This topic is so funny it's like when people on twitter post an image of an asteroid the size of Europe about to hit the Earth with the caption "what would you do in this situation?" like idk man die probably.
@@ChrisConnolly-Mr.C-Dives-In To quote Hamlet's soliloquy from my BFF's high school rewrite of it set in a trailer park, in which the dead Yorick was played by a deer skull: "It's a never-ending cycle of eatenness and death."
That's how you tell the difference between Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies. In the comedies, everybody gets married and the stage is covered in flower petals; in the tragedies, everybody dies and the stage is covered in ketchup.
Ya except the great dying warmed up slower and now that i think about it its probably the best way to convince relatively educated climat change deniers (if those exist) that climate change is human caused
@@microwave-radiation I'd like to see your sources. I'm not a climate change denier, and I totally agree that its man made. But we can't even come close to the emissions that the mantle plume that hit what is now Siberia caused. It hit already existing fossil fuel deposits and emitted more CO2 in a single year than humans emitted in two centuries, acording to some estimates. I'd have to look for the sources, since I did this investigation a few years ago, and I had to fumble through a bit of unit conversions because billions in the U.S. are different than billions in Europe, so there might be some mistakes. But even in the worst case senario, our planet will have the polar ice caps melted and the temperature might rise from two to three degrees Celsius. In this extinction, the temperature rose by 10 to 15.
@@iantheduellist ok i couldn’t find the sources so i just calculated it myself and assuming im correct the great dying was 1ppm per year and right now its at 5ppm per year
@@iantheduellist recent estimates hold that the coal fires caused by the Siberian traps released 36,000 gigatons of carbon released over a period of 15,000 years, which averages out to 2.4 Gt emitted per year (Cui et al. 2021). According to the International Energy Agency, 33 Gt were released in 2019 and aside from the following two years that number has only risen.
@@iantheduellist The Great Dying definitely pumped a lot more total CO2 than we’ll probably be able to do, but notably it also did it a lot more slowly than we are, over the course of hundreds of thousands of years rather than mere centuries. Speed matters a lot when it comes to climate change and environmental shifts.
What would I bring with me? A shovel to make a burrow, whap critters that try to eat me over the head, and to dig my own grave, cause I am most definitely not making it back 😂
"Can you survive the Early Hadean" "You arrive on a stark landscape of barren rock, the air is a searing, crushing dense mix of CO2, hydrogen, and water vapor. A geologically young moon looms massive in the sky. Also, you died a few seconds ago."
@@danielhaigler556 knowing how frankenstein fossilization can occur (fossiles belonging to 2 different creatures being mistaken as belonging to one creature), they'd probably think they finally found either A. the first fossiles beyond teeth and jaw bones for a shark, or B. some kind of weird step in human evolution where they were evolving into sharks for some reason before going extinct
There was an episode that mentioned the P-T extinction finished off the trilobites and Blake cutely said "i still miss those guys". Blake's feelings haven't change and neither have mine😢
@@fredericksmith7942 Yeah, we can learn and adapt. Follow Lystrosaurus, observe Lystrosaurus, act like Lystrosaurus, become Lystrosaurus. It's the only way to survive.
@@fredericksmith7942I think you grossly underate Trilobites and grossly overate humans. They managed to survive 270 million years and branch into over 20,000 species. We've done 2 million years. Let's talk in 268 million years...
@@bearhustler I mean, no. Humans are generalists, and our brains are hardwired for problem solving much moreso than an arthropod. As another commenter said, we can do as Lystrosaurus does.
IMO the comfiest era is probably very early Cenozoic; flowering plants, familiar but small mammalian fauna, no terror birds just yet. Gotta be real early though as the mesonychians don't take long to become bear-sized and you really don't want to be around when the hoofed crocodiles get underway.
I really enjoy these long, listening-oriented videos. The commentary is interesting for all the different time periods, and I like having the facial reactions that a pure podcast format doesn't quite have.
If you're looking for Shakespeare plays where everybody dies at the end I think the better candidates are Hamlet and Titus Andronicus - arguably the best and worst of his tragedies.
All I could think of was the "This is fine" meme with the little dog guy in a burning building. But if I could pick the spot, I'd land where we found land vertibrate fossils from affter the dying assuming my odds were best there. If multiple possibilities, I think towards the poles (temperature) and coasts (rain). If we can't pick the landing spot, I think my best hope is to start walking downhill (follow a river?) and towards a pole rather than hunker down as we know that didn't work for most critters. Still probably wouldn't work out, but I tried.
Every time I watch these, I fall more in love with kallie. Her laughter comforts the hell out of me and she’s just so funny, smart and pretty. And, Blake too! Bi panic is real and I am feeling it.
I just realized I've been watching PBS for 45 years, my favourite channel in Calgary was PBS Spokane because they had Tom Baker Doctor Who episodes and Jon Pertwee, William Hartnell, Sylvester McCoy and the Best Master until Missy came around.
This series is so much fun, I love them. For this one in particular, I loved when Blake was like "it's worse than Billings!" I feel like that could be a t-shirt or a sticker or something. "The Permian: Worse Than Billings!"
It depends. If the herbivores' immune system could process the toxins to be rendered non-lethal, then perhaps their meat is safe to consume. Hard to tell with an ecosystem last seen a quarter of a billion years ago.
34:00 The Australian Aboriginal method for removing toxins (alkaloids?) from the seeds and other parts of native cycads (Zamia palms and others) involves soaking in fresh water, such as a stream, for weeks.
apart from the enviroment..... i would love to know if our immune system would work against these "unknown" primitive patogens,viruses, bacteria of that age!
Every part of this video is wonderful but Blake's faces at the beginning were SENDING MEEEEE 😂😂😂😂😂 "Yknow how on the dating apps the guys hold up those fish?" I screamed, Blake 😂
These episodes are so much fun! Kalli and Blake's reactions to the dire environmental dangers with humor make for an entertaining romp through deep time. So far, the late Permian Great Dying sounds like the worst period to time travel to. Definitely a challenge for even Bear Grylls!
Listrosaurus. Another reason why we should overhaul the phylogenetic tree and add more and well defined clades and rename some Species. Too many undefined subclades and Listeosaurus is definitely not a 'saurus' (unless you consider humans to be reptiles).
Then we would have to scrap Basilosaurus too. As I understand it, once a taxonomic name has been widely accepted it could not be changed (to stop creating confusion) however where it should be placed it still changeable.
Lovely format. As a kid, I always wanted to travel to the past to see those ancient creatures with my own eyes. Considering my chances of survival always made me feel all tingly. This format reminds me of running through the woods, escaping imaginary dinosaurs. Thanks for that. :)
aphedrocephalus = toilet head? Also, ferns can be reasonably eaten, fiddleheads being the most common, but some cultures also ate starchy bases of them. I'd assume all should be processed by cooking at least though.
I love this channel! Something I would like to learn in a future episode: How do you know that prehistoric plants were toxic? And how do you know that plant-eating animals were not? They would have accumulated the toxins in their body, right?
I love your shows. Here's an idea: many intervals of 15-20k years appeared similar to Holocene during the geological era. Can we have a show with possible evolutions to consciousness and civilisation in those warm intervals?
The Siberian Traps eruptions at the end of the Permian were incomprehensible, thousands of times larger than anything humans have ever seen. Its no wonder they were so devastating
Someone should make a PBS Eons survival game where time travelers go to these different geological time periods and try to survive for a period of time and collect a souvenir or three.
Gorgonopsid trophies are cool, but what I want bring back is aerial footage of one of those large igneous provinces kicking off - big predators are everywhen, but it's not every era that you get to see the Cracks of Doom open and spew out a sea of lava!
Something I found out this year that Horsetails (Equisetum) are now lumped with ferns. This was determined via genetic analysis in the early 2000 but is not widely known yet.
We’re publishing the Eons podcast right here on UA-cam during our off weeks!
As usual, we’ll be back with another regular episode next week.
Why does he keep making faces like a heckler in a crowd? It looks stupid.
Thank you!!
Podcast!
This topic is so funny it's like when people on twitter post an image of an asteroid the size of Europe about to hit the Earth with the caption "what would you do in this situation?" like idk man die probably.
I'd be high af. Then die. Yeah, that's the process.
My response to that post is always in it: not to live.
it's called the great dying, so when in Rome...
I feel like I could survive the Great Dying. Just go where the lystrosaurus are and eat those.
*insert Guess I'll Die meme*
I LOVE how nervous Blake is at the beginning. He’s just like “Yeah, Idk about this one.”
He is the most affable, pleasantly curious dude. I wish everybody could be more like Blake. Including myself, lol
He is acting. Are you a 3 year old?
@@cassinidrawings518 It's ok to enjoy things. Relax, friend.
I was enjoying watching him switch between "old man watching tv" face and "I'm trying so hard not to make comments about how screwed I am" face 😂
@@cassinidrawings518 I know; I was complimenting him on his acting. Maybe think about the things you read for literally one second.
No, dying would literally kill me.
But what about GREAT dying?
@@BorkDoggo See, that’s another variable to keep take into account. Surely it’d either be easier or harder to survive than just regular dying.
Blammers nailed it
@@BorkDoggo🤣 I see what you did there and yes it would
@@BorkDoggoAdding great to dying :: Putting cherry on a pile of poop
Barely surviving the 21st century 😂
No debt or credit card scores
@@robuxyyyyyyyyyy4708 That sounds like paradise.
extinction through bankruptcy
@@blammers It's possible if you learn from Dave Ramsey.
Right?
I LOVED Blake's Cold Open. He has never been so nervous at Eons. Kallie's intro and exit are always stellar.
I'm still waiting for the episode “Could you survive the Hadean eon?” Unlike the others to date, it would be a very, very short episode.
The Hadean is my favourite, because as a geology hipster, I like the Earth before it was cool.
Difficult to survive the largest game of "The Floor is Lava".
"Could you survive the Theia impact?"
lol…imagining her calm, dreamy reading of an intro, ending with…”but would you?”, followed by “No.” and then credits.
Sometimes when i have a craving that i cannot put my finger on, i assume it's an extinct animal that is in my DNA memory.
"It's like... is it Macbeth?"
"The skull guy?"
Well, I guess both Macbeth and Hamlet end with tons of death, so it works
Alas poor Yorick, his fossil got lost by the fossil keepers.
@@ChrisConnolly-Mr.C-Dives-In To quote Hamlet's soliloquy from my BFF's high school rewrite of it set in a trailer park, in which the dead Yorick was played by a deer skull: "It's a never-ending cycle of eatenness and death."
@ That is a great modernization of the classic material.
That's how you tell the difference between Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies. In the comedies, everybody gets married and the stage is covered in flower petals; in the tragedies, everybody dies and the stage is covered in ketchup.
@@MossyMozart This is how you tell that you are posting on a PBS youtube channel, more Shakespeare references than a non-PBS channel.
Blake trying SO hard not to cut in at the start was hilarious XD
Blake's faces in the intro are golden to me.
short answer: no
long answer: nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Well, it a was a 300,000 year long event. What one person could survive that
Well it’s coming for another round so get ready.
2:05 Blake's already like, "Yeah, no, I'm gonna kick the bucket before The Great Dying even begins!"
I laughed so hard at Kallie calling temnospondyls ‘toilet-seat heads’
Acid rain, dying corals, hot summers and cold winters as well as fewer and fewer insects?
Does not sounds to far away from today.
Ya except the great dying warmed up slower and now that i think about it its probably the best way to convince relatively educated climat change deniers (if those exist) that climate change is human caused
@@microwave-radiation I'd like to see your sources. I'm not a climate change denier, and I totally agree that its man made.
But we can't even come close to the emissions that the mantle plume that hit what is now Siberia caused.
It hit already existing fossil fuel deposits and emitted more CO2 in a single year than humans emitted in two centuries, acording to some estimates.
I'd have to look for the sources, since I did this investigation a few years ago, and I had to fumble through a bit of unit conversions because billions in the U.S. are different than billions in Europe, so there might be some mistakes. But even in the worst case senario, our planet will have the polar ice caps melted and the temperature might rise from two to three degrees Celsius. In this extinction, the temperature rose by 10 to 15.
@@iantheduellist ok i couldn’t find the sources so i just calculated it myself and assuming im correct the great dying was 1ppm per year and right now its at 5ppm per year
@@iantheduellist recent estimates hold that the coal fires caused by the Siberian traps released 36,000 gigatons of carbon released over a period of 15,000 years, which averages out to 2.4 Gt emitted per year (Cui et al. 2021). According to the International Energy Agency, 33 Gt were released in 2019 and aside from the following two years that number has only risen.
@@iantheduellist The Great Dying definitely pumped a lot more total CO2 than we’ll probably be able to do, but notably it also did it a lot more slowly than we are, over the course of hundreds of thousands of years rather than mere centuries. Speed matters a lot when it comes to climate change and environmental shifts.
They should totally turn this into a dnd session with the characters trying to survive lol 😆... imagine Blake making survival checks
I’d listen to every episode of that podcast!
DND who what ?@@staceyhart9746
I said something similar about the last podcast episode, but I'd love to play DnD with the Eons crew in this scenario too.
I agree!
Call of Cthulhu a better system for realism and horror
Soon as i seen the title it was "no, Im literally and figuratively Cooked"
I thought "well it went on for thousands of years, so I'm gonna guess 'no' here." 😆
That intro was ASMR but the Anxiety inducing version of it
The storytelling at the beginning is top notch. Also, the banter between you guys was fun. 👍
What would I bring with me? A shovel to make a burrow, whap critters that try to eat me over the head, and to dig my own grave, cause I am most definitely not making it back 😂
You win the critical thinking award of the day! I love your response.
"Can you survive the Early Hadean"
"You arrive on a stark landscape of barren rock, the air is a searing, crushing dense mix of CO2, hydrogen, and water vapor. A geologically young moon looms massive in the sky.
Also, you died a few seconds ago."
Love the storytelling at the start so much
Is anyone else thinking they would want to try and die in a place that they can be fossilized just to really mess with future paleontologists?
Sure! Sounds like fun!
Absolutely. Die in an underwater landslide giving the finger to an ancient shark.
Explain that one science
@@danielhaigler556 knowing how frankenstein fossilization can occur (fossiles belonging to 2 different creatures being mistaken as belonging to one creature), they'd probably think they finally found either A. the first fossiles beyond teeth and jaw bones for a shark, or B. some kind of weird step in human evolution where they were evolving into sharks for some reason before going extinct
I'm in, let's all meet up and make it REALLY interesting. lol
If you are still in Montana just look up Hank Green, see if he'll take you in.😂
“Coming out of my torpor phase” is gonna go straight to my daily vocabulary
That's me, every morning. 😛
Love that Kallie corrected Blake on the redundancy of “Gondwana-Land” but then proceeded to say “monsoon season” 🤣❤️
Explain how monsoon season is redundant please.
Apparantly it comes from the Arabic word mawsim, meaning season. So they could experience a season season in gond land land.
@gartengeflugel924 got it thanks etymology is wild
Yeah, as new residents of Arizona, one gets schooled HARD during your first monsoon.
I was today years old when I learned that the 'land' part was redundant 😂
There was an episode that mentioned the P-T extinction finished off the trilobites and Blake cutely said "i still miss those guys". Blake's feelings haven't change and neither have mine😢
Imagine playing a dnd game with this as the setting!!! Such a cool way to combine science and imagination!!!
RIP to trilobites but im different
I mean, I think Humans probably are much better equipped to survive this kind of disaster than Trilobites, so you aren’t necessarily wrong.
@@fredericksmith7942 Yeah, we can learn and adapt. Follow Lystrosaurus, observe Lystrosaurus, act like Lystrosaurus, become Lystrosaurus. It's the only way to survive.
@@fredericksmith7942I think you grossly underate Trilobites and grossly overate humans. They managed to survive 270 million years and branch into over 20,000 species. We've done 2 million years. Let's talk in 268 million years...
Nah, i'd win
@@bearhustler I mean, no. Humans are generalists, and our brains are hardwired for problem solving much moreso than an arthropod. As another commenter said, we can do as Lystrosaurus does.
I love this series so much. These are really fun thought experiments, made better by all the things you hold in your brains.
IMO the comfiest era is probably very early Cenozoic; flowering plants, familiar but small mammalian fauna, no terror birds just yet. Gotta be real early though as the mesonychians don't take long to become bear-sized and you really don't want to be around when the hoofed crocodiles get underway.
Kallie, I love listening to your voice. Your intro descriptions are soothing, your laughter is infectious, these are some of my favorite episodes.
Long story short. No. I could NOT survive the great dying, personally.
These are quickly becoming my new hyperfixation
I really enjoy these long, listening-oriented videos. The commentary is interesting for all the different time periods, and I like having the facial reactions that a pure podcast format doesn't quite have.
Love how Blake is just a floating head this episode.
I mean, obviously yes. I'm what's known as "delusional".
Barely surviving adulthood, so... no 😅
So many poisonous plants! An ancient cooking guide would be a fun vid series!
It makes me think of the internet discussions on how far back in time you could eat kosher 😃
If Blake hasn't seen Nausica of the valley of the wind, he needs to rectify that. He'd love it
This was one of the funniest and most insightful episodes yet! These two are great together.
Well done and thanks for the laughs!
If you're looking for Shakespeare plays where everybody dies at the end I think the better candidates are Hamlet and Titus Andronicus - arguably the best and worst of his tragedies.
Horatio and Polonius survive Hamlet. The witches and MacDuff survive Macbeth. It's up to you which is the bigger tragedy.
Disgraceful shade cast on the magnificent Titus Andronicus!
Not bragging but my ancestors actually survived the great dying!!
Mine too!
@ettinakitten5047 where is your proof?! :D
Hell no. I can barely survive living.
All I could think of was the "This is fine" meme with the little dog guy in a burning building. But if I could pick the spot, I'd land where we found land vertibrate fossils from affter the dying assuming my odds were best there. If multiple possibilities, I think towards the poles (temperature) and coasts (rain). If we can't pick the landing spot, I think my best hope is to start walking downhill (follow a river?) and towards a pole rather than hunker down as we know that didn't work for most critters. Still probably wouldn't work out, but I tried.
This is the episode I’ve been waiting for!!
Idk how i’d do with the great dying i mean i have concerns about surviving just the normal dying
Yeah, it sounds like how grandpa goes to school on a regular Tuesday.
Every time I watch these, I fall more in love with kallie. Her laughter comforts the hell out of me and she’s just so funny, smart and pretty. And, Blake too! Bi panic is real and I am feeling it.
It would be so rad if you had Lindsay Nikole on for one of these episodes! Love this series and all the fun hypothetical scenarios. Cheers!
I love seeing these nerds unscripted. It looks like you're having so much fun.
I just love how you guys are so relatable and so knowledgeable at the same time! Great channel and great content you guys Thanks!!
And 'Listrosaurus' always sounds like a cough mixture.:)
I just realized I've been watching PBS for 45 years, my favourite channel in Calgary was PBS Spokane because they had Tom Baker Doctor Who episodes and Jon Pertwee, William Hartnell, Sylvester McCoy and the Best Master until Missy came around.
1:10 That is a funky-looking critter! 😳
This series is so much fun, I love them. For this one in particular, I loved when Blake was like "it's worse than Billings!" I feel like that could be a t-shirt or a sticker or something. "The Permian: Worse Than Billings!"
He is my favorite of all ur co-hosts. I love this series by the way. U guys are doing great. Thank u for the entertainment and all the knowledge. ❤❤❤
This podcast became one of my favourite podcasts immediately. Great idea. Love you guys.
If the plants are toxic, the meat of the animals who eat them might also be toxic...?
It depends. If the herbivores' immune system could process the toxins to be rendered non-lethal, then perhaps their meat is safe to consume. Hard to tell with an ecosystem last seen a quarter of a billion years ago.
Obviously one should bring back the head of the Gorginopsid.
34:00 The Australian Aboriginal method for removing toxins (alkaloids?) from the seeds and other parts of native cycads (Zamia palms and others) involves soaking in fresh water, such as a stream, for weeks.
I love these two guys so much. ❤
apart from the enviroment.....
i would love to know if our immune system would work against these "unknown" primitive patogens,viruses, bacteria of that age!
Every part of this video is wonderful but Blake's faces at the beginning were SENDING MEEEEE 😂😂😂😂😂
"Yknow how on the dating apps the guys hold up those fish?" I screamed, Blake 😂
These episodes are so much fun! Kalli and Blake's reactions to the dire environmental dangers with humor make for an entertaining romp through deep time. So far, the late Permian Great Dying sounds like the worst period to time travel to. Definitely a challenge for even Bear Grylls!
i truly live for the voiceovers setting the beautiful ancient scene we are all about to hypothetically die miserably in
Love your voice and story telling Kallie.
52:50 so would you you say… they’re real potty mouths :D
Listrosaurus. Another reason why we should overhaul the phylogenetic tree and add more and well defined clades and rename some Species. Too many undefined subclades and Listeosaurus is definitely not a 'saurus' (unless you consider humans to be reptiles).
Then we would have to scrap Basilosaurus too. As I understand it, once a taxonomic name has been widely accepted it could not be changed (to stop creating confusion) however where it should be placed it still changeable.
As Clint Ladelaw says "you cannot evolve out of a clade" so yes, mammals are absolutely reptiles. And everyone is a fish
@@friedrichweitzer3071 They did - It is now known as Zeulogadon
"My main fear is..."
-gestures to the entire Permian
Im loving the pod, keep it up! this channel is like scientific comfort food and kept me sane throughout grad school and rona lol
How rad it is it took five episodes to see trilobites die? They really were sturdy as hell ❤
Lovely format. As a kid, I always wanted to travel to the past to see those ancient creatures with my own eyes. Considering my chances of survival always made me feel all tingly.
This format reminds me of running through the woods, escaping imaginary dinosaurs. Thanks for that. :)
I freaking love this series so much 😂 thank y'all for the knowledge and laughs
aphedrocephalus = toilet head?
Also, ferns can be reasonably eaten, fiddleheads being the most common, but some cultures also ate starchy bases of them. I'd assume all should be processed by cooking at least though.
No phones, no internet, everybody's just enjoying the moment😊
I think I'd be great at it, the dying part.
I love this series! Blake is hilarious! "Unlimited soup and salad bar" for the decomposers lol
I love this channel! Something I would like to learn in a future episode: How do you know that prehistoric plants were toxic? And how do you know that plant-eating animals were not? They would have accumulated the toxins in their body, right?
Ok i am loving, LOVING, these Surviving deep time podcasts. Hope there are more!❤
I love your shows. Here's an idea: many intervals of 15-20k years appeared similar to Holocene during the geological era. Can we have a show with possible evolutions to consciousness and civilisation in those warm intervals?
Absolutely love these podcasts
Dancing on the ashes of gorgonopsids is an absolutely metal band name
I love this chanel 🎉❤
The Siberian Traps eruptions at the end of the Permian were incomprehensible, thousands of times larger than anything humans have ever seen. Its no wonder they were so devastating
Omg these two have big sibling energy and it’s so fun to watch
Blake is getting very nostalgic in this episode lol
The whole debate over how many cynodonts you could eat before retroactively wiping out humanity was hilarious!
I rushed here as soon as I saw there was a new video!! Im here for Blake being more nervous about the great dying than when they started the show 😂
Respect to anything that was living & survived that era.
Blake, your backstage wardrobe gives a funny effect! 😂
Bring an Umbrella, Protection from the depleted ozone UV issue and you can make yourself look bigger to scare off predators
Someone should make a PBS Eons survival game where time travelers go to these different geological time periods and try to survive for a period of time and collect a souvenir or three.
Gorgonopsid trophies are cool, but what I want bring back is aerial footage of one of those large igneous provinces kicking off - big predators are everywhen, but it's not every era that you get to see the Cracks of Doom open and spew out a sea of lava!
I love your videos guys they give me so much information that I did not know I needed
It also really helps to keep the epochs straight.
@ yes 👍
These intros are mind-blowing.
The fun part about this one is that we're collectively running a live experiment to test the question.
I reckon you could refine sugar from at least some of the plants. I mean sugar *exists* at this time.
Probably easiest to get from ferns
Something I found out this year that Horsetails (Equisetum) are now lumped with ferns. This was determined via genetic analysis in the early 2000 but is not widely known yet.
this series is so much fun, I love it. thank you for this entertainment
I appreciate the fact more than 100,000 people have this question