I never knew that epidote was the ultimate party animal of the mineral world - it's all about the hot temperatures, hydrothermal alteration, and black smokers! Who knew that ancient life forms were just looking for a good time around underwater ocean ridges? Now I'm imagining a bunch of trilobites in tiny party hats, sipping on magma-heated seawater cocktails and dancing to the beat of plate tectonics
Nah, I'm holding your ancestors: the atoms that made up their unique cell are currently sitting in one of my toes, and I won't let them get recycled any time soon.
So we have strong evidence of life only 1 billion years after the Earth formed. I know a billion years is a long time, but, all things considered, it seems like life came about really quickly once the conditions were right, and that's pretty neat.
But remember, it took life close to 4 billion years to go from just existing to intelligent. Life in the universe is probably relatively common, intelligent life not so much.
@@racecarrik But remember, intelligence is: Hard to define. You cannot call out industrial speech based species as the only way, by far. Intelligent life is not the ends all... Evolution has no goals nor levels. Get your science straight! Intelligence isn't necessarily 'needed' or 'wanted' for the survival of a species. Less intelligent species are more successful actually. Intelligence costs way too much energy and a hindrance in many niches. I think the word you are looking for is sophonce, or at least sapience. While it is very difficult to distance our human-centric preferences from (because or lack of intelligence...). In scientific paper some grades between unfeeling, perceptive, sentient, sapient, and sophont have been established. There is a multitude of intelligent species Currently sharing the world with us. There is no way of knowing past intelligent species. There could be intelligent species on earth dozens or hundreds of millions of years ago....
@@racecarrik Yes, my money would be on us being the only intelligent life in the universe. The odds are so minute... but then, we shouldn't really be here either!
Interesting story, but I was really loving the new post-chemo locks that you're now rocking. You certainly earned the mop-top, my friend. Congrats on your continued good health.
Though it's a bit like trying to explain the Rosetta stone by geological processes- even if they give you the medium, they don't give you the information.
I love rocks and minerals and how is THIS the first time I'm learning that feldspar can be cooked and changed into epidote? Wow! I just looked this up and no wonder "unakite" happens... with the plagioclase feldspar metamorphosing into epidote while the orthoclase feldspar stays pink and orthoclase. And now we think it's related to black smokers in the deep ocean... Thanks for this video!
Keep trying. It took me several months to get in, but it's great. Try bookmarking the page and check after the first of the month at least a few times a day. ❤
Hank, I was on the fence over your curly hair(not that it matters really lol). I rather liked that Statham look you had earlier, but now you're looking magnificent! Great episode too haha.
Great video! As a West Aussie, I'd love to offer a humble pronunciation correction: Pilbara is pronounced "Pil-bra" Chemo curls looking damn fine btw Hank
Applause! I was stationed at Exmouth up on NW Cape MANY years ago and I was wondering how many pronunciation corrections he would get. 😁 My supervisor was a transplanted Scotsman who was merciless with his "teaching the blasted Yanks to speak proper Australian" lessons. I still call swimsuits "bathers" to this day.
Nice vid, Hank and co. As an Aussie I feel I should point out that Pilbara is pronounced *Pil* bara; Emphasis on the first syllable, and the first 'a' is pretty quiet :) All good, and all the best to you.
I really do hope that the supply of subscriptions does increase a bit in the future. I’ve been trying every month since the beginning to sign up and have never been able to. I even signed up for the email alerts but have never gotten a notification of boxes being available (perhaps that email list isn’t working correctly). Other months I wasn’t as bummed about missing them since I did already own specimens of most of the past topics, but epidote is one I have yet to add to my collection. Though I did find some stromatolite fossils this past weekend while taking a trip to Herkimer NY (and Herkimer Diamonds would definitely be a cool topic for a future episode/future box.)
Man I can’t get over how different Hank looks since he got his chemo curls! Who knew curly hair would have me doing a double take thinking why does that guy look and sound like one of the vlog brothers?
Kudos to the man of STYLE. Theres at LEAST 50 other BIG UA-camrs out there who have copied everything about this guy and make bank. They copy his DICTION, RHYTHM, PRESENTATION. Heck! Even the CLOTHES HES WEARING! PLEASE TELL ME IM NOT THE ONLY PERSON OUT THERE WHO NOTICES THIS!!! KUDOS KUDOS KUDOS
@@jagoldenpyrenees491 yes I'm familiar with the meme. My point is that, unfortunately, a LOT of people see internet memes like that and mistake them for a proper education on a given subject, then walk away with a horrifically over-simplified understanding of reality (over-simplified to the point of being outright wrong). An understanding a lot of people then go on to repeat without doing any further reading or fact-checking, and before you know it, society isn't just uneducated on a subject, it's actively misinformed. It's a legitimate problem we have in this age, and one we need to call out whenever it pops up. Because while this specific example might be relatively harmless, unfortunately not every example is. Once again, internet memes =/= a legitimate source of information.
I tune in for the science and the edu..... no. Stop. Quit. I can't help the squirrley fangirl crap over how Hank's hair grew back in. My cover is blown!!!!
Unfortunately, no random process creates digitally encoded ( R. Dawkins) information which specifies the constructions of hundreds of proteins which interpret the code and create the immensely complex structures which all work together to take basic compounds found in nature to enable replication. Range Four Harry answers the other SETI question. Love the epiodolite, though.
The "pet rock" isnt a new concept, but now that scientists have showed interest in it? God help us... EDIT: why does the rock in the thumbnail look like a chunk of tiberium?!
0:34 I have a massive stone that I found forever ago it’s a beautiful dark glass green I thought it was tektite but I’m in Canada Ontario and now imma have to take another look because it looks way to similar to epidote any professional here who can help 😂✨
If we're looking for the first instance of life on the planet, I'm all ears. But the origin of life? More than likely, life is far older than the earth. By billions of years. Genome lengths have been doubling every 250 million years. If we measure backward from today's lengths to the simplest genome possible, we go back 10 billion years. The earth has only been around for 4.5B. If life would have started with the complexity that existed in genomes even 4.5B ago, that would have been an incredible jump. Sounds crazy? Fortunately, Kurzgesatz has created a mindblowing episode on the topic. ua-cam.com/video/JOiGEI9pQBs/v-deo.htmlsi=JfVOT3PuJhCXef4K
Next June's Rocks Box should be Watermelon Tourmaline or Fluorite or Topaz-ya know, one of those minerals that comes in a _rainbow_ of colors (I know they already did Tourmaline, but it comes in so many colors!)
It's amazing how little is known about the origin of life. And no, it doesn't count if life came from other planets... because that just brings up the same question again. Additionally it is often misunderstood that the theory of evolution has anything to do with the origin of life.
Couldn’t stop looking at googly eye rock behind Hank for the whole episode. Googly rock should host all rock based episodes!
Googly rock is there so Hank can look stuff up when he needs to.
Now I can't unsee that
All I can focus on now. Thanks for pointing it out.
I need someone to stick a tiny curly haired wig on it
The title secretly references Googly Rock
thats pretty epidope
Yeah, it's pretty gneiss.
I WAS GONNA SAY THAT
Ily
Best response ever
I konw right?
That's awfully nice of Dwayne Johnson.
Nah the rock is Dwayne's twin brother.
@@xguesswho222yeah there’s 3 brothers. Dwayne, ‘The rock’ and Johnson.
You mean "Gneiss"
I'll see myself out.
He's The People's Champ.
Break it down, the rock, the rock, the rock!
The *Boulder* is glad he could help!
pause are you referencing what I think you are-
@@mangostien8646The Boulder does not Appreciate your Uncertainty 😂😂
Yip yip
It's mineral, Marie!!
Oh it'll quench ya!...
NOTHINGS QUENCHIER!!
I never knew that epidote was the ultimate party animal of the mineral world - it's all about the hot temperatures, hydrothermal alteration, and black smokers! Who knew that ancient life forms were just looking for a good time around underwater ocean ridges?
Now I'm imagining a bunch of trilobites in tiny party hats, sipping on magma-heated seawater cocktails and dancing to the beat of plate tectonics
I really like the Octopus Lady video about hydrothermal vents! Amazing video that goes more into detail.
She has a really great channel!
ive seen som octopus lady videos!
We really need better names for "black smokers" and "white smokers". How about "hyperlithic smokers" and "hypolithic smokers" respectively?
Man, I just love Hank Green! That last bit apologising for the very few spots left was so sweet. The Green brothers are good men ❤️
I have a piece of polished fossil stromatolite. Sometimes when I’m holding it I think about how I could be holding my ancestors.
Nah, I'm holding your ancestors: the atoms that made up their unique cell are currently sitting in one of my toes, and I won't let them get recycled any time soon.
That’s so cool
makes sense why I see lots of epidote in quartz crystal pockets, on the matrix rock usually.
So we have strong evidence of life only 1 billion years after the Earth formed. I know a billion years is a long time, but, all things considered, it seems like life came about really quickly once the conditions were right, and that's pretty neat.
But remember, it took life close to 4 billion years to go from just existing to intelligent. Life in the universe is probably relatively common, intelligent life not so much.
@@racecarrik
But remember, intelligence is:
Hard to define. You cannot call out industrial speech based species as the only way, by far.
Intelligent life is not the ends all...
Evolution has no goals nor levels. Get your science straight!
Intelligence isn't necessarily 'needed' or 'wanted' for the survival of a species. Less intelligent species are more successful actually.
Intelligence costs way too much energy and a hindrance in many niches.
I think the word you are looking for is sophonce, or at least sapience.
While it is very difficult to distance our human-centric preferences from (because or lack of intelligence...). In scientific paper some grades between unfeeling, perceptive, sentient, sapient, and sophont have been established.
There is a multitude of intelligent species Currently sharing the world with us.
There is no way of knowing past intelligent species. There could be intelligent species on earth dozens or hundreds of millions of years ago....
@@racecarrik Yes, my money would be on us being the only intelligent life in the universe. The odds are so minute... but then, we shouldn't really be here either!
@@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x Basically, when we wonder if we're alone, we're wondering if we're the only ones wondering that..
It started pretty "quickly"... but then took a really long time to evolve into bigger and different things. :)
Man, I just love Hank. Glad he's doing better now.
I think the rock looks like a frog. I'm gonna name him Chert.
And I appreciate his ancient ancestral wisdom!
timber hearth thanks you for your contributions to the exploration program
Chert is also a type of rock.
@@nerdlingeeksly5192 that's why :)
That's so gneiss of you.
Very fascinating stone and story
Great video as usual. Fun fact, Australians pronouce Pilbara as "pill-bruh".
Epidote is a beautiful crystal!
I like the variety coming from Afghanistan.
I've never heard of epidote. Every time there's a discussion of geology, there's always a new type of rock I've never heard of.
Gneiss is nice! My favorite specimen in geology lab!
That's it lads, Rock&Stone!
Interesting story, but I was really loving the new post-chemo locks that you're now rocking. You certainly earned the mop-top, my friend. Congrats on your continued good health.
Hank rocks! 😊
Hank is my spirit animal
They're not rocks. They're minerals, Marie.
I'm surprised you guys haven't discussed the paper that shows percolating water and obsidian volcanic glasses create everything you need to build RNA.
Has Anton done a vid on it?
article name: Catalytic Synthesis of Polyribonucleic Acid on Prebiotic Rock Glasses
@@nathangamble125 😆 Yeah, it's a bit of a mouthful!!
@@nathangamble125.
Though it's a bit like trying to explain the Rosetta stone by geological processes- even if they give you the medium, they don't give you the information.
What a nice had of hair!
Happy for you, Hank.
(And wishing i had hair like yours. 😜 )
Nice, hank!
hey hank, your hair looks dope!
This rocks!
Hi Hank!
Good talk today.
Is that Hank? Right on! You look great buddy!
He does! Chemo curls and all!
If it wasn’t Hank I wouldn’t have watched. Cheers Hank we love you bro.
Pill-bra, mate. Pill-bra.
I love rocks and minerals and how is THIS the first time I'm learning that feldspar can be cooked and changed into epidote? Wow! I just looked this up and no wonder "unakite" happens... with the plagioclase feldspar metamorphosing into epidote while the orthoclase feldspar stays pink and orthoclase. And now we think it's related to black smokers in the deep ocean... Thanks for this video!
Caught this video at 7hrs old and the rocks club is already sold out damn
Keep trying. It took me several months to get in, but it's great. Try bookmarking the page and check after the first of the month at least a few times a day. ❤
Looking healthy Hank!
I would love a list of the rock shows that way they are easy to find. We love getting our rocks
Life itself is a mere reflection of chemistry upon which every galaxy is a nursery for life by default.
I enjoyed this episode.
But did you also enjoy the epidote?
Hank, I was on the fence over your curly hair(not that it matters really lol). I rather liked that Statham look you had earlier, but now you're looking magnificent! Great episode too haha.
British English: aluminium
French: aluminium
German: aluminium
Dutch: aluminium
American English: aluminum
Ink wasters!
Great video!
As a West Aussie, I'd love to offer a humble pronunciation correction:
Pilbara is pronounced "Pil-bra"
Chemo curls looking damn fine btw Hank
Applause! I was stationed at Exmouth up on NW Cape MANY years ago and I was wondering how many pronunciation corrections he would get. 😁 My supervisor was a transplanted Scotsman who was merciless with his "teaching the blasted Yanks to speak proper Australian" lessons. I still call swimsuits "bathers" to this day.
Nice vid, Hank and co. As an Aussie I feel I should point out that Pilbara is pronounced *Pil* bara; Emphasis on the first syllable, and the first 'a' is pretty quiet :) All good, and all the best to you.
Damn, Hank! You really kicked Cancer's ass! 💪
I really do hope that the supply of subscriptions does increase a bit in the future. I’ve been trying every month since the beginning to sign up and have never been able to. I even signed up for the email alerts but have never gotten a notification of boxes being available (perhaps that email list isn’t working correctly). Other months I wasn’t as bummed about missing them since I did already own specimens of most of the past topics, but epidote is one I have yet to add to my collection. Though I did find some stromatolite fossils this past weekend while taking a trip to Herkimer NY (and Herkimer Diamonds would definitely be a cool topic for a future episode/future box.)
Rocking that curly look Hank :)
They're minerals, Marie!
Nice living fossil of an alarm clock. I have one just like it, and it still works.
Man I can’t get over how different Hank looks since he got his chemo curls! Who knew curly hair would have me doing a double take thinking why does that guy look and sound like one of the vlog brothers?
I feel like the curls really suits him, a nice positive from such a devastating experience
@@katie-kb6qd oh yeah they’re strangely youthful, he looks younger with them, and cheekier, and they definitely suit
Interesting stuff!
By the way, correct pronunciation of Pilbara is actually similar to Edinburgh. PILb'ra basically.
Fascinating! Oh and fyi, Pilbara is pronounced "Pill-bruh" 😉
As a West Australian I also had a good chuckle 🤭
Was about to leave this comment. Reminded me of some American travellers pronouncing Kalbarri as kal-bahh-ree 😄
Same 😂 @@belindaweber7999
Epidote sure is gneiss. I'd even say it rocks!
You don't fool me Hank. I know that is tiberium ore!
Rocks are awesome ^-^
The background immediately made me think of Technology Connections
Kudos to the man of STYLE. Theres at LEAST 50 other BIG UA-camrs out there who have copied everything about this guy and make bank. They copy his DICTION, RHYTHM, PRESENTATION. Heck! Even the CLOTHES HES WEARING!
PLEASE TELL ME IM NOT THE ONLY PERSON OUT THERE WHO NOTICES THIS!!!
KUDOS KUDOS KUDOS
Neat! Science is amazing!
I wonder if James Tour and Professor Dave know of this video
Where did you get that alarm clock??? My dad has that alarm clock! 83'?
Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all in it 00:01
new set is way GD better than the green screen 😁
I love Hank's new hair. Does he enjoy it?
It _IS_ a "pretty pistachio mineral"!
Bob the Boulder!
I think I am feeling green...
I'm pretty sure that whatever the first life was, it evolved into crabs as fast as possible
Carcinisation only applies to crustaceans. A friendly reminder that internet memes aren't a good source of real-world information.
@@zackakai5173It was a joke referencing one of their videos called "why do things keep evolving into crabs" or something like that
@@jagoldenpyrenees491 yes I'm familiar with the meme. My point is that, unfortunately, a LOT of people see internet memes like that and mistake them for a proper education on a given subject, then walk away with a horrifically over-simplified understanding of reality (over-simplified to the point of being outright wrong). An understanding a lot of people then go on to repeat without doing any further reading or fact-checking, and before you know it, society isn't just uneducated on a subject, it's actively misinformed. It's a legitimate problem we have in this age, and one we need to call out whenever it pops up. Because while this specific example might be relatively harmless, unfortunately not every example is.
Once again, internet memes =/= a legitimate source of information.
Epidote is a gneiss green :D
😂
I don't believe that the cover photo for the video is epidote. Is it?
So it's an Eppi-form of peridot....
I tune in for the science and the edu..... no. Stop. Quit. I can't help the squirrley fangirl crap over how Hank's hair grew back in. My cover is blown!!!!
If only subscriptions to the rockbox didn't sell out so quickly..
*Cliiiiiiick*
Been in since day one
All my olivine homies hate epidote
Interesting I have some really gemmy quality specimens at home
Unfortunately, no random process creates digitally encoded ( R. Dawkins) information which specifies the constructions of hundreds of proteins which interpret the code and create the immensely complex structures which all work together to take basic compounds found in nature to enable replication.
Range Four Harry answers the other SETI question.
Love the epiodolite, though.
Pfff, I call bullocks. Feldspar wouldn't fold under pressure. If it felt pressure it would just chill out at Dark Bramble to escape from the pressure
-- As the cosmos goes from infinitely hot/dense to infinitely cold/sparse,
Gravity/Life_Games consume "residual eXergy" ( potential entropy ).
did you just say....prismatic?
No final shape here..
I knew it, aliens are real
The "pet rock" isnt a new concept, but now that scientists have showed interest in it? God help us...
EDIT: why does the rock in the thumbnail look like a chunk of tiberium?!
please I beg of you... can you send Rocks boxes to the UK
Creationist after reading title: See?! They are admitting they believe we came from rocks.
Finding epidote on Mars surface probably only means that ejecta from ancient Earth made it to Mars.
Aussies would say PILL-BRAH
4k please
A rock club is the literally the perfect merch for scishow. hahaha
0:34 I have a massive stone that I found forever ago it’s a beautiful dark glass green I thought it was tektite but I’m in Canada Ontario and now imma have to take another look because it looks way to similar to epidote any professional here who can help 😂✨
Oldest exposed rock on earth "Acasta Gneiss Complex of northwest Canada" (4.03Bn Years old)
My mother had the exact same radio alarm clock °~•.☆.•~°
If we're looking for the first instance of life on the planet, I'm all ears. But the origin of life?
More than likely, life is far older than the earth. By billions of years. Genome lengths have been doubling every 250 million years. If we measure backward from today's lengths to the simplest genome possible, we go back 10 billion years. The earth has only been around for 4.5B. If life would have started with the complexity that existed in genomes even 4.5B ago, that would have been an incredible jump.
Sounds crazy? Fortunately, Kurzgesatz has created a mindblowing episode on the topic.
ua-cam.com/video/JOiGEI9pQBs/v-deo.htmlsi=JfVOT3PuJhCXef4K
the chemo curls are eating
Early Earth acted like an incubator.
So, not the prog rock of early Genesis?
Been watching the channel for a while, hope the cancer is gone(atleast seems that way)
This channel has been GREAT about having original content. So many others rehash the same. old. topics. Again and again.
Next June's Rocks Box should be Watermelon Tourmaline or Fluorite or Topaz-ya know, one of those minerals that comes in a _rainbow_ of colors (I know they already did Tourmaline, but it comes in so many colors!)
They also did topaz this past April.
@@R.M.MacFru oh, yeah. There are still plenty of options, like Opal.
It's amazing how little is known about the origin of life. And no, it doesn't count if life came from other planets... because that just brings up the same question again. Additionally it is often misunderstood that the theory of evolution has anything to do with the origin of life.
Those blue Rocks on Mars are a product of chlorine and iron and lime .
I subscribed on the first one! mmmmnnn gimme dem rocks....
Pilbara is pronounced Pill b'rah. Because Australia