From Curious Archive.
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0:00 Giants Aren’t Rational
0:32 "A Lot of Skin…"
2:02 Risk of Pulverized Bones
3:45 The Juggernautosaurus
4:11 The Aquatic Solution
6:16 Subnautica’s Leviathans
8:33 We Don’t Know How Big Whales Are
10:32 The Problem with Scale
12:44 Don’t Trust Your Eyes
14:04 Approaching Cosmic Horror
16:09 A Cosmic God
18:07 At the Absolute Limit
20:13 The Smallest Lifeform?
What is the Largest Lifeform Possible?
Media Shown: Subnautica, Subnautica: Below Zero, Subnautica Gargantuan Leviathan, Godzilla, Godzilla Minus One, Shin Godzilla, Son of Godzilla, Godzilla x Kong, King Kong vs Godzilla, Godzilla vs Mothra, Kong Skull Island, The Meg, Rampage, Jurassic Park, Jurassic World, Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom, Jurassic World Dominion, Jurassic World Rebirth, Avatar, Avatar the Way of Water, Pacific Rim, Shadow of the Colossus, Troll, Superman, The Arctic Giant, Rain World, Horizon: Forbidden West
♫ Music from Epidemic Sound. Additional Music from Kevin MacLeod
Sources:
"Learning from the heaviest ancient whale," by Peijun Zhang and Simon J. Goodman (2023) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666675823001297
"How Context Controls Perception of Size," by Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik (2016) https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-context-controls-perception-of-size/
"Why whales are big but not bigger: Physiological drivers and ecological limits in the age of ocean giants," by J. A. Goldbogen, D. E. Cade, D. M. Wisniewska (2019) https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aax9044
"How Big Can a Land Animal Get?" by Ben Panko for Smithsonian (2017): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-king-kong-should-have-been-blue-whale-180962603/
"NASA-Supported Solar Sail Could Take Science to New Heights" by Nasa (2022): https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-supported-solar-sail-could-take-science-to-new-heights/