Gabe Newell Found "Unknown Life" in Japan by Water CS2 (video: 13:57 mins) [Note: Gabe is the founder of Valve and Steam]

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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 Future

Jamieson 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_

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it’s always “a billionaire did a thing”, not “a billionaire paid some people to do a thing”.

Funny how that works.

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My Billionaire Capitalist Is Also a Marine Biologist isn’t the weirdest anime title I’ve seen in the last five minutes, but is still not something I expected today.

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“Gabe the Diver”

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Gabe plays Subnautica in real life.

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So Gaben is also the Good Submarine Billionaire too, I guess? I mean, good on him for loaning his super-yacht and Leviathan submarine (IRL subnautica indeed) out to do some science.

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From what I remember of when the news of his boat’s creation was shared here on the threadi/fediverse, he expressly had it designed and built for this purpose. It’s nice to get some news about it accomplishing something other than making him richer, for sure.

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Takes a gaseous hit of whip cream

Yes this is really Gabe Newell diving in the water.

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Tried to listen to this video but the narrators voice is almost unbearable to listen to for more than 2 minutes. And additionally I can’t deal with how unstructured the video is. Am I becoming old?

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No. I also have a little bit of hard time listening to the way and voice he talks. I also speed up video a bit too. In fact I watch most narrated documentations at a faster rate. Doesn’t help with the way he talks and the voice, but at least the speed problem is solved.

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Love some billionaires under water. Even better when they are kept there.

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People working on rich asshole’s excuse to own giant yachtes do a thing

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Comments in Science@mander.xyz

The lengths some people will go to to avoid learning to count to 3.

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He has 6 superyachts so clearly he can count past 3.

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It’s a joke about the fact that none of his games have a third sequel.

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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?

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The cynic in me thinks this is a way to write off some yachts as a business expense.

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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”.

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