well well well as it seems the seven seas remain to be the living embodiment
of human curiosity and the infinite mysteries of what lurks at the bottom of
the deepest depths of the ocean bed was a little bit more than what we first
anticipated given the fact that in a previous video we hypothetically drain
the oceans through ingenious means and we're left to ponder over the dilemma of
what our civilization would do with all that new room for activities as many of
you have astutely pointed out there's a lot to this particular hypothetical
notion so much so that it seems we've got reason enough to revisit a planet
earth where all of the oceans have been drained
hello Internet what's going on at once again welcome back to the most
inquisitive channel on YouTube life's biggest questions as per usual I'll be
older Somali flow and voice Jack Finch as today we curiously revisit the
question in what if we drain the oceans part 2 roll the clip
wait would that be what if we drain the oceans the reefs equal or what if we
drain the oceans the second drainage yeah I'm not entirely sure but the fact
of the matter remains that clip in particular was from 1998 deep rising and
as many of you pointed out in our previous video the gigantic and
terrifying oculus would be the least of our worries if we'd accidentally
suddenly drained our oceans because well they'd probably be at least three great
old ones lurking down there as well as the high priest of relia himself
alongside several megalodons yeoman Gandhi and oh I don't know a few
underwater ancient cities probably in fact as we tried out up most vividly
portraying part one to this video draining the oceans would be like
pulling out your living room sofa and discovering all of the strange things
that you'd lost over the years and as you may imagine all of those curious and
interesting hypothetical artifacts are definitely worth a revisit given the
fact that there's an estimated 60 billion u.s. dollars worth of treasure
lingering at the bottom of the ocean bed however before we dive into this life's
biggest questions we're going to be doing something a little bit different
today for the first time ever we're going to be taking a look at your
wittiest and most insightful comments from part
one of this video and we're going to do our best to elaborate on the best of
these particular hypothetical notions and who knows maybe it'll just be a new
thing that we do over here allies biggest questions that we fun on it in
that case we better get started right perhaps our most insightful comment from
part one of this video comes from good golly Miss Molly who says can you
imagine all of the fighting for the new land since the ocean is international no
one currently owns or rules it so if the oceans disappeared that nations would go
to war over who gets to own it all and Wow whilst also being an incredibly
astute observation this is perhaps the biggest and most important issue that we
have to address following the subsequent drainage of our oceans so in that case
Thank You Molly the fact of the matter remains international law and
socio-political boundaries have for the most part been drawn around the
boundaries of our own oceans Australia is over there in the Pacific doing its
thing chillin with New Zealand and then the Americas are far far away on the
other side an entire Pacific Ocean separates the two and as any of you who
have played Sid Meier's Civilization no it's very important for civilizations
to have an adequate landmass between them to begin with anyway because that's
before Gandy starts stockpiling nuclear weapons and suddenly everyone starts
sweating a little the fact that our planet has been covered by such a vast
amount of water has been a central proponent in the creation and subsequent
growth of our civilization but with that gone is pretty much a field day an
international Ithaca would go hurtling out the window like the baby with the
bathwater as governments across the planet scrambled for the huge swathe of
newly unearthed resources previously submerged by our oceans like the first
kids at recess to honk the swingset and no one liked that kid unless you were
that kid in which case good job buddy and in this metaphor you're probably
also America currently our planet is governed by the rule of international
waters or trans boundary waters which apply to every boundary of water that
transcend national bodies of water most prominently the high seas which do not
belong to any States jurisdiction this unbound law is encapsulated under Mara
libera man ancient agreement which means free sea in Latin but was officially
signed and documented in 1958 under the convention of the high sea which
currently has 63 signatories all of which agreed that the ocean was pretty
much off-limits to anyone trying to stake a permanent claim to it that means
you couldn't go around sticking a flag on a boy and then say hey we own this
bit now you can't come here and obviously as you may imagine and as
Molly so efficiently pointed out that convention shines sealed and delivered
by 63 countries on the planet would be instantly forgotten and ripped to shreds
in this particular instance now you may be thinking okay come on what would all
the rush be though would it really be that bad why would a completely
reasonable society drop everything they're doing just so they can stick a
flag in a portion of newly discovered wet sand there's no guarantee that land
is even going to be worth anything right well incredibly wrong there is currently
no landmass on earth that isn't owned in some form or another by a government and
many of the borders of those land masses are currently being poked and prodded by
bigger countries with bigger sticks still to this day in fact all of our
early history since the dawn of the Roman Empire and
perhaps thousands of years before that has been about warring with each other
about who gets to live where and where that line in the sand is drawn it's only
recently is in the past half a century that we've grown relatively comfortable
with the lines on the map albeit that's not to detract from the terrible reality
of the mass displacement of people across the planet currently but in this
situation that same mass of Earth that has been in contention for the past
10,000 years well it just tripled in size that means given our hypothetical
situation there is now 360 million square kilometers worth of brand-new
landmass to fight over so yeah as Molly pointed out things would get pretty bad
for the next few generations 360 million square kilometers used to be a lot of
water but now in this case it's just a lot of war but if you think that's bad
Jonathan M Conway has an even more terrifying way of looking at things he
says love the vid but if we drain the oceans the planet would turn into a
version of Mustafar from Star Wars for two main reasons
one the oceans stopped both the underwater volcanoes exploding and two
it stops the tectonic plates from shifting the planet would pretty much
burn and would be unlivable yeah Jonathan Mermin
you pretty much hit the nail on the head there and it's one fact that we segwayed
a little in part 1 of this video given the fact that it would have made most
things pretty impossible if we take the Ring of Fire alone the major area of
volcanic and tectonic activity that occurs in the basin of the Pacific Ocean
and covers an area of over 25,000 miles now the Ring of Fire on its own is
responsible for countless volcanic eruptions many of which would be
earth-shattering if it wasn't for the fact that our comforting blanket of
ocean nullifies pretty much all of the devastation caused beneath when that
ocean gone yeah that's 25,000 miles worth of prime volcanic activity and all
of those people warring for that newly discovered land mass yeah they'd get
covered in molten lava pretty quickly yeah and that's how it always ends in
these videos doesn't it well no we have a revisit to the question what if we
drain the ocean we just like to give a huge thank you to both of our commenters
in today's video good golly Miss Molly and Jonathan M Conway what did you guys
think to our new format do you think it's interesting do you think it's worth
sticking around for let us know your thoughts down in the
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