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Yogthos
Yogthos
@yogthos@social.marxist.network  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

At a depth of 10,000 meters—where light never reaches and pressure could crush a submarine—a Chinese team has made an astonishing discovery: entire colonies of life thriving in conditions once thought utterly impossible.

https://www.futura-sciences.com/en/over-10-km-under-the-ocean-chinese-scientists-uncover-something-beyond-imagination_20806/

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Over 10 km under the ocean Chinese scientists uncover something beyond imagination - Futura-Sciences

The hadal zone, found more than 6,000 meters below the ocean’s surface, remains one of Earth’s most remote and mysterious frontiers. Until now, scientists believed life in these crushing depths was limited to microbes and other microscopic organisms. But that assumption has just been shattered. The Kuril-Kamchatka Trench—one of the...
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kuchinster
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@kuchinster@hub.hubzilla.de replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@Yogthos There is also life on Venus at that temperature 462°С.
#^https://www.nkj.ru/archive/articles/20687/
# venus # life # cosmos # space # universe

This is only a small part of what we can reach, but in general, the entire universe is inhabited by life; it's just that with our limited senses, most of this life cannot be detected.

Жизнь, кажется, нашли. Но не там, где искали

Следуя некоторым видам поиска, мы смогли бы обнаружить жизнь, базирующуюся на совершенно ином химическом составе (без углерода и/или воды).
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Yogthos
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@yogthos@social.marxist.network replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@kuchinster from what I understand potential life on Venus actually exists in the upper cloud layer where temperature is closer to what it is here.

Of course, i do think it's possible for the same underlying processes to be expressed in a different substrate. Carbon based life is just what we're familiar with. And carbon happens to be one of the most abundant elements having useful properties in terms of how it creates bonds.

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