The Loneliest Place on Earth: Point Nemo

Right now, there's probably someone within a few hundred meters of you. But there's one point in the ocean where the closest human beings aren't on Earth at all. They're floating above you on the International Space Station. This is Point Nemo, the place in the ocean farthest from any land. In this video we sail out to it and find out how it was calculated in 1992, why its water is some of the clearest and emptiest on Earth, why space agencies use it as a graveyard for old spacecraft like the Mir space station, and what scientists found alive in the mud on the seafloor beneath it: microbes buried for over 100 million years. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 The Loneliest Place on Earth 0:35 The Myth of the Open Ocean 1:04 Finding the Middle of Nowhere (1992) 1:36 The Three Nearest Islands 1:54 Why It's Called "Nemo" 2:02 Sailing There 2:27 Astronauts Are Your Closest Neighbors 2:43 The Clearest Water on Earth 2:52 The South Pacific Gyre: An Ocean Desert 3:37 The Spacecraft Cemetery 4:13 Mir's Final Fall (2001) 4:35 The Space Station's Last Destination 5:04 Life in the Mud 5:20 100-Million-Year-Old Microbes 6:04 Lovecraft's Sunken City 6:33 The Bloop 6:58 The Whole Picture 7:14 Never Truly Alone 📚 Topics mentioned: Point Nemo (the oceanic pole of inaccessibility) and Hrvoje Lukatela's 1992 calculation, Ducie Island, Motu Nui and Maher Island, the International Space Station, the South Pacific Gyre, the spacecraft cemetery and the Mir space station (2001), the planned retirement of the ISS, Yuki Morono's 2020 study of microbes revived from 100-million-year-old seafloor sediment, H. P. Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu" (1928) and the 1997 "Bloop" sound. #pointnemo #ocean #deepsea #space #scienceexplained