from the waiting-to-find-the-square-pants dept.
Unique life forms accidentally found under 3,000 feet of Antarctica ice, scientists say
Scientists have found life under 3,000 feet under of ice in Antarctica. The previous theory was that life couldn't exist in such extreme conditions: freezing temperatures, no food and complete darkness.
The creatures were found attached to a boulder in the frigid seas under the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf – a huge sheet of ice that stretches out from Antarctica, according to a report on Business Insider.
Experts from the British Antarctic Survey drilled holes through 2,860 feet of ice, then lowered cameras through the ice and then through another 1,549 feet of water before making the discovery.
[...] The video reveals two types of unidentified animals. The animals in[sic] outlined in red on the video seem to be hanging from long stalks, while the other (highlighted in white), looks like a round, sponge-like animal.
https://twitter.com/BAS_News/status/1361198123213852673
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 19 2021, @01:41AM (4 children)
They are playing the long game, waiting for us to anhialate ourselves with MBA bloated food supply, media-fueld psychosis, and general malfeasance. Then they can emerge after this ice age ends and take over!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday February 19 2021, @01:50AM (2 children)
Who are "they?" The Jews, or the Chinks?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 19 2021, @01:58AM
Sponge Bob and Square Pants.
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 19 2021, @03:07AM
It's the LatinX breeding grounds. They are breeding even faster than Latinos, and will replace them soon.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 19 2021, @12:14PM
"media-fueld psychosis"
#popmedia
Right on dude....
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 19 2021, @03:48AM (1 child)
When will Bill Gates start selling them for food?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 19 2021, @03:38PM
Don't worry, you'll get used to the taste.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 19 2021, @06:20AM
When I was a student living with 4 other guys in a cheap rented house, the shelves all had weird black spongey stuff. No need to go to the North Pole.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 19 2021, @06:28AM
stupid scientists, you're going to anger cthulhu
you had 100 years to get the damn message but no
(Score: 2) by ledow on Friday February 19 2021, @08:23AM (1 child)
In my best Jeff Goldblum voice:
"Life... er... finds a way."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Immerman on Friday February 19 2021, @03:35PM
Indeed. And what's with the "no food" assumption? I could see if they were talking about a landlocked under-glacier lake (though even that likely has food for chemovores and the things that eat them), but an ice-shelf extending into the ocean has ocean-water circulating beneath it, which means at least some available nutrients.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday February 19 2021, @12:20PM
Those creatures' resilience rivals that of Mets fans, which are themselves extremophiles.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 19 2021, @07:37PM
>> The previous theory was that life couldn't exist in such extreme conditions: freezing temperatures, no food and complete darkness.
Of course life can survive in those conditions... otherwise there'd be no one living in Texas now.