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Life Found In Deepest Layer of Earth's Crust
michaelmarshall writes "For the first time, life has been found in the gabbroic layer of the crust. The new biosphere is all bacteria, as you might expect, but they are different from the bacteria in the layers above; they mostly feed on hydrocarbons that are produced by abiotic reactions deep in the crust. It could mean that similar microbes are living even deeper, perhaps even in the mantle."
Ergo the oil argument that much of our oil supply is made from bacteria and not old dinosaurs. If the bacteria is supplied from the crust inside the earth, the oil fields can replenish and oil becomes much more sustainable than before.
Any way you look at this the findings become politically charged as the impact this has on our future energy supply could be enormous. With a little bit of googling you can readily find oil fields from old that have mysteriously started refilling with oil.
you're an idiot.
you're an ignorant hypocrite. does life exist? or does it only wait to die?
you're an idiot.
you're an ignorant hypocrite.
I find it humorous that a story about bacteria has lead to a ridiculously long discussion about the meaning of Ubiquitous and a philosophical discussion on the amount of life vs the amount of Death.
While like you said, its really just semantics and perception. Michael's point of view is that if you were to add up the years something was dead compared to the years something was alive, and did that for every entity in the universe, you'd have more dead years than live years. Ergo, Death is prevalent.
While other people (myself included) are of the opinion that death is just an occurence, and only happens in that one instance, and being dead for 10 years is not any more "death" than being dead for 10 minutes. Ergo, there would be less death than there is life (since living things can only die once and there is still life).
But no one felt like neatly laying out their definitions, instead just kept feeding troll line after flamebait and now look where we are. We're arguing on the internet. You know where that path leads, and you know exactly where it ends.
you're an ignorant hypocrite. you are denying that the dead continue to exist.
you're completely pathetic.
death SOLELY exists where life no longer exists.
why would you attempt to silence me? you don't like what i say? how is that going for you? does ANYONE do what you ask of them?
you're completely pathetic.
This started out with the little shit claiming someone was an idiot for saying life was ubiquitous. He was utterly failed to prove his initial point.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
ur mum's face sound like a twelve year old.
you're completely pathetic.
you are NOTHING
then again, perhaps you were raised by ignorant hypocrites who taught you little more than how to cower behind self proclaimed monikers like "Sardaukar86".
ur mum's face is dead.
you're completely pathetic.