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Complex Life Found Under 600 Feet of Antarctic Ice

Chroniton writes "NASA ice scientists have found a shrimp-like creature and a possible jellyfish 'frolicking' beneath 600 feet of solid Antarctic ice, where only microbes were expected to live. The odds of finding two complex lifeforms after drilling only an 8-inch-wide hole suggests there may be much more. And if such life is possible beneath Earth's oceans, why not elsewhere, like Europa?"

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  1. Re:Europa is not the same by mark-t · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You said "...what is expected of the moon Europa". So what I was asking, exactly, is who expects Europa to be similar to what is beneath the ice sheets of Antarctica? I'm not asking you to be a famous scientist, I was asking from which publicized scientific study you are obtaining the notion that this expectation exists. I, for one, was not aware that this was a widely made expectation. Apparently you are, however, so I was asking you to cite the source so I can learn about it too. Otherwise, it just sounds like you're just talking out of your ass.