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[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah dude, we've all seen The Abyss.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Hey you. Do you know what "God" means? The people around here, you see, don't really believe in God. Instead, do you know what it is they believe in? It's this place. The Abyss itself. Because the bottom of the Abyss/Netherworld is unknown, and since they're afraid of it, it replaces their god.

Relevant quote from Ozen the Immovable in Made in Abyss.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Thanks for that unpleasant reminder lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

His hair looks bewildered, he must be one of those sea floor scientists

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It actually looks worse when they try to tone his hair down, it's fascinating

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Go further... hollow earth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Trust me you don't want to release what's down there... Those things... They aren't...

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Its the alien vents that lead back to the Primary Containment Facility.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Look out for the leviathans.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This could be a truly amazing discovery 💡

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Looks like you were downvoted by an anaerobic organism?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Aww, come out of there Hulud

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

There's someone out there who downvotes every single post they read.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Also casts doubt on markers discovered showing possible life on other planets. We missed a source of oxygen creation on our own planet. Who's to say there aren't other ways that both methane and carbon dioxide are present on other planets.

(I'm certain there's life on other planets. This just makes it less likely that a planets with all the signs is one of those planets)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Methane’s a lot more complex of a molecule to occur on its own though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Last article I read said of the three gasses, methane was the most common to occur without needing life to make it.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I suddenly realized that for eight years I’d been ignoring this potentially amazing new process, 4,000 metres down on the ocean floor

Makes you wonder what strange things are happening right in front of us, if only we looked with the right tools.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I've been ignoring this process my whole life, I'm afraid.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's just so sonic the hedgehog won't drown

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Oh god I can hear the tempo of the panic music picking up...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If this is coming from metals in these rocks forming electrochmical cells, they should've corroded away long time ago. Maybe there's some unknown process that recovers metallic elements back from salts? Maybe some bacteria? Even if, then why? It costs a lot of energy to do this.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Usually putting together metal and water you get metal-oxide and hydrogen gas.
m + H~2~O → mO + H~2~

What they discover is a unusual zone where they have both oxygen (dissolved) and metal. So, i guess they have the reverse process :
m~x~O~y~ + energy → (x)m + (y/2)O~2~

They should measure electrical field intensity in the water near the sea floor to evaluate electrical current going through the sea floor from the ocean.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I have zero knowledge related to this but wild speculation, could the core be leaking it into the mantle and up? Iirc its iron nickel and oxygen

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

plastic grocery bags emptying of their last little air bubbles

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Well done dear Sir/Madam you made me read it, turned out to be interesting. Kudos.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

We're in a simulation that has aquarium infrastructure

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Oh no, we've discovered the under gravel filter!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's only one response: We've got to drop the big one. We have got to nuke the ocean.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

What use is a bomb that doesn’t explode, anyway?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Andrew Sweetman

Researcher sees bubbles: “Andrew!”

Blub blub

Andrew: “Sweet, man!”