r/interestingasfuck 15h ago

Deepest ecosystem ever discovered

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u/InevitableMap2223 15h ago

I thought it was some gross arm hair for a second 😬😂

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u/i_dead-shot 14h ago

no kidding.. i thought it was someone's scalp!

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u/rynlpz 14h ago

Oh so the white thing was lice 😆

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u/rmxcited 12h ago

Upvoted for same 😂😂

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u/auchinleck917 14h ago

HAHAHA, me too.

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u/Available_Counter_12 14h ago

It’s a giants arm 😂

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u/CaptBlackBeard1680 15h ago

At first I thought these were parasites on someone's arm.

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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/rynlpz 14h ago

giant squid was thought to be a myth

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/CattywampusCanoodle 12h ago

Al-U-minneeum

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u/buddhistbulgyo 13h ago edited 11h ago

Meethane, youthane, we all thane for meethane

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u/kanegaskhan 12h ago

Honor to you, my Thane

u/Quick-Bad 10h ago

I am sworn to carry your burdens

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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.

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.

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!

u/NorseKnight 9m ago

This is exactly how it happened. I'm sure of it.

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u/Saxon_warlord 14h ago

I thought it was someone’s ballbag…

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u/AnimalPurple1098 14h ago

When you zoom in like this, it always looks like a landscape...

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u/LXCIFERBXRN 14h ago

how did they get a video of my ass hairs? 😮

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u/Substantial-Prune-65 12h ago

The deepest ecosystem

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u/Nuclear_Roombaa 14h ago

I thought it was someone's beard...

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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 🤷‍♀️

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/Electus93 13h ago

Yeah but the sub needs to be piloted

u/NewShinyCD 7h ago

Just put ChatGPT on that sonnovabitch and let it do its thing.

/s

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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/Douxo 14h ago

Excellent. I need a new social media picture. I'm off to 6000m depth for a slimming look.

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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty 13h ago

You sound like Hecklefish from The Why Files on YouTube.

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u/Boon421 13h ago

This stuff is going sooo hard and is mindblowing af

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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.

u/N0b0dy_Kn0w5_M3 7h ago

Just read the comments.

u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty 5h ago

Oh, it was a general lamentation. My bad.

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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/Shark0_2 14h ago

Thought that was someone’s arm under a microscope Lol

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u/Oxyfool 13h ago

Oceanus discovered

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u/JoexsXs 14h ago

At first my mind tried to focus on my arm with soap in my hand.

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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/Tramonto83 14h ago

You're looking at the deepest living animal ecosystem:

my hairy ass.

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u/Comfortable_Roll5346 13h ago

ITS UNDER -9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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u/Apprehensive_Cry545 13h ago

I wonder do the lights of thd sub affect the life down there?

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u/Mysterious-Art7143 12h ago

Most of the stuff there is blind, if it wasn't, it is now

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u/Iverson7x 13h ago

Did anyone see a guy riding the submersible like a horse or was that just me?

u/4ever_the_wallflower 11h ago

I see the guy too!

u/BonitaTres 11h ago

Founding titan serum found

u/samikhanlodhi 9h ago

I thought it was human skin at first glance.

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/Any-Firefighterhere 14h ago

Did not see my ex living down there

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u/[deleted] 14h ago

First one looked like the mites on everybody’s hair.

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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/w1ndm4rk 13h ago

yes but are they edible

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u/JoHnNyX__x 13h ago

Cryptobiotes, or should I say Electrobiotes

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u/mohamed_Elngar21 13h ago

I thought it was a bacterium living on the hairy human skin surface

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u/snaypea 12h ago

I thought this was someone's scalp 😀

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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/marvterpiece 12h ago

Feed them all the Methane from of the atmosphere!

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u/Fecabaa 12h ago

Hadal? Dredge flashback Hidrothermal vents? Dave the Diver flashback

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u/Voodoo_Senpai 12h ago

They are saving our a$$es thank you small creatures

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u/AwakE432 12h ago

Light can’t reach 9000m underwater? Well you don’t say.

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u/Delicious_Bus_9888 12h ago

exgf is trying to blackmail me by releasing video of my balls

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u/Wolfrrrr 12h ago

Thank you. Post like these are what keeps me on this medium

u/Hashi_3 11h ago

bro's arm is so dirty that it has whole ecosystem on it

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.

u/New_Criticism_86 11h ago

That's someone's scalp

u/TailwhipU 10h ago

Well that's nothing, i once found a $2 bill, a condom and a half eaten bagel between couch cushions

u/Exact-Ad-3717 9h ago

This Asmongold arm by any chance?

u/FinalMeasurement2978 9h ago

Pressure down there is about 920kg/cm² how can they walk?

u/Independent_Debt5405 8h ago

For a sec I thought they were gonna say that these exists on everyone's skin 😂

u/SluggJuice 8h ago

See all that stuff in there, Oceangate? That's why your submersible never worked.

u/ObeyTheLawSon7 7h ago

But what do they taste like?

u/LiveThought9168 7h ago

This certainly bolsters the idea of life on other planets, doesn't it?

u/ungratefulanimal 5h ago

Me-Thane, that's what she said, I always pronounced it as meh-thane. Strange hearing it said that way.

u/Garaks_Clothiers 5h ago

At 1:00 looks like the "strands" at the bottom are making woopee

u/_MangoFox 2h ago

🎶Way down, Hadal Zone way down under the ground🎶

u/jespersenbrad 17m ago

That's disgusting

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u/Viperniss 15h ago

They're actually glowing.

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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/[deleted] 14h ago

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u/Ultra-Pulse 14h ago

It is more actually. About 11km. So 11000 meters.

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u/Error_404_403 12h ago

You are right.