47: The Abyssopelagic Zone, The Crystal Healing Boom, and Time Capsules

What lies below the depths of the sea... and why should we stop being so afraid of it? Okay we know crystals can't heal you, but could they actually do... something? And why are time capsules more complicated than you'd think, and why should we love them anyway? Images/Videos we talk about: New Yorker Comic about the Deep Sea The Phantom Jellyfish (warning for Thalassophobia) The Venus Flow Basket Sponge Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:05:04) The Abyssopelagic Zone (00:54:21) The Crystal Healing Boom (01:26:19) Time Capsules (01:54:18) Outro We also learn about: The Zones of the Ocean, the midnight zone, the hadal zone in the trenches, Tom forgets that water freezes, cold water and thermal vents, pompeii worm’s bacterial jacket, chemosynthesis, the deep see adaptation alarm, pisolite, it’s a myth that more people have been to space than the bottom of the ocean, the challenger deep, deep sea and moon exploration were happening around the same time, we actually DO know more about the sea than the moon, the abyssal plains is half the planet… but people don’t care, thalassophobia, there are no amateur deep sea explorers, the enig…