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🐙 Scientists drilled 1.3 km into the Atlantic seafloor and found the hidden plumbing system powering the "Lost City" - a field of hydrothermal vents where life thrives without sunlight, fueled by chemical reactions between seawater and mantle rock.

Huge implications for finding life on ocean worlds like Europa.

iflscience.com/scientists-dril…

#science #ocean #space

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Snosrapkungfu (They/them)
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wasn't there an early episode of the xfiles where drilling into the ice sheet dehibernated a thousands of years old mind controlling parasite worm? :) eh probably better than current leadership if we're honest. I, for one, welcome our new overlords.
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