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Gabe Newell Found “Unknown Life” 9,100m Deep

#steam #gabenewell #ocean

Gabe Newell, the visionary behind Steam and Valve, is quietly leading one of the most ambitious scientific expeditions in history through his marine research organization, Inkfish. By commissioning a billion-dollar fleet that includes the 111-meter flagship Leviathan and the newly commissioned superyacht Draak, Newell has enabled researchers to conduct deep-sea surveys in the Izu-Ogasawara and Japan trenches at depths exceeding 9,000 meters. This video explores the groundbreaking April 2026 data drop that cataloged 108 distinct life forms in the Hadal zone, including mysterious carnivorous sponges, record-breaking snailfish, and an unidentified organism so bizarre that the global scientific community cannot reach a consensus on its classification. As we uncover these alien-like species living in a world shaped by tectonic catastrophes, we reveal the profound engineering and scientific obsession required to map the final frontier on Earth.

0:00 Cold Open
1:08 Billionaires Obsession
4:08 10km Crushing Limit
6:34 Ghost Ecosystem of Japan
7:52 Crinoid Meadow 
9:04 Carnivorous Sponges
9:47 Breaking Limits of Biology
11:23 Mysteries and Human Scars
12:59 Uncharted Future

Jamieson AJ, Swanborn DJB, Bond T, Cundy MC, Fujiwara Y, Lindsay D, Stott MS, Kitazato H (2026) Faunal biodiversity of the lower abyssal and hadal zones of the Japan, Ryukyu and Izu-Ogasawara trenches (NW Pacific Ocean; 4534-9775 m). Biodiversity Data Journal 14: e182172. doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e182172 instagram.com/pensoft/reel/DWyJ8sQjGo_

  • runblack@feddit.org
    3·
    22 hours ago

    Tried to listen to this video but the narrators voice is almost unbearable to listen to for more than 2 minutes. And additionally I can’t deal with how unstructured the video is. Am I becoming old?

  • R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    17·
    2 days ago

    it’s always “a billionaire did a thing”, not “a billionaire paid some people to do a thing”.

    Funny how that works.

  • vagrancyand@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    18·
    2 days ago

    My Billionaire Capitalist Is Also a Marine Biologist isn’t the weirdest anime title I’ve seen in the last five minutes, but is still not something I expected today.

  • CodexArcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    So Gaben is also the Good Submarine Billionaire too, I guess? I mean, good on him for loaning his super-yacht and Leviathan submarine (IRL subnautica indeed) out to do some science.

    • Jayjader@jlai.lu
      6·
      2 days ago

      From what I remember of when the news of his boat’s creation was shared here on the threadi/fediverse, he expressly had it designed and built for this purpose. It’s nice to get some news about it accomplishing something other than making him richer, for sure.