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[freethought]

Do Americans always clap after discovering new Antarctican deep-sea lifeforms?

I think they clap after everything.

 

[Atrophis]

If there isn't life on Europa I'll eat my hat made of Antarctic ocean fishes.

 

[HeySeuss]

Do Americans always clap after discovering new Antarctican deep-sea lifeforms?

That's our secret. We're ALWAYS clapping.

 

[Rad-]

It would need to have an impossibly strong exoskeleton to withstand the immense pressure at the center of the Earth.

How about jelly like creatures

 

[WoodWERD]

So they found fish in the ocean huh? Keep up the great work, science!

Spoiler

jokes

 

[Succinct Verbosity]

I always liked that rod conspiracy... That there are creatures that live in our upper atmosphere. I mean, don;t see why they couldn't?

 

[Mistake]

That's our secret. We're ALWAYS clapping.

(clap) (clap) (clap) (clap)

Really cool stuff. That bacteria article is also interesting, thanks Machine.

 

[triplestation]

So they found fish in the ocean huh? Keep up the great work, science!

Spoiler

jokes

lol

 

[Deleted member 80556]

So this is in preparation for a Europa mision? Holy crap, man.

 

[terrisus]

PlentyOfFish saw that article about the scientists meeting on Tinder, and wanted a piece of the action.

 

[cirrhosis]

Would be neat if it was a surviving ammonite or trilobite. But cool, I'll settle for a fish.

 

[terrisus]

Let me quote one of my favorite documentaries ever (Encounter at the End of the World) -

Werner Herzog: Do you think that the human race and other mammals fled in panic from the oceans and crawled on solid land to get out of this?
Some Scientist dude: Yeah, I think undoubtedly that's exactly the driving force that caused us to leave the horrors behind.​

 

[BennyBlanco]

What I really want to see some creature eat the robot

 

[Plywood]

There's that shark attack one a few years back.

I like the sudden realization "I can't eat this"

 

[Odah]

"GUYS, WE JUST DISCOVERED LIFE ON EARTH"

 

[AlexBasch]

Let me quote one of my favorite documentaries ever (Encounter at the End of the World) -

Werner Herzog: Do you think that the human race and other mammals fled in panic from the oceans and crawled on solid land to get out of this?
Some Scientist dude: Yeah, I think undoubtedly that's exactly the driving force that caused us to leave the horrors behind.​

Probably because they didn't have knives in Siberia.

 

[terrisus]

"GUYS, WE JUST DISCOVERED LIFE ON EARTH"

Sadly, though, still no signs of intelligent life.

 

[Corronchilejano]

why doesn't that last 10m of sea just freeze?

Spoiler

With enough pressure, water just stops giving a fuck.

 

[Nikodemos]

I like the sudden realization "I can't eat this"

"Ptooi! Damn that tasted nasty. Chipped a tooth in the fucking thing as well."

 

[Epsilon-delta]

"Ptooi! Damn that tasted nasty. Chipped a tooth in the fucking thing as well."

It's good thing that sharks have a conveyor belt of teeth just waiting to replace any broken or missing ones.

 

[Charles Foster Kane]

Pretty awesome stuff. Cute too.

Let me quote one of my favorite documentaries ever (Encounter at the End of the World) -

Werner Herzog: Do you think that the human race and other mammals fled in panic from the oceans and crawled on solid land to get out of this?
Some Scientist dude: Yeah, I think undoubtedly that's exactly the driving force that caused us to leave the horrors behind.​

*adds to queue

 

[jond76]

Cool! Another chance for me to plug Europa Report! Watch this movie, folks!

Cool discovery.

 

[Dot-N-Run]

Can't wait until these fish are being sold for ludicrously expensive prices at high-end restaurants.

 

[Pyrokai]

omfg

 

[happypup]

omfg

For reference that is a smallish goblin shark biting at the chain mail covered arm of a diver.

 

[ArchedThunder]

There's that shark attack one a few years back.

Imagine if we send a robot to Europa and this happens with some alien fish and that was our first encounter with alien life.
I would jizz so many buckets.

 

[Frodo]

Imagine if we send a robot to Europa and this happens with some alien fish and that was our first encounter with alien life.
I would jizz so many buckets.

Now, imagine if we send a robot to Europa and this happens with a shark exactly like the one on the gif and that was our first encounter with alien life.

 

[studyguy]

nom

 

[ArchedThunder]

Now, imagine if we send a robot to Europa and this happens with a shark exactly like the one on the gif and that was our first encounter with alien life.

That would be both incredibly amazing and incredibly depressing at the same time..

 

[Zomba13]

Now, imagine if we send a robot to Europa and this happens with a shark exactly like the one on the gif and that was our first encounter with alien life.

I don't know what would be crazier, finding a fish like thing unlike anything on Earth or finding a fish like thing exactly like on Earth.

 

[shadyspace]

I don't know what would be crazier, finding a fish like thing unlike anything on Earth or finding a fish like thing exactly like on Earth.

Definitely the latter.

 

[happypup]

Now, imagine if we send a robot to Europa and this happens with a shark exactly like the one on the gif and that was our first encounter with alien life.

That would be a very exciting discovery indeed. Finding life on Europa would be incredible no matter the form, but finding a shark, exactly like the ones in our own ocean, would shake the very foundation of our understanding of biology.

We would have to seriously question all of our current theories of life.

The most unlikely possibilities being correct are easily the most exciting things to discover.

 

[Not]

This makes me hopeful that life outside of Earth, while very probable, might be more frequent than we think.

This was my thought. I doubt they're as advanced as we are though. Either that or FTL travel is impossible, or 'cause space is really big, or both.

I mean, it's cool that harsh conditions don't hamper life in this situation

 

[slit]

Life on Eurpoa becomes more and more of a possibility everyday.

 

[slit]

I don't know what would be crazier, finding a fish like thing unlike anything on Earth or finding a fish like thing exactly like on Earth.

Unlikely, if there is a huge monster under there, it probably looks like something that will boggle our minds.

 

[smokeandmirrors]

So we should be sending a drilling robot to Europa like fuckin yesterday damnit.

 

[The Shogun]

This is incredible!

However, am I the only one who feels depressed for the fish? Must be an awful life down there.

 

[Baraka in the White House]

There's that shark attack one a few years back.

"Shit, hope none of my bros saw this."

 

[MiszMasz]

This is incredible!

However, am I the only one who feels depressed for the fish? Must be an awful life down there.

I dunno, I like my peace and quiet. And I always feel too warm.

 

[cirrhosis]

However, am I the only one who feels depressed for the fish? Must be an awful life down there.

Yeah, because the fish knows it's missing out on loads of sweet vidya.

 

[cajunator]

Im not surprised by this, or even if we find life in even more inhospitable places.
Life finds ways to adapt.

 

[yamaneko]

Blind Fish Now..

 

[UnluckyKate]

next stop, Europa :

Hot oceans (heated by volcanoes) under thick ice. If we found fish under our ice in this cold water, we'll find extra terrestrial life form under Europa's ice

 

[Lovely Salsa]

next stop, Europa :

Hot ocean (heated by volcanoes) under thick ice. If we found fish under our ice in this cold water, we'll find extra terrestrial life form under Europa's ice

What would happen if we found fish there that look not much different than on earth?

 

[UnluckyKate]

What would happen if we found fish there that look not much different than on earth?

We would assume life was spread on both by a common factor. Comet for example. Will need to study both creature genome to see if there are common things. Maybe even small. If not comet, perhaps we can trace it to our solar system formation.

 

[happypup]

What would happen if we found fish there that look not much different than on earth?

I would not be all that surprised if the 'fish' discovered on Europa looked similar to our own fish. Convergent evolution is a powerful and common expression of natural selection. Now a deeper look should reveal very different origins for the similar features, but 'eyes,' 'noses,' 'jaws' and a cylindrical serially homologous body plan would not be all that surprising.

 

[gutshot]

next stop, Europa :

Hot oceans (heated by volcanoes) under thick ice. If we found fish under our ice in this cold water, we'll find extra terrestrial life form under Europa's ice

Actually, Europa isn't believed to be volcanic. The ocean is likely warmed by tidal flexing.

 

[beast786]

why does th fish have eyes?

 

[Zarovitch]

why does th fish have eyes?

It's a good question.Maybe those fish are trap there but have not evolve there.

edit: That would be so good to find live on Europa. Even bacteria could be cool, imagine fish. Miam!

 

[DiscoShark]

What would happen if we found fish there that look not much different than on earth?

Wouldn't be an entirely surprising thing, look up convergent evolution and the similarity in the eye structure between squid eyes and human eyes. Evolution on this planet has often found similar solutions to the same basic problems on Earth. Granted, sea life on Earth is incredibly diverse as well so it wouldn't be too surprising if aquatic life on another planet looked like SOMETHING we had on Earth.