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New Fish Species Discovered 4.5 Miles Under the Ocean
eldavojohn writes "The University of Aberdeen's Oceanlab (a partner in the recent census of marine life) has discovered a new snailfish. That might not sound very exciting, unless you consider that its habitat is an impressive four and a half miles below the ocean's surface (video). If my calculations are correct, that's over ten and a half thousand PSI, or about seventy-three million Pascals. The videos and pictures are a couple years old, as the team has traveled around Japan, South America and New Zealand to ascertain the biodiversity of these depths. The group hopes to eventually bring specimens to the surface. It seems the deepest parts of the ocean, once thought to be devoid of life, are actually home to some organisms. As researchers build better technology for underwater exploration, tales of yore containing unimaginable monsters seem a little more realistic than before."
Or over 3.6 trillion Cobols.
there is life.
And there is a lot of water in the universe.
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these, and many other species, will be gone in few years. we need to significantly reduce the worlds population, starting now.
That doesn't mean kill the already living, but restrict reproduction to no more than one child per couple, no exceptions. Perhaps even give a subsidy to those are willing to stay childfree.
Gone!
He made it up! Damn fish researcers always making stuff up just to make headlines. 20 years from now many will still be talking of this fake fish as if it were real. May the Greek God Neptune rain on his parade.
That's about 715 atmospheres, in case anyone else is interested in remotely relatable units.
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"Discovered 4.5 Miles Under the Ocean"
Guess it's a Rock Fish then, eh?
In the mantle beneath the oceanic abyss?
correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't something designed to take that much pressure, pretty much take years to adjust to the pressure involved in raising them to the surface?
whatever these well meaning scientists do, make sure they do not awaken the one waiting, dreaming, in his house at R'lyeh
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PSI ? Miles ? FFS when does the US rejoin the *REST* of the world ?
these, and many other species, will be gone in few years. we need to significantly reduce the worlds population, starting now.
If a high quantity of species is desirable (big if), selection pressure (human competition, for example) would be a Good Thing, as it would drive speciation. BTW, in which era would you place peak biodiversity? Was it really that nice back then?
Set your phasers on "funky"!
Sounds like this snail works well ...
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(puts sunglasses on)
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under pressure.
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Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa......
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or else!
How long would it take to reel one of those in? I sure hope they have electric reels!!!
I wonder how these snailfish would fare if exposed to the 'vacuum' of space? Would they fare better than the near instant death of terrestrial creatures? It seems to me that any creature that lives at pressures of 10K PSI must not have an internal pressure differential at all. Gills are certainly a better adaptation for both immense pressures and vacuums than lungs.
Stop thinking about it like what would happen to you at that depth because thats not what happens.
Everything in the body of the fish formed at that pressure, which means it doesn't really feel the pressure. Your body didn't. Its internal pressure is about 14psi, if you took it down there, it would be crushed until it reached equilibrium with the outside pressure.
Likewise, if your brought the fish to the surface, or tried to, it would literally explode before it got to the surface as the internal pressure would be too great for its cells to contain.
You can see the same thing if you pull a fish up from even 150 feet too quickly, its eyeballs will pop out of its skull and its internal organs sometimes pushed out of its mouth.
We need to stop thinking that theres something special about life at these pressures or depths like its rare. We've known for 50 years there are fish down deeper than that, there were fish at the bottom of the Marianas trench, this one is slightly more than HALF that deep.
When you are born at such pressures, anything else seems insane ... kind of like going into space without a space suit, which is pretty much what the fish would need to survive at the surface since its body is designed to operate at much higher pressures.
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How do they taste?
" It seems the deepest parts of the ocean, once thought to be devoid of life, are actually home to some organisms."
Do we really have to hear this every effing time a new deep sea species is discovered? The deeps haven't been thought of as being devoid of life for decades, if ever.
A fish that can live in solid rock. (I know, you meant 4.5 miles under the surface of the ocean.)
Did you know 80 to 90% of the moderators on slashdot wouldn't recognize a troll even if one dragged them under a bridge.
that's only like 8 perls
What does it taste like?
I for one, welcome our new snailfish overlords.
Dopefish is not a lie!
That was the critical piece of information missing from the summary!!
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea (no not spongebob but your close)
An expedition to the Mariana Trench back in 1960 at a depth of 6.8 miles reported "a number of small sole and flounder swimming away". so it's been known for 50 years that vertebrates can survive at extreme depths (the deepest part of the ocean no less)
Does 700+ atmospheres constitute 'goldilocks' in the search for exoplanets? 'Goldilocks', apparently refers to a set of conditions capable of sustaining life. I've often been struck by the near-religous arrogance of defining the conditions capable of sustaining life. Someone who didn't drop biology in (very) high school will hopefully clarify this. From casual reading, it seems that we find life on this planet everywhere we look. From SO2 vents on the ocean floor, to the rim of volcanoes, the ocean trenches to the upper atmosphere, the hottest desert to the coldest poles.
Should the perspective be "life can happen anywhere; the onus is to define where it can't"?
Title needs a little revision - "New Fish Species Discovered 4.5 Miles Under the Ocean"
That's a lot of deep ocean digging to get to it.
Sure enough, the cow costume was hanging up next to the superhero outfit and sailors uniform. (S,Spud)
... does it taste good with wasabi and soy sauce?
What are the three bright orange specks on the ground around the first picture of the fish on the site?
http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/fish-discovered-45-miles-deep-in-ocean-0639/
That tiny snippet of a sentence sums up the problem with Imperial.
I need exactly _one_ non-trivial calculation to fix this:
4.5 miles = 7.24 km
So it's 725 bar. (ten meters of water = 1 bar. plus the ~1 bar of air)
Why is it that the US still prefers Imperial over Metric? I really don't get it.
or {beta}ehemoth
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Miles Under the Ocean
Well, that's interesting, a fish under the ocean. Usually there's rock under the ocean.
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