Okeanos
Okeanos
[The comic takes place during a typical YouTube livestream. The livestream video titled "Camera 1: Exploring the Central Pacific Basin" is provided by the channel "OceanExplorerGov" and recorded from Okeanos Explorer exploratory vessel. On the left hand side, the live video feed is playing, showing a jellyfish in the ocean's depths. On the right hand side, the live chat is displayed.]
User #1: Fake User #2: Who else is watching this in 2017? User #3: Is this prerendered or will this be in the game? User #4: That squid is a neoliberal User #5: Why do the McElroys never talk User #6: Stop messing around and eat the fish already User #7: This is why Trump won User #8: Why do u never craft anything User #9: This is just a distraction User #10: Something is wrong with that baby giraffe
[Caption below the panel:] I love watching the Okeanos Ocean Exploration livestream, but it's probably for the best that they don't enable chat.

The NOAAS Okeanos Explorer , named after the Greek (and Roman) personification of the sea Okeanos , is a vessel that is currently exploring the Central Pacific Basin. It livestreams the video feed [1] of its deep sea exploration online.
This comic seems to be a representation of the livestream on YouTube [2] ; see the table below for details.
The chat section for the actual livestream is disabled, but the comic adds some humorous examples of what the chat section would look like.  Several of the examples are the product of commenters falsely believing the livestream is that of a game, probably since most livestreams on YouTube are of people playing games; Randall is joking about the viewers of said streams in particular not being able to tell the difference, as well as YouTube commenters in general. Randall has mentioned the ridiculousness of comments on YouTube before in both 202: YouTube and 481: Listen to Yourself . One of the comments seems to refer to Minecraft or a similar game, since one of the comments asks why nothing is being crafted (crafting is a mechanic in many games, used to make items).
In the caption below Randall states that he likes to view the stream and commends them on disabling the chat section, for the reasons given in the comic above.
The title text is yet another comment by someone who dropped their phone from a boat, and now wants to use Okeanos' resources to find it, which is of course impossible; if the boat was anywhere near Okeanos, the phone would have swiftly been hidden in the silt on the bottom. And even if not, the chance of finding anything dropped in the Pacific Ocean , the largest Ocean on the Earth, is all but zero. Also, the Central Pacific Basin, where Okeanos was at the time of this comic's release, is 6500 meters deep; at that depth the water pressure is approximately 4454.863 kilopascals, or roughly 646 PSI. This is probably enough to irrevocably damage something as breakable as a cell phone. Even if the phone were of the so-called "waterproof" variety, that rating is usually only applicable to a few meters of depth rather than thousands of meters.  Needless to say, retrieving one's phone from the bottom of the Central Pacific Basin would be a challenging and pointless endeavor.
[The comic takes place during a typical YouTube livestream. The livestream video titled "Camera 1: Exploring the Central Pacific Basin" is provided by the channel "OceanExplorerGov" and recorded from Okeanos Explorer exploratory vessel. On the left hand side, the live video feed is playing, showing a jellyfish in the ocean's depths. On the right hand side, the live chat is displayed.]
User #1: Fake User #2: Who else is watching this in 2017? User #3: Is this prerendered or will this be in the game? User #4: That squid is a neoliberal User #5: Why do the McElroys never talk User #6: Stop messing around and eat the fish already User #7: This is why Trump won User #8: Why do u never craft anything User #9: This is just a distraction User #10: Something is wrong with that baby giraffe
[Caption below the panel:] I love watching the Okeanos Ocean Exploration livestream, but it's probably for the best that they don't enable chat.
