Thought I would hop into the comments and say thanks to everyone for your patience as I've been slower on the uploads this month. And also (grab a kleenex), this is the last video that you will see with this background. I've got a whole new set that I've built and I've already got a couple videos shot with it that will start rolling out on April 3rd. So say goodbye to the IKEA shelf and get ready to say hello to... well, another IKEA shelf. 😄 Can't wait for you to see it. Lots of cool stuff on the way. Love you guys.
I know you probably won't see this. But i'm currently 17, i've been watching you since i was 12, and you've helped me get through a lot of things. Whenever you don't post anything i actually watch a lot of your old or past videos, and i go to sleep while listening to your videos even though i've seen them a million times already. I just wanted to let you know that there are people out there who absolutely love you, and there are people who's lives have been influenced by you. I hope that one day i can meet you and let you know in person how much you have helped me
Growing up on a lake in Northern Michigan, my first thought when I heard the bloop was "Sounds like ice cracking on the lake". When the ice is getting thicker (4"-6" of ice depth), the expansion of the ice causes huge cracks to relieve the stresses that build up. They have a weird organic sound to them. When the ice is thin,
One day I was walking my dog next to a frozen lake... and suddenly a very deep, very loud sound "appears". I wouldn't say that I "hear" it... to be more exact... I would say that I "felt" it... I felt it inside me and everywhere. Of course that left me in shock... I had never heard anything like this in my life... and I have never heard it again. I am not able to express the depth of that sound. It was like being in a movie. I didn't imagine it because my dog listen it too. I'm not sure what I heard... but I think what happened is that the lake was thawing... and I think what produced the sound was the entire surface of the lake descending a few cm and reverberating like a gigantic drum. Nature is really amazing
Warmer fluids dissolve fewer gases, could have been a release of gas under the ice as the water warms. Definitely would need more information to know for certain.
Yes and even booming sounds. I've heard some crazy sounds on Lake Michigan when ice fishing during a small thaw and even the large river that runs through our town makes very loud noises sometimes that I can hear from a half mile away and people have reported it to the police not knowing what it was. The river is very deep here and has very strong currents that are probably the cause.
In the 1960s, the US military set up a huge underwater surveillance system to track submarines, ours and theirs. In 1968 a soviet submarine had an onboard explosion which sank the submarine. The US knew precisely where the sub was located, it turned out the soviets knew nothing. The Glomar Explorer was build ostensibly to explore for undersea mining, but actually was to recover the missing soviet submarine.
Back in the before times, I used to read the colour comics section of our weekend paper. On the back page there was a feature dedicated to sciency stuff. The Glomar Explorer was featured and it always stuck in my head. Knowing how security agencies use P.R. companies etc., to plant "news" from time to time, after I found out the true purpose of the Glomar Explorer, I wondered if that feature was a CIA plant.
The lonely whale reminds me of Bruiser the Elk. On Whidbey Island in the Puget Sound in Washington State, theres a single Elk named Bruiser. Elk are not native to the island, so he's the only one on it. Hes been there about 10 years, after swimming across the Sound to the island. You can occasionally hear him bugling during mating season. People have reported him destroying their clotheslines.
@Joe Scott there is a massive TH-cam audience for quality and thought provoking content on paleoanthrropology I would love to see you make some videos on the subject and see what your ideas about the new studies
@@squirlmy the recent homo naledi papers may have completely upended decades of established thought on the subject... and essentially all of our models are pure conjecture so it's a ripe field for intrigue
0:01 SPOILER alert! ⚠️ The Bloop happened to be detected at the exact moment my buddy Ralph and I ran into one of these on a dive, and he dared me to fart into the mic. Coincidence?! I think NOT.
Life has been a bit rough for awhile now and having your weekly 15 minutes of chatting helps a ton. Seeing a new vid in my subscriptions today brought me so much comfort.
Thank you for mentioning Cthulhu. As a lifelong fan of Lovecraft, Cthulhu has always been my tongue-in-cheek explanation for anything weird. Phnglui w'gah nagl fhtagn.
I'm learning so much from this channel and I'm not even done with high school yet. I've learned things that I haven't even heard from school books. Keep on teaching!
the thing I rarely see mentioned whenever the recording is talked about but is in my opinion very important to how it could be perceived is that it (and most other of these sea noises) have been sped up and pitched up by a lot (the bloop is 16 times), the original recording lasted about a minute and ranged from around 10hz to 50hz, which most speakers are incapable of reproducing, half of it is outside the human hearing range, and the rest is just barely within it, if it were possible to perfectly reproduce it would likely just sound/feel like a rumble at it's real pitch/tempo (if played at a safe volume)
1997 seems like a good year for several hydrophonic mysteries. I wonder why that year seems like an outlier with it's number of unidentified recordings. Perhaps the bloop brought more attention to that year's recordings.
Looks like the initial deployment was may 1996. Likely they have had better success tracking and identifying sounds after due to calibration and better algorithms.
This is a very entertaining and thoughtful video. Thank you! One helpful grammar tip: Use "farther" for distance, as in "Sound waves travel farther in water than they do in air." Use "further" for just about everything else. As in: "These night courses will further my criminology education." Or "The further I get into this story, the more confused I become." All good wishes.
When looking for a solution to mysterious underwater sounds, the best method is to use Occam's Razor; which in this case leads to the answer that it's an interdimensional city phasing back into our spacetime and the pressure of the displaced water causes the noise. 😛
That bloop was the sound of a wormhole opening and closing real quick. An alien space craft was aiming for the upper atmosphere, but they fudged the coordinates and ended up warping in to the ocean.
Considering it sounded similar to when you throw a large rock into water, it seemed obvious to me that it was something large falling into the surface of the water rather than a deep ocean sound.
The mystery of Bloop was resolved a few years ago, he even started making appearances on certain TH-cam channel. We haven't seen him in a while though, he is believed to have been eaten by a shark.
Fun fact! Julia has a chorus effect guitar pedal named after it, made by Walrus Audio! I have one and it very much captures the spirit of the Julia sound. It just a LITTLE different than other chorus effects
Welcome! I've been here about 3 months. I've watched about 70% or so of the older videos. Joe's a great communicator. Very funny too. You're going to learn a lot!
@@patrickgrassey2290 I'm enjoying it! I find myself bobbing along to it lol the old tune he had was still great, it kind of reminded me of the Metropolitan Zone from Sonic 2 haha
Hello Joe! I am really curious about the sounds of the ocean during the pandemic when all the shipping traffic was quiet. I tried to attempt to research this but hit a bunch of dead ends.
He waits dreaming until the time when the stars are right, when he will rise from his abyssal tomb, devour his devotees, and subject the rest of humanity to to utter madness before he finally devours them too.
The sounds on your video scared my dogs enough so I had to pause and take them outside to brush off the uneasiness. I thought this is scary stuff for humans only, but apparently we're not alone in this. Thank for the video, great work!
Very curious and interesting, as per usual! I have a question though: a lot of the sounds you mention were first recorded in 1997. Was that the year the array was built across the sea floor or was that just a particularly terrifying period for marine science? Keep up the good work!
People estimated that the bloop beast was supposed to be more than 250m big. Now imagine: a population of those, somehow not leaving any sign of their presence apart from that one sound that one time. And let's not start thinking about what does that even eat and all. Also, Scott, THANK YOU. The first time I heard the "loneliest whale story" I was almost 30, and CRIED MY EYES OUT FOR HALF AN HOUR and had my mood destroyed for days. Like, I feel like crying right now just remembering it. So, having now an explanation with a plausible happy ending for that whale feels like a huge gift. Funny enough, I was very sympathetic with its loneliness, but now my austic lonely butt are even more empathetic with that little "odd" dude than before, and I'm just glad that one of us managed to likely find their way to someone who accepts them even if they are a bit "different". So, thank you scott for reporting it and heal this "wound" I felt for years the little guy 😂
2:30 that story is worth telling. The team put out buoys with a motion activated camera and bait, one of the buoys disappeared. It was pulled under water, for 2 hours. Before it resurfaced the only evidence is a single photo and a tentacle.
Hey Joe, Big fan here, thanks for your work. Beautiful video as usual! Quick one, any plan to check the seaweed farming industry in a future video? Stay safe! 🤗
Cool story about the thumbnail, I actually met the artist that drew that picture when I was 12-13. We were in Anaheim CA for a goth culture event. I still have his business card in one of my old wallets, it has the same picture on it. Had I known he was a famous online artist I would’ve asked for an autograph 😂
The educational children's show Octonauts did a "Lonely Whale" episode where they encountered a whale with an unusual call. It turns out to just be genetics, the Octonauts fashioned a device that changes the whale's call to the frequency his friends understand, and he's no longer a lonely, odd whale. Well, besides the whole voice modulator thing.
Should be able to triangulate it based on timestamps when it was recorded at each hydrophone. As long as you know the time and location of each hydrophone. Without knowing the exact geography and speed of sound in the various media, you might only locate it to a several kilometer area, but it’s possible.
Thought the same! No idea HOW to do it, but I did think "Can't they (blah blah math math...) and pin down the source location?" (Edit: I can't spell words well today, apparently)
TH-cam stopped showing me your videos. I remembered today I haven't seen you in months. Well... at least I have like 25 Joescott videos to watch now. Commented for the algorithm. Keep being awesome.
The RadioLab episode "Red Herring" (FEB 19, 2021) has a really interesting underwater sound story involving an odd sound heard off the coast of Sweden during the cold war. It's both very educational and pretty funny. Worth giving it a listen if you get a chance.
@@zapfanzapfan I remember that incidence. I was in my mid teens and it sparked my interest for geopolitics. Being a Dane with (former Soviet) Baltic relatives, anything happening in these parts of the world naturally catch my attention. A couple of decades later I happened to find a book by two Swedish journalists, covering the odds and ends of the Uboat 137 beaching, including e few things that never made it to the public news, like Soviet submariners swapping their mechanical diver's watches for cheap Japanese digital watches, or one Swedish officer scooping up some adult magazines and giving them to the Russians to their great delight. There were also a few quite serious episodes like a small Swedish boat almost being shot at when they tried to get close to the stern of the submarine to do clandestine measurements of possible radiation, indicating torpedos equipped with nuclear warheads. Many years later the political officer visited Sweden which was filmed for TV. The broadcast was called "Whisky on the Rocks" and can be found here on TH-cam.
I don't mind conspiracies because they are fun sometimes, but only for mysterious stuff like this. I do love knowing the actual reason for a mystery happening though. Who knew ice could be so noisy?
I know I've said this before, but some things bear repetition! Joe, you make me laugh out loud more often than just about anyone other than Dave Chappelle. I come for the knowledge, I stay for your humourous takes and delivery on this crazy world/universe. Genuine appreciation for your thoughtful insights delivered so lightly. THANK YOU! Right next to love, the world needs more laughter!
The simplest, best argument I have for these mystery sounds not being organic is this: ‘Lions don’t roar once and then die.’ Biological critters tend to repeat actions. Birds chips. Cows moo. Woodpeckers won’t stop pecking on the sheet metal around my chimney. The bloop was once. Similar ‘once ever’ sounds will likewise generally have non-organic causes. Oh, there may be the odd exceptions. Trees fall. some critter may fill a large sea-floor colony with gas and one day become unanchored - bloop! - no more colony, but in general once-only high-energy events in the recorded history of man have non-organic causes.
Love this video and the names of the sounds are FANTASTIC. I also love when two things I love cross paths (there is a BTS song called 52 Whalien - which is where I first learned about the 52 hertz whale) and seeing it here made it even cooler. Love your channel, as always, and yes... the oceans are terrifying.
I'm so confused. I got a wicked sense of deja vú watching this and could have sworn you already did a video on the bloop, now I don't know where I learned about this
@@joescott It probably came from my subconscious then. Been with you for a long time on this wild ride. Yes, a revisit for sure. That stuff is so creepy and cool.
7:20 it never stops amusing me how confident people (idiots) can be describing a creature nobody has ever seen while they claim it MUST be the cause for this unexplained thing. "there must be a logical reason" "yeah there is! here, i made it up lemme tell you in great detail" lmao
I have something super similar to a Hensen razer. I loved the thing but one of the replacement blades was a little too big for the razer and I dropped it in just the wrong way to literally flay open a part of my finger. Still can't look at it without feeling sick unfortunatly, but it was a fantastic razer before that.
"The Whistle" was me. I swam for the first time in the summer of 1997 which was a very cold summer. The water was cold and I howled while swimming towards shore as fast as I could. The low pitch is a result of the Doppler effect as I was moving lightning fast out of the water and away from any hydrophones. I'm not proud of it, but it's time I put an end to this 'myth'.
HA!!! That is at least TWICE Jason got you with that same bit!!! Also WELCOME BACK!!! Are the weekly uploads coming back soon??? Please you're easily the best part of my Mondays.
@3:17 It's not "triangulation". A single sensor doesn't know what direction the sound came from, so it can't provide an angle to use for triangulation. Multiple sensors can define an angle, and multiple sensors in more than one position can give you the two necessary for triangulation, but multilateration is easier and more flexible, and requires less hardware.
Thought I would hop into the comments and say thanks to everyone for your patience as I've been slower on the uploads this month. And also (grab a kleenex), this is the last video that you will see with this background. I've got a whole new set that I've built and I've already got a couple videos shot with it that will start rolling out on April 3rd.
So say goodbye to the IKEA shelf and get ready to say hello to... well, another IKEA shelf. 😄
Can't wait for you to see it. Lots of cool stuff on the way. Love you guys.
Much love Joe! Thank you for keeping me sane, best of luck with the new Ikea shelf! Looking forward to getting to know it's acquaintance!
Lemme know if you're gonna sell any of the 'old stuff'...😉
We come for the knowledge and laughs, not the number of videos posted. But we stay for the A class quality!!
Please tell me the Tron disc will still be there!
❤❤
I know you probably won't see this. But i'm currently 17, i've been watching you since i was 12, and you've helped me get through a lot of things. Whenever you don't post anything i actually watch a lot of your old or past videos, and i go to sleep while listening to your videos even though i've seen them a million times already. I just wanted to let you know that there are people out there who absolutely love you, and there are people who's lives have been influenced by you. I hope that one day i can meet you and let you know in person how much you have helped me
That’s an incredibly nice thing to say, thank you. 🙂
Atta boy
100% Agreed. Joe is the man.
Great comment DT.
@@joescott thank you, it means a lot that you would reply.
Great video, great topic, and fun samples to listen to
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Good job
Growing up on a lake in Northern Michigan, my first thought when I heard the bloop was "Sounds like ice cracking on the lake". When the ice is getting thicker (4"-6" of ice depth), the expansion of the ice causes huge cracks to relieve the stresses that build up. They have a weird organic sound to them. When the ice is thin,
You grew up on a lake? Mermaid? Or: I'm picturing a little crab typing away on a cell phone dropped from a boat...
Raft house
Oh man it's so freaking fun!! It sounds wild!! You almost have to be there to believe it
Awww the poor souls who have never experienced the outdoors other than taking out the garbage.
@@squirlmy It's English dontcha know kinda weird.
One day I was walking my dog next to a frozen lake... and suddenly a very deep, very loud sound "appears". I wouldn't say that I "hear" it... to be more exact... I would say that I "felt" it... I felt it inside me and everywhere. Of course that left me in shock... I had never heard anything like this in my life... and I have never heard it again. I am not able to express the depth of that sound. It was like being in a movie. I didn't imagine it because my dog listen it too.
I'm not sure what I heard... but I think what happened is that the lake was thawing... and I think what produced the sound was the entire surface of the lake descending a few cm and reverberating like a gigantic drum. Nature is really amazing
I'd love to hear -- or feel -- something like that! :D
Sounds like some part of the ice cracked!
Or there was a sasquatch nearby (they use infrasound).
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Kinda sorry, kinda serious.
ok
Warmer fluids dissolve fewer gases, could have been a release of gas under the ice as the water warms. Definitely would need more information to know for certain.
Okay but the 'people living secretly in the attic' thing has happened and it's absolutely terrifying 🙅🏻
Especially the ones who came out and murdered people.
Yeah there’s some videos out there of people catching those guys on security cameras. Freaky as hell.
@@joescott I'm in your attic
Hugo is fed a bucket of fisheads every weeks
The people under the stairs are more worser...
If you’ve ever been on a large frozen lake (or sea ice) you’ll know that shifting ice makes loud sounds something like huge metal wires twanging.
Yes and even booming sounds. I've heard some crazy sounds on Lake Michigan when ice fishing during a small thaw and even the large river that runs through our town makes very loud noises sometimes that I can hear from a half mile away and people have reported it to the police not knowing what it was. The river is very deep here and has very strong currents that are probably the cause.
I’ve heard that twanging sound
Not going to lie, I though you said
"shi💩💩ing ice." I was so confused. I think I need a nap.
I love that you used Neil Breen as the stranger in the attic. Finding him up there would be both terrifying and for some reason, unsurprising.
Exactly what I thought. That's a totally Neil Breen thing, he'd be up there with a bunch of satellite dishes and cans of tuna.
He'd make too much noise breaking all those computers.
#eyesonbreen
I can’t believe it. I can believe you committed a Neil Breen reference in my garage next to my Ferrari.
Sometimes when I'm laying in bed, I hear him drop a tuna can up there.
Who ever made the names for the sounds needs a award 🥇
Sounds like a fun job, huh?
an
His name was Adolf hitler. Still think he needs an award?
@@liammeharry yes
Do you know why the Whale makes the sad noise? Because it Hertz!
In the 1960s, the US military set up a huge underwater surveillance system to track submarines, ours and theirs. In 1968 a soviet submarine had an onboard explosion which sank the submarine. The US knew precisely where the sub was located, it turned out the soviets knew nothing. The Glomar Explorer was build ostensibly to explore for undersea mining, but actually was to recover the missing soviet submarine.
Back in the before times, I used to read the colour comics section of our weekend paper. On the back page there was a feature dedicated to sciency stuff. The Glomar Explorer was featured and it always stuck in my head. Knowing how security agencies use P.R. companies etc., to plant "news" from time to time, after I found out the true purpose of the Glomar Explorer, I wondered if that feature was a CIA plant.
How loud was the USS Thresher implosion?
I'm glad we know what the bloop is. I await the blarp.
😂 yet another reason to not go on a cruise ship. 😂😂😂
The lonely whale reminds me of Bruiser the Elk. On Whidbey Island in the Puget Sound in Washington State, theres a single Elk named Bruiser. Elk are not native to the island, so he's the only one on it. Hes been there about 10 years, after swimming across the Sound to the island. You can occasionally hear him bugling during mating season. People have reported him destroying their clotheslines.
Thank God you posted, I was stuck watching old Joe Scott videos
More stuff on the way. 😉
@@joescott till then I'll keep watching old videos 😂
@Joe Scott there is a massive TH-cam audience for quality and thought provoking content on paleoanthrropology I would love to see you make some videos on the subject and see what your ideas about the new studies
IDK, do you have statistics on how large the audience is? Because, it sounds like wishful thinking to me. Can you list some recent discoveries?
@@squirlmy the recent homo naledi papers may have completely upended decades of established thought on the subject... and essentially all of our models are pure conjecture so it's a ripe field for intrigue
0:01 SPOILER alert! ⚠️ The Bloop happened to be detected at the exact moment my buddy Ralph and I ran into one of these on a dive, and he dared me to fart into the mic. Coincidence?! I think NOT.
Really?
Life has been a bit rough for awhile now and having your weekly 15 minutes of chatting helps a ton. Seeing a new vid in my subscriptions today brought me so much comfort.
Hang in there. I promise Life is so worth it.
Sorry you've had a rough time. Happens to all of us. And I'm glad my banter has helped - I hope you find a lot more things to give you joy.
Thank you for mentioning Cthulhu. As a lifelong fan of Lovecraft, Cthulhu has always been my tongue-in-cheek explanation for anything weird. Phnglui w'gah nagl fhtagn.
The Fungi from Yuggoth are my usual joke involving Pluto. Talk about the edge of the universe also reminds me of Yog-Sothoth.
I love this channel. Always learn something new with these videos. Like the sounds scientists make when they’re surprised.
I'm learning so much from this channel and I'm not even done with high school yet. I've learned things that I haven't even heard from school books. Keep on teaching!
Keep on learning! ;)
the thing I rarely see mentioned whenever the recording is talked about but is in my opinion very important to how it could be perceived is that it (and most other of these sea noises) have been sped up and pitched up by a lot (the bloop is 16 times), the original recording lasted about a minute and ranged from around 10hz to 50hz, which most speakers are incapable of reproducing, half of it is outside the human hearing range, and the rest is just barely within it, if it were possible to perfectly reproduce it would likely just sound/feel like a rumble at it's real pitch/tempo (if played at a safe volume)
You can’t deny it’s bloopiness ❤️
1997 seems like a good year for several hydrophonic mysteries. I wonder why that year seems like an outlier with it's number of unidentified recordings. Perhaps the bloop brought more attention to that year's recordings.
Looks like the initial deployment was may 1996. Likely they have had better success tracking and identifying sounds after due to calibration and better algorithms.
Or purposely hiding them don’t forget. 🤷🏽♂️
I think the cephalopod script has been heralded like 6 times since that video came out and it never ceases to be funny
Sounds like an air bubble escaping the sea floor.
Could be methane, which would be pretty bad for global warming.
That's what I thought
Timestamp: 5:01
There were definitely some 'fart in a bath' sounds in this vid
Yep, gas scraping some seafloor seismic activity is my best guess
This is a very entertaining and thoughtful video. Thank you! One helpful grammar tip: Use "farther" for distance, as in "Sound waves travel farther in water than they do in air." Use "further" for just about everything else. As in: "These night courses will further my criminology education." Or "The further I get into this story, the more confused I become." All good wishes.
When looking for a solution to mysterious underwater sounds, the best method is to use Occam's Razor; which in this case leads to the answer that it's an interdimensional city phasing back into our spacetime and the pressure of the displaced water causes the noise. 😛
Or maybe it's an underwater Wakanda. The shield failed and the ocean claimed the city.
@@Nitephall It's a wild held fact that underwater Wakanda sounds more like a kazoo or slide whistle. 😛
Obviously
Why not?
* plays most terrifying sound ever *
"it's probably just an iceberg"
That bloop was the sound of a wormhole opening and closing real quick. An alien space craft was aiming for the upper atmosphere, but they fudged the coordinates and ended up warping in to the ocean.
Poor, wet aliens.
Yet another alien invasion, thwarted by delta P
they meant to go directly to the water. Why else would they come to such a wet planet?
love that at 6:40 joe used a mtg card (specifically scourge of fleets) to illustrate a giant underwater sea creature,
I was like "I recognize that art"
@@mn6334 pretty cool
Considering it sounded similar to when you throw a large rock into water, it seemed obvious to me that it was something large falling into the surface of the water rather than a deep ocean sound.
I figured a meteorite.
i love that after so long you still keep the cephalopod joke running
Definitely an awesome topic to reference as often as possible. They're some of the most incredible creatures out there.
I loved that video 😅
As someone with severe thalassophobia, I can assure you those sounds are indeed either Cthulhu or giant cannibal spider sharks
Imagine Cthulhu with its menacing face coming towards the mic and saying "bloop".
That's probably its version of "bruh".
🤣
Once again, great video, great topic, and fun samples to listen to. :D
The mystery of Bloop was resolved a few years ago, he even started making appearances on certain TH-cam channel. We haven't seen him in a while though, he is believed to have been eaten by a shark.
Fun fact! Julia has a chorus effect guitar pedal named after it, made by Walrus Audio! I have one and it very much captures the spirit of the Julia sound. It just a LITTLE different than other chorus effects
Oh, that's super cool.
I am so happy you included 52 Blue. It's my favorite ocean mystery.
I found your channel a few weeks ago and I love it! Your ability to explain things in such an easy to understand and concise manner is amazing!
Welcome! I've been here about 3 months. I've watched about 70% or so of the older videos. Joe's a great communicator. Very funny too. You're going to learn a lot!
Thanks! Glad you're here!
I may be closer to 3 years (probably longer?), but his humor hasn't changed while his videos have improved.
Legend goes that the sound is still going around the ocean to this day, being reverberated and echoed back and forth.
Anyone else really enjoying the background track Joe has during these vids? Just a really good vibing tune 😎
Found it distracting... it worked to make me rewatch, for sure.
@@patrickgrassey2290 I'm enjoying it! I find myself bobbing along to it lol the old tune he had was still great, it kind of reminded me of the Metropolitan Zone from Sonic 2 haha
6:41 i love that this particular Magic the Gathering art is used so much as some kind of stock image
Hello Joe! I am really curious about the sounds of the ocean during the pandemic when all the shipping traffic was quiet. I tried to attempt to research this but hit a bunch of dead ends.
This video is fascinating; I thought that it was due to ice but the distance the sound traveled is remarkable!
The eerie unknown sound must have been C'thulu's mating calls. He's lonesome down there :(
He waits dreaming until the time when the stars are right, when he will rise from his abyssal tomb, devour his devotees, and subject the rest of humanity to to utter madness before he finally devours them too.
The sounds on your video scared my dogs enough so I had to pause and take them outside to brush off the uneasiness. I thought this is scary stuff for humans only, but apparently we're not alone in this. Thank for the video, great work!
Sometimes my dogs bark when I'm recording. Then later when I'm editing or playing it back, they'll hear themselves bark and get scared.
Very curious and interesting, as per usual!
I have a question though: a lot of the sounds you mention were first recorded in 1997. Was that the year the array was built across the sea floor or was that just a particularly terrifying period for marine science?
Keep up the good work!
Hehe, I can't say for sure, but I assume there was some change in aggregation or recording around that time.
A glacier calving is still the most awesome sound I have ever experienced. The sound comes from everywhere.
People estimated that the bloop beast was supposed to be more than 250m big. Now imagine: a population of those, somehow not leaving any sign of their presence apart from that one sound that one time. And let's not start thinking about what does that even eat and all.
Also, Scott, THANK YOU. The first time I heard the "loneliest whale story" I was almost 30, and CRIED MY EYES OUT FOR HALF AN HOUR and had my mood destroyed for days. Like, I feel like crying right now just remembering it.
So, having now an explanation with a plausible happy ending for that whale feels like a huge gift.
Funny enough, I was very sympathetic with its loneliness, but now my austic lonely butt are even more empathetic with that little "odd" dude than before, and I'm just glad that one of us managed to likely find their way to someone who accepts them even if they are a bit "different".
So, thank you scott for reporting it and heal this "wound" I felt for years the little guy 😂
2:30 that story is worth telling.
The team put out buoys with a motion activated camera and bait, one of the buoys disappeared. It was pulled under water, for 2 hours. Before it resurfaced the only evidence is a single photo and a tentacle.
Thank you joe,I’ve greatly enjoyed your videos
Would like to just say, as an old school fan of the vlogbrothers from back in the day, I appreciate any creator that references "the dooblydoo"
I just wanted to let you know joe that your videos always lighten up my day💪🏼
Hey Joe,
Big fan here, thanks for your work. Beautiful video as usual!
Quick one, any plan to check the seaweed farming industry in a future video?
Stay safe! 🤗
Litterally just searched this topic today for fun. And suddenly just a day ago you release a well made video on the exact topic?!
Another quality video! Love your work :)
Your humor is so good that it DOESN'T fail.
It’s interesting that I have seen bird spectrograms with patterns very similar to some of these underwater sounds.
Everything's connected, man. Everything's connected...
So.... Undersea dinosaurs?
@@larrywest42 Wellllll…technically, by scientific definition, the term “dinosaur” only applies to land reptiles during the Mesozoic Era. 🤓
Cool story about the thumbnail, I actually met the artist that drew that picture when I was 12-13. We were in Anaheim CA for a goth culture event. I still have his business card in one of my old wallets, it has the same picture on it. Had I known he was a famous online artist I would’ve asked for an autograph 😂
I’m not the least little bit ashamed at how excited I was to see a new vid! Love me my Joe.
The educational children's show Octonauts did a "Lonely Whale" episode where they encountered a whale with an unusual call. It turns out to just be genetics, the Octonauts fashioned a device that changes the whale's call to the frequency his friends understand, and he's no longer a lonely, odd whale. Well, besides the whole voice modulator thing.
Should be able to triangulate it based on timestamps when it was recorded at each hydrophone. As long as you know the time and location of each hydrophone. Without knowing the exact geography and speed of sound in the various media, you might only locate it to a several kilometer area, but it’s possible.
Thought the same! No idea HOW to do it, but I did think "Can't they (blah blah math math...) and pin down the source location?"
(Edit: I can't spell words well today, apparently)
Still tricky, though: lots of reflections (valleys, mountains) and changes in water temperature/density (= speed of sound) over long distances.
@@larrywest42 Right, but you should still be able to localize it significantly, to an area probably less than 10km radius, perhaps much closer.
TH-cam stopped showing me your videos. I remembered today I haven't seen you in months. Well... at least I have like 25 Joescott videos to watch now. Commented for the algorithm. Keep being awesome.
As if the bloop isn't weird enough, there was another mysterious oceanic noise called "the event" that turned out to be fish farts. Seriously.
Good to see you back, Joe. Mondays have been a bit odd recently...
Lots of big stuff coming in April. ;)
Hi Joe!! 👋 Just wondering if you were able to make the documentary about the Baker Hotel. Would love to hear about it. Love your videos!! Thank you!!
Ocean sounds are beyond terrifying 😳
The whole ocean is terrifying! 😢
Nexpo did a great video about fear of the depths.
frfr this sounds 100% like an airbubble blooping to the surface in a pool
Thanks for the awesome content and great videos!!!
Great video Joe! Been with you since you were a wee channel, well done, Sir!
The RadioLab episode "Red Herring" (FEB 19, 2021) has a really interesting underwater sound story involving an odd sound heard off the coast of Sweden during the cold war. It's both very educational and pretty funny. Worth giving it a listen if you get a chance.
Another Whiskey on the rocks? 🙂
It was fish fucking lol
It referenced a Ted talk, whose title is a spoiler so I won't mention it, but it was a classic Cold War submarine story.
@@zapfanzapfan I remember that incidence. I was in my mid teens and it sparked my interest for geopolitics. Being a Dane with (former Soviet) Baltic relatives, anything happening in these parts of the world naturally catch my attention.
A couple of decades later I happened to find a book by two Swedish journalists, covering the odds and ends of the Uboat 137 beaching, including e few things that never made it to the public news, like Soviet submariners swapping their mechanical diver's watches for cheap Japanese digital watches, or one Swedish officer scooping up some adult magazines and giving them to the Russians to their great delight.
There were also a few quite serious episodes like a small Swedish boat almost being shot at when they tried to get close to the stern of the submarine to do clandestine measurements of possible radiation, indicating torpedos equipped with nuclear warheads.
Many years later the political officer visited Sweden which was filmed for TV. The broadcast was called "Whisky on the Rocks" and can be found here on TH-cam.
I don't mind conspiracies because they are fun sometimes, but only for mysterious stuff like this. I do love knowing the actual reason for a mystery happening though. Who knew ice could be so noisy?
Your segways from the program to the advertising is always a treat. I usually laugh my ass off! You're a hoot, Joe!
I know I've said this before, but some things bear repetition! Joe, you make me laugh out loud more often than just about anyone other than Dave Chappelle. I come for the knowledge, I stay for your humourous takes and delivery on this crazy world/universe. Genuine appreciation for your thoughtful insights delivered so lightly. THANK YOU! Right next to love, the world needs more laughter!
Awe, that's awesome, thanks for saying that. :)
Great video, but the Ad for Henson shaving made me try out the razor and it’s INSANELY AMAZING. So nicely made and such a great deal.
The simplest, best argument I have for these mystery sounds not being organic is this:
‘Lions don’t roar once and then die.’ Biological critters tend to repeat actions. Birds chips. Cows moo. Woodpeckers won’t stop pecking on the sheet metal around my chimney. The bloop was once. Similar ‘once ever’ sounds will likewise generally have non-organic causes. Oh, there may be the odd exceptions. Trees fall. some critter may fill a large sea-floor colony with gas and one day become unanchored - bloop! - no more colony, but in general once-only high-energy events in the recorded history of man have non-organic causes.
Joe is always interesting.
never change. I always love your side comments, noises, and made up words.
Alexa, play Whalien 52
What I love about this channel is the acceptance of ideas
And razors
Love this video and the names of the sounds are FANTASTIC. I also love when two things I love cross paths (there is a BTS song called 52 Whalien - which is where I first learned about the 52 hertz whale) and seeing it here made it even cooler. Love your channel, as always, and yes... the oceans are terrifying.
Oddly enough, I find the explanation of the bloop as an icequake more soothing than the idea of an as-yet undiscovered huge creature
As soon as you said I'm not going to play the whole clip nit here you go it gave me an ad lmfao perfect timing
I'm so confused. I got a wicked sense of deja vú watching this and could have sworn you already did a video on the bloop, now I don't know where I learned about this
I didn’t know you were friends with Andy Weir! I read Project Hail Mary last summer and it was great! I love Rocky. Hope they make it into a movie!
So, you drop an ice cube in a bucket of water, the water upthrusts while making a sound that goes "Bloop!" Figures, it'd be simple like that.
As I recall, the Bloop only sounds like 'bloop' because the clip everyone uses is actually 16x normal speed
The sounds that planets make are kind of terrifying. Maybe you can do a vid on that :)
Yeah, the first time I 'heard' Saturn I thought "huh, so that's where hell is"
I have never heard that and I'm 100% terrified 😳
I feel like... I have?
I think I covered that in an old, old vid. Might be a fun topic to resurrect.
@@joescott It probably came from my subconscious then. Been with you for a long time on this wild ride. Yes, a revisit for sure. That stuff is so creepy and cool.
7:20 it never stops amusing me how confident people (idiots) can be describing a creature nobody has ever seen while they claim it MUST be the cause for this unexplained thing.
"there must be a logical reason"
"yeah there is! here, i made it up lemme tell you in great detail"
lmao
POV: You’re the biggest creature on the planet and you expect some terrifying and cool sounding sea monster name and scientists call you “bloop”
Project Hail Mary is a great book, I really enjoyed it. I also really like my Henson Razor. Thanks Joe!
The bloop was actually me opening a door when my wife is trying to take a nap.
I have something super similar to a Hensen razer. I loved the thing but one of the replacement blades was a little too big for the razer and I dropped it in just the wrong way to literally flay open a part of my finger. Still can't look at it without feeling sick unfortunatly, but it was a fantastic razer before that.
"The Whistle" was me. I swam for the first time in the summer of 1997 which was a very cold summer. The water was cold and I howled while swimming towards shore as fast as I could. The low pitch is a result of the Doppler effect as I was moving lightning fast out of the water and away from any hydrophones. I'm not proud of it, but it's time I put an end to this 'myth'.
So cool. I have heard similar bloops on deep big ice. Fun to hear all this . Thanks for sharing
I absolutely love my Henson shaver! ❤️
I absolutely highly recommend it! No affiliation.
Cthulhu reference wins the internet. "That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die."
HA!!! That is at least TWICE Jason got you with that same bit!!!
Also WELCOME BACK!!! Are the weekly uploads coming back soon??? Please you're easily the best part of my Mondays.
@3:17 It's not "triangulation". A single sensor doesn't know what direction the sound came from, so it can't provide an angle to use for triangulation. Multiple sensors can define an angle, and multiple sensors in more than one position can give you the two necessary for triangulation, but multilateration is easier and more flexible, and requires less hardware.
1997 was a wild year for hydrophone operators 😂
i love that after so long you still keep the cephalopod joke running
i love how the theory about the giant creature is so detailed in the description of how it looks when NO ONE HAS SEEN IT (because it doesn't exist)