💡 The Ocean Apocalypse Is Upon Us, Maybe

The latest from Nautilus, and this week’s Facts So Romantic. [View in browser](| [Join Nautilus]( Together with Did a friend forward this? [Subscribe here.]( This Thursday, read the latest from Nautilus and this week’s Facts So Romantic—plus today’s free story below [ENVIRONMENT]( [The Ocean Apocalypse Is Upon Us, Maybe]( What we know—and don’t know—about a climate tipping point. BY DAVID GARCZYNSKI From our small, terrestrial vantage points, we sometimes struggle to imagine the ocean’s impact on our lives. [Continue reading→]( A Movie Theater in Your Living Room With so many streaming options, it’s tempting to skip going to the movies, but what if you miss the immersive cinematic experience? That’s where the [XGIMI MoGo 2]( Portable Projector comes in. Featuring 400 ISO lumens and built-in speakers with booming bass, the [XGIMI MoGo 2]( packs a full theater experience into a compact package. Its footprint is about the size of a coaster, making it right at home on your coffee table and easy to tuck away when not in use. Get yours now for [25% off](. [BUY ON AMAZON]( The latest from Nautilus [ENVIRONMENT]( [The Invasive Species]( When it comes to tinkering with nature, our résumé is a list of breathtaking mistakes. BY LYDIA MILLET [Continue reading→]( [ASTRONOMY]( [Doubts Grow About the Biosignature Approach to Alien-Hunting]( Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres. BY ELISE CUTTS[Continue reading→]( Making Labels is as Easy as Texting With the [POLONO label maker]( in one hand and your phone in the other making labels is a breeze. Right now it’s [84% off](. [BUY ON AMAZON]( WE'RE CURIOUS TO KNOW... What is the coolest thing you’ve ever found? Let us know! Reply to this newsletter with your response, briefly explaining your choice, and we’ll reveal the top answers. (This question was inspired by [“Archaeology at the Bottom of the Sea.”]([)]( Top Answer to Our Previous Question(On What It Was Like Going to Witness Your First Solar Eclipse) • Actually, it was like most any other summer day, walking out into our front yard. Because that’s exactly what we did. On August 21, 2017, the Crossville, TN area was privy to a total eclipse that lasted 2 minutes 40 seconds. All we had to do was walk outside, sit in a lounge chair, and sport our protective glasses. Which is pretty much what we will do this time, as well. Though we won’t get complete totality, it will still be quite exciting. It’s always rather amazing to witness, first hand, twilight in the middle of the day. – Daniel S. FACTS SO ROMANTIC The 5 Best Things We Learned Today In the Atlantic Ocean alone, a single current, the Gulf Stream, is currently moving more water than all the world’s rivers combined. [Nautilus→]( Primate species that evolved in places with poisonous snakes tend to have more acute vision than other primates who didn’t evolve alongside those snakes. [Nautilus→]( Today’s gold-standard biosignature is the combination of oxygen and methane. Methane rapidly degrades in oxygen-rich atmospheres. On Earth, the two gasses only coexist because the biosphere continuously replenishes them. [Nautilus→]( Because there’s less gravity on the moon, time there moves a tad more quickly—58.7 microseconds faster every day—compared with on Earth. [The Guardian→]( The ideal size of particles we might inject into clouds to make them reflect more sunlight, mitigating climate change, are about 1/700th the thickness of a human hair. [The New York Times→]( QUOTE OF THE DAY [“Each species is the delicate sum of an unrepeatable past.”]( [Lydia Millet writes lyrically about Earth’s natural history, our place in the biosphere, and the unpredictable consequences of fiddling—and recklessly messing—with it.]( Your free story this Thursday! [ARTS]( [Video Games Do Guilt Better Than Any Other Art]( Game designers can make players reflect on their moral decisions in a way other art forms can’t. BY JIM DAVIES The idea that motion pictures can be works of art has been around since the 1920s, and it hasn’t really been disputed since. [Continue reading for free→]( The Rockstar and the Squid Coming from the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community in western Washington, musician Katherine “KP” Paul, of Black Belt Eagle Scout, has a deep personal connection to the ocean. That’s why she was the perfect choice [to read]( Alex Riley’s special story about the search for a giant, mysterious, luminous squid—Taningia danae. We love this story because it shows how little we know about our deep oceans, and how even an animal sporting giant, flashing lights, can remain virtually unknown…until now. For the first time, you can listen to a Nautilus story on [YouTube]( or [Spotify](. Check it out and let us know what you think. [WATCH]( [LISTEN]( P.S. The American film critic Roger Ebert died on this day in 2013. A few years before his death, he penned an essay arguing that video games could never be art. He pointed out one obvious difference between the two—that you can win a game. “But with the increasing sophistication, and variety, of video games today, [it’s becoming more and more clear that they are forms of art](,” wrote Jim Davies. “Or, at least, they evoke many of the same intellectual and emotional responses that artworks do.” Today’s newsletter was written by Brian Gallagher Thanks for reading. [Tell us](mailto:brian.gallagher@nautil.us?subject=&body=) your thoughts on today’s note. 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