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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."
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.