Alright guys - picture this.
You’re out on a fishing vessel, floating around in the Bay of Bengal - minding your
own business, catching a few yellowfin tuna - when all of a sudden, the still, calm ocean
begins violently swirling.
On the beaches that border the bay, the ocean tide rapidly begins receding inward - and
before you know it, you out on your little fishing boat are hit by surging walls of water
- and out there in the murky blue, a leviathan of a serpent emerges.
Well, if you’ve seen our video on the life and styles of the terrifying SCP-3000 - you’ll
know that this is a very, very bad thing.
But what if the sleeping serpent that can wrap around the allegorical world actually
awoke from it’s oceanic slumber?
Let’s find out.
Hello internet - what’s going on, and once again, welcome back to the most inquisitive
channel on YouTube - Life’s Biggest Questions.
As per usual, I’ll be your disembodied floating voice Jack Finch - as today, we curiously
ask the question, What If SCP-3000 Escaped?
Roll the clip.
For the curious amongst you, that clip was from 2013’s Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
- which, is far from being the greatest film of all time - but it’s definitely a visual
depiction of an ocean in complete and utter turmoil - so there you have it.
Now, for those of you that haven’t seen our video outlining the full description of
SCP-3000, right now may be high time to check it out - but for those of you that haven’t
- we’ll take a quick look at it’s basic mechanics to give a better understanding of
how colossally catastrophic this hypothetical event would be.
Essentially, fitting within the canon of the SCP-Foundation, somewhere in the depths of
the Bay of Bengal - is a slumbering, giant sea serpent that may or may not be the legendary
Ananta Shesha of Hindu mythology.
As the record states, SCP-3000 is a massive, aquatic serpentine entity that vastly resembles
a giant moray eel - Gymnothorax Javanicus.
Although the full length of SCP-3000 is widely considered impossible to determine, it is
hypothesized to be anywhere between 600 and 900 kilometres in length.
The head of the creature is roughly 2.5 metres in diameter, and the largest sections of its
serpentine body are believed to be as wide as 10 metres.
Already, from a physical perspective - it’s safe to assume that SCP-3000 is a pretty hefty
boy.
Or girl.
It’s gender is yet to be determined, on the basis that anyone who gets close enough
descends into existential madness of Lovecraftian proportions.
Interestingly enough though, SCP-3000 is a Thaumiel class anomalous object.
In foundation speak, Thaumiel essentially means it’s really, really useful - and the
Foundation is willing to go to greath lengths to maintain the entities existence.
The thing that makes SCP-3000 so critical to the SCP Foundation is that it secretes
a viscous, dark grey substance through its skin as it consumes its prey - referred to
as Y-909.
That strange eel jelly forms the basis of Amnestics - which in layman's terms, is the
chemical formula that the Foundation uses to make sure people’s memories are efficiently
wiped.
You know that little silver thing in Men In Black?
Yeah, it’s the gross version of that.
This particular function of SCP-3000 complicates things - to say the least, but we’ll get
on to that later.
If a creature of such mammoth physical properties was ever to emerge from the Bay of Bengal
- from a geographical perspective, the environmental consequences would be immediately devastating.
The Bay of Bengal is 2090 kilometres long, and 1610 kilometers wide - and comprises a
surface area of 2.1 million square kilometres, and historically - if we take a look at the
natural geological disasters of the region, we may get a better idea of actually how devastating
this would be.
In 2004, the Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami hit just off the western coast of Northern
Sumatra, setting into motion a geological catastrophe that tragically took the lives
of over two hundred thousand people.
The earthquake that caused the event hit with a magnitude of 9.0 - due to a rupture between
the Indian and Burmese Tectonic Plates - which occurred over an estimated 1600 kilometers,
at a speed of 10’000 kilometres per hour.
Now, as we stated previously - SCP-3000 is estimated to be anywhere between 600 and 900
kilometers in length - perhaps larger, but it is no where near large enough to hit with
the force and seismological power of an entire continental plate.
But although an event in comparison to the Boxing Day Tsunami is off the table - we’re
still talking waves the size of two-story buildings hurtling on all sides of the Bay
of Bengal, leading to ecological catastrophe and devastation of infrastructure.
More importantly though, it leaves more time for the giant serpent to figure out it’s
first plan of attack.
Or, well, it’s first feast.
Immediately, the emergency response to SCP-3000 would be hindered - and the combined navies
of India, Bangladesh, Thailand, Singapore and Japan - as well as the US, China and Australia,
who all hold strategic importance over the Bay - would frantically rush to assess the
critical area.
But here we get to a very important hurdle, and it’s one that could potentially bring
a hypothetical save-the-day train to a screeching halt.
The foundation’s understanding of SCP-3000 goes to great lengths in explaining the dangers
of physically looking at the anomalous entity - and potentially, the visual emergence of
the serpent would lead to a critically dangerous Cognitohazard Event.
As is stated in 3000’s record, any individual who directly observes the creature immediately
experiences inexplicable head pain, paranoia, general fear and panic - and memory loss or
alteration.
More importantly, individuals afflicted by the Cognitohazard experience a desire to fully
submit themselves to SCP-3000 like bluebottle flies to a bright light.
Those unfortunate individuals who survived the initial geological disaster, as well as
any surviving naval vessels in the Bay of Bengal - would stare in anomalous wonder at
the giant sea serpent, and the vast majority would be unwittingly compelled to cast themselves
into the ocean in an effort to get closer to the creature.
Where they’d be eaten - and SCP-3000 would secrete more of the amnestic eel jelly - leading
into an unstoppable cycle of frenzied feeding.
Yeah… you can see why it would be really bad, right?
The truth of the matter is though, as far as we know - current military technology has
no means of defending itself from the mechanics of a Cognitohazard.
All the combined naval might of the countries involved would be primarily useless if those
operating it were under SCP-3000’s anomalous influence.
How could you defeat something that turns your mind to jelly just by looking at it?
Well - in actual fact, we may find that this is where the answer to our question lies.
Because we don’t have to look at it, do we?
Yeah.
Exactly guys.
You know what I’m talking about.
Drones.
As of this year, the U.S Navy alone have been building an entire fleets worth of unmanned
naval vessels, capable of remote operation and jam-packed with a multitude of offensive
and defensive capabilities.
In 2017, the U.S Navy announced their newest unmanned ship concept, the Sea Hunter - capable
of sailing over 200 nautical miles ahead of the main fleet, whilst equipped with MK.41
vertical launch missiles.
In this hypothetical scenario, the United States Navy could successfully launch an assault
on SCP-3000 from a remote enough distance, without running the risk of direct human involvement.
And that’s not even taking into account other Naval Forces in the region.
The Chinese Navy has more naval drones than you can shake a stick at - and the vast majority
of them may or may not be equipped with state of the art railgun technology - which is terrifying
enough, even to the likes of a giant behemoth of a sea serpent.
See, although it would be a devastating geological and environmental event - eventually - the
combined military and naval might of the planet could successfully work to eliminate the threat
of SCP-3000.
Although, there is one caveat to that.
If this hypothetical situation played out to it’s final conclusion, the SCP Foundation
would definitely have something to say about the primal source of their amnestic production.
As we said previously, SCP-3000 is Thaumiel class - and the Foundation will go to great
lengths in protecting their amnestic asset.
If the Foundation’s track record is anything to go by - the rest of the world may never
even know exactly what happened out in the Bay of Bengal.
Well, there we have it folks - the way that we see things playing out after asking the
question, What If SCP-3000 Escaped?
What do you guys think?
Why don’t you let us know - and speak your mind down in the comment section below - it’s
always good to know how to defend yourself from a giant serpent attack.
Before we depart from today’s video - let's take a quick look at some of your more entertaining
edifications from over the past few days.
Nerdy Waffles says --- Jack: Put away the tin foil.
Me: extra tin foil it is.
--- Aha.
Well, Nerdy Waffles - I see that the old reverse psychology trick is still holding up.
Or is that too much tin foil?
Hm.
Well - that’s too much conspiracy for me.
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