The Deep Sea

PostThe Deep Sea by **Qikz** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 12:27 pm

This whole mess with the missing sub dredged up this old link and I found myself enthralled scrolling. It's got a note of pretty much every discovered animal/fish from down there and it's insane some of the places life can be found on earth. It's likely easier for something to live in space than it is to live in the deep ocean due to the extreme pressures. I just wanted to share the link so I've made a thread for it so you can all see it again as well!

https://neal.fun/deep-sea/

Emporer Penguins and Elephant Seals diving distances are absolutely insane.

PostRe: The Deep Sea by **rinks** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 12:34 pm

Qikz wrote:This whole mess with the missing dub dredged up this old link and I found myself enthralled scrolling. It's got a note of pretty much every discovered animal/fish from down there and it's insane some of the places life can be found on earth. It's likely easier for something to live in space than it is to live in the deep ocean due to the extreme pressures. I just wanted to share the link so I've made a thread for it so you can all see it again as well!

https://neal.fun/deep-sea/

Emporer Penguins and Elephant Seals diving distances are absolutely insane.

PostRe: The Deep Sea by **Tomous** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 12:42 pm

Japanese spider crabs :dread:

That's a great website.

PostRe: The Deep Sea by **Dowbocop** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 1:05 pm

Qikz wrote:This whole mess with the missing dub dredged up this old link and I found myself enthralled scrolling. It's got a note of pretty much every discovered animal/fish from down there and it's insane some of the places life can be found on earth. It's likely easier for something to live in space than it is to live in the deep ocean due to the extreme pressures. I just wanted to share the link so I've made a thread for it so you can all see it again as well!

https://neal.fun/deep-sea/

Emporer Penguins and Elephant Seals diving distances are absolutely insane.

This very website sort of counteracts that assertion. The fact that multicellular life has been observed in our deepest oceans but no life has been observed living in space shows that it must be "easier" to live in the Abyssal Zone than space, based on our understanding and knowledge of life thus far.

If I recall there are theories about single-celled life on meteorite strikes and whether that led to life on Earth (don't quote me!), but to my knowledge we haven't actually observed any xeno-organisms alive today, certainly none floating through space.

Excellent read though, really eye-opening.

PostRe: The Deep Sea by **site23** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 1:32 pm

That website is really interesting and well put together.

The deep sea is an amazing place and really fills you with wonder. I love how bizarre a lot of the life there is. The website mentions it in passing, but one of the weirdest things is that there is a constant "snowfall" of little flakes of rotting marine animals, which of course things down there have evolved to eat!

Climate change is going to have significant effects on those ecosystems. We know so little about the deep sea that we can't have any idea how many species will be sent extinct, or have been already.

PostRe: The Deep Sea by **Vermilion** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 2:31 pm

Great site, really enjoyed looking at that.

PostRe: The Deep Sea by **OrangeRKN** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 2:40 pm

site23 wrote:Climate change is going to have significant effects on those ecosystems. We know so little about the deep sea that we can't have any idea how many species will be sent extinct, or have been already.

Just wait until deep sea nodule mining properly kicks off, we're really about to strawberry float things up down there (and up here).

Very cool website anyway!

PostRe: The Deep Sea by **kazanova_Frankenstein** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 3:03 pm

Wait, so that's saying an emperor penguin can dive just shy of 550m? Is that right?

They must be bored as gooseberry fool at the Weymouth aquatic centre.

PostRe: The Deep Sea by **Moggy** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 3:11 pm

kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:Wait, so that's saying an emperor penguin can dive just shy of 550m? Is that right?

They must be bored as gooseberry fool at the Weymouth aquatic centre.

Elephant seals think penguins are wimps.

https://new.nsf.gov/news/how-penguins-s ... deep-dives

PostRe: The Deep Sea by **kazanova_Frankenstein** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 3:14 pm

Incredible. Nature continues to astound me.

PostRe: The Deep Sea by **OrangeRKN** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 3:14 pm

kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:Wait, so that's saying an emperor penguin can dive just shy of 550m? Is that right?

They must be bored as gooseberry fool at the Weymouth aquatic centre.

Nah they love Weymouth, it's already a dive

PostRe: The Deep Sea by **kazanova_Frankenstein** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 3:17 pm

OrangeRKN wrote:
kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:Wait, so that's saying an emperor penguin can dive just shy of 550m? Is that right?

They must be bored as gooseberry fool at the Weymouth aquatic centre.

Nah they love Weymouth, it's already a dive

How long have you been hoping someone would make a comment about both diving and Weymouth? :lol:

Sadly, there is some truth in your words.

PostRe: The Deep Sea by **Moggy** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 3:19 pm

OrangeRKN wrote:
kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:Wait, so that's saying an emperor penguin can dive just shy of 550m? Is that right?

They must be bored as gooseberry fool at the Weymouth aquatic centre.

Nah they love Weymouth, it's already a dive

I know somebody who is planning on moving to Weymouth.

If he does, then the place is about to get much much worse.

PostRe: The Deep Sea by **Victor Mildew** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 3:22 pm

I was born there :dread:

It all makes sense now.

PostRe: The Deep Sea by **OrangeRKN** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 3:29 pm

Victor, the born-in-captivity Emperor Penguin, angry at the world as he never experienced a 550m free dive in the open ocean

PostRe: The Deep Sea by **Victor Mildew** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 3:41 pm

This also explains my hatred of the term deep dive.

PostRe: The Deep Sea by **Gideon** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 3:42 pm

I went on a school trip when I was in my early teens, it was some kind of natural history museum (not THAT one). I remember seeing a full size model of what I assume was an ancestor of the Japanese Spider Crab, posed in a squatting position so that its legs were on either side of the path leading you through the room. You could walk clear underneath it and still have a fair bit of clearance above your head. I think that began a lifelong terror of the ocean, as well as a begrudging respect for anything that can survive there.

site23 wrote:The website mentions it in passing, but one of the weirdest things is that there is a constant "snowfall" of little flakes of rotting marine animals, which of course things down there have evolved to eat!

So at least one billionaire is going to be participating in a real type of trickle-down economics?

PostRe: The Deep Sea by **kazanova_Frankenstein** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 3:48 pm

Victor Mildew wrote:This also explains my hatred of the term deep dive.

The Japanese Spider Crab genuinely struck fear in to me. 4m leg span? Get in the (oversized) bin.

PostRe: The Deep Sea by **Victor Mildew** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 3:59 pm

Great little read that, thanks Qikz.

PostRe: The Deep Sea by **Knoyleo** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 4:12 pm

Some of these names are just bullying.

Faceless fish
Sea pig
Dumbo octopus
Flabby whalefish
Zombie worm
Headless chicken fish
Black swallower
Blob fish
Orange roughy
Terrible claw lobster

The Deep Sea

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