Where Did Water Come From?
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2022
- Mercury, Venus, and Mars are all super low on water - so where did ours come from and why do we have so much of it? We think our water came from a few unlikely sources: meteorites, space dust, and even the sun.
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Well, you see, when two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen one love eachother very much...
A wild, molecularly unique throuple
Then a stork flew in and delivered a water molecule
Hydrogen wants to bond so badly it's less love and more a shotgun wedding where that poor oxygen is forced to take both those hydrogen consensual or not.
Not funny didnt laugh
Very funny did laugh
Oceans were different in the past? Based on what I've learned from Eons, the oceans at times have been: green, purple, or covered in ice
Don't forget it was red as well not lava red plant red
the oceans have undergone a lot of character development
@@Fantasygod930 Rust Red?
@@eesmaaura4961 Yeah, red like iron.
@@Fantasygod930 red ocean that killed the purple ocean!
Brings the phrase “squeezing water from a stone” to a whole new meaning
@@darksaurian6410
Do not those who disbelieve see that the heavens and the Earth were meshed together then We ripped them apart? And then We made of water everything living? Would they still not believe?
[Quran 21.30]
And We sent down water from the heaven in proper quantity, and we made Earth is dwelling, and We are Able to take it away.
[Quran 23.18]
@@namaloompakistani1768 congrats you can quote a book.
Blood..not water
Except that's not the phrase 😅 It's "can't get blood from a stone" 😊
It's been a unique frustration of mine, always hearing that "Earth's water came from space," but never with a reason provided. THIS was the explanation I have literally been waiting many years to hear. Okay, THIS makes sense to me now. This is such a great video.
Congrats?
Makes no sense to me. Why was earth the only planet that this process occurred on?
@@LuckyBaldwin777it's probably not there's other planets with water on them but we are not close enough to really study how the water got on them but maybe one day they'll be able to.
@Nightcoreissoepic what other planets?
Whoa whoa WHOA, how am I just now finding out that most of Earth's water is locked in rock, and up to 18 fricking times the amount in the oceans? Holy crap, I thought I knew stuff about stuff but I am humbled. This video also finally made me fully understand how impacts brought so much water to Earth, the key piece of information I was missing is that the Oxygen was already there! Big thank you for this one, Eons, love u
there's a ton of water locked inside us as well
@@LuisSierra42 right but if I'm not mistaken essentially all the water attributable to living organisms had to have originated from inorganic precursors, it's not like living organisms spontaneously produce excess water (where would the elemental hydrogen and oxygen come from?), we are made from it, use it in various metabolic processes, and recycle it.
@@LuisSierra42 to put it differently, you could say the water locked in the biomass of living organisms on earth is just a subset of the water locked in minerals, derived from it after the biogenesis event. How much additional, genuinely new water has been produced by life in the elapsed time since then is a question I hesitate to guess at, but would love to learn more about
It makes me imagine squeezing a giant peridot (Olivine crystal) like it was a lime.
Also, as the Earth cools, more water is being reabsorbed by the rock. Our oceans will dry up and the planet will be like Mars. I am not sure if this is supposed to happen before 600 million years from now when the Sun will be so hot it will boil all the water off anyway.
She said Mars has no water in this episode, but it actually has quite a lot stored in rock, just like Earth. However, Mars' core is dead and all the water has been reabsorbed. It did have surface water and likely oceans at one time.
This is the best Earth Water story that I have ever watched, even from cinematic space documentary series and cable channel productions. Other documentaries about the origin of water have a feel that the film makers didn't understand the details, and so skipped over most of it. Eons talks about the early sun, gravity, heat, pressure, MINERALS, time limits, and most importantly the acknowledgment that billions of years have affected the evidence left for us to study today.
Also vulcanism
It is amazing what more people could know if they could just lose a little bit of their adherence to myths.
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@@mitchjohnson4714 🖖 Oh, wait. You meant the other kind.
@@anyascelticcreations What other kind? I meant that there was a strong subtext referring to Vulcans and their culture. 🖖
and now we pay taxes
How do you think the government will make infrastructure and projects for their citizens if they don’t collect taxes?
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One of the best videos I've ever seen on this subject ‼️
The more you learn about how the earth formed it just feels seems more and more improbable. The fact that we exist means these series of improbable events did happen. But the more improbable we find it to be the less likely that complex life is common outside of the solar system. It will be truly fascinating to learn of another life form one day and how they formed.
Yes, complex life (let alone sentient with the ability to create, not just Think) is likely extremely rare.. not a scientist but would just throw one in a million out there and have someone tell me I am optimistic.. then there is "come and gone" with "wait for it.." making a meeting pretty unlikely.
Having a moon and tides is possibly the greatest example of "dumb luck" that our little arm of the this galaxy will ever have.. at least as far as complex, somewhat creative and vaguely sentient life is concerned.. 😉😃
Be Well!!
Us puddles fit the space perfectly.
The life itself is both a miracle and the most horrible thing ever, constant war for resources.
Yeah, like shaking a puzzle in a box in hopes it solves itself, i just watch these type of videos as a hobby, because they are interesting and to learn about things but seriously, having a magnetic field, the right distance to the star to mantain liquid water and way more stuff that makes the planet like it is today, its fascinating, makes me wonder what is going on in other planets in the universe.
@@cristianfr3410 ever heard of “survivor bias”? Look it up, it explains why these arguments about “extremely rare therefore highly improbable” are fallacious.
Very roughly, think of a lottery. You as individual have say one in a billion chances of winning but as the pool of people who buy tickets is so large, someone winning is not only not improbable, it’s expected.
Learning about the history of this planet, and understanding how at any point things could have taken a different trajectory, makes me so grateful to exist. It's like anti- nihilism. We are so fortunate to exist and blessed to be able to experience life on this miracle planet. We aren't just some insignificant specks in the middle of this vast, uncaring universe. We are exceptional through and through. I love this channel!
Yes
Dude i had this exact realization watching this channel
To believe all this was made buy luck is stupider than betting you life savings at the casino🤦🏾♂️ you really believe we’re here from shear luck???
@@tgreg9542 no one said luck ?
I can get that same kind of feeling from multiverse theory, or, at least, the popular idea of it. Try and picture an infinite array a possibilities, from whether you put on a different shirt this morning to whether Earth never cooled enough for our kind of life to exist, leaving sentience to emerge from, like, interconnected networks of extremophile bacteria. Of all the many ways the history of our planet could have been different, we ended up with the one where we exist, right now, talking to each other. Right now, we're creating that history, and that future, navigating through a tiny, barely-perceived part of an infinite web of possibilities. Life's amazing, is what I'm saying, and it's a miracle it even resembles something familiar.
I love that we are still learning things. I grew up on Carl Sagan's Cosmos. Being reminded that we know so much that he didn't when he made it is so awe inspiring and humbling.
Stop lying bro
I love this series, so well presented
i absolutely love Kalie's presentation style. also the self deprecating humor at the end - loved it
This was one of her best. Very well done
I want to drink some brand new water. Tired of all this old water I've been drinking
@@rickymassey make it yourself: two parts H, one part O
@@stephen70edwards I'll just stick to drinking unfiltered lake water
This video actually has a lot of information I had never been exposed to before! Thank you!
Same! I just left a comment asking if all this was discovered since I was in school. As of the early 90s I'm pretty sure this wasn't being taught in schools.
we are so proud of our educashun
@@robertlavigne9828 😂😂😂
@@anyascelticcreations This was standard science class subject matter in the late 60's. My parents complained it was too easy, my kids went to school in the 90's and I was shocked they learned how to use condoms and not this. My grandchildren learn social justice and tattoo art ( like the broadcaster of this video)
@@charlesbaldo Huh. That's really interesting. I wonder why they stopped teaching this if they knew about it at least as far back as the 60s. Unless some scientist decided that it wasn't true by the 90s.
Actually, earlier. Because I graduated in 93. And I wasn't taught it in jr high either. Weird.
Interesting what they were teaching throughout the generations, too. We did have sex ed in high school in the 90s, too. I remember the kids being embarrassed by it. I'll bet they know all about it much younger than that now. We still had home ec back then, too. I wanted to take wood working, but as a girl I was forced to take sewing instead.
Do kids get tattooed that young now? I don't remember ever having seen a tattoo at that age. And I was barely allowed to have my ears pierced back then. Little did we know all the piercing we would see on people now.
Great video production and narration. Well done!
Is there any way you can post your sources so that I can go through the articles myself? It would be a more well rounded learning experience.
I agree, please post your sources
Their source: the big bang theory😅
This makes more sense to me than any other water origin explanation. THANK YOU!!
I am not sure if asteroids are the main source for all the water. Think of how much water is needed to make up all the oceans.
@@luudest well, there were waaaay more asteroids back then, and we were hit with them for quite a while
@@luudest astroids in an early solar system can be the size of a moon. Lots of water and metals there to drop
@@luudest and then think about the fact that there's 18x the surface water volume down in the mantle.
And yet, less than 2% of surface water is drinkable freshwater.
@@luudest There isn't that much water in the oceans. If you were to make a sphere of all the water in them, it'd only be a few hundred km in diameter
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This is an outstanding video. Your narration is excellent and the information provided is interesting, informative and engaging. Very well done!
5:30 I live in the mountains a few hours out of Denver and we have to adjust to special "altitude cooking" rules!
"Space dust and sky pebbles." I experimented with some of that in the 90s.
Ya boi
Plutonium niborg?
me,, during the 70s. it was cleaner back then..
@@jamesdriscoll_tmp1515 that's not enough, man. Go for broke.
Far Out Man
That was a lovely, jokey, smart and actually scientifically informative session. Well done!
Wow!! Very brilliant and academic research !
Keep it up!
"Generally hellish vibes" 😭😂 I can't that's just too funny. I'm using that all the time now. Thank you eons!
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Regarding science, yes. Not so much when it comes to politics.
@@donalddalley7274 Why did you find this necessary?
@@LP-bi4vc Because PBS is not exactly what people think that it is. They are not all goody goody two-shoes. Their agenda isn't always on the people's side. They are complicit with the powerful. People need to wake up about them regarding politics.
Someone forgot to turn off the garden hose. Everybody knows that.
Some of the information in this video was absolutely new to me!
This cleared up all of my questions. Thanks!
This felt like watching a PBS Space Time episode. Very interesting, I've wondered about water origins quite a bit lately when it's mentioned in other videos I watch but none of those have dived into it like Eons.
Wasn't expecting a bunch of space talk on Eons but I am here for it and loving it
Most in depth explanation I have ever heard, very interesting, Excellent lecture.
Would you list the sources for the Articles so I can read the synopsis
This episode just blew my mind!!! So cool
the idea of of meteorites being space coconuts with star water on the inside is something i want an artist to visualize and create, it sounds like a beautiful idea
Eons made chemistry interesting and made me want Star water from a cracked asteroid...
The things you do to me, PBS 🥰
Well done 👏 was thinking about that
This was very informative! Most explanations skip over the obvious question "well, where did the space ice come from?" but this video explained it very clearly. Thank you!
The probability of us even existing is mind blowing.
The odds have to be in 100s 😂😂
On the flipside, think about the billions of systems that almost were right for life but weren't. It was bound to happen somewhere
No, the probability is 1:1. We exist.
It’s the same as the probability for anything else existing
@@kissit012you need to do more research on the evolution of humans. Our history isn’t nearly the same as other life forms
I literally screamed when I got the notification, an eons video will instantly make my day 100% better
Eons need to bring more videos out. On par with scishow
@@gamesandpctipstricks8855 yeah I’d love that! I hope it gets more attention, all the videos are so fascinating.
I have a hard time believing the accuracy of these videos that go back millions of years ago...
An extraordinary video illustration showing the process of the formation of the earth
One of my most favorite episodes. I am definitely looking forward to the October 12, 2022 fun event. I also love that the comments sections of the series are characteristically respectful and convivial. Thanks from Chicago, Illinois USA
As a chemistry/earth science teacher, I must say this video really hit home. Every kid does the decomposition of copper sulfate pentahydrate in chemistry. It’s an extra added kick to add that this is how Earth got most of its water!
Or you know the burning of Gypsum.
I didn't
@@samporter3453 were you in their class?
Hopefully you are still learning try this quraan 23:18 we send down water in due measurements and caused to stay on earth.........
@@birloveworkshop8349 Surely you must understand that your quote actually tells us nothing about the process or the timing. All religious dogma and pronouncements are simply a way to kill curiosity and intellect ALL of them.
There is a lot of knowledge gained from this video that is not explained much in school and from here there are many interesting things that make me ask more and more questions about this earth.
I was bored. I saw this video while scrolling through UA-cam and decided to watch it. And now I know stuff I didn't know before. Thank you!
I always asked myself "how could water form if after the collision with Theia the earth surface was so hot"? Luckily I got my answer
Actually she got it slightly wrong. It's not the Pressure it's the pressure of water vapour alone. Each evaporaiton/condensation pairing depends only on it's own pressure as a gas compared to it's temperature as gas and liquid. If we said filled the atmosphere with Argon (which is pretty much intert) we'd not see a drop more rainfall.
Thus it's because Earth was so hot after it's colision with Theia that the water vapour pressure could get so high, it was so warm it kept evaporating water even at super high pressures. Until the pressure got so high or the temperature dipped low enough that this equilibrium started shifting the other way and condensation overcame evaporaiton.
It's why if we sent water the venus it would not fall as rain, because hwile the Pressure there is likely a lot like the hadean period, it's relative pressure for water vapour is low because if the lack of water in it's atmosphere.
What happened to Theia?
@@sciteceng2hedz358 Some of it became part of earth, a lot of it became the moon.
I say it was a wizard with a magic wand.
This is the best episode I've seen so far. Had no idea it could have come from our sun. Mind blown.
Love this video! So interesting ❤
Thank you , loved it...! Keep on keeping on...! Any day you learn something about our Planet is a Great day...! Cheers.
Water is so stable there is a high probability that the last glass you drank had molecules that were previously drank by several famous historical people. We will skip that part on how it left them. 😮
Didn't Dawkins talk about "the bladder of Oliver Cromwell"?
Actually if you go into organic chemistry you'll see water giving up it's hydrogens and picking up extras (to later relase one of them at random) quite a lot. The destruction of water molecules is rather rare yes but it has quite a lot of turnover in the hydrogen atoms.
It's more correct to say that the oxygen atoms involved in water tend to stay as part of water, the hydrogen atoms are more fickle.
@@DaDunge , I think that’s more general/inorganic chemistry, especially in acidic solutions. Most organic compounds are hydrophobic, and reactions are carried out in nonpolar aprotic solutions. Peace
@@cps_Zen_Run Eh what? No most naturally occuring organic chemistry is hydrophillic. It's when we synthetize things in lab we work with hydrophic conditions to speed up reaction times.
@@DaDunge , cellulose is probably the most common natural organic compound, and it is insoluble in water, as are hydrocarbons, fats, so I respectfully disagree. I taught organic chemistry and biochemistry for several years, but I could always be wrong. Peace. Feel free to have the last word.
That last line was the best of the entire video
At first I didn't think it would be this complicated, I thought water just fell to earth along with meteors. thank you for the new knowledge, this is very useful.
thank you for the very useful content✨
This is fascinating. What a great video! It opens my horizon even more pertaining the existence of water. Thank you for the wonderful knowledge you have given to us
Thnx for the great content. ❤ from 🇨🇦
This is an excellent explanation of where our water came from. Thank you so much for making this video!
AHHHH! Drinking Star Water from a Space Coconut!! =oD
Absolutely fantastic presentation, than you
illustrations and explanations that are easy to understand, something that had never been thought of before as long as water exists on earth, very cool
Two topics that i enjoy the most, natural history and space, 2 days left for my birthday but for me, this is an anticipated gift, im suscribed to the channel and 0 regrets, amazing work and dedication, a sincere thank you for the whole team.
My birthday is in 2 days too!
@@JordanMayjor3p7 just in case, happy birthday in advance Jordan! 🥳
Happy Birthday to you too! Did you know that 9/29 is known as the "Day of the Charged Reactor"? Look it up. Space and History are my favorite topics too! I am turning "The Answer to Life the Universe and Everything" this year... BIG YIKES! But hey... If I get those kinda answers this year I am ok with it!
Just wanted to say I love the channel and the content always learning something new, and it's very easy to understand even though Ive spent my life studying as a mechanic not in this area thanks :) viewing from new Zealand 🇳🇿
Thanks for posting.
Great lecture, thank you.
هذه القناة متميزة و رائعة
.اتمنى لكم الاستمرارية
البثور العشبية هي الشيء الجديد والمثير. فرك الانتشلادا على قرد القرد. ثم احلق حواجب قرد القشة. دعه يحدق في لوح من الجرانيت في الكفر. الآن دعها تذهب. يجب ألا يكون القرد على علم بالخنزير الصغير الذي سيطارده. بمجرد وصول القرد إلى قمة الجبل ، اقطع الشجرة التي تقع عليها. أعد الشجرة وادفعها إلى الجرانيت بيدك ، بينما تصنع هديرًا. وفويلا ..
I love how this episode goes far back in time and way beyond the usual paleo centric info we usually see. Chemistry is NOT my strong suit but I'm convinced Kallie can teach me anything and I will learn it.
Thank your your valuable information.
This video is amazing, we can learn about how water on earth was made. The complexlitly process of how water is formed is explained very well in this video. Starting from the Hadean eon where the earth was still a ball of fire whic is have a very high temperature and then the many roles of comets, asteroids, and other celestial bodies in delivering water to Earth during its early formation. Overall, this video enlightened me on the process of how water can form on our planet by explaining the fundamental aspects of Earth's history and the conditions necessary for life as we know it.
Thank you so much for this very informative video!
I love this story of how water accumulates to Earth, chaos is so intense and interesting once you realise where stuff come from.
Very interesting! When I was young, I learned that our water mainly came from comets, mostly during the Late Heavy Bombardment. But this video doesn't mention the LHB at all. What changed?
I recall from another utube channel that the Late Heavy Bombardment might have not happened at all. Somebody doubts that period of history.
@@keithfaulkner6319 In fact, it was a conspiracy theory from the Heavy Water Lobby...
@@keithfaulkner6319 it's not outrageous to assume that perhaps we don't really have a particularly clear and accurate idea of all of that time. But actually something like a billion years of more frequent asteroids isn't really a crazy idea either.
@@tsmspace totally agree. But the LHB was supposedly a much narrower time period.
Please understand i'm not advocating either way. Just saying what I heard.
Very interesting and mind-opening learning that the earth's processes and all the elements in it are very complex to study!
this video was very informative and educational, i learned about the origins of the formation water
I was going to sleep but this came up . So left sleeping to watch this .
Bro appreciate me 😂
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Bloody love this channel. I’ve looked into how earth got its water a few times but this was the most in depth and plausible explanation thus far, thank you for enriching our minds 😊
This part adds to my insight, thank you
That’s pretty amazing
Great to see another video and can't wait for the podcast 😅
There's also a theory that Theia, the protoplanet that collided with Earth that they were speaking of, is the one that brought water to Earth, since, in theory, in formed in the outer solar system, and could have been comprised of much more water than early Earth was, considering the Moon also has a decent amount of water locked away as well. I'm surprised they didn't even mention this theory during this episode :(
They also don't mention how mars also had a lot of water at one point.
I'd like to know, what happened to Thea? It was a Mars size planet, how did it disappear without a trace? Should it not be orbiting the Sun? Earth didn't get knocked out of orbit, neither did the debree that latter became the moon. So what happened to Thea?
@@tiborpurzsas2136 recent research points to it being “absorb” into Earth.
@@tiborpurzsas2136we are living on Theia right now …
Always fascinating
This video is truly impressive and opens a window of insight into science because it tells the history of the formation of water, starting from hot temperatures until the earth's temperature changed to cold. This video really inspires our mindset
These theories don't explain why Venus and Mars lack water. It's odd that this is mentioned right at the top of the video but then never addressed.
We can suppose that Mars had water similar to Earth, but that it lost its magnetic field and most of its atmosphere, with any water boiling away to space. But I don't think this explanation works for Venus, which still has a very dense atmosphere.
This is my question as well, since presumably Venus and Mars would be subject to similar bombardment to Earth.
Maybe cause Venus is too close to the sun that the pressure was not enough to prevent the water from being evaporated and blasted away by solar winds and its magnetic field
Planets are dead stars.
When stars cool and shrink they turn into planets.
The water was produced here on Earth.
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This model explains why earth was once super hot (it was a star)
And it explains why earth was also once covered in water.
Earth used to look more like Neptune.
In the future it'll look more like mars/venus and eventually the moon/mercury - once earths volcanic activity stops regenerating our atmosphere, the oceans have evaporated and the atmosphere blasted away by solar wind.
Space. It all came from space. Everything. There is nothing on earth that didn't come from space.
And we will be recycled in the same manner. To the next Sun and planets.
At the top of mount Everest:
Ok people, we're close to perfection, water boils at 68°C. Let's descend 500m and try to boil water again.
This video was very useful for me, I learned about the origins of the formation of water that we use every day in our daily lives.
Why was the atmosphere so heavy, and why did it (relatively) quickly dissipate to the equilibrium it's maintained since? Would love an episode about that. Where the gasses came from, how they accreted/accumulated, and why earth lost that pressure the way it did.
Exactly. Made me think of the same question:
Now they made me think of another question: how did the earth lose the 215 bars of atmosphere in one age (we're down to 1 bar now)? Was it massive solar wind after the faint young sun (paradox) became hotter and more active?
Took place over a half billion years. Not sure I'd call that relatively quick even in Geological terms haha
@@whiffyclarke no. More like 5 trillion years!!! Scientist love to throw big numbers when it comes to the universe when in fact its all a theory at best
Very well and entertainingly written and presented. Well done.
Woahh! I never even thought of that! Thank you for giving me a new knowledge!
I had no idea that this question existed and that I've always wanted to know the answer. Or some new where did it come from questions that just popped into my head like a deck of cards and a game of 52 pick up...
What I like about eons vs spacetime is that....I can understand eons. I like both though. Keep on keeping on.
Hahaha!! True though!
IKR 😂
I never knew that the same event that led to the formation of Earth's moon was the same event that allowed water-carrying meteroids to melt on Earth. The moon is more linked to Earth's oceans than I thought!
Thanks for creating this content. Very useful content, especially for me as a student majoring in geological engineering. I was able to find out further that the water on earth originally came from a meteor that hit the earth millions of years ago. It can also be seen that dust caused by sunlight contains hydrogen and oxygen which then interact with each other to form water (H2O). Really adds insight!
thank you for the informative video
Great video! Very informative. Follow-up question if anyone is inclined to answer: If our water came from asteroids, why isn’t there a similar amount of water on Venus? I’ve read that Venus is very dry, so what accounts for the difference?
I love watching this channel the topics are interesting but more importantly Kalle, Blake and Michelle are FANTASTIC story tellers
Two things scientifically deeply intrigue me. One is time, which doesn’t actually exist, the other is water. Water is a polar molecule, hence it is a liquid at temperatures when it should be a gas.
Watching this video was eye-opening. The journey of water, from its cosmic origins to its presence on Earth, is truly captivating. Understanding the origins of something so fundamental to life on our planet is both humbling and awe-inspiring. Thanks for sharing this enlightening exploration!
I remember watching a science fiction show years ago where, as part of terraforming Mars, comets had their orbits adjusted so that they would crash into Mars. Since comets, in the outer solar system at least, are basically dirty snowballs, that might not be a bad idea. You just need to be careful you don't accidently crash one of those comets into Earth.
You'd still need to vapourise them and at the moment Mars doens't have the atmosphere for rocks of crystalized water to vaourise them. Venus might.
OK--so now work out how many comets it would take to terraform Mars, and how long it would take a comet at average speed to get here from the Kuiper belt.
In reality it's a bad idea. Today we know that there is a lot of water on Mars, enough to create a shallow ocean. So there is no need to use comets
Comets crash here all the time
Sounds like a B movie plot, because you just know that one of the comets is going to escape and end up on a collision course with earth.
This episode is stunningly fascinating
Thank you very informative ✨✨✨
Most explanations skip over the obvious question "well, where did the space ice come from?" but this video explained it very clearly. Thank you!
I loved this episode! 💜
So cool 🤯
What a heavy episode, but it ended on a light note! Can't wait for the Epoch changing live stream!