Could You Survive The Great Dying?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- A catastrophic volcanic event in the Late Permian Period caused the biggest mass extinction of all time - known to us as the Great Dying. As a result, a large majority of terrestrial life would disappear, but our ancestors had the adaptations (and the healthy dose of luck) needed to survive - but would you?
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Why does he keep making faces like a heckler in a crowd? It looks stupid.
Thank you!!
Podcast!
This topic is so funny it's like when people on twitter post an image of an asteroid the size of Europe about to hit the Earth with the caption "what would you do in this situation?" like idk man die probably.
I'd be high af. Then die. Yeah, that's the process.
My response to that post is always in it: not to live.
it's called the great dying, so when in Rome...
I feel like I could survive the Great Dying. Just go where the lystrosaurus are and eat those.
*insert Guess I'll Die meme*
No, dying would literally kill me.
But what about GREAT dying?
@@BorkDoggo See, that’s another variable to keep take into account. Surely it’d either be easier or harder to survive than just regular dying.
Blammers nailed it
@@BorkDoggo🤣 I see what you did there and yes it would
@@BorkDoggoAdding great to dying :: Putting cherry on a pile of poop
I LOVE how nervous Blake is at the beginning. He’s just like “Yeah, Idk about this one.”
He is the most affable, pleasantly curious dude. I wish everybody could be more like Blake. Including myself, lol
He is acting. Are you a 3 year old?
@@cassinidrawings518 It's ok to enjoy things. Relax, friend.
I was enjoying watching him switch between "old man watching tv" face and "I'm trying so hard not to make comments about how screwed I am" face 😂
@@cassinidrawings518 I know; I was complimenting him on his acting. Maybe think about the things you read for literally one second.
I'm still waiting for the episode “Could you survive the Hadean eon?” Unlike the others to date, it would be a very, very short episode.
The Hadean is my favourite, because as a geology hipster, I like the Earth before it was cool.
Difficult to survive the largest game of "The Floor is Lava".
"Could you survive the Theia impact?"
lol…imagining her calm, dreamy reading of an intro, ending with…”but would you?”, followed by “No.” and then credits.
Sometimes when i have a craving that i cannot put my finger on, i assume it's an extinct animal that is in my DNA memory.
I LOVED Blake's Cold Open. He has never been so nervous at Eons. Kallie's intro and exit are always stellar.
"It's like... is it Macbeth?"
"The skull guy?"
Well, I guess both Macbeth and Hamlet end with tons of death, so it works
Alas poor Yorick, his fossil got lost by the fossil keepers.
@@ChrisConnolly-Mr.C-Dives-In To quote Hamlet's soliloquy from my BFF's high school rewrite of it set in a trailer park, in which the dead Yorick was played by a deer skull: "It's a never-ending cycle of eatenness and death."
@ That is a great modernization of the classic material.
That's how you tell the difference between Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies. In the comedies, everybody gets married and the stage is covered in flower petals; in the tragedies, everybody dies and the stage is covered in ketchup.
@@MossyMozart This is how you tell that you are posting on a PBS youtube channel, more Shakespeare references than a non-PBS channel.
Blake trying SO hard not to cut in at the start was hilarious XD
2:05 Blake's already like, "Yeah, no, I'm gonna kick the bucket before The Great Dying even begins!"
Soon as i seen the title it was "no, Im literally and figuratively Cooked"
I thought "well it went on for thousands of years, so I'm gonna guess 'no' here." 😆
They should totally turn this into a dnd session with the characters trying to survive lol 😆... imagine Blake making survival checks
I’d listen to every episode of that podcast!
DND who what ?@@staceyhart9746
I said something similar about the last podcast episode, but I'd love to play DnD with the Eons crew in this scenario too.
I agree!
Call of Cthulhu a better system for realism and horror
Blake's faces in the intro are golden to me.
That intro was ASMR but the Anxiety inducing version of it
Barely surviving the 21st century 😂
No debt or credit card scores
@@robuxyyyyyyyyyy4708 That sounds like paradise.
extinction through bankruptcy
@@blammers It's possible if you learn from Dave Ramsey.
Right?
Acid rain, dying corals, hot summers and cold winters as well as fewer and fewer insects?
Does not sounds to far away from today.
Ya except the great dying warmed up slower and now that i think about it its probably the best way to convince relatively educated climat change deniers (if those exist) that climate change is human caused
@@microwave-radiation I'd like to see your sources. I'm not a climate change denier, and I totally agree that its man made.
But we can't even come close to the emissions that the mantle plume that hit what is now Siberia caused.
It hit already existing fossil fuel deposits and emitted more CO2 in a single year than humans emitted in two centuries, acording to some estimates.
I'd have to look for the sources, since I did this investigation a few years ago, and I had to fumble through a bit of unit conversions because billions in the U.S. are different than billions in Europe, so there might be some mistakes. But even in the worst case senario, our planet will have the polar ice caps melted and the temperature might rise from two to three degrees Celsius. In this extinction, the temperature rose by 10 to 15.
@@iantheduellist ok i couldn’t find the sources so i just calculated it myself and assuming im correct the great dying was 1ppm per year and right now its at 5ppm per year
@@iantheduellist recent estimates hold that the coal fires caused by the Siberian traps released 36,000 gigatons of carbon released over a period of 15,000 years, which averages out to 2.4 Gt emitted per year (Cui et al. 2021). According to the International Energy Agency, 33 Gt were released in 2019 and aside from the following two years that number has only risen.
@@iantheduellist The Great Dying definitely pumped a lot more total CO2 than we’ll probably be able to do, but notably it also did it a lot more slowly than we are, over the course of hundreds of thousands of years rather than mere centuries. Speed matters a lot when it comes to climate change and environmental shifts.
I laughed so hard at Kallie calling temnospondyls ‘toilet-seat heads’
Love that Kallie corrected Blake on the redundancy of “Gondwana-Land” but then proceeded to say “monsoon season” 🤣❤️
Explain how monsoon season is redundant please.
Apparantly it comes from the Arabic word mawsim, meaning season. So they could experience a season season in gond land land.
@gartengeflugel924 got it thanks etymology is wild
Yeah, as new residents of Arizona, one gets schooled HARD during your first monsoon.
I was today years old when I learned that the 'land' part was redundant 😂
The storytelling at the beginning is top notch. Also, the banter between you guys was fun. 👍
What would I bring with me? A shovel to make a burrow, whap critters that try to eat me over the head, and to dig my own grave, cause I am most definitely not making it back 😂
You win the critical thinking award of the day! I love your response.
"Can you survive the Early Hadean"
"You arrive on a stark landscape of barren rock, the air is a searing, crushing dense mix of CO2, hydrogen, and water vapor. A geologically young moon looms massive in the sky.
Also, you died a few seconds ago."
“Coming out of my torpor phase” is gonna go straight to my daily vocabulary
That's me, every morning. 😛
Love the storytelling at the start so much
Is anyone else thinking they would want to try and die in a place that they can be fossilized just to really mess with future paleontologists?
Sure! Sounds like fun!
Absolutely. Die in an underwater landslide giving the finger to an ancient shark.
Explain that one science
@@danielhaigler556 knowing how frankenstein fossilization can occur (fossiles belonging to 2 different creatures being mistaken as belonging to one creature), they'd probably think they finally found either A. the first fossiles beyond teeth and jaw bones for a shark, or B. some kind of weird step in human evolution where they were evolving into sharks for some reason before going extinct
I'm in, let's all meet up and make it REALLY interesting. lol
If you are still in Montana just look up Hank Green, see if he'll take you in.😂
RIP to trilobites but im different
I mean, I think Humans probably are much better equipped to survive this kind of disaster than Trilobites, so you aren’t necessarily wrong.
@@fredericksmith7942I think you grossly underate Trilobites and grossly overate humans. They managed to survive 270 million years and branch into over 20,000 species. We've done 2 million years. Let's talk in 268 million years...
Nah, i'd win
@@bearhustler I mean, no. Humans are generalists, and our brains are hardwired for problem solving much moreso than an arthropod. As another commenter said, we can do as Lystrosaurus does.
@@fredericksmith7942 yes, solving the problem of the worst mass extinction ever without all our technology. The idea that we'll last anywhere near as long as trilobites is ridiculous. Humans are so in love with their own cleverness...Lystrosaurus is a small, tough creature that had nowhere the energy needs of a human (and our energy hungry brains). We can't even make our own vitamin C so having very few edible plants would be a problem before we start with anything really difficult. This episode even the actual paleontologists didn't think you could survive long.
Imagine playing a dnd game with this as the setting!!! Such a cool way to combine science and imagination!!!
There was an episode that mentioned the P-T extinction finished off the trilobites and Blake cutely said "i still miss those guys". Blake's feelings haven't change and neither have mine😢
These are quickly becoming my new hyperfixation
Long story short. No. I could NOT survive the great dying, personally.
I mean, obviously yes. I'm what's known as "delusional".
Love how Blake is just a floating head this episode.
😂
I love this series so much. These are really fun thought experiments, made better by all the things you hold in your brains.
IMO the comfiest era is probably very early Cenozoic; flowering plants, familiar but small mammalian fauna, no terror birds just yet. Gotta be real early though as the mesonychians don't take long to become bear-sized and you really don't want to be around when the hoofed crocodiles get underway.
If you're looking for Shakespeare plays where everybody dies at the end I think the better candidates are Hamlet and Titus Andronicus - arguably the best and worst of his tragedies.
Horatio and Polonius survive Hamlet. The witches and MacDuff survive Macbeth. It's up to you which is the bigger tragedy.
Disgraceful shade cast on the magnificent Titus Andronicus!
Barely surviving adulthood, so... no 😅
So many poisonous plants! An ancient cooking guide would be a fun vid series!
It makes me think of the internet discussions on how far back in time you could eat kosher 😃
Hell no. I can barely survive living.
This series is so much fun, I love them. For this one in particular, I loved when Blake was like "it's worse than Billings!" I feel like that could be a t-shirt or a sticker or something. "The Permian: Worse Than Billings!"
Kallie, I love listening to your voice. Your intro descriptions are soothing, your laughter is infectious, these are some of my favorite episodes.
Yeah, it sounds like how grandpa goes to school on a regular Tuesday.
If Blake hasn't seen Nausica of the valley of the wind, he needs to rectify that. He'd love it
I really enjoy these long, listening-oriented videos. The commentary is interesting for all the different time periods, and I like having the facial reactions that a pure podcast format doesn't quite have.
This was one of the funniest and most insightful episodes yet! These two are great together.
Well done and thanks for the laughs!
Not bragging but my ancestors actually survived the great dying!!
Mine too!
@ettinakitten5047 where is your proof?! :D
Idk how i’d do with the great dying i mean i have concerns about surviving just the normal dying
Every time I watch these, I fall more in love with kallie. Her laughter comforts the hell out of me and she’s just so funny, smart and pretty. And, Blake too! Bi panic is real and I am feeling it.
It would be so rad if you had Lindsay Nikole on for one of these episodes! Love this series and all the fun hypothetical scenarios. Cheers!
All I could think of was the "This is fine" meme with the little dog guy in a burning building. But if I could pick the spot, I'd land where we found land vertibrate fossils from affter the dying assuming my odds were best there. If multiple possibilities, I think towards the poles (temperature) and coasts (rain). If we can't pick the landing spot, I think my best hope is to start walking downhill (follow a river?) and towards a pole rather than hunker down as we know that didn't work for most critters. Still probably wouldn't work out, but I tried.
I love seeing these nerds unscripted. It looks like you're having so much fun.
I just realized I've been watching PBS for 45 years, my favourite channel in Calgary was PBS Spokane because they had Tom Baker Doctor Who episodes and Jon Pertwee, William Hartnell, Sylvester McCoy and the Best Master until Missy came around.
This is the episode I’ve been waiting for!!
If the plants are toxic, the meat of the animals who eat them might also be toxic...?
It depends. If the herbivores' immune system could process the toxins to be rendered non-lethal, then perhaps their meat is safe to consume. Hard to tell with an ecosystem last seen a quarter of a billion years ago.
1:10 That is a funky-looking critter! 😳
I just love how you guys are so relatable and so knowledgeable at the same time! Great channel and great content you guys Thanks!!
He is my favorite of all ur co-hosts. I love this series by the way. U guys are doing great. Thank u for the entertainment and all the knowledge. ❤❤❤
And 'Listrosaurus' always sounds like a cough mixture.:)
Every time there's a "Could you survive...?" video I read the title and go "Nope! I could not"
apart from the enviroment.....
i would love to know if our immune system would work against these "unknown" primitive patogens,viruses, bacteria of that age!
Listrosaurus. Another reason why we should overhaul the phylogenetic tree and add more and well defined clades and rename some Species. Too many undefined subclades and Listeosaurus is definitely not a 'saurus' (unless you consider humans to be reptiles).
Then we would have to scrap Basilosaurus too. As I understand it, once a taxonomic name has been widely accepted it could not be changed (to stop creating confusion) however where it should be placed it still changeable.
As Clint Ladelaw says "you cannot evolve out of a clade" so yes, mammals are absolutely reptiles. And everyone is a fish
@@friedrichweitzer3071 They did - It is now known as Zeulogadon
I love these two guys so much. ❤
Obviously one should bring back the head of the Gorginopsid.
This podcast became one of my favourite podcasts immediately. Great idea. Love you guys.
Every part of this video is wonderful but Blake's faces at the beginning were SENDING MEEEEE 😂😂😂😂😂
"Yknow how on the dating apps the guys hold up those fish?" I screamed, Blake 😂
34:00 The Australian Aboriginal method for removing toxins (alkaloids?) from the seeds and other parts of native cycads (Zamia palms and others) involves soaking in fresh water, such as a stream, for weeks.
22:37 I am glad to live in the timeline where a professional PBS host/scientist refers to insects as "dope".
i truly live for the voiceovers setting the beautiful ancient scene we are all about to hypothetically die miserably in
52:50 so would you you say… they’re real potty mouths :D
These episodes are so much fun! Kalli and Blake's reactions to the dire environmental dangers with humor make for an entertaining romp through deep time. So far, the late Permian Great Dying sounds like the worst period to time travel to. Definitely a challenge for even Bear Grylls!
I think I'd be great at it, the dying part.
I love this chanel 🎉❤
Love your voice and story telling Kallie.
I reckon you could refine sugar from at least some of the plants. I mean sugar *exists* at this time.
Probably easiest to get from ferns
Where has this channel been all my life????? Yall are amazing!
Vulcanism caused the great dying? Dammit spock!
Bring an Umbrella, Protection from the depleted ozone UV issue and you can make yourself look bigger to scare off predators
I love your videos guys they give me so much information that I did not know I needed
It also really helps to keep the epochs straight.
@ yes 👍
Blake, your backstage wardrobe gives a funny effect! 😂
Lovely format. As a kid, I always wanted to travel to the past to see those ancient creatures with my own eyes. Considering my chances of survival always made me feel all tingly.
This format reminds me of running through the woods, escaping imaginary dinosaurs. Thanks for that. :)
The whole debate over how many cynodonts you could eat before retroactively wiping out humanity was hilarious!
I can barley survive eating mcdonalds...
The fun part about this one is that we're collectively running a live experiment to test the question.
I love your shows. Here's an idea: many intervals of 15-20k years appeared similar to Holocene during the geological era. Can we have a show with possible evolutions to consciousness and civilisation in those warm intervals?
"My main fear is..."
-gestures to the entire Permian
Im loving the pod, keep it up! this channel is like scientific comfort food and kept me sane throughout grad school and rona lol
There is certain levels of CO2 when no matter how much oxigen you have, you be dizzy or even die. I think the limit for us is 1000ppm CO2 (today is 400ppm), ¿how much CO2 we had in that times?
From quick google searching, it looks like the mean levels of CO2 were 412-919 ppmv in the late Permian, but had maximum levels of 2181-2610 ppmv in the Early Triassic. If the mean was up to 919, I assume were would be spikes that would be higher than 1000 ppmv.
6000 ppm is short term toxic to humans. Anything above 1000 ppm causes impairment to plants and human performance.
No phones, no internet, everybody's just enjoying the moment😊
Blake is getting very nostalgic in this episode lol
I love this channel! Something I would like to learn in a future episode: How do you know that prehistoric plants were toxic? And how do you know that plant-eating animals were not? They would have accumulated the toxins in their body, right?
aphedrocephalus = toilet head?
Also, ferns can be reasonably eaten, fiddleheads being the most common, but some cultures also ate starchy bases of them. I'd assume all should be processed by cooking at least though.
I love this series! Blake is hilarious! "Unlimited soup and salad bar" for the decomposers lol
I rushed here as soon as I saw there was a new video!! Im here for Blake being more nervous about the great dying than when they started the show 😂
This is great fun to listen to. And plenty of jokes.
No, I don't think I'll survive...
I mean, the name is kinda a dead giveaway, no?
Absolutely love these podcasts
I appreciate the fact more than 100,000 people have this question
"No sugar yet." < "Not yet? No. Hmmm." - best interchange.
Alligator tastes like chicken.
Blake, you can’t get 1000 island dressing in the Permian. All the continents are together. No islands. 😂
How rad it is it took five episodes to see trilobites die? They really were sturdy as hell ❤
It would be supremely arrogant of me to believe I'm special enough to survive an event called "The Great Dying"