dark oxygen

omg ffs

deep sea nodule electrolysis producing oxygen, innit?

we have not begun to scratch the surface of the deeps
— steve zissou

at the end of Susan Casey's Underworld she's writing about the threat to deep-ocean ecosystems from commercial interests. Greedy scum will want to extract these nodules and the ISA dishes out mining licenses to the highest bidder and fragile ecosystems that developed over deep time could be wiped out very fast by stupid humans. That was I think the gist of what she wrote.

bummer

Not read that but it seems otm, the study that led to this discovery was funded by those very mining companies. You look at what extractive capitalism has done to terrestrial ecosystems, I don’t have high confidence in its ability to mine the depths responsibly

Dark oxygen tho! Incredible

yeah there was a 60 minutes a few years back where they went to the bottom of thIs insanely deep metal mine, the existence of which gave scientists opportunities to discover similar organisms that live under extreme conditions like that

i'm only into blackened technical oxygen tbh

Talking of extremophiles