Posted on 07/31/2025 9:32:24 AM PDT by week 71
Scientists diving to astounding depths in two oceanic trenches in the northwest Pacific have discovered thriving communities of marine creatures.
Amazingly, these trenches lie at depths greater than the height of Mount Everest, Earth's tallest peak.
The deepest one reaches 9,533 metres (31,276 feet) below the ocean surface in the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench.
This is almost 25 per cent deeper than such animals had previously been documented anywhere.
While most animals get their sustenance by eating organic matter, the researchers were surprised to discover that these creatures get their energy from chemicals.
This is a process known as chemosynthesis.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Remember- these are the same people who say if we don’t starve ourselves, freeze ourselves in the winter (turn down the heat) and suffer heatstroke in the summer (no air conditioning) the planted will cease to exists in 5.7543 years...
But they know what the temperature of the earth should. Thank goodness they weren’t baffled.
democrats, right?
Kamchatka has had about 4 million earthquakes.
Organic matter is chemicals.
Back in the 1960s it was being said that we knew more about the Moon than about our own oceans.
I’m sure it’s still true.
Cools!
Isn’t this where earthquake was?
This is like 30 years of saying scientists are “baffled” by life in deep water. It’s not baffling. This has been known forever.
Microbugs eating hydrocarbons
These colonies of critters were found first at the Mid-Atlantic ridge, a few years later at ocean vents in the Pacific, and this is really, really not a new discovery.
At 30,000 feet deep in the ocean temps are about 39F and pressure is about 8 tons per square inch.
If life can survive such conditions it certainly makes it possible that some sort of life might survive elsewhere in this solar system.
You think you live under pressure…
This is not new news - many years old discoveries.
Chemicals,the stuff of life.🤔
I was listening to ZZ Top's "Got Me Under Pressure" as I read this.
Well, she likes wearing lipstick.
I thought someone might come back with Queen and David Bowie.
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