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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?"
A more likely explanation is that the samples were contaminated by the instruments. If we look in the Bible there is no mention that God made this lifeform, therefore the most logical explanation is contamination.
Sorry to burst your bubble.
I thought we were not allowed to explore Europa?
How does it taste?
The amphipod is actually a Lysianassid, not a Lyssianasid, if someone tries to google it :)
> Imagine the land amount all those oceans would free if dried up.
Imagine all the land that would become uninhabitable if the oceans dried up.
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Do the fish look like aliens, or do aliens look like fish?
If you're going to point out that Europa is different from Antartica at least take the time to point out how it's different. Namely, the complex life in Antarctica evolved in different, more comfortable conditions. Complex life under hundreds of feet of ice on Earth says nothing about whether or not it's possible for life to begin or become complex in those conditions. It just says that once started, life is very adaptable.
>And if such life is possible beneath Earth's oceans, why not elsewhere, like Europa?
Because saying life can survive somewhere is different than saying it can evolve somewhere.
I object to that article, and to the next reply.
I've looked - yes it's damn cold, but I didn't find any signs of complex life.
(Ps: You misspelt Europe)
If you're going to point out that Europa is different from Antartica at least take the time to point out how it's different. Namely, the complex life in Antarctica evolved in different, more comfortable conditions. Complex life under hundreds of feet of ice on Earth says nothing about whether or not it's possible for life to begin or become complex in those conditions. It just says that once started, life is very adaptable.
But did life really begin in such "comfortable" conditions? I don't think its too far-fetched to imagine most life beginning in even less habitable conditions than it currently thrives in.
Natural selection seems to suggest that life must be more robust than the pressures of its environment, and that life only becomes less robust if it can afford to do so. Not the other way around.
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I'd provide a citation, but my source was taken away in the middle of the night by guys in a black van.
I hate printers.
I think you are confusing skills acquired with biological adaptations.