Could You Survive The Ordovician Period?

You forgot about the oxygen levels.

I love how Hank got the easiest one while Blake and Michelle got Hard Mode and Impossible respectively.

What I don't understand is how long would you be in each period that you speak to in these videos.
A week, month, year, a human life time? I think I could survive a week, probably a month, doubtful of anything past that. Remember there is a learning curve when entering into a new environment.
For humans as we are now, we need fresh water, food, shelter ( including some type of clothing), and fire, to last a significant amount of time. It seems in the video you suggested there is water, food, and some type of shelter, but i think fire is key as that would kill any parasites found in the food sources which I believe would be prevalent in them.

Why are you wearing a woolly hat indoors? Is it cold there?

My concern is what you use for fuel?

Dried sponges 🧽

This is the weirdest D&D session yet

I'm here for Game Master Kallie 🥰

Don't we Homo Sapiens needed those mass extinctions simply to exist ?

I'm here to listen. Whatever it is, take your time, and share if you're comfortable.

I think you missed a major environmental risk... solar poisoning. The idea of a sea cage won't be sufficient. We aren't nocturnal animals, and burning dried moss (a limited resource) wouldn't be bright enough for us to be sufficiently functional. We'd have to do a lot of food and water gathering during the day, and a way to store water in the cave. But in the end there is nothing for us to make clothes out of, and we lack the fur needed to provide us 6+ hours of direct sunlight everyday. How long could we survive with that level of direct sunlight, and no medical care? A week or 2?

My item would have to be a cast iron frying pan, weapon and cooking container in one! 😁

If I went back in time, I assume? My being there probably caused it. The stuff inside us today would probably not mesh well with back then. Otherwise, no. I would not survive. Obviously.

Kallie is cute <3

Haven’t watched the video yet, but isn’t that the one where everything died because there was too much oxygen?

this was amazing. all i gotta say.

“You paddle ou—“
EXCUSE ME. EZCUSE ME MA’AM. You lost me. ARE WE SWIMMING? Am I? Am I swimming? Am I walking? Do I have water shoes? Are we in some kind of small BOAT?
I’m TERRIFIED now…
I was with you until we started “paddling.” Dear glob. 😱

I LOVE these videos and y'all are the best narrators!

I can barely survive now

Oh, come on! It's obvious what killed those critters - the sponges didn't want to share!

For food, lay out the raw flesh on a hot rock in the hot sun. (You could spinkle a little seawater on the flesh for poaching.)

I enjoyed the written introduction. Beautiful.

I'm glad you brought up the gamma rays! I think I remember hearing that one theory for one of the mass extinctions around that time was a super nova that was too close.

I haven't read all the comments, so I'm going to throw this in: lightening gives off gamma rays.

Sponges We Are Unbeatable!!!
SpongeBob Laughing 🤣

Clicked on this by accident during migraine-induced insomnia tossing & turning, first line convinced me I was hallucinating for a sec 😭

They sell edible loofah sponges at the supermarket.

Go walking in the woods. You'll notice your ferns and misses hardly look like anything is eating them. Kinda odd because they seem nice and digestible.

Truth is they're chock-full of insecticidal proteins... If they're alive after hundreds of millions of years, they'll need to do something to protect themselves. Being outcompeted by more recently evolved plants leave them in smaller niches, which means they need to be on the defense!

But please. Don't try to eat more "basal" plants

I don't think I'd survive ww2 much less a planetary mass extinction event, let's be honest

No shelter from the sun? I am dead.😢

Some top notch neuro-divergent rocking from Blake throughout the video.

I can barely make it through a Thursday.

Yes I could. If I could travel back in time, using my Time Machine to the point where everything started dying, I would just climb into my Time Machine, and travel back to the future, like Marty McFly. So, yeah, I could survive it, no sweat.

This made me laugh
Thanks

This is the second time in two days I've heard something described as "the length of an umbrella" which I wasn't aware was a standard measurement 😭

Regarding the search for food, would there have been the equivalent of food-borne illnesses? Or, in more realistic terms, is there evidence of food-borne illness for animals at the time? Or for infections?

Speaking of plant food, surely there is kelp or kelp-like algae, by now, even more so than in the Cambrian? That is edible and very healthy.

You can dry and burn a sponge. So, more burning material.

Mmmm liver warts

How far back could we go and still get the vitamins we cannot synthesise in our bodies?

The sponges mopped up!

How does a sponge avoid ingesting 'red tide' type nerve toxins? Or does it not have anything to poison? If they can reassemble themselves after going througjh a blender, I suppose there must be some assembly mechanism that could be neutralised on ingesting the wrong toxin.

Isn't the first mass extinction actually the oxygen holocaust?

This is one of the first videos I’d watched of the series and I just can’t help but wonder if you go even further back like “would you be able to survive the Hadean?” And the answer to that would simply be “no.”

Did they ever mention whether or not we could survive at the same oxygen levels as that time?

The relatively high frequency of sea level changes is because of sponges growing rampant, soaking up all the water, then dying off because of the lower sea level. Then the sea level recovers, leading to rampant sponge growth again.

"all these animals living in a hot tub" 😂

Funny to hear about eating horseshoe crab and their eggs. They’re becoming scarce in the Florida rivers thanks to pollution runoff from Lake Okeechobee. Also gas from boating ☹️

Not so shrimple now, huh?