The ocean is a constant mystery.
Since ancient times, the primordial curiosity of what lies at the bottom of the deep, blue
mirk has struck a chord within human consciousness.
We stare out at the ocean - at awe of the endless expanse - and wonder, just what the
hell is down there?
We know more about our Moon than we do about the bottom of our own oceans - and it turns
out, that the answer to our own existence may just lie at the bottom of the deep blue
sea.
Well, according to the SCP Foundation, anyway.
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Hello Internet - and 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 Was Real?
Roll the clip.
For those of you that don’t know, that clip was from the woefully underrated AMC Series
- The Terror - where there’s a whole new aquatic monstrosity to contend with - although
it pales in comparison to what the SCP Foundation has got hiding at the bottom of the sea.
Now, there are going to be several facets to this particular explanation - the first
will outline exactly how the planet would contend with a great oceanic serpent - and
the second will deal with how we’d harvest it.
Sorry, did you just say harvest?
Yeah - hold on to your hats.
Eel jelly incoming.
As the record states, SCP-3000 is a massive, aquatic serpentine entity that strongly resembles
a giant moray eel.
The full length of SCP-3000 is impossible to determine, but is hypothesized to be between
600 and 900 kilometers.
The head of SCP-3000 measures roughly 2.5m in diameter, and sections of the body proper
are as large as 10m in diameter.
Yeah.
He’s a pretty thicc boi.
Typically, SCP-3000 is a sedentary creature - only moving its head in response to certain
stimuli or during feeding.
The majority of its body rarely moves at all, and is located in and around the Ganges Fan
- a vast oceanic anomaly off the coast of the Bay of Bengal.
SCP-3000 is carnivorous, and despite its sedentary nature, is capable of moving quickly to dispatch
prey.
Which - more often than not, is a healthy diet of D-Class personnel - but we’ll get
on to that later.
Despite its size though, it is widely considered that SCP-3000 does not require sustenance
to maintain its biological functions and the end result of its digestive processes is currently
unknown.
Through it’s skin SCP-3000 excretes a thin layer of a viscous, dark grey substance classified
as Y-909 as it consumes prey - and that eel jelly is very important - so keep it in mind.
Or, on mind.
Yeah, you’ll see what I mean later.
The thing is though - a megalithic aquatic serpent is nothing new in the annals of ancient
history - and it turns out, there are more serpentine-related mythos tales than you can
shake a - tail at, I suppose.
Lotan, Leviathan, Tiamat, Illuyanka, Yammu - Jormungandr - and of course, the Naga of
the Hindu faith - and their Serpent king, Ananta Shesha - the primordial creation god
- which is widely considered to be exactly what SCP-3000 is.
But that’s the thing - isn’t it.
Our ancestry has been coiled upon the coil of the Serpent since the dawn of time - Ouroboros
- the snake that swallows its own tail - which has consistently posed the question, surely
- there has to be something more to it, right?
Throughout history, humanity has feared our vast oceans for good reason - it’s a dangerous
place, filled with peril - filled with uncertainty - filled with the ancient mystery of what
lies beneath.
It is thought that our species have only explored roughly 10% of the ocean floor - the remaining
90% of the ocean still remaining an endless mystery.
It’s not outside the realm of possibility then, that an ancient - primordial creature
- such as SCP-3000 - could very well have lingered on the ocean floor for eaons - feasting
on the essence of an ecosystem, that in all reality - we know next to nothing about.
But if it was - mechanically speaking - exactly like SCP-3000 - it would pose an ethical dilemma
that humanity has never before faced.
You see, within their own classification - SCP-3000 is Thaumiel class - as in, it is intrinsic
to the continued operational success of the SCP Foundation - for one very important reason
- it is the source of all cognito hazards - and the literal holy grail of mind-altering
amnestics.
If you know anything about the SCP Foundation - you’ll know that in most cases, the human
mind cannot comprehend the unfathomable complexities of an anomalous existence - and so to protect
- and often times assault the fragility of the human mind, they administer amnestics
- much like the neuralyzer from Men In Black.
Just - this stuff is secreted from the belly of a giant eel.
Told you, eel jelly.
If SCP-3000 was real, and we discovered its existence at the bottom of our ocean - in
all likelihood, we couldn’t get anywhere near it before succumbing to madness.
Much like in the Gothic and Cosmic Horror fiction of Edgar Allan Poe and H.P Lovecraft
- literature has often explored mankind’s futile incomprehension of a life form that
is bigger than us.
Discovering SCP-3000 would be like rediscovering the dinosaurs - times a million, on acid - at
the bottom of the ocean - without a snorkel.
Our entire history would be rewritten.
All of ancient history would be vindicated and relooked over - those creation myths about
a giant serpent wrapping itself around the planet - yeah, they’d start to sound a whole
load more reasonable.
The thing is though - as we stated a moment ago, the human mind is fragile - but it IS
persistent.
If somehow, an organisation - such as the SCP Foundation - found access to SCP-3000,
scraped off it’s eel jelly and made an entire planets worth of amnestics - well, that sounds
like a great way to cover up the fact that there’s a giant sea serpent sleeping at
the bottom of the ocean.
After all - some things are just meant to be kept a secret.
Well, there we have it folks - our take on a giant eel chilling in the deep blue sea,
why don’t you let us know your thoughts in the comment section down below.
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