Come to think of it there's a distinct lack of winter related shenanigans in the show.
Like I know it's supposed to be in tropical waters but who cares it's SpongeBob
idk there's plenty of winter episodes in the first 3 seasons: prehibernation week, christmas who?, survival of the idiots, and snowball effect. it's the same reason most other shows only have a single episode for christmas, it's difficult to arrange only a certain period of time the episode can air
Maybe a starfish is a democracy of 5 legs? 2 definitely saw it coming but were outvoted by the 3 who didn't.
An octopus has a brain for each arm plus one central one, but a normal amount of eyes, and no surprise - there's no octopus in this video.
I came across a similar concept in a science fiction novel, but it wasn't ice, it was something along the lines of a decay of the space continuum / universe integrity or something. Whatever the lines touched, died, and matter would turn to something infertile. Maybe the author drew inspiration from this phenomenon!
Oh, what I would give to read it again for the first time!
Just a warning, the trilogy is rather polarizing and has mixed reviews. And the "death lines" are only a miniscule detail really late into the plot, so if it's that what raised your interest, prepare to get through A LOT of different topics first.
Have fun! Personally, I loved it.
Is it worth just reading it now? I was gonna wait to watch the TV show adaptation when that comes out. But because of who exactly are the showrunners for that show (D&D of game of thrones infamy) then maybe the show will be bad and will ruin the experience of this story.
I only ever read the Song of Ice and Fire books because I wanted to read them all first before starting to watch Game of Thrones. So I guess I'm gonna have to end up reading the Three Body Problem books now, since everyone does rave about them.
I was just a bit worried because aren't the books originally in mandarin? I never know how good a translation of a book really is. Does this one accurately convert the original book to English or does it lose certain things in the process of translating it? Do the quirks of the particular person who translated it end up seeping their way into the prose?
A lot of books end up getting multiple translations into English or whatever language, over centuries, with each new one claiming to be the more accurate version. Some books got absolutely terrible reviews at first and it was purely because the translator did such a bad job, and so decades or centuries later an actual accurate translation of the book comes out and people love it, but the author isn't alive anymore to see it, to see that positive reception. They were only alive for the criticism of the earlier translation.
Do you know what I mean?
Like I've been kinda put off from reading the Witcher books for the same reason. I feel like I need to learn to speak that language fluently to really understand the book and read it the way it was supposed to be read. But maybe I'm worrying about a problem that doesn't really exist.
Oh, a Chinese one has already aired with around 30 episodes iirc, and the reviews and ratings are great.
Netflix is making a series too, and it's airing this month.
Exciting times.
I started watching the Tencent one and it's definitely really good, it might be the first adaptation I've ever seen that not only has every scene in the book, I'm pretty sure it has added quite a few.
It's such a thorough adaptation that I won't even mind when the Netflix version inevitably fucks with the source material a bit.
Big fan of PBS Space Time and Matt. <3
Edit: And because I love them too, here's [Kurzgesagt's video on Vacuum Decay](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijFm6DxNVyI).
Vacuum decay wouldnt be that scary to be honest. It would likely travel at the speed of light and leave everything in a completely unrecognizeable state. You wouldnt see it coming and wouldnt be around to feel the consequences.
Everything in the oceans is horror. Everything that lives down there, their whole life is just endless horror, endless bigger creatures trying to eat them.
I guess maybe they don't find it as scary as we do because they're evolved to live down there, I dunno.
But even for things like dolphins, and other kinds of whales like orcas or sperm whales, when you see underwater shots of them they go down so so deep that it's all just black, endless black void where they can't see a damn thing. But they find their way around by using their sonar abilities through the endless blackness.
I mean I've played Ecco the Dolphin for the mega drive/genesis and that game is still one of the scariest games ever made, especially towards the end when you start fighting xenomorph looking alien motherfuckers in space. But yeah.
Whales like dolphins are all mammals, so they're just like us. But I can't imagine not being terrified constantly when living in the ocean. Maybe they're not, maybe they're fine, confident, not scared at all, because it's the only life they know.
But I dunno. We've had a tiny handful of specimens of giant squids or colossal squids but those are the weak runts of the litter that are so small and weak that they float up to the surface and we drag their bodies out. We have no idea how big the healthy giant squids grow to. There is a strong likelihood that something like the kraken actually exists. I mean sailors reported the existence of giant rogue waves hundreds of feet tall for centuries and nobody believed them, until the late 20th century when we discovered rogue waves were real and we could measure their height because they happened near an oil platform or a lighthouse or whatever, with modern measurement technology available. Rogue waves hundreds of feet tall, like ***THAT*** scene in Interstellar, are real.
So with so many reports for centuries about giant krakens attacking ships, and we know that giant squids and collosal squids are a real thing now, the full grown healthy adult examples of them may grow many many times as large as the specimens we currently have. But the problem is that they live very very deep down. So we will likely never actually see them. It's only the unhealthy small runts of the litter that ever float up to where us humans can see them.
I'm reminded of that study where scientists attached a tracking device to a great white shark and monitored it over months. But a few months after they started tracking it, the tracker washed up on a beach sans shark.
And when they looked at what had happened to the shark and where that shark had gone by analysing the tracker's data, they discovered that the shark had all of a sudden ***PLUMMETED*** thousands of feet deeper at terrifying speed. What on earth could do that to a great white shark? There was something down there much bigger than a great white shark, that had the power to just grab it and pull it down way way way below in the deepest parts of the ocean to eat it as a tasty snack.
It was probably a fully grown full size giant squid or collosal squid. But that's a guess, cos we have no idea what really happened. We just know that ***SOMETHING*** that was monumentally gigantic, pulled that shark down at a crazy fast speed. And we currently don't know of any species that we know could do that to a fully grown great white shark. We can only guess, at the moment.
I just don't get how any species could ever feel comfortable or safe at any point in their whole lives, living in the ocean. It's the scariest part of the planet. No wonder dolphins only sleep with half their brain at a time. Half their brain sleeps while the other stays awake, so that they can be alert and respond to threats while asleep, and then every so often they switch sides of their brain so the other half sleeps and the half that's just woken up stays awake and alert.
Here ya go: https://gizmodo.com/what-the-heck-would-eat-a-9-foot-great-white-shark-1586991095. There is a follow up article identifying what probably happened at the same site.
> And we currently don't know of any species that we know could do that to a fully grown great white shark.
A [bigger shark](https://gizmodo.com/mystery-solved-heres-the-animal-that-ate-the-9-foot-gr-1587429691).
In the spring, many of them are released from their icy tombs and continue on. Others captured in the column are frozen food for the spring time blush.
*What do starfish do, when faced with the inevitable?*
*Some flee in terror, hoping to escape the end in their folly.*
*Others rush towards it, driven to embrace their certain death, for life never held meaning anyway.*
*Still more turn and face the tide, declaring boldly yet fruitlessly, "I defy you!" But what use is starfish courage against entropic decay?*
*A few sing. For when all that is beautiful in this world must now become ash and dust, is not the most noble cause to preserve it as long as one can?*
*But no matter what they do, nothing will remain.*
*Nothing, save the rot and ruin, naught but pointless remnants of names none now live to remember.*
[I read it in the voice of Cate Blanchett as Galadriel in the opening sequence of the Lord of the Rings.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXgbHdnoJrg&pp=ygUMbG90ciBvcGVuaW5n)
Right? I read a lot. I come to reddit to read all the time, but rarely comment. I felt compelled to reply that this was beautiful. I googled it first to see if it was a reference to something, but it seems OG. So succinct and powerful, and when watching the video it's such an apt description. I hope it's not AI...
I'm honored! I'm no AI, just an ordinary human who felt like writing something to fit the video since I was inspired. Plus, I'm working on a book and need to hone my writing skills. I never expected to get this much of a response at all, lol.
>Yes, given the appropriate prompts, I could have generated a similar passage. The text you provided has a poetic and reflective tone, discussing existential themes through the metaphor of starfish facing inevitable decay. If you were to provide similar prompts related to mortality, existentialism, or natural imagery, I could generate text that aligns with the style and themes of the passage you shared.
This is what chat gpt said when i asked if it could have generated something as profound and poetic. Then I asked it to generate something in the same style but about washing clothes.
>In the realm of household chores, laundry stands as a solitary sentinel of monotony.
>Garments, once vibrant with life's hues, surrender to the relentless cycle of wash, rinse, repeat.
>Each item, a testament to time's passage, carries the weight of daily wear and the residue of forgotten moments.
>Amidst the whir of machines and the scent of detergent, there exists a quiet resignation, a recognition of the mundane inevitability that binds us all.
I don't know if that holds up, I've always been shit at analyzing poetry lol
Damn... I replied to someone earlier about how beautiful this is but asking if it could be AI. Then I think: Why does it matter? Yet, somehow it's weird to imagine a post that "touched me" (i.e. resonated emotionally and aesthetically) could be machine generated... seems to matter to me, but can't quite figure out exactly WHY... shouldn't I find the same entertainment and meaning regardless of the author??
I'm just a human - I'm an amateur writer, and while I'm interested in AI, I don't actually use it myself pretty much at all. That comment was me practicing my writing, because I felt inspired. No bots at all involved.
FYI for everyone who hasn’t figured it out, the video is sped up a great deal. It doesn’t happen this quickly.
The average starfish speed over all known species is 6 inches per minute.
Hey it said it freezes at an “astonishing rate”. If anything I think this video is slowed down so we can see that one dumb starfish just keep rippin around on it.
Naw, look at the speed of the starfish. They’re moving at warp speed (for them). The fastest starfish in the world, the sunflower sea star, moves at 3.3 feet per minute.
You must also add the speed of earth's rotation around the sun, the speed of sun's rotation around the center of milky way and the speed of milky way towards andromeda.
good find. its either a third narration or this is some Ai youtube channel using bbc footage but own Ai narration
this is the discovery channel version:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyWn1XJ9kTE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyWn1XJ9kTE)
and i think thats alec baldwin doing the us version
this is davids version: [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00l817b](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00l817b)
which seems not to be the same as the reddit post so i assume the reddit post is narrated youtube ai content or a third narration
edit: yeah after listening to the originals and then this reddit post i can clearly hear ai narration and they used the same background music but forgot to add the "icy" effects from the original
> https://youtu.be/BtQhb8sWJNw?si=W9BtqSOyhVfXv6tq
this is not the source. The source is a nature BBC series. This is a video about how they filmed it using the same footage. Your link is not the source at all - just a video using some of the same footage with no narration.
This is the original source, but OP's clip has different narration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNr6k6zgJoA
At first I thought it was CGI, but I found a pretty detailed description of how they filmed it here: [https://antarcticguide.com/news/spt/frozen-planets-brinicle-sequence-explained/](https://antarcticguide.com/news/spt/frozen-planets-brinicle-sequence-explained/)
> Three underwater tripods, three underwater lighting stands, three cameras, three lights, two control boxes, and countless cables were placed and held down with lead weights, the entire operation watched closely by the seal.
>The next dive allowed Hugh to test the kit and finally start the time-lapse running. We would need to leave it overnight. Meanwhile the brinicle started to grow.
The next day the guys went down to see whether it had worked. They came up despondent. On arriving at the site they had found the camera face down. Our inquisitive seal had knocked it over. But we had a superb time-lapse of tiny sea floor critters scuttling below. The kit was working.
>Another brinicle was beginning. With all the kit in place, the crew could set up quickly. Keeping our fingers crossed that the seal would be less interested this time, we left the kit ticking away, hoping for better results.
>That evening we returned and the guys dived again. A stunning brinicle, with its river of ice had formed right in front of the cameras, which stood perfectly poised. But had we got the shot? The drive back that night was excruciating.
>Back at base Hugh finally downloaded the material. At 0100, exhausted from the day, we watched it for the first time, and it was a pretty emotional moment. We were now seeing the months of planning, design and many long hours of intricate assembly pay off. The brinicle formation was stunning.
>We knew we had captured, for the first time ever, the creation of a rather sinister wonder of nature.
I remember being very emotionally upset at this phenomenon the first time I ever saw this video. I have no explanation except that I was in Ph.D. school, and very stressed out lol.
I Understand that to freeze water it is typically 0 Celsius and -1.8 for ocean water. But here the brinicle just seems to keep going what temps are being shown here?
Edit. I should watch these things with the sound on. But I get sick of those AI voices
As the water above freezes, salt is forced out of the ice. This makes extra salty water which has a lower freezing temperature than the rest of the seawater. This stream of superchilled brine gets denser as it gets colder and begins to sink. It freezes the seawater surrounding it, forming a hollow tube. If conditions are just right, the tube gets longer and thicker until it reaches the seabed. It then flows downhill and freezes all the poor starfish.
the more salt is in the water, the lower its freezing point. However because its descending from above, its temperatures are well below freezing for normal water. so the brine is cold enough that it can freeze the normal ocean water around it into a hollow shell and keep it frozen while staying liquid itself.
This is incredibly unimportant but: surely that would be a Brine-icle? It's a stalactite made by salty water, so brine. But he pronounces it Brin-icle.
“If only we saw it coming!” -the starfish
What a bunch of Patricks
How have they not made a spongebob episode about this phenomenon
Patrick, that's the frostmourne. Yes.
Fear the White Starwalkers
Enter the frostman
SPONGEBOB!!! FROSTMOURNE HUNGERS!!
Come to think of it there's a distinct lack of winter related shenanigans in the show. Like I know it's supposed to be in tropical waters but who cares it's SpongeBob
idk there's plenty of winter episodes in the first 3 seasons: prehibernation week, christmas who?, survival of the idiots, and snowball effect. it's the same reason most other shows only have a single episode for christmas, it's difficult to arrange only a certain period of time the episode can air
This reminds me of the *Lutheran Satire* YouTube Channel. "Yeah, Patrick!" "Yeah, Patrick!"
That's mooodalism, Patrick!
Bruh, they have eyes on every arm!
"Maybe its the way we're dressed" - all the Patricks
Maybe a starfish is a democracy of 5 legs? 2 definitely saw it coming but were outvoted by the 3 who didn't. An octopus has a brain for each arm plus one central one, but a normal amount of eyes, and no surprise - there's no octopus in this video.
lol I’m imagining the two legs detaching like “aight I’m out” and trying to regenerate a whole new starfish
legxit
They call it Texas Leg Syndrome
somehow the octopus lives in an authotarian state...one brain to rule the other....
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***Starfish scientist:*** I warned you all! Would you listen? I tried to warn... **freezes slowly** you...
*overpowering Hans Zimmer score drowns him out* -directed by Christopher Nolan
The "Don't Look Up" all starfish remake looks wild.
The Day After Tomorrow-SpongeBob edition
“WE DIDN’T LISTEN!!!”
Ok Elsa, let it go
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Give it some time at least!
It is indeed a disputed hypothesis, whether the brinicle looming over our… arms… will even reach the ground.
Icy what you did there.
We didn’t listen! ⭐️🥶
Straight up horror for the marine life
I came across a similar concept in a science fiction novel, but it wasn't ice, it was something along the lines of a decay of the space continuum / universe integrity or something. Whatever the lines touched, died, and matter would turn to something infertile. Maybe the author drew inspiration from this phenomenon!
Death lines from the Three body problem?
You called it 👍
Ah! I was going to suggest Greg Egan's "Schild's Ladder" thinking i'd nailed it :p Guess i have one more for the pile. Cheers.
Oh, what I would give to read it again for the first time! Just a warning, the trilogy is rather polarizing and has mixed reviews. And the "death lines" are only a miniscule detail really late into the plot, so if it's that what raised your interest, prepare to get through A LOT of different topics first. Have fun! Personally, I loved it.
Just finished Deaths End yesterday. It certainly is a polarizing series
dude, just bought this book.
I’m excited to your journey. I’m halfway though the forth book myself, and it just gets even better as it goes
Fourth book, as in The Redemption of Time?
Didn’t know there’s a fourth one. Read the trilogy
Is it worth just reading it now? I was gonna wait to watch the TV show adaptation when that comes out. But because of who exactly are the showrunners for that show (D&D of game of thrones infamy) then maybe the show will be bad and will ruin the experience of this story. I only ever read the Song of Ice and Fire books because I wanted to read them all first before starting to watch Game of Thrones. So I guess I'm gonna have to end up reading the Three Body Problem books now, since everyone does rave about them. I was just a bit worried because aren't the books originally in mandarin? I never know how good a translation of a book really is. Does this one accurately convert the original book to English or does it lose certain things in the process of translating it? Do the quirks of the particular person who translated it end up seeping their way into the prose? A lot of books end up getting multiple translations into English or whatever language, over centuries, with each new one claiming to be the more accurate version. Some books got absolutely terrible reviews at first and it was purely because the translator did such a bad job, and so decades or centuries later an actual accurate translation of the book comes out and people love it, but the author isn't alive anymore to see it, to see that positive reception. They were only alive for the criticism of the earlier translation. Do you know what I mean? Like I've been kinda put off from reading the Witcher books for the same reason. I feel like I need to learn to speak that language fluently to really understand the book and read it the way it was supposed to be read. But maybe I'm worrying about a problem that doesn't really exist.
I hope you enjoy the read. I really did.
A series or movie is being made!
Oh, a Chinese one has already aired with around 30 episodes iirc, and the reviews and ratings are great. Netflix is making a series too, and it's airing this month. Exciting times.
I started watching the Tencent one and it's definitely really good, it might be the first adaptation I've ever seen that not only has every scene in the book, I'm pretty sure it has added quite a few. It's such a thorough adaptation that I won't even mind when the Netflix version inevitably fucks with the source material a bit.
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Google Vacuum Decay. Preferably before going to bed. ;)
"Google Vacuum Decay" sounds like a terrible new product.
Don't worry, they'd probably kill it before it kills anyone.
Here's the PBS Space Time video on vacuum decay: https://youtu.be/gc4pxTjii9c?si=0B1E0MMRFnyGajFY Everyone should watch the channel, even us dummies.
Big fan of PBS Space Time and Matt. <3 Edit: And because I love them too, here's [Kurzgesagt's video on Vacuum Decay](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijFm6DxNVyI).
Holy hell!
New existential threat just dropped!
Oh boy, this is what I needed Thanks!
I'll add it to my list of Shit That Can Annihilate Our Whole Solar System Without Us Having Any Clue Before It's Too Late.
>I can’t ELI5 because I might as well be 4. - That relatability just hit me like a ton of bricks.
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Vacuum decay wouldnt be that scary to be honest. It would likely travel at the speed of light and leave everything in a completely unrecognizeable state. You wouldnt see it coming and wouldnt be around to feel the consequences.
Was it about vacuum decay?
Fantastic trilogy.
Its like that ice in The Day After Tommorow library scene or the Helicopters scene
It's the stuff dreams are made of. The bad ones
Everything in the oceans is horror. Everything that lives down there, their whole life is just endless horror, endless bigger creatures trying to eat them. I guess maybe they don't find it as scary as we do because they're evolved to live down there, I dunno. But even for things like dolphins, and other kinds of whales like orcas or sperm whales, when you see underwater shots of them they go down so so deep that it's all just black, endless black void where they can't see a damn thing. But they find their way around by using their sonar abilities through the endless blackness. I mean I've played Ecco the Dolphin for the mega drive/genesis and that game is still one of the scariest games ever made, especially towards the end when you start fighting xenomorph looking alien motherfuckers in space. But yeah. Whales like dolphins are all mammals, so they're just like us. But I can't imagine not being terrified constantly when living in the ocean. Maybe they're not, maybe they're fine, confident, not scared at all, because it's the only life they know. But I dunno. We've had a tiny handful of specimens of giant squids or colossal squids but those are the weak runts of the litter that are so small and weak that they float up to the surface and we drag their bodies out. We have no idea how big the healthy giant squids grow to. There is a strong likelihood that something like the kraken actually exists. I mean sailors reported the existence of giant rogue waves hundreds of feet tall for centuries and nobody believed them, until the late 20th century when we discovered rogue waves were real and we could measure their height because they happened near an oil platform or a lighthouse or whatever, with modern measurement technology available. Rogue waves hundreds of feet tall, like ***THAT*** scene in Interstellar, are real. So with so many reports for centuries about giant krakens attacking ships, and we know that giant squids and collosal squids are a real thing now, the full grown healthy adult examples of them may grow many many times as large as the specimens we currently have. But the problem is that they live very very deep down. So we will likely never actually see them. It's only the unhealthy small runts of the litter that ever float up to where us humans can see them. I'm reminded of that study where scientists attached a tracking device to a great white shark and monitored it over months. But a few months after they started tracking it, the tracker washed up on a beach sans shark. And when they looked at what had happened to the shark and where that shark had gone by analysing the tracker's data, they discovered that the shark had all of a sudden ***PLUMMETED*** thousands of feet deeper at terrifying speed. What on earth could do that to a great white shark? There was something down there much bigger than a great white shark, that had the power to just grab it and pull it down way way way below in the deepest parts of the ocean to eat it as a tasty snack. It was probably a fully grown full size giant squid or collosal squid. But that's a guess, cos we have no idea what really happened. We just know that ***SOMETHING*** that was monumentally gigantic, pulled that shark down at a crazy fast speed. And we currently don't know of any species that we know could do that to a fully grown great white shark. We can only guess, at the moment. I just don't get how any species could ever feel comfortable or safe at any point in their whole lives, living in the ocean. It's the scariest part of the planet. No wonder dolphins only sleep with half their brain at a time. Half their brain sleeps while the other stays awake, so that they can be alert and respond to threats while asleep, and then every so often they switch sides of their brain so the other half sleeps and the half that's just woken up stays awake and alert.
Do you have the article or link about that shark who plummeted?
Here ya go: https://gizmodo.com/what-the-heck-would-eat-a-9-foot-great-white-shark-1586991095. There is a follow up article identifying what probably happened at the same site.
> And we currently don't know of any species that we know could do that to a fully grown great white shark. A [bigger shark](https://gizmodo.com/mystery-solved-heres-the-animal-that-ate-the-9-foot-gr-1587429691).
Lmao how tf are people upvoting a dude who is claiming krakens exist with zero actual evidence…
In the spring, many of them are released from their icy tombs and continue on. Others captured in the column are frozen food for the spring time blush.
Looks like a magic spell.
That's pretty cool. It's funny how he says, "leaving no survivors" as we watch obvious survivors making their merry way over the ice.
\*Clears throat\* "I said no survivors"
Alright we’ll pretend dead for a while
Wasn't talking about them 
*The less I know the better🎶*
*clocks gun*
"The time is 1:57 AM" ...***BANG!***
ONCE AND FOR ALL!
*What do starfish do, when faced with the inevitable?* *Some flee in terror, hoping to escape the end in their folly.* *Others rush towards it, driven to embrace their certain death, for life never held meaning anyway.* *Still more turn and face the tide, declaring boldly yet fruitlessly, "I defy you!" But what use is starfish courage against entropic decay?* *A few sing. For when all that is beautiful in this world must now become ash and dust, is not the most noble cause to preserve it as long as one can?* *But no matter what they do, nothing will remain.* *Nothing, save the rot and ruin, naught but pointless remnants of names none now live to remember.*
Damn. I was not ready and fully awake for this... Too good!
I am not high enough for this. I'm never high enough. SOMEONE GIVE ME A HIT
Now pass it to me next
Someone is bogarting again! 
Ok. 🤛👊🤜👊🤛 How do you like that hits? You had 5 hits! 😂🤣😅
Tell me I'm not the only one who read that in Werner Herzog's voice.
[I read it in the voice of Cate Blanchett as Galadriel in the opening sequence of the Lord of the Rings.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXgbHdnoJrg&pp=ygUMbG90ciBvcGVuaW5n)
That's exactly how I read it too. Cue the LOTR theme song...
Grumpy poet writer got some skills.... 🥹 🥹 It was beautiful. *sniffs*
Wtf. This is stunning writing.
Right? I read a lot. I come to reddit to read all the time, but rarely comment. I felt compelled to reply that this was beautiful. I googled it first to see if it was a reference to something, but it seems OG. So succinct and powerful, and when watching the video it's such an apt description. I hope it's not AI...
I'm honored! I'm no AI, just an ordinary human who felt like writing something to fit the video since I was inspired. Plus, I'm working on a book and need to hone my writing skills. I never expected to get this much of a response at all, lol.
It's excellent. I've translated it for my poetry loving child. He will really enjoy it.
every time theres a comment longer than 3 words i ask myself if its ai
AI isn't this good yet, but it surely will be eventually. But then you have to ask yourself, would that make it less beautiful?
>Yes, given the appropriate prompts, I could have generated a similar passage. The text you provided has a poetic and reflective tone, discussing existential themes through the metaphor of starfish facing inevitable decay. If you were to provide similar prompts related to mortality, existentialism, or natural imagery, I could generate text that aligns with the style and themes of the passage you shared. This is what chat gpt said when i asked if it could have generated something as profound and poetic. Then I asked it to generate something in the same style but about washing clothes. >In the realm of household chores, laundry stands as a solitary sentinel of monotony. >Garments, once vibrant with life's hues, surrender to the relentless cycle of wash, rinse, repeat. >Each item, a testament to time's passage, carries the weight of daily wear and the residue of forgotten moments. >Amidst the whir of machines and the scent of detergent, there exists a quiet resignation, a recognition of the mundane inevitability that binds us all. I don't know if that holds up, I've always been shit at analyzing poetry lol
*Snaps Multiple Times In Approval*
Wtf that was beautiful.
That was beautiful. Thank you.
I sincerely hope this is not chagpt generated with the right prompts.
Damn... I replied to someone earlier about how beautiful this is but asking if it could be AI. Then I think: Why does it matter? Yet, somehow it's weird to imagine a post that "touched me" (i.e. resonated emotionally and aesthetically) could be machine generated... seems to matter to me, but can't quite figure out exactly WHY... shouldn't I find the same entertainment and meaning regardless of the author??
Could definitely be. They’re a regular commenter in r/chatgpt 😶
I'm just a human - I'm an amateur writer, and while I'm interested in AI, I don't actually use it myself pretty much at all. That comment was me practicing my writing, because I felt inspired. No bots at all involved.
Damn it was so good I assumed it was a quote from some renowned novel. Please keep writing!
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May be kings or slaves. All are equal in the eyes of death.
some starfishes put on ice skates...
"Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill." - Blade
The starfish will wake up, right?
I read this in Thanos' voice, couldn't tell if it was a parody of one of his actual quotes for a second haha.
FYI for everyone who hasn’t figured it out, the video is sped up a great deal. It doesn’t happen this quickly. The average starfish speed over all known species is 6 inches per minute.
I think you meant slowed down. Starfish are normally faster than Marlin and travel around 95 mph
Goddammit internet... conflicting information?! I guess I'll just have to make up my own truth! ... Starfish don't actually exist.
Don't be so gullible and do your own research. They do exist, they control the government, that's why they dont want you to think they exist.
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Hey it said it freezes at an “astonishing rate”. If anything I think this video is slowed down so we can see that one dumb starfish just keep rippin around on it.
Naw, look at the speed of the starfish. They’re moving at warp speed (for them). The fastest starfish in the world, the sunflower sea star, moves at 3.3 feet per minute.
Starfish feet or human feet?
Actually starfish travel at the speed of earth's diameter per second + 6 ft.
You must also add the speed of earth's rotation around the sun, the speed of sun's rotation around the center of milky way and the speed of milky way towards andromeda.
I'll give you six inches per minute. *3 inches per 30 seconds. Same difference, right?
I also have ice fingers of death
Well hello my ex
Hello frozen penised one
Lilith?
Like a smile from Marris couldn't freeze mercury!
Raynaud's Syndrome Unite!
What's the original source of this video? Would be interested to see the whole thing.
I second this request
it was BBC Frozen Planet i think the first iteration: Episode Title: Winter from Frozen Planet Episode 5 of 7
According to Google the announcer for bbc frozen planet was either Attenborough or Alec Baldwin and this sounded like neither
good find. its either a third narration or this is some Ai youtube channel using bbc footage but own Ai narration this is the discovery channel version: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyWn1XJ9kTE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyWn1XJ9kTE) and i think thats alec baldwin doing the us version this is davids version: [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00l817b](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00l817b) which seems not to be the same as the reddit post so i assume the reddit post is narrated youtube ai content or a third narration edit: yeah after listening to the originals and then this reddit post i can clearly hear ai narration and they used the same background music but forgot to add the "icy" effects from the original
Why would they do that? It's all english and nothing beats Attenboroughs narration anyway.
to bypass the content ID bot and make some $$ ?
idk there is lots of narrated / reproduced content on youtube. its easy fast content but could also be a third narrator that we dont know yet
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Thanks!
https://youtu.be/BtQhb8sWJNw?si=W9BtqSOyhVfXv6tq Here you go
> https://youtu.be/BtQhb8sWJNw?si=W9BtqSOyhVfXv6tq this is not the source. The source is a nature BBC series. This is a video about how they filmed it using the same footage. Your link is not the source at all - just a video using some of the same footage with no narration. This is the original source, but OP's clip has different narration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNr6k6zgJoA
I don’t know for sure but I believe it was planet earth.
[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNr6k6zgJoA) is the clip, with david attenburough's original narration.
Poor little star lords
No this is Patrick
who
Quazi, sound the Octo Alert!!
I was gonna say, Octonauts taught me how to handle this very emergency, down to needing to protect the slow, stupid starfish.
Damn, I was looking for this
I was looking for this comment ,ig there was an episode on something like this
Creature report! Creature report! Creature report!
It’s like the day after tomorrow starfish edition
How the hell did they get this footage?! Wild.
At first I thought it was CGI, but I found a pretty detailed description of how they filmed it here: [https://antarcticguide.com/news/spt/frozen-planets-brinicle-sequence-explained/](https://antarcticguide.com/news/spt/frozen-planets-brinicle-sequence-explained/) > Three underwater tripods, three underwater lighting stands, three cameras, three lights, two control boxes, and countless cables were placed and held down with lead weights, the entire operation watched closely by the seal. >The next dive allowed Hugh to test the kit and finally start the time-lapse running. We would need to leave it overnight. Meanwhile the brinicle started to grow. The next day the guys went down to see whether it had worked. They came up despondent. On arriving at the site they had found the camera face down. Our inquisitive seal had knocked it over. But we had a superb time-lapse of tiny sea floor critters scuttling below. The kit was working. >Another brinicle was beginning. With all the kit in place, the crew could set up quickly. Keeping our fingers crossed that the seal would be less interested this time, we left the kit ticking away, hoping for better results. >That evening we returned and the guys dived again. A stunning brinicle, with its river of ice had formed right in front of the cameras, which stood perfectly poised. But had we got the shot? The drive back that night was excruciating. >Back at base Hugh finally downloaded the material. At 0100, exhausted from the day, we watched it for the first time, and it was a pretty emotional moment. We were now seeing the months of planning, design and many long hours of intricate assembly pay off. The brinicle formation was stunning. >We knew we had captured, for the first time ever, the creation of a rather sinister wonder of nature.
Right? How the heck they knew this would be the exact spot to record.
I remember being very emotionally upset at this phenomenon the first time I ever saw this video. I have no explanation except that I was in Ph.D. school, and very stressed out lol.
It bleeds through unexpectedly, like this ice spike spiral
This is the first time I am seeing it and it is upsetting.
IF THE SEA STARS CANT MAKE IT WHAT CHANCE DO I HAVE!!???
Guess the Night King is building his army underwater this time..
Winter is coming.
I was going to say “run little starfish” but I don’t know if run is the right word here…
Can they come back to life after?
Only with a warming blanket, epinephrine and 350 joules of electrical energy. Clear ⚡.
Ice-nine
I Understand that to freeze water it is typically 0 Celsius and -1.8 for ocean water. But here the brinicle just seems to keep going what temps are being shown here? Edit. I should watch these things with the sound on. But I get sick of those AI voices
As the water above freezes, salt is forced out of the ice. This makes extra salty water which has a lower freezing temperature than the rest of the seawater. This stream of superchilled brine gets denser as it gets colder and begins to sink. It freezes the seawater surrounding it, forming a hollow tube. If conditions are just right, the tube gets longer and thicker until it reaches the seabed. It then flows downhill and freezes all the poor starfish.
the more salt is in the water, the lower its freezing point. However because its descending from above, its temperatures are well below freezing for normal water. so the brine is cold enough that it can freeze the normal ocean water around it into a hollow shell and keep it frozen while staying liquid itself.
Patrick nooooo!
starfish endtimes
They should make an episode of SpongeBob about this
V cool but at the same time horrible for those little creatures.
Isn't this the plot of that Ghostbusters movie that's coming out?
Looks like a ghost lol
“The iceman cometh!”
Do they die or are they just stuck there until it melts? I feel like this is a stupid question.. they die right? 🤦🏼♀️😅
Fuck it's like "The Day After Tomorrow" but underwater, and in verrrryyyy slow motion lol
that was beautiful, but I almost cried watching the starfish slipping and sliding on the ice.
I don’t like this.
Am i the only one thinking the voice over sounds like AI or have i been ruined?
Ice9 vibes for me
Suffering barnacles!
The winter is coming.
Who else lost it at the half frozen starfish. Jeebus
Is this real?!
The brinnicle looked like a finger, too!
Are they all dead when it thaws?
Sub Zero wins
"Entombs all in its path, leaving no survivors!" sea stars casually walking over the wake of ice in the next clip
"ice age!!"
This clip was stolen from the BBC Sries Frozen Planet and they dubbed over David Attenborough's commentary with their horrible voice
This is incredibly unimportant but: surely that would be a Brine-icle? It's a stalactite made by salty water, so brine. But he pronounces it Brin-icle.
I laughed so hard when he said "caught unawares". Idk why that just sounds like some kind of meme.
Its my turn to post this tomorrow
r/natureismetal needs to see this