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[–] CaptainKickass@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah dude, we've all seen The Abyss.

[–] SatouKazuma@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

Thanks for that unpleasant reminder lol

[–] kindenough@kbin.earth 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

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

[–] esc27@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Go further... hollow earth.

[–] aviationeast@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Twinkletoes@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This could be a truly amazing discovery 💡

[–] apocalypticat@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Looks like you were downvoted by an anaerobic organism?

[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Aww, come out of there Hulud

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year 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)

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 31 points 1 year 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.

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] tacosplease@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Shard@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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

[–] BlackLaZoR@kbin.run 18 points 1 year 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.

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] Seasm0ke@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year 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

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

plastic grocery bags emptying of their last little air bubbles

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] aaaaace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We're in a simulation that has aquarium infrastructure

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 year ago

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

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago
[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Andrew Sweetman

Researcher sees bubbles: “Andrew!”

Blub blub

Andrew: “Sweet, man!”