What If Antarctica Were a Rainforest?

Channel:

What If

Subscribers:

8,750,000

Published on April 26, 2020 3:02:14 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx4DOM_u6m0

Category:

Show

Duration: 5:58

487,141 views

14,832

About 90 million years ago, the frozen realm of Antarctica used to be a lush, swampy, temperate forest, similar to those found in New Zealand today.
The rainforest managed to thrive, even with four months of polar night, when there was no Sunlight. What if this ancient rainforest decided it was time to make a comeback? What if Antarctica were a rainforest? Would this work out well for us? Or be devastating for the human race?

Subscribe to the What If Discussed podcast: http://bit.ly/yt-what-if-show-podcast
Listen to the world’s top thinkers in science, astronomy, technology, academia and futurism pondering your most popular “what if” questions.

Check out our second channel called "How to Survive": https://bit.ly/how-to-survive-by-what-if

Join our Patreon community and help make What If better: http://bit.ly/whatif-patreon

Can you translate this episode into another language? Add subtitles and we will link your YouTube channel in the description: https://www.youtube.com/timedtext_video?v=Xx4DOM_u6m0

Watch more what-if scenarios:
Planet Earth: http://bit.ly/YT-what-if-Earth
The Cosmos: http://bit.ly/YT-what-if-Cosmos
Technology: http://bit.ly/YT-what-if-Technology
Your Body: http://bit.ly/YT-what-if-Body
Humanity: http://bit.ly/YT-what-if-Humanity

T-shirts and merch: http://bit.ly/whatifstore
Suggest an episode (detailed): http://bit.ly/suggest-whatif
Newsletter: http://bit.ly/whatif-newsletter
Feedback and inquiries: https://underknown.com/contact/

What If elsewhere:
Instagram: http://bit.ly/whatif-instagram
Twitter: http://bit.ly/whatif-twitter
Facebook: http://bit.ly/facebook-whatif
What If in Spanish: http://bit.ly/YT-Spanish-what-if
What If in Mandarin: http://bit.ly/YT-Chinese-what-if

Thank you to our loyal patrons:
Gabe
Steve H.

What If is a mini-documentary web series that takes you on an epic journey through hypothetical worlds and possibilities. Join us on an imaginary adventure through time, space and chance while we (hopefully) boil down complex subjects in a fun and entertaining way.

Produced with love by Underknown in Toronto: https://underknown.com

Other Videos By What If

2020-05-06	What If You Hacked All the World's Satellites?
2020-05-05	What Happens If You Were Hospitalized With COVID-19?
2020-05-04	What If We Built a Massive Sun Shield in Space?
2020-05-03	What If We Never Aged?
2020-05-02	What If You Did a Bungee Jump with Magnets?
2020-05-01	What If All Nuclear Reactors Exploded at Once?
2020-04-30	What If the Coronavirus Mutated?
2020-04-29	What If You Jumped Into Saturn's Rings?
2020-04-28	What If Mount Everest Were an Active Volcano?
2020-04-27	What If Everyone Ate Beans Instead of Beef?
2020-04-26	What If Antarctica Were a Rainforest?
2020-04-25	What If You Got Sucked Into a Tornado?
2020-04-24	What If All Oceans Turned Into Acid?
2020-04-23	What If Ancient Life Escaped Earth?
2020-04-22	What If All Bats Disappeared?
2020-04-21	What If Lightning Storms Never Stopped?
2020-04-20	What If You Jumped Into a Pool of Hand Sanitizer?
2020-04-19	What If We Could Kill the Coronavirus with UVC Lights?
2020-04-18	What If Mosasaurus Were Still Alive?
2020-04-17	What If Earth Was Shaped Like an American Football?
2020-04-16	What If We Lost Gravity for 5 Seconds?

Tags:

what if

what happens if

scifi

science documentary

what if scenario

mysteries