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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 FutureJamieson 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_
Youtube sensationlist bs. Fortunately there’s the paper link, so I went and looked, and here’s what they found (reformatted for readability)
30 groups with indeterminable morphotaxa numbers (‘spp’) were also included. These included
- groups of small individuals that swarm (e.g. Amphipoda and Mysida),
- groups with small indeterminable body sizes (e.g., Annelida, munnopsid Isopoda, Ophiuroidea, elasipodid Holothuroidea),
- individuals of groups that were often drifting too far from the camera to confidently identify (e.g., Appendicularia, Narcomedusae, Trachymedusae and Ctenophora) and
- other groups that are notoriously difficult to identify from images (e.g., Monothalamea).
It’s not “wild unknown deep sea creature”, it’s “we didn’t get a good enough picture to say what species this annelid is”.
The lengths some people will go to to avoid learning to count to 3.
He has 6 superyachts so clearly he can count past 3.
It’s a joke about the fact that none of his games have a third sequel.
Yes; I am aware. I am saying he can count past 3 when it comes to superyachts, so when are we getting 2 more sequels to The Ship?
The cynic in me thinks this is a way to write off some yachts as a business expense.
I wasn’t aware that his yacht was a research vessel, that’s kinda cool I guess he saw The Life Aquatic or something. ;) Anyways at least it’s not just a status symbol it has some purpose.
