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Life found beneath Antarctic ice sheet 'shouldn't be there'

 
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Life found beneath Antarctic ice sheet 'shouldn't be there'
The inadvertent discovery of sea life on a boulder beneath an Antarctic ice shelf challenges our understanding of how organisms can live in environments far from sunlight, according to a team of biologists.

James Smith and Paul Anker at the British Antarctic Survey drilled through the 900-metre-thick Filchner-Ronne ice shelf and dropped a camera down the hole in search of mud on the seabed. To their surprise, it revealed a boulder ringed by animals. Footage appears to show 16 sponges, accompanied by 22 unidentified animals that could include barnacles. It is the first time that immobile life like these creatures has been found beneath an Antarctic ice sheet.

“There’s all sorts of reasons they shouldn’t be there,” says Huw Griffiths at the British Antarctic Survey, who analysed the footage. He thinks the animals, which are probably filter feeders, survive on nutrients carried in the -2°C water. The conundrum is that they are so far from obvious nutrient sources, given that the boulder is located 260 kilometres from the open water at the front of the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf where photosynthetic organisms can survive.


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Re: Life found beneath Antarctic ice sheet 'shouldn't be there'
“There’s all sorts of reasons they shouldn’t be there,”
 Quoting: Truth Geeza

This usually means one thing: You were wrong.

Science, bitches!
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"Life" is an emergent phenomenon.

You can't keep it down!

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Sammy

I love stories like this. Goes to the fact that likely life in all kinds of places in the cosmos.
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Re: Life found beneath Antarctic ice sheet 'shouldn't be there'
“There’s all sorts of reasons they shouldn’t be there,”
 Quoting: Truth Geeza

This usually means one thing: You were wrong.

Science, bitches!
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Baffled as usual.
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Re: Life found beneath Antarctic ice sheet 'shouldn't be there'
“There’s all sorts of reasons they shouldn’t be there,”
 Quoting: Truth Geeza

This usually means one thing: You were wrong.

Science, bitches!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75438772


Precisely this. ^^^^ The discrepancy isn't in the ingredients necessary to support life, it's in the knowledge base understanding of the scientists. Life does not require the blessings of vain scientists to exist.
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Re: Life found beneath Antarctic ice sheet 'shouldn't be there'
“There’s all sorts of reasons they shouldn’t be there,”
 Quoting: Truth Geeza

This usually means one thing: You were wrong.

Science, bitches!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75438772


Baffled as usual.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79960276


Plus, astonished, flummoxed, discombobulated and gobstruck!

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Re: Life found beneath Antarctic ice sheet 'shouldn't be there'
life is supported on all bodies wit a hot core
moral reasoning takes about 250 miliseconds
we make errors in between
perception->relation->behaviour
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Sammy

I love stories like this. Goes to the fact that likely life in all kinds of places in the cosmos.
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Cheers :) It really does make you think!
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Re: Life found beneath Antarctic ice sheet 'shouldn't be there'
Why shouldn't life be there?There is life all over this planet and they have adapted to live in pretty much every ecosystem we have.The fact that our so called scientists can't wrap their heads around it proves they don't know it all like they think they do.
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Re: Life found beneath Antarctic ice sheet 'shouldn't be there'
“There’s all sorts of reasons they shouldn’t be there,”
 Quoting: Truth Geeza

This usually means one thing: You were wrong.

Science, bitches!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75438772


Baffled as usual.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79960276


Plus, astonished, flummoxed, discombobulated and gobstruck!

5a
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And dumbfounded & confused!
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Makes you wonder what's really under the ice in Antarctica
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Scientists are baffled

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Life finds a way.
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Life finds a way.
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THIS
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...

This usually means one thing: You were wrong.

Science, bitches!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75438772


Baffled as usual.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79960276


Plus, astonished, flummoxed, discombobulated and gobstruck!

5a
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79580316


And dumbfounded & confused!
 Quoting: Truth Geeza


chuckle
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Re: Life found beneath Antarctic ice sheet 'shouldn't be there'
“There’s all sorts of reasons they shouldn’t be there,”
 Quoting: Truth Geeza

This usually means one thing: You were wrong.

Science, bitches!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75438772


That's the strange thing about science.

Every so often, we discover that everything we thought we knew is wrong and we have to go back to the drawing board.

So when someone tells you "But science says that can't be possible!", remind them of this.
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“Coincidence is what you have left over when you apply a bad theory." - Percy Williams Bridgman
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Re: Life found beneath Antarctic ice sheet 'shouldn't be there'
Sadly- science today is reduced to idiots who mark right answer on multiple choice exam .
Facing something new they assume being wrong and retract to safety of do nothing lab
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:interesting:
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Same with Washington DC!
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Re: Life found beneath Antarctic ice sheet 'shouldn't be there'
“There’s all sorts of reasons they shouldn’t be there,”
 Quoting: Truth Geeza

This usually means one thing: You were wrong.

Science, bitches!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75438772


Baffled as usual.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79960276


It would be baffling if scientist were not baffled.
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Re: Life found beneath Antarctic ice sheet 'shouldn't be there'
"Life" is an emergent phenomenon.

You can't keep it down!

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Even in places like Kenya, weird shit grows from under rocks and through the slime.

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our scientists should have brains but we can't find them?
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Humans used to believe that the fruit flies spawn magically. However empty space isn't empty but super position of possible outcomes unless an observer imposes will on the space. Without an observer its just like a wild boiling magical uncertainty.
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Pandora's box..........
https://imgur.com/O1lm8go

Yin and yang is never ending because if it did so would everything.....
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Re: Life found beneath Antarctic ice sheet 'shouldn't be there'
WATER

all it ever takes is water

at one point there shouldn't be life in deep caves

at one point there shouldn't be life in hot geysers

at one point there absolutely couldn't be life deep sea

south pole?

Moons of the gas giants ??

Life.

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:bump2:
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Re: Life found beneath Antarctic ice sheet 'shouldn't be there'
This is precisely why the notion we are alone in the Universe is absurd. There is life everywhere, in the grand scheme of the Universe humans are just above pond scum in intelligence.
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Re: Life found beneath Antarctic ice sheet 'shouldn't be there'
“There’s all sorts of reasons they shouldn’t be there,”
 Quoting: Truth Geeza

This usually means one thing: You were wrong.

Science, bitches!
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"the science is settled!!"

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