Life Underground

[Petey Pate]

A new ecosystem has been discovered under the surface of the Earth, consisting of organisms that have been alive for thousands of years.

The Earth is far more alive than previously thought, according to "deep life" studies that reveal a rich ecosystem beneath our feet that is almost twice the size of all the world's oceans.

Despite extreme heat, no light, minuscule nutrition and intense pressure, scientists estimate this subterranean biosphere is teeming with between 15bn and 23bn tonnes of micro-organisms, hundreds of times the combined weight of every human on the planet.

Researchers at the Deep Carbon Observatory say the diversity of underworld species bears comparison to the Amazon or the Galápagos Islands, but unlike those places the environment is still largely pristine because people have yet to probe most of the subsurface.

Good thing there's nothing dangerous there like the Morlocks, as far as we know.

[kittens]

haha that's loads of germs and that. what would a pile of 23bn tonnes of germs look like. still invisible? or a big creepy itchy jelly? i'm bloody well going to have to go down there to find out aren't i.

[Lemming]

Hitler's Hollow Earth Theory dreams are coming true!

[bgmnts]

Craaaaab people! Craaaaab people! Look pike crabs, talk like people.

[biggytitbo]

Sounds like north hull.

[BlodwynPig]

haha that's loads of germs and that. what would a pile of 23bn tonnes of germs look like. still invisible? or a big creepy itchy jelly? i'm bloody well going to have to go down there to find out aren't i.

It wpuld be visible. Soil diversity is huge and is well knownto be, the interesting pount here is the biodiversity at such subterramean depths. Previously it was only thought that Great Cthulu could survive under such pressures.

[Sebastian Cobb]

I was reading a thing on vice a while a while back about an underground city in Russia Romania I think where everyone has hiv.


https://www.channel4.com/news/romania-tunnels-bucharest-orphans-photo

[massive bereavement]

Well this is all very exciting, it could open up a whole new genre of zoo porn.

[kittens]

so we have ascertained the huge pile of bugs would be visible. now we just have to find out what it looks like. i'm honestly very willing to go down there and take a look if no one else will do it. maybe i could fall in love with a germ or a virus and get married to it in a bug church. haha yeah and the priest is like a big fuckin disease or something. and my mother in law is the plague! really seems like there are a lot of possibilities for good fun and jokes down there.

[BlodwynPig]

Probably a bit like plaque rather than slime. I can't imagine too many sessile organisms at those depths.

[BlodwynPig]

dp

[kittens]

we're gonna build a whole new world for ourselves. you know where? underground. you should see it down there. hundreds of miles of drains, sweet and clean now after the rain. dark, quiet, safe. we could build houses and everything, start again from scratch! and what's so bad about living underground eh? not been so great living up here if you want my opinion. take a look around you at the world you used to know. does it seem to be much more than a crazy circus show? but maybe from the madness something beautiful can grow, in a brave new world. with just a handful of men, we'll start, we'll start all over again!

[Buelligan]

Everything on Star Trek comes true eventually.

[FredNurke]

Maybe, but I've been waiting an unconscionably long time for my interchangeable parts.

[Sherman Krank]

Old news to old Tom.

[Mrs Wogans lemon drizzle]

Sounds like north hull.

You from 'ull mate?

[im barry bethel]

Well this is all very exciting, it could open up a whole new genre of zoo porn.

And the public wants what the public gets

[mothman]

we're gonna build a whole new world for ourselves. you know where? underground. you should see it down there. hundreds of miles of drains, sweet and clean now after the rain. dark, quiet, safe. we could build houses and everything, start again from scratch! and what's so bad about living underground eh? not been so great living up here if you want my opinion. take a look around you at the world you used to know. does it seem to be much more than a crazy circus show? but maybe from the madness something beautiful can grow, in a brave new world. with just a handful of men, we'll start, we'll start all over again!

Under the Earth, under the Earth! That's your answer for everything!

[Replies From View]

I wonder how shit Chris Chibnall can make this one!!

[Pingers]

A Balrog is come