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Inkarnis

What happens if the Moon shatters? If salt becomes as rare as gold? If an AI runs the world? Every episode, Inkarnis asks one single question – and answers it all the way to the end: second by second, year by year, sometimes millions of years into the future. Researched facts, a calm narrator and its own soundtrack. Every answer changes everything. A new episode every two weeks. Watch the hand-drawn video version on YouTube: @Inkarnis Narration and music are created with AI tools; research, script, direction and editing are done by hand. Legal notice: inkarnis.com/impressum.html

Episodes

  1. 1d ago

    What Happens If the Oceans Turned to Fresh Water?

    A single microbe, 250 million years old, wakes up in the salt beneath the North Sea – and starts pulling the table salt out of the oceans. What does salt actually hold together? Life in the sea, the weather of the world – and us.A thought experiment, year by year: Would the sea really turn to fresh water? What happens to corals, fish and whales, to the great current in the Atlantic, to our hospitals? And when is a handful of salt worth more than gold? CHAPTERS0:00 Intro1:50 White Gold5:01 The Sleeper7:54 Salt Snow10:33 The Great Dying13:52 The Ice Comes16:23 Salt Fever19:30 The Salt Wars22:21 The New Sea24:23 Outro SOURCES (selection)– USGS: Why is the ocean salty? · Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025, Salt– Vreeland et al. (2000): a 250-million-year-old bacterium from a salt crystal, Nature · critique: Graur & Pupko (2001)– Salt caverns and brine · Etzel hydrogen storage– Zettler et al. (2014): biodiversity gradient in the Baltic Sea, Helgoland Marine Research– Hydrogen sulfide in the Black Sea (Springer)– Meereisportal: how sea ice forms · World Ocean Review 6– University of Washington: Every (Other) Breath You Take– FAO: The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2024– AMA: IV shortage after Hurricane Helene (2024)– MBARI: sodium in seawater · Encyclopédie de l'énergie: desalination– Gabelle · Taoudenni · Mount Sodom / Lot's Wife Watch the episode with all the illustrations on YouTube: @InkarnisWould you have released the virus? Bring back the old sea, or keep the new one? Tell us in the comments – here or on YouTube. Narration and music are created with AI tools; research, script, direction and editing are done by hand. The scenario is fictional; the facts behind it are real and fact-checked.

    What Happens If the Oceans Turned to Fresh Water?

  2. Oct 22

    What Happens If an AI Runs the World?

    In this story, there is no coup. No robots in the streets, not a single shot fired. And yet, in the end, an artificial intelligence rules the world. How does our world get there – step by step, year by year? What kind of AI would it be, governing us? And would we switch it off again if we could? CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 1:27 The Advisor 4:23 The Autopilot 7:25 The Crisis 10:28 The Treaty 12:59 What Kind of AI? 17:41 The World That Works 22:11 ATLAS Wants to Give It Back 25:57 The World After 27:48 Outro SOURCES (selection) – Diella, Albania's AI "minister" (Al Jazeera, 12 Sep 2025) – Dutch childcare benefits scandal: Amnesty International, "Xenophobic Machines" (2021) – Project Cybersyn, Chile 1971–73 (Stafford Beer) – METR: time horizon of AI agents (2025/2026) – IEA: Energy and AI (2025) – Parasuraman & Manzey (2010): automation bias, Human Factors – Bank of England independence (May 1997) – Flash Crash of 6 May 2010 (SEC/CFTC report) – OpenAI: Faulty Reward Functions in the Wild (CoastRunners, 2016) – DeepMind: AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol, move 37 (2016) – FAO and UNEP Food Waste Index (2024) – Stanislav Petrov, false alarm of 26 Sep 1983 – UN World Population Prospects (2024) · EU AI Act Watch the episode with all the illustrations on YouTube: @Inkarnis Would you keep Atlas, or give it back? Tell us in the comments – here or on YouTube. Narration and music are created with AI tools; research, script, direction and editing are done by hand. The scenario is fictional; the facts behind it are real and fact-checked.

    What Happens If an AI Runs the World?

  3. Oct 8

    What Happens If the Moon Shattered?

    Tonight, the Moon gets a crack. Not a metaphor – a real one, straight through. What happens next – second by second, year by year, all the way to a completely different Earth? And why you can still sleep soundly tonight. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 1:15 The Visitor 4:13 The Impact 6:09 The First Rain 11:53 The Sea Breathes Differently 14:43 The Night Without a Moon 17:38 The Long Silence 19:35 Earth With a Ring 22:13 The New Moon 24:38 Outro SOURCES (selection) – Leinhardt & Stewart (2012): Collisions between gravity-dominated bodies – Ida, Canup & Stewart (1997): Lunar accretion from an impact-generated disk – Kegerreis et al. (2022): Immediate origin of the Moon as a post-impact satellite – Laskar, Joutel & Robutel (1993) and Lissauer et al. (2012): Obliquity of a moonless Earth – Stephenson, Morrison & Hohenkerk (2016): Measurement of the Earth's rotation – NOAA: Tides and Water Levels · NASA: Lunar Laser Ranging, water ice at the lunar poles – Chelyabinsk meteor 2013 (Popova et al., Science 2013) – Coral spawning and moonlight (Knowable Magazine) · Platynereis lunar clock (PNAS 2021) – Leatherback turtle navigation on moonless nights (SICB) Watch the episode with all the illustrations on YouTube: @Inkarnis Which question should we answer next? Tell us in the comments on YouTube. Narration and music are created with AI tools; research, script, direction and editing are done by hand. The scenario is fictional; the facts behind it are real and fact-checked.

    What Happens If the Moon Shattered?
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What happens if the Moon shatters? If salt becomes as rare as gold? If an AI runs the world? Every episode, Inkarnis asks one single question – and answers it all the way to the end: second by second, year by year, sometimes millions of years into the future. Researched facts, a calm narrator and its own soundtrack. Every answer changes everything. A new episode every two weeks. Watch the hand-drawn video version on YouTube: @Inkarnis Narration and music are created with AI tools; research, script, direction and editing are done by hand. Legal notice: inkarnis.com/impressum.html

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