About the "Rainbow Jellyfish", it does not glow rainbow colors on its own, it actually has millions of tiny hair like structures to propell itself with and they are so thin they split the light wavelength so it reflects back at us rainbow colors! we only see the color because a flashlight is shining on it. :D
@@handshandshandsHello. Thankyou for posting this question, I hope I can answer your question in a very simple to understand series of bulletins. 1. Commenter above is only partially correct; Comb jelly ARE IN FACT BIOLUMINESCENT but their cilia(hairs) take the light their bodies produce and scatter it which creates the rainbow color 2. Comb jellys aren't actually jellys, they are Ctenophor 3. They can't sting their prey but their extremities are covered in a super sticky substance to entrap their prey 4. The symmetric shape you saw that you might be referring to is the Comb jelly's method of capturing prey(extend all extremities in the hope their food gets stuck)
Some comb jellies can bioluminesce, but neonscorpion is correct: the rainbow shimmer in the video is the comb cilia diffracting the light of the submersible. It's the same effect that makes the rainbow patterns on CDs and DVDs. Comb jelly bioluminescence is usually in the blue-green range and is too dim to show up when overwhelmed by the submersible's spotlights.
exactly, just commented the same thing, then I searched and found your comment. This has to be an inspiration for the Nope creature. Such a great movie.
Just to be clear, plesiosaurs are not dinosaurs, and dinosaurs do still exist, they just have wings and beaks. Okay, I got the pedantic out of my system. Love your debunking content!
When I was a kid me and my sister would play in the pool and I had a watch with buttons that beeped, when your under water the beep sounded like it was next to your ear no matter how far away you were. Sound travels so freaking far in water it's crazy
the comb jelly at the end is a ctenophore (tee-nah-for, phyla ctenophora), not an actual jellyfish (phyla Cnidaria)! while some do have a chemical bioluminescence when disturbed, the display you guys saw in that video is actually from the comb's cilia (little hairlike structures that aid them in locomotion and eating) pulsing and reflecting light!
it's such a great idea they did that while also emphasizing that the alien was really just an animal, just like the freaky stuff we have at the bottom of our oceans. Jean Jacket would look right at home next to those super hot ocean vents with a bunch of weird fish and stuff
Just a note about the jellyfish clip: 1) it's a comb jellyfish, which is NOT related at all to actual jellyfish. Completely different phyla 2) as a deep sea creature, this specimen might be able to emit light, but the rainbow lights in the clip are not that. That's the "combs" (called ctenes) that they swim with. Pretty much any comb jellyfish, deep sea or not, refracts rainbow light like that in the presence of a light source
As someone who lives on Lake Champlain, I can guarantee you that is not here. We don’t have any dock infrastructures that even remotely resemble that. Plus of course no manatees in the lake. As a kid the legend of Champ was very much a part of our culture. But I feel like over the last 20 or so years its really started to fade away.
It's tougher to maintain a legend when everyone has a camera in their pockets and no credible footage comes out in decades. Bigfoot is kinda debunked by default for the same reason imo.
To be honest, that's a little sad. Places that have their own little local lore are fun regardless if it's true or not. Like going to some podunk town in the middle of no where that's only known for their corn or potatoes, kind of boring. Going to some podunk town in the middle of no where that has a legend of some cryptid skulking the sprouting fields for bad kids (and it turns out to be smaller wild life just running through the fields disturbing the crops), that's kind of more exciting to unravel the mystery. This age of information and selfies with everything has killed a lot of good tradition in my opinion.
5:15 honestly just looks like a swimmer to me. The head to the left, the "neck" is just the arm of the swimmer while on the side and the right part ist the swimmers pelvis.
12:30 Fun Fact: Jean Jacket from NOPE was based on a jelly fish, also you guys should check out JJ. Real cool effects and you can see the jelly fish influence.
5:05 this looks LITERALY like a human just swimming crol position. The "head" of the animal is the arm. Once you see that with a little bit of zoom lens perspective... i cant unsee it
I very much agree with the idea that those who are designing aliens really should take inspiration from just how weird and beautiful the life in the ocean is, that’s one of the reasons I really loved the creature in “Nope” or the alien in the third episode of Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of curiosities(“The Autopsy”).
I lean toward the camp that says intelligent aliens will still kinda look more like us. We all know we're talking about interstellar, smart, movie aliens when we talk about this stuff.
@@gabrielsatter Intelligent aliens could probably look like anything. There's plenty of animals on earth we probably don't give enough credit for how intelligent they are. But ya, as far as creatures building spaceships, it certainly feels like a lot of the features we have are important.
@@gabrielsatter You could simply ignore any alien race that doesn't look humanoid, for sure. But there's no reason that aliens who build spacecrafts have to look humanoid at all. Unless you mean perhaps something else that you haven't expressed clearly yet.
2:34 it’s a little thing but THANK YOU SAM for actually calling it an Elasmosaurus and not a Plesiosaurus. Elasmosaurus were so much bigger, and would much more easily fit the description of a Loch Ness monster Edit: holy crap they even show a skeleton
An elasmosaurus is a species of plesiosaur. I think you're confusing plesiosaur with plesiosaurus. Plesiosaurus is another type of plesiosaur (the first one discovered and where the order gets its name). If the Loch Ness monster existed it would be a different species to either elasmosaurus or plesiosaurus so it would be more accurate to describe it as a plesiosaur.
My first thought, seeing the elasmisaur(sp?) is that it's just a person swimming and the shadow is making their arm look like a head in shadow. (let's see if I'm right ;)
Omg i remember being enamored with the bloop mystery as a kid, it is the reason i became interested in the unexplained and mysterious, but i always love to find REASONABLE answers to these questions. I am so happy to not only be reminded of the bloop, but now i know what it is!
12:00 It (comb jellys) doesn't emit light. It reflects the light of the submersible back to the camera while the silica (fins) propel it through the water. What was that part about research? 😉
In ctenophores, bioluminescence is caused by the activation of calcium-activated proteins named photoproteins in cells called photocytes, which are often confined to the meridional canals that underlie the eight comb rows. In the genome of Mnemiopsis leidyi ten genes encode photoproteins.
@@Jenisonc i repeat, In ctenophores, bioluminescence is caused by the activation of calcium-activated proteins named photoproteins in cells called photocytes, which are often confined to the meridional canals that underlie the eight comb rows. In the genome of Mnemiopsis leidyi ten genes encode photoproteins.
I love the debunking series. It‘s always a lot of fun to see some stupid shit and on top of that, you guys are constantly providing the knowledge and insight to improve people‘s bullshit detectors. Which is so Dog damn important right now and will only become more important in the future. So from the bottom of my heart, thank you.
Please keep doing these videos, they're a public service. People need to think critically about these types of things and this certainly illustrates why.
I used to be obsessed with all these story’s when I was younger and when I saw my favorite RU-vid channel doing it I was just so happy. Also what did Wren do to get kicked off the couch.
I get how it must be hard to feel confident about making more of these about aliens and ghosts , but I would love to see more of anything paranormal or unexplained
Every time I see the Champ picture now (5:40) it looks like a person swimming. The piece out of the water is a bent over arm and the big flat dark spot is the hand. The little bit to the left is their head cresting and the bit to the right a shadow created from the arm. But who knows, I could be wrong...
I have to say that the pictures from Lock Ness and Lake Champlain both have a bump in front of the "neck" that could be the head of someone swimming and the "neck" could be their arm. Without anything to reliably fix the scale it's totally possible that they're both just people swimming.
I immediately saw that too haha. At least DaVinci Resolve errors are WAY less intrusive compared to Premiere’s red Media Offline, or some of the old school Final Cut media errors haha.
This is an essential series(?) of videos that has need of existence to “debunk” so much of the junk that is floating out there as somehow “paranormal” or otherwise “mysterious”. It’s rarely sexy to reveal something as “normal” or ordinarily explained, which is most often more readily identified…than the complexities often associated with “conspiracy theories”. So again, it’s welcomed that reason and a little searching (aka “time”) can most often provide the often mundane but verifiable evidences that are well beyond any of the superfluous and unnecessary attributions of paranormal causations. Please continue these efforts in the future, because they are necessary, and the very unsexy Occam demands it.
Video idea - I'm about to make you a mint - a series about viral/realistic AI videos vs CGI 1. How AI creates them vs how a cgi artist would, what the differences/can you get 2 people in the office to 1v1 each other to see who can make it look more realistic; wren using ai/promots and Jordan using classic cgi for example and explore that 2. A react series of viral AI videos or videos that people think could be AI and then you breaking down how or why they'd be real or fake/ai. 3. A video or series where you try and do a debunking type video (similar to this one) where you all sit on the couch and try guess whether vids are ai or cgi (having AI mentioned that much would also be crazy good for engagement and SEO lol) There's obviously probably more, but super interested to see a video talking about the mechanical differences on how ai generates videos vs cgi rendering etc and the time and effort required/taken. You're welcome, happy to take commission on those videos 😂
8:01 - "Obviously there are no manatees in Canada" Uhm, actually, the VAST majority of Lake Champlain is in Vermont and New York states, in the United States. Just sayin'. ;-)
I used to work for the company the made those ROV's from the jellyfish clip, always love seeing the our often accidental clips of sea life, most of the time they used to inspect oil pipelines and boat hulls.
The northern parts of lake champlain do go into Canada, into Quebec. The eastern branch is called the Missiquoi Bay, the western branch goes into the Richelieu river. (both of these are in Canada)
Minor nitpick on the Nessie history: the one "historical" monster story is from a hagiograhy (bio of a saint and list of their miracles), so as evidence it's about on a par with St George's dragon - plus the monster was in the River Ness, not the Loch. After that, the whole monster story comes out of nowhere in the 1930s.
You can see the lights on a clear comb jelly in Florida! If you grab one ( they don't sting you) and look at it underwater in the sunlight the colors are so mesmerizing. It's truly beautiful.
For some reason at the What is Champ? section of the video, the supposed creature almost looks like a bird with its shadow on the water or one wing shadowed by its own body. Almost as if it was diving and about to grab a fish. I'm thinking this mainly because the shadowy part really looks like a wing and the other lighted part could easily be a wing that's folding behind what we can see of the body :) (like an eagle maybe that happens to have been taken on an old cam?) In any case, I love your videos. Always interesting to hear your perspectives and ideas :) It's also very inspirational and tempting me to get into the vfx industry at some point haha.
Clip with the dog spooking something in the water, that its even a question about it is hilarious 🤣 When that clip surfaced idk 2 years ago it was with sound and a description, how their dog spooked a sleeping pod of manatees. Nothing more nothing less.. Fascinating how the internet can make mysteries out of anything.
@@anonymes2884 Manatees are non-aggressive pacifist vegetarians. Their fight/flight response is locked into the "flight" position. Any harm/damage they'd cause would be completely accidental.
I don't know if yall have reacted to it, but in Spider-Man the scene where he is swinging through the city then the camera zooms out and it shows that it was a reflection on Doctor Octavius sunglasses. It's been almost 2 decades, and it's still an amazing scene that is impressive, even today. It's all one shot, which makes it even more crazy.
@@lucifereveningstar5333 we're arguing semantics over a light hearted jab at Wren's choice of wording. In Scotland if you called it a lake you would probably be gently corrected by a local. There is no 'Lake Ness'
They're not talking about depth. Two microphones that were 3,000 kilometers apart heard this sound at basically the same time, which means the source of the sound was really far from either microphone
I feel like I've learned enough about what Ockham's Razor states about oceanic cryptids from Casual Geographics and I don't want to really spoil the horrors of what the most common "sea monster sighting" actually probably ends up being. Let's just say it's not quite the monster you had in mind, but it has something to do vaguely with "Free Willy" in the innuendo sense.
The one from the thumbnail is someone doing the front crawl, It is his arm reaching out for the next crawl, his head is on the left, and his thigh is on the right.
So some really interesting cryptid media that would be fun for the crew to debunk would be the following: Lake Champlain - The Bodette Footage: This is that clip from the mid-2000's that went viral of something right next to a fisherman's boat. There's only been a clip released and the person who owns it wants crazy amounts of money to see it. Lucy and the Lake Monster: A kids movie was being filmed this year (2024) about a monster in lake Champlain and reportedly caught footage from a drone of something following their boat. Most likely another Water Horse-esque fake but still. The Lake Van Monster: Footage from 1997 reportedly showing a lake monster in Turkey. A classic in the cryptid community. The recent Thylacine footage/photos that have been making the rounds would be a really neat episode to tackle.
There is literally an immortal jellyfish, here's a bit from the Wikipedia page on it. "If the T. dohrnii jellyfish is exposed to environmental stress, physical assault, or is sick or old, it can revert to the polyp stage, forming a new polyp colony." the polyp stage is basically the younger part of its life cycle.
Loch Ness 56 Km2! At its longest point its waters stretch 36km (about 23 miles), and it has a maximum width of 2.7km (about 1.7 miles wide).With a depth of 788 feet (240 metres)
small correction about comb jellies; they're not emittin light, they're refracting it back. the 'combs' (lines of tiny hairs) are so small that they're a single digit multiple of the wavelength of light. consequently they only reflect back light of that single wavelength at a time. the colour changes because when the angle between the hairs, the light source and the camera changes, the gap between the hairs is diagonal, so they interact with a different wavelength of light. the blue of a morpho butterfly is produced by the same physics! It's called structural colour. HOWEVER! If the submersibles lights were turned *off* you would still be able to see some of the jelly, because they are ALSO bioluminescent. :D it's a pale blue green colour, and is produce through chemoluminescence.
@@KenSahaja Facts are not that far off. 95% of ocean water volume is unexplored; 80% of ocean floor is unmapped in detail; and it is estimated that 90% of the ocean species are undiscovered. But to say "I believe there's anything out there" is a bit too far. For example, I don't believe there's a civilization of highly intelligent beings similar to humans that evolved separately, because we'd have received various signals or traces. There's an expectation of what can possibly live in the kinds of habitats that we have not explored, and those habitats are relatively known and understood. It's not like going out to an alien planet where the only data we have on it is what kinds of radiation it emits out to us.
@@zxbc1 it's unexplored because that 95% is mostly empty wasteland. It's not physically explored but we've explored it through maps and satellite imagery.
@@zxbc1 didn't wanna comment back since my original was just a shitpost joke. But yes I've actually done research on deep sea exploration; currently doing one now on nuclear submarines used by the military (not for exploration purposed), for a training challenge at Defcon 2025. Please check it out soon. By the term "anything", it's put in a area in which any form of matter, weather it be as small as nano bacteria, is considered life. I don't expect to see a Xenomorph any time soon... at least I hope not.
The ice shelf falling off Antarctica, the "bloopbloop" is also reminiscent of the sound that a large piece of glass makes when it cracks, which is similar to the sound that a frozen sheet of ice on a lake makes - that echoing ringing sound. Maybe this sound is the vibrations of the crack propagating through the glacier, of course at a much lower frequency because it's so large.
