[HN Gopher] Tubeworms live beneath the planetary crust around de...
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Tubeworms live beneath the planetary crust around deep-sea vents
Author : marban
Score : 49 points
Date : 2024-10-17 17:41 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| blakesterz wrote:
| The study is here:
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| https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52631-9
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| Lots of cool pictures if you like oceanography stuff.
| mmooss wrote:
| It includes the actual photos of the animals in the subseafloor
| crust:
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| https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52631-9/figures/2
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| https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52631-9/figures/3
| bityard wrote:
| paywall'd
| herdymerzbow wrote:
| https://archive.is/I23NT
| 1egg0myegg0 wrote:
| Are we in the Dune timeline?
| Tagbert wrote:
| Yes, but we have to get through the Butlerian Jihad first.
| pineaux wrote:
| This will inevitably happen. Life is more robust than
| electronic systems. The electronic systems will be destroyed
| for their aggression.
| ruleryak wrote:
| https://archive.is/I23NT - mirrored
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| I won't pretend to be a biologist, so forgive me if this is
| naive, but this does feel like it's at least within the realm of
| possibility of working similarly on Europa, right? As in a non-
| zero chance at least.
| jl6 wrote:
| It would be bold to declare it _im_ possible. We know so little
| about abiogenesis. There might be a critical ingredient or
| condition that Earth had which Europa lacks.
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| Or maybe not. Europa's ocean could be teeming with life.
| thebruce87m wrote:
| Discovery and detailed analysis of life on Europa in my
| lifetime would be amazing. Even better if we can get
| Attenborough there.
| r00fus wrote:
| There's a theory that life actually originated not directly
| through photosynthesis based life, but originally from a very
| constant source of energy - the earth's crust - Hyperthermophile
| archaea - using non-oxygen based metabolism which migrated to the
| surface where photosynthesis evolved and took over as the core
| energy source.
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| All laid out in Paul Davies' book - fascinating read:
| https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Fifth-Miracle/Pau...
| polishdude20 wrote:
| Similar to Nick Lane's work!
| pineaux wrote:
| Actually this is not a theory. Photosynthesis came millions of
| years later than life. Plants are evolved from animals, not the
| other way around. Basic animals are less evolved than basic
| plants.
| HelloMcFly wrote:
| Plants and animals evolved from different lineages of
| eukaryotic organisms. They share a common ancestor, but
| plants did not evolve from animals. Plants evolved from green
| algae, while animals evolved from colonial protists.
|
| I also take exception with the concept of "more" or "less"
| evolved. Do you mean "complexity"?
| RachelF wrote:
| The title of the article is incorrect, the worms live in the
| crust, not "beneath the planetary crust" (in the magma).
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| The Economist magazine is not what it used to be, sadly.
| fuzzfactor wrote:
| Yeah, beneath the planetary crust is asking a lot.
|
| Probably didn't want to settle for less but you take what you
| can get . . .
| davidw wrote:
| I finally unsubscribed this summer.
| metalman wrote:
| my personal take on evolution,is based on two fact like pieces of
| information, first is that life can perhaps be seen as extreamly
| complex assemblies of matter and energy and second that the
| universe is a vast field of energy gradients with a general mish
| mash of all of the possible elements of matter lodged in a
| variety of disks,spheres,blobs,and ribbons, leaving much of it
| open for life to work in some form which is just a re phaseing of
| what many have suggested is the feeling of the inevitability of
| life,which I might add,is miracle enough
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