This raises huge implications for studying Mars, sure we may not find life on the surface due to the drastic swings in temperature and radiation the surface is exposed to. But deep under the surface? Sheltered away from these extremes... Life could still be flourishing!
Any large rocky body with a molten core could support life. If you consider that the Earth's core is not influenced by the sun, and would continue to be molten if the Earth was ejected from the solar system for hundreds, if not billions, of years. Then the deep biosphere would still continue to flourish since all necessary elements for the life found down there persists. Therefore, solar activity is not necessary for life, and life could be found in any large rocky body that has a molten core which would warm water fused within the planet into small biospheres pockets.
The Exoplanets Channel This is overwhelmingly awesome this shows that life can exist deep in a planets crust. Imagine what this means for the search for life on other planets. Imagine how many bacteria of those trillions and trillions that are undiscoverd could provide cures for humans and even possibly find certain types of bacteria that can help us extend the human life expectancy. Whatever the case its facsinating and I hope there are well funded organizations planning on making expeditions soon becuase i am impatient and I want to know more!!!!
they are so incredibly different from us surface dwellers that our bodies are deadly to them, I'm pretty sure for most of them oxygen is a poison. you should be worried about the permafrost melting, because diseases that did infect us ages ago that were trapped in ice could be released.
The Russians(everyone by polluting) are already doing that, in the melting Siberian permafrost. They’ve found LIVING bacteria, that’s so old, we wouldn’t have an immunity to it anymore. And, there has also been Viruses discovered, but they have to be replicated in the Lab, since they were all dead.
If life exists at 5 km below the surface of Earth, why can't it exist at 5 km below the surface of Mars? Is it even possible for us to send a rover that can drill 5 km below the surface to find out?
maybe that's true, scientists around the world already research it long time ago... but the rovers you're mean it is still in many concepts and also still under development
He predicted(not exactly but closely) the date of and launch location of the moon landing and that there was no breathable air in space. But in journey to the center of the earth he did mentioned mammoths and giant humans shepherding them so he got that part wrong he also had his space shuttle bieng made of wood.
Imperial>>>>metric. Edit: well, inches, feet and yards (base 12). I gotta admit I'm 33 and I still couldn't tell you how many feet are in a mile....5280? The miles is fucked. Woohoo, googled it, it is 5280ft...which is divisible by 12....it's 1320 yards...still doesn't make the mile good. But it's longer than a kilometer 💪💪 USA! USA! USA!
Yes they are catering to the slow learners that are only capable of understanding one system. That's okay the world needs lots of burger flippers, sandwich maker might be too advanced for you though. They still come in foot longs.
They did a study where they found microbes moving and being lifelike under the surface underwater. But then brought back to the surface, the microbes were frozen in time. They thought they all died. Turns out the gravitational difference with pressure and relativity was affecting them. So what would take a normal cell to divide in time on the surface... the cells divided at an estimated 1000 years per division. So they appeared dead but really they were living in a totally different timescale. Found this out a few years ago and has shaped the way I think of time relativity and how each person experiences time differently. Maybe not noticeably but there is a different in time scale based on locations on earth and how high or how deep you are relative to the core.
google told me the estimated biomass is about 4x10^12 t, and earth's mass is about 6x10^24. so the biomass is about 4 billion times smaller than the mass of the planet.
Troy Smith: Not even close -- proportionately-speaking, the Earth's crust is thinner than the skin of an apple is to the rest of the fruit. The mantle and outer and inner cores are made of metals and highly-denser rock than what we're familiar with up here on the surface. As impressively that this dark biomass adds to the known biomass, that mass is still an infinitesimal fraction of the overall crustal mass, and that combined totality is an infinitesimal fraction of the Earth's total mass.
So if you do fill up a container with these microbes, what would it look like? Humans can't see just 1 microbe with the naked eye, but what would it look like if they were so many that we could see them? Would it look like an ever moving liquid or like a solid block or something completely different?
How lucky are we to be living in a time like this with all these scientific methods to help us understand the world around us in great detail. Science is the best!
Don't forget that these microorganisms contain properties and possibly even molecules we haven't even seen before on the surface - which means they could turn out to be a source for new medicines!
@@thefoxyknifer1554 NAtionalsoZIalist -> Nazi (German) [NAtional soCIalist -> Naci (English)] Since there is a T in national, Natzi wouldn't even be that wrong :P
Sam We already have that threat from the melting Permafrost. The recent bacterial & Viral discoveries from there should worry you a lot more. Because those have a lot higher risk of entering the water/air cycle, without any help from us, and doing tons of damage.
This is mind-boggling and awesome, and weirdly reassuring... If life "on" earth were to somehow wipe itself out or gets done in by a giant asteroid, we know there's a backup copy just "downstairs".
That awkward moment when you want to write something cool and witty to let Maren know how awesome she is without sounding like an internet creep.... . . . . ... then fail.
_Fun Fact:_ _The Subterranean People (地底人, Chitējin) are the self-proclaimed "True People of the Earth". They are ruled by the Subterranean King and live under the earth's crust, but grew too numerous in numbers and planned to take over the surface. They were eventually stopped and chased back into the ground by Saitama._ _Overview:_ _The Subterranean People have a humanoid appearance. They are very large with hands the size of a regular human's head. They only have two toes on each feet, and three fingers on their hands. They wear golden or metallic ornaments, wristbands, necklaces and armor over their right shoulder. They all wear different metal helmets, with only their round eyes showing._ _The Subterranean People seemed rather confident in their ability to take the Earth for themselves, but after the Subterranean King was defeated they retreated quickly, showing their cowardice._ _They are stronger than human beings and their most dangerous body's parts are their feet because they had to move in a hostile condition underground and have adapted to it._ _They are crafty builders, having constructed the entire base where the Monster Association now resides._ _They have a relationship with centipedes._
I've often wondered why ore veins look so much like bacterial colonies. I would bet some microbes are responsible for the slow accretion/concentration of metals deep inside rocks.
3:56 i think the bible do stated that GOD created life and put them On the earth, unless GOD forgot to tell those myth writers that he had some of them slipped under the surface. Always wonder why he created bacteria, virus, fungis, microorganisms etc. In such huge amount and diversity, but never mentioned to his believers.
That's actually incredible. Individual organisms with lifespans that are on the geological timescale? The battles that take place below could define what's above.
More worms...oh my god. I’m seriously freaking out now. I can’t imagine swimming in such a place. For once, I really hope nothing comes out of this. Literally.
As this is relatively new information, and most impressive, can we hypothesise that, contrary to our original understanding, petroleum is not finite due to being the residue of plant and animal decay only, but could actually be 'mostly' the remains of the subterranean biosphere, therefore is regenerating; ie petroleum is renewable?
Soo that means it gives us a new idea of making horror movies where bacteria infection from drilling sites comes out and starts duplicating itself to thrive by eating/melting people into hot pot. Wait, that's The Thing minus alien origin.
When you did the whole cup analogy thing to describe the size comparison of the subterranean biome and the oceans, you should have had your team doing graphics at that point. Just a pointer.
Some of them probably predate many of us creatures living above the crust and some probably moved into the crust to escape the bigger creatures hunting them above it and to find certain other needs, like food and heat, that they could only find in the crust. Also many of them probably were pushed and/or squeezed down into it by earthquakes and landslides because they were too small to escape in time. The circle of life also applies to evolution as much as it applies to individual lifecycles. It is as if the world is round just to remind us of that fact, metaphorically speaking.
ohh wow the deep biosphere gives me high hopes for new microbes that can process chemicals (metal) minerals and could even be used to make living materials (self healing objects). ...also kinda reminds me how in high fantasy there is typically the under-dark, with it's large variety of tough powerful creatures (literally) carving out survival deep underground.
The Underdark has more life than the world as we know it... If life forms quickly on planets, regardless of whether it migrated up or down, Venus and Mars definitely have life on them, or at least in them.
So even if our life on the surface ends due to a say,,,,,,a supernova life on earth will still continue till the heat of the planet dies from with in....I like that.
