Lost City pumps life-essential chemicals at rates unseen at typical black smokers

University of Washington ^ | January 31, 2008 | Unknown

[rfp1234]

Naturally occurring carbon dioxide is locked in mantle rock. At Lost City, the reaction between the rock and seawater produces 10 to 100 times more hydrogen and the hydrocarbon methane than a typical black smoker system found along mid-ocean ridges, the Science co-authors found.

Methane is a major 'greenhouse gas', is it not? How will the 'experts' propose to ban it?[/sarc]

[Diana in Wisconsin]

*GROAN* ;)

[decimon]

Stop Serpentinization, Now!

Nah, the old v-belts were always slipping and wearing out too soon.

Or was that another biblical reference?

[denydenydeny]

And I just assumed the story would have to do with rates of lung cancer among differing demographic groups.

Me too. I was convinced that this was a thread about Kools.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I was thinking more along the lines of, “Stop Plate Techtonics!” or, “Visualize Whirled Peas.” ;)

[Wonder Warthog]

"It never ceases to amaze me, the lengths to which people have to go when they deny the simple and obvious existence and influence of God."

And you know for a fact that this isn't the mechanism God chose to use??

[blam]

There's and interesting article in the latest edition of Discover Magazine. Here's a review of it:

Did Life Begin in Ice?

in Discover by Douglas Fox, February 2008

In the murky depths of prehistory, most scientists think life on earth began in sweltering heat. Fox reports on research that supports the notion that instead, life sprang forth from icy cold. Detailing the experiments of Stanley Miller, who has faced skepticism over his results showing that RNA and DNA could be produced in sub-zero temperatures, Fox spins a compulsively readable story of a small group of scientists who have gathered compelling experimental support for an unusual theory that flies in the face of scientific consensus. And if life can arise in ice, Fox notes, it may also significantly increase the odds that life has also arisen elsewhere in the universe.

[decimon]

Fire and Ice. I seem to recall a weird theory of existence as being the contention between fire and ice.

[blam]

Fire And Ice

[decimon]

This is what I was thinking of though I can't vouch for the accuracy of this account:

"The Reichsführer, Heinrich Himmler, the second most powerful man in the Nazi elite, believed in the Aryan Master Race and thought of the SS as an aristocracy that never could grow old, some sort of super-human. He had modelled the SS on a Hindu warrior caste and was fascinated by the East and its religions – he hated Christianity: the church was according to him "an erotic homosexual plague with Jewish roots". He believed that "the Aryan race had descended directly and fully formed from heaven…" they were the master race, or Herrenfolk, and that races of giants had once roamed the earth; the universe having been formed from a cosmic battle between fire and ice according to the Ice Theory and the lost kingdom of Atlantis. Hence the Tibet-expedition, which was in fact a search for this ancient Germanic super- race in contrast to the inferior people, minderwertigen, such as the Jews and the Gypsies. Bodily forms became a preoccupation."

CULTS AND NAZISM

[blam]

I’m a little familiar with that.

[decimon]

I’m a little familiar with that.

Very interesting. We have ways to test your knowledge. ;-)

[blam]

"Ve have vays to test your knowledge. ;-)

LOL.

[Hot Tabasco]

the black smoker vents scientists have known about since the 1970s.

And now the racist nico-nazi's want them shut down........

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

I think there was an earlier topic, too, but anyway...

Deep-ocean vents are a source of oil and gas
(evidence of abiogenic hydrocarbons)
Nature News | 31 January 2008 | Rachel Courtland
Posted on 02/01/2008 12:42:53 AM EST by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1963050/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Aha.

Shedding light on deep-sea thermal vents
Cosmos magazine | Thursday, January 10, 2008 | Agence France-Presse
Posted on 01/15/2008 3:20:49 PM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1954189/posts

[SunkenCiv]

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The Deep, Hot Biosphere by Thomas Gold foreword by Freeman Dyson 1992 paper

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[SunkenCiv]

Robots take scientists into sea depths
Seattle Post-Intelligencer | 7/29/05 | Tom Paulson
Posted on 08/02/2005 3:42:11 PM EDT by LibWhacker
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1455539/posts