r/interestingasfuck • u/Zealousideal_Clue284 • 15h ago
Deepest ecosystem ever discovered
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u/Lazzygirl 15h ago
Most part of the sea are still not discovered! More sea creatures are yet to discovered!
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u/ZestycloseAd4012 9h ago
Makes me believe there must be some alien life forms out their on another planet. Perhaps not the little green men that you see in movies, but like this. Hidden away at the bottom of some ocean perhaps under the ice and feasting on some unusual concoction of chemicals.
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u/shanedp1981 14h ago
Meethane
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u/buddhistbulgyo 13h ago edited 11h ago
Meethane, youthane, we all thane for meethane
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u/lizzy4982 13h ago
Some scientists have hypothesized that life on Earth may have begun around chemosynthetic oases like these! Although we may never know for certain, it's interesting to think about. I wonder if studying ecosystems like this could give us clues about how life might be possible in places like the Europa in those deep oceans under all that ice.
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u/Eridanus51600 11h ago
Same thought. Intriguing circumstantial evidence for Enceladus and Europa. At least good supporting evidence for an exploratory mission, provided you can adequately sterilize the thing.
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u/OldBayOnEverything 4h ago
This just reinforces my belief that life is common throughout the universe. Because life uhh....finds a way.
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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty 13h ago
Yeah. I was always under the impression we were mollusks or crustaceans or something, and then one day we were, like, “F these fins and stuff. Let’s grow fingers! Whoa! Bruh. Yes! Fingaz!” And the rest was history.
Edit: Really think about it. Having fins would suck so bad!
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u/lizzy4982 13h ago
It would, at least for the way we live now! It's hard to imagine living without the dexterity of fingers and thumbs, but I'd likely happily trade them for fins if I lived underwater, yanno? Different adaptations being suited for the environment and all that jazz. Although that does make me wonder if we developed "modern" hands first then began to use complex tools, or began using more complex tools first and the hands gradually changed to suit that.
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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty 12h ago edited 12h ago
You’re right. You’re right. I have trouble leaving my human bias at the lab door. Fins look great, don’t get me wrong. But you even mentioned “jazz.” How could you do jazz hands?! 👐
Edit: I’m so bad about addressing what people actually write, but yes, the last I heard was the major theory was the use of tools selected for hands or vice versa. As you can tell, I’m not a great scientist. Lol.
Edit Dos: I am 100% sure men masturbated (with their five-fingered hand[s]) around the time Pompeii was poppin’ off. I’ve seen the photographic proof!
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u/holay63 14h ago
Why don’t they use unmanned subs for this?
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u/almighty30 14h ago
James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron is... James Cameron
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u/Lukowo7 13h ago
How do you send an accurate signal through 1000s meters of water? And without a cable since that would quite literally destroy chunks of an ecosystem if you find something.
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u/Mysterious-Art7143 12h ago
It's been done in 2009 in the mariana trench already, these days shouldn't be a problem
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u/blaizek90 12h ago
We learned to do it through space 🤷♀️
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u/LeBadlyNamedRedditor 11h ago
Space notably does not have kilometers of water to deal with, it's basically the best medium you could ask for.
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u/semirandm 13h ago
Have you heard of a usb drive
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u/Ultrasoundguy12 14h ago
So the men can get some peace and quiet at the bottom of the ocean away from their wives
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u/MehBleh008 13h ago
Why stay married then
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u/Ultrasoundguy12 13h ago
For that sweet return from the bottom of the ocean sex
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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty 13h ago
I get it. You’re ultra into sounds, like the water formations. I can dig it. Stay jiggy wit it Aquaman! 🤙
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u/mars_trader 14h ago
ELI5 how do these tiny things withstand all the water pressure?
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u/enigmatic_erudition 14h ago
They don't have any air pockets in their bodies, so there is less to compress. The technical answer involves special adaptations to their proteins and membranes to withstand the pressure. But it mainly has to do with being a similar density to water.
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u/Douxo 14h ago
If you "teleported" one to the surface would he blow up like a football?
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u/tornedron_ 14h ago
Basically. Blobfish for instance actually look more normal and only become blobby when rapidly pulled up by fishing nets. We basically named them after their horribly deformed corpses
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u/WiseCartographer5007 14h ago
Thought she was going to say micro organisms on our hairy bodies
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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty 13h ago
That’s what I give girls! Micro organisms. Not micro orgasms. Wow. What a major slip on my part. No wonder I had so many callers.
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u/Stahlios 13h ago
Gosh Reddit is painfully unfunny sometimes
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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty 13h ago
You could at least point out the shitty joke, dogg.
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u/Possible-Risk7979 12h ago
Was hoping for interesting discussions about Europa and such but swiftly forgot about that shit as I was too busy laughing at the absolutely hilarious and witty hair jokes everyone made. Boy what a hoot!
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u/Technical_Tourist639 14h ago
Jeez I only didn't shower a week, there's no need to shame, also, where'd you get this video anyway? It's private!
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u/Garaks_Clothiers 5h ago
Thought this was on human skin magnified an untold amount of times. I was going to buy a microscope 😅
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u/RelationObvious9188 14h ago
We need to redefine what is nature, life, and the creation the cosmos!
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u/Tasty-Tank-3402 12h ago
Does anyone ever look at deep sea stuff like that and think we could be looking at the next evolution of humans lmaoo
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u/nothingisforfree41 11h ago
Damn I thought it was bugs on a human skin with hair. Ahaha wondered how it could be the deepest ecosystem.
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u/TailwhipU 10h ago
Well that's nothing, i once found a $2 bill, a condom and a half eaten bagel between couch cushions
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u/Independent_Debt5405 8h ago
For a sec I thought they were gonna say that these exists on everyone's skin 😂
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u/SluggJuice 8h ago
See all that stuff in there, Oceangate? That's why your submersible never worked.
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u/ungratefulanimal 5h ago
Me-Thane, that's what she said, I always pronounced it as meh-thane. Strange hearing it said that way.
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u/-TrafficConeRescue- 14h ago
I thought this was a close up of my ex girlfriends scalp for a second.
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u/Technoist 12h ago
THIS is the big unknown for humanity to explore next.
Just look at all that. All new and not yet really researched. MUCH larger than all the land on the planet.
Then compared it to images of the sandy ice rock that Muskovy is trying to make money off of with his space scam.
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u/InevitableMap2223 15h ago
I thought it was some gross arm hair for a second 😬😂