Posted on 01/31/2025 7:46:26 AM PST by Red Badger
Its amazing to think what is below our feet that “doesnt belong there”.
Theres a deep well driller around here that hasnt told me of fish but he regularly finds cherry pits a few hundred feet into the karst.
Some farmers have “bottomless holes” and just chuck things in which are carried in underground rivers to points miles away and hundreds of feet down.
There isnt a known species of cave fish here but there almost has to be a subterranean lake somewhere around here with a Lake Michigan population lost to the caves.
If it’s turning seawater from H2O to oxygen, wouldn’t it be making Hydrogen at the same time?
Smoking in the Cambrian powder store?
Organizations like Fauna & Flora warn of irreparable harm, saying it may disturb carbon storage in the ocean. Sweetman believes it is risky to harvest seabed minerals until scientists know a lot more about these systems.
Fishing for scientific funding and then power to stop any benefit that might come from it.
:: I would think it more chemical than via electrolysis. ::
Agreed.
Did they also test for twice as much Hydrogen?
“Along the shore the cloud waves break, the twin suns sink behind the lake, the shadows lengthen in Carcosa...”
He’s one of those “coming attractions better than that movie” writers, plus, y’know, some personal problems.
otoh, Ambrose Bierce:
https://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/InhaCarc.shtml
I’ve read his complete works and have concluded that he was insane!..............in a good kinda way!........
Bump.
So, Settled Science is not so “settled” after all!
Just a guess, H2S
Hydrogen sulfide
Myself, personaaly, I like Dark Neon Lights.
Oxygen is a known reactive species usually tearing up biomolecules. The oxygen produced might severely hamper any biomolecules forming in the abiotic “soup”. Previous theories posited a “reducing” atmosphere (no oxygen) allowing biomolecules to form.
Oxygen in the atmosphere will be available to form ozone, a much more reactive species than oxygen...
Instead of calling it “dark” oxygen, maybe it should be called “who’d a thunk it” oxygen
We still don’t really know where all the water came from. Comets? Asteroids? Perrier? Theia? Pre-formed?
Maybe it’s just me, but reading the tea leaves here, it looks like this is being used as an attempt to stop deep sea mining operations.
Settled science upended again.
Except these forms appear suddenly without precursors.
You could start up an oxygen bar. Sell “ dark oxygen” at a premium price.
Given enough time even mountains come and go like clouds. It could simply mean that nothing from that period of time survived. Life on land didn't exist yet and the oceans, even today are like a conveyor belt of destruction .
Yeah, and the oxygen bar could charge on a sliding scale, based on how many bar pressure the oxygen is served at.
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