Imagine if humans could live on the ocean floor! We'd have entire underwater cities with domes and tunnels, surrounded by sea creatures. It could help solve overcrowding on land, giving us new space to live. But it wouldn’t be easy—building homes to withstand the deep-sea pressure would be a huge challenge. We’d also need to figure out how to get food, oxygen, and energy down there. It sounds super cool, but colonizing the ocean floor would definitely take some serious science and technology! #brightside Animation is created by Bright Side. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music from TheSoul Sound: https://thesoul-sound.com/ Listen to Bright Side on: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD34jRLrMrJux4VxV Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/idhttps-podcasts-apple-com-podcast-bright-side/id1554898078 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/brightside/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/brightside.official/ Tik Tok - https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.official?lang=en Snapchat - https://www.snapchat.com/p/c6a1e38a-bff1-4a40-9731-2c8234ccb19f/1866144599336960 Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me
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00:00Suppose everyone in the world wants to do this, and countries started investing billions of dollars in this project.
00:06In that case, we can colonize the ocean floor.
00:09The question is, why would we need this?
00:12For the same reason we're going to colonize Mars, to save Earth from overpopulation.
00:17Why do we need to move to the Red Planet in the near future if we can live underwater?
00:22It'll be cheaper, safer, and most importantly, not far from our home.
00:28You don't need to stay in cryo-capsules for years to wake up hundreds of millions of miles away from your planet.
00:34It's much easier to take an elevator down to the underwater city, hang out there, and enjoy the views of marine nature.
00:40Besides, staying on Mars will surely cause severe mental problems for people.
00:45Panic, stress, and the realization that you can't return to your home whenever you want can put serious pressure on your mind.
00:52It's better to live under millions of tons of salt water, and the reason why we have to do this is a need for more resources.
00:59There are about 8 billion people on Earth right now.
01:03Some experts think that when the number reaches 10 billion, the world will begin to run out of food, fresh water, and fuel.
01:10Agriculture and other industries simply won't be able to develop so quickly.
01:14Resources will be depleted, and people will have to do something to survive.
01:19The colonization of the ocean is an ideal solution to the problem.
01:23Firstly, we have very little information about the ocean.
01:26We've studied space much better than the ocean on our planet.
01:30Most likely, vast reserves of fuel are hidden under the seabed.
01:34Secondly, we will be able to reduce the load on our planet by about 50% if we move to live in the ocean.
01:41Thirdly, there will be no problems with logistics.
01:45Delivering food, necessary equipment, and construction materials will take hours,
01:49and if something breaks along the way, you can return to the surface and try to deliver it again.
01:55Sending things to Mars would be much more complex and expensive.
01:59Imagine that halfway there, millions of miles away from Earth, something breaks down on the spaceship with provisions.
02:06Then you'll have to wait for many years for the next delivery.
02:10But the main reason for ocean colonization is protection from disasters and natural cataclysms.
02:16Volcanic eruptions, radioactive winter, earthquakes, tornadoes, and floods.
02:21We can easily wait out any disaster underwater.
02:25Yeah, there are volcanoes on the ocean floor too, but the consequences of their eruptions are not so dramatic.
02:31The water immediately cools the lava and prevents ash from spreading.
02:36We will never experience the consequences of fire again, no burning forests and polluted air.
02:42And speaking about the air, there's a lot of oxygen in the ocean.
02:47More than half of the oxygen reserves on the planet are replenished by the sea, thanks to algae and phytoplankton.
02:54So don't worry, we'll be able to breathe deeply.
02:57The main thing is to figure out how to do it underwater.
03:02When humanity decides to take such a global step and begins to colonize the ocean,
03:07we will first have to adapt our bodies to high pressures.
03:10There's such a thing called saturation diving.
03:13Before descending into the depths, you must inhale compressed air.
03:18The nitrogen and oxygen quickly dissolve in your blood and exert pressure on your body from the inside.
03:24At the same time, the water pushes on it from the outside.
03:28In simple terms, your body is in balance and you don't feel bad.
03:32Divers use this method when exploring the seabed at great depths.
03:37Therefore, when people begin to colonize the ocean, they will dive there wearing cylinders with compressed air and an oxygen mask.
03:45The main rule is to surface slowly.
03:47You need to wait until the compressed air completely dissipates inside your body.
03:52If this isn't done and you rise to the surface, then you will feel intense pressure from the inside.
03:58Nitrogen will start acting in your veins like soda bubbles when you shake a can with the drink.
04:04After this adaptation, we will start building cities, roads, and stations that will transfer people to dry land and back.
04:12It shouldn't be too difficult because we already have the technologies needed for the underwater lifestyle.
04:19Welcome to the Aquarius Reef Base, located at the bottom of the Florida Keys Marine Reserve.
04:25This is a small laboratory where six people can live for ten days.
04:29Scientists working there study coral reefs, marine plants, and fish.
04:34The lab doesn't look modern.
04:36It resembles a sunken, rusty bathyscuph overgrown with shells and other underwater stuff.
04:42To create buildings with more beautiful designs, people will need new technologies for underwater construction.
04:48So let's imagine that global colonization has begun.
04:52Engineers use durable stainless metals and other materials capable of withstanding high pressure.
04:58With the help of freight elevators, people lower everything needed for large-scale construction to the bottom.
05:04Stations with such elevators appear in all the seas and oceans.
05:09Engineers build huge underwater constructions on dry land, then large ships deliver them to the stations.
05:15From there, they descend to the bottom, where scuba divers and robots set these houses on the ocean floor.
05:22Every building is like a giant submarine with lots of apartments.
05:26They look ordinary from the inside, except for the underwater view from the window.
05:30To reduce waste emissions, engineers build huge capsules in every city, where garbage is destroyed by high water pressure.
05:38People try to live closer to the shore because they want to spend less time commuting.
05:43This causes severe pollution in coastal areas.
05:46Builders set up communication between the stations and land by creating vacuum tunnels with high-speed trains inside.
05:53In simple words, this is an underwater subway, only much faster than the one on dry land.
05:59From now on, people move farther from the shore to live in cleaner water.
06:03Humanity begins to make daily life in underwater cities more comfortable when the main construction is over.
06:10Scientists create filters that can quickly purify seawater.
06:14Now, everyone has a faucet that takes water directly from the ocean and turns it into fresh water.
06:20Also, constructors put in air filters capable of extracting oxygen from the water.
06:26Electricians create underwater mills to generate energy.
06:30To leave home, a person must put on a diving suit and cylinders with compressed air and exit through an airlock.
06:37People swim between buildings and talk to one another using radio communication.
06:42For faster movement, car companies produce small bathyscopes with locked cabins and powerful propeller systems.
06:48Over time, engineers create large domes where you can walk and breathe fresh air, like on land.
06:55Global clothing brands develop fashionable diving suits and practical accessories for comfortable underwater movement.
07:02For example, you can attach a small heater to your clothes to not freeze while swimming.
07:07And you can also put on wider fins with engraved brand symbols.
07:11To make such a lifestyle as comfortable as possible, scientists and biologists create masks that work like gills and provide a person with oxygen extracted from the water.
07:22Constant exposure to high pressure changes people's physiology over time.
07:27In the water, we need to put more effort into moving.
07:30People who often leave their homes lose a lot of calories.
07:34They become slimmer and their muscles get stronger.
07:37Look at the Olympic swimming champions.
07:39Now, almost all underwater citizens have the same developed shape.
07:44Our body temperature is falling and evolution slowly turns us into cold-blooded creatures.
07:49A lack of sunlight makes our skin paler and we start resembling amphibians.
07:54We learn more about deep-sea creatures such as the giant squid and other monsters.
07:59Almost every month, scientists discover new species.
08:02But at the same time, many fish species disappear because of human activity in the ocean.
08:07The extraction of natural resources from under the seabed heavily pollutes the water.
08:12To reduce the load on the planet, people decide to colonize the sky.
08:17But this is a topic for another video.