What If Continents and Oceans Switched Places? — Transcript

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1. 0:00what happens if the continents and
2. 0:01oceans switch places oceans are way
3. 0:04deeper than continents at all so just
4. 0:06swapping the high and low points creates
5. 0:08a result that's wet and boring let's
6. 0:09drain 90% of the water so we can see the
7. 0:12old coastlines again now we can explore
8. 0:14this inverted World Pacifico a
9. 0:16supercontinent 5times the size of Africa
10. 0:19is home to the mighty Mariana mountains
11. 0:21and their highest point Mount Challenger
12. 0:23our lowest point ever as deep plunges
13. 0:26almost 9 km below sea level and the
14. 0:28Mid-Atlantic Canyon rips the world from
15. 0:30pole to pole but what about life well
16. 0:33the world's highest city is now the
17. 0:35lowest Bolivia's El Alor is over 4,000 M
18. 0:38below the waves most cities are
19. 0:40completely flooded meanwhile our new
20. 0:42oceans are a sludgy mess at first all
21. 0:44this settlement provides A nutrient-rich
22. 0:46Feast for marine survivors but islands
23. 0:48like Fiji become landlocked lakes
24. 0:50surrounded by vast deserts too big for
25. 0:52rainclouds to cross many of these Lakes
26. 0:55become saltier than the Dead Sea exposed
27. 0:57corals bleach and once they've picked
28. 0:59the carcasses clean bird staff still
29. 1:02life finds a way in tiny footholds like
30. 1:05inverted seamounts now high altitude
31. 1:07craters in our new continents some like
32. 1:09Hawaii's underwater volcanoes transform
33. 1:11into impossibly steep valleys with
34. 1:13tropical microclimates wait a few
35. 1:15Millennia and evolution in these Cloud
36. 1:17forests could produce some truly weird
37. 1:19creatures but these small oases can't
38. 1:21replace the massive oceans we got rid of
39. 1:23they delivered half our oxygen and
40. 1:25protected us from overheating without
41. 1:27them the planet starts boiling air Runs
42. 1:29Out out and we Face a global mass
43. 1:31extinction yikes maybe we better leave
44. 1:34things as they are