates friction. Friction creates heat. Heat
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keeps Europa's ocean liquid. These conditions are perfect for mineral
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formation on the seafloor, but there's more radiation from Jupiter
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bombards Europa's surface ice. This triggers radiolysis radiation splitting water molecules.
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This works in liquid water and solid ice. In twenty
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twenty four, Russian scientists proved radiation creates oxygen in Antarctica's ice,
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and if it happens in Antarctica, it happens on Europa,
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and on Enceladus, Saturn's sixth largest moon, and on countless
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other ice covered moons and planets throughout the universe. This
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changes the math for alien life. Our galaxy has about
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forty billion Earth sized planets in the Goldilock zone, not
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too hot, not too cold, places where water stays liquid,
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where plants could grow, where sunlight could produce oxygen. But
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that only counts planets where photosynthesis works. If we include
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worlds with dark oxygen, that number jumps from billions of
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planets that could contain life to trillions. The dead zones
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of the universe could be filled with life. NASA is
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developing equipment to detect electricity on distant worlds, to find
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metallic distributions on aliency floors, to detect electromagnetic fields from
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natural batteries. The James Web Space Telescope can't see these
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things directly, but it can analyze atmospheres detect chemical imbalances
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that might indicate dark oxygen at work.
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Speaker 2: Polymetallic nodules don't just produce.
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Speaker 1: Electricity, They split water, they generate oxygen, and on Earth,
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wherever there's energy, water and oxygen, there's life. But any
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organisms evolve to use dark oxygen, and this type of
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energy would be unlike anything we'd recognize.
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Speaker 2: They wouldn't use DNA as we know it.
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Speaker 1: They would form a shadow biosphere, hiding in plain sight.
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For billions of years, we've been searching for alien life
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at all the wrong places, looking at planets bathed in sunlight,
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planets like Earth. But we missed something obvious. Most of
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space is dark and cold, far from stars. If dark
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oxygen exists throughout the universe, life could be almost anywhere.
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So we're probably not alone, and we probably never work.
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When biologists discovered life around deep sea hydrothermal events in
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nineteen seventy seven, they had to rewrite biology textbooks. Here
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were creatures thriving without sunlight, tube worms with no mouths
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or digestive systems, blind shrimp, ghost white crabs, a whole
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ecosystem powered by heat and chemicals, not light, but the
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life around polymetallic nodules is even stranger. In twenty twenty three,
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scientists completed the most extensive survey of the Clearing Clipperton Zone.
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They found over five thousand different species living in the area,
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and ninety percent of those species were completely new discoveries.
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On the barren sea floor, in pitch darkness, two miles
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down an ecosystem as diverse as anything on the surface.
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This wasn't just a few hearty creatures surviving in a
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harsh environment. This was a complex, thriving ecosystem. Many species
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were found living directly on the nodules, themselves drawn to
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the oxygen and the electricity. Specialized microbes had evolved to
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harness the electrical charge directly. They don't eat organic matter
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like most bacteria. They eat electrons. They're called electrotrophs, and
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this isn't science fiction. These microbes exist on Earth right now.
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Scientists have found them on shipwrecks, near undersea cables, and
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around the nodules. They represent an alternative path for life itself.
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While plants evolve to capture sunlight, these organisms evolve to
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capture electricity. If this sounds strange, consider how vast and
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deep the ocean is. It covers sixty five percent of
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the Earth's surface.
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Speaker 2: It's the largest.
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Speaker 1: Habitable zone on the planet, and for billions of years,
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it's been mostly isolated from the surface. Life would evolve differently,
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adapting to survive enormous pressure, to survive without light, to
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use electricity as food. Some scientists believe the nodules aren't
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scattered randomly, they form networks patterns. The distribution resembles a
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global circuit, like a vast computer network, spanning the entire
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ocean floor. The nodules generate electromagnetic fields. The fields interact,
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they create a web of electric connections, almost like neurons
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in a brain. Scientists call it the seafloor neural network.
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It's a controversial theory, but the evidence is compelling. Satellite
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measurements show subtle electromagnetic patterns emanating from the deep ocean,
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patterns that shift and pulse that respond to changes in
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the Earth's magnetic field. Some scientists even link the nodules
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to maritime mysteries like the Bermuda Triangle, areas where ships
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and planes vanish without explanation, areas that happen to align
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with unusual concentrations of nodules and strong electromagnetic anomalies. Now,
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most researchers dismiss this as pseudoscience, but the US Navy
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has documented navigation equipment failures in these regions, compasses spinning,
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electronics malfunctioning, the same effects you'd expect from powerful electromagnetic fields. Now,
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whether you believe these fringe theories or not, one thing
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is certain. These ancient electric rocks have been part of
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Earth's system for billions of years. They've influenced our planet
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in countless ways, and we're now destroying them. Deep sea
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mining companies are already harvesting it. Millions of tons of nodules.
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They're destroying in days what took millions of years to form.
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This could disrupt electrical fields essential to deep ocean life
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or essential to all life. If the nodules produce oxygen,
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and they do, a sudden change in their activity could
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alter ocean chemistry in a way that could trigger an
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ecological collapse. It's happened before the mining companies know this.
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They're doing it anyway. The discovery of dark oxygen forces
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us to reconsider what we know about life on Earth
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and beyond. But let's clean up some of the science.
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Here are the established facts. Scientists have confirmed that polymetallic
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no knowledge us on the deep sea floor produce electric currents.
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These currents are strong enough to split water molecules and
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release oxygen. This happens without sunlight, without photosynthesis. It happens
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in total darkness. This process has been verified in laboratory settings.
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The voltage has been measured, the oxygen production has been documented.
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The phenomenon is real. The nodules contain valuable minerals manganese, nickel, cobalt, copper.
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Speaker 2: They formed over millions.
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Speaker 1: Of years in a process so slow it's almost impossible
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to comprehend. One centimeter can take several million years to develop.
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The ecosystems around these nodules are diverse. They contain thousands
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of species previously unknown to science. Many evolved live directly
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on or around the nodules. But this is where certainty
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ends and scientific debate begins. Some researchers believe dark oxygen
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played a crucial role in the Earth's early atmosphere, maybe
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even before photosynthesis evolved. They point to geological evidence that
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shows oxygen appearing in bursts regardless of what types of plants,
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if any existed at that time. Others feel that dark oxygen,
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while fascinating, is a minor contributor. Both of Earth's oxygen
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still comes from plants and other photosynthetic organisms like algaean bacteria.
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Scientists also disagree about the ocean floor neural network theory.
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Some see evidence of patterns consistent with a global system,
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but skeptics say they're seeing patterns where none exists. Then
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there is the space connection. If dark oxygen exists on Earth,
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it probably exists elsewhere on Europa, on Enceladus, on countless
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worlds throughout the universe. This changes our search for extraterrestrial life.
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We're no longer limited to the narrow band of planets
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where photosynthesis could occur. The habitable zone expands dramatically, so
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dramatically that any planet or any moon, at any distance
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from any star could harbor life. Even rogue planets and
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asteroids in between systems there could be life present. Then
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there's the environmental implications. Yeah, the mining industry says we
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have an urgent need for these minerals. Cobalt, nickel, and
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manganese are essential for batteries for renewable energy for storage
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to power electric cars, homes, even aircraft. They argue that
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deep sea mining is less destructive than land based mining.
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No forests are cleared, no rivers are polluted, no communities
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are displaced.
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Speaker 2: Well that's not exactly true, is it.
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Speaker 1: Regulations were just passed and mining has begun just within
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the last couple of months.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: Once harvested, these ancient formations can't be replaced. Scientists have
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documented the test mining sites from the nineteen seventies. Even
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after fifty years, the damage is there. The seafloor will heal,
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but it will take millions of years. Now, maybe mining
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the sea floor is the right decision. Maybe it's cleaner
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and safer than service mining. Maybe these electrified oxygen producing
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rocks can be removed without repercussions. Or maybe disrupting this
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network could lead to an ecological disaster.
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Speaker 2: We really don't know.
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Speaker 1: In Earth's history, there have been five extinction events, all
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of them coincide with changes in ocean chemistry, and two
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of those extinction events were caused specifically by lack of
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oxygen in the ocean. We're gambling with an ecosystem we
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barely understand, but we do know that when the Earth.
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Speaker 2: Gets sick, it heals.
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Speaker 1: Itself and it doesn't care who gets hurt in the process. Bacteria, plants, animals, dinosaurs.
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Ninety nine percent of all species that have ever existed
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are extinct, and if we're not careful, we could trigger
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the sixth global extinction event, and if we do, the
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