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to think that some people called the new godzilla movies dumb…
by zzzbra 5y ago
to think that some people called the new godzilla movies dumb…
- gus_massa 5y agoThe idea is that the radioactivity produces Hydrogen and Sulfate, and some bacteria (or achaea?) can "burn" the Hydrogen extracting an Oxygen from the Sulfate. So no Godzilla down there.
- eloff 5y agoUnless there are little animals eating the bacteria, and bigger animals eating them, etc. I mean it's preposterous, but not impossible if for some reason the rock was porous enough. Maybe inside a small moon or asteroid.
- arcticbull 5y agoThere are also radiotrophic fungi found in Chernobyl like Cryptococcus neoformans. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus
- gus_massa 5y agoI'd like to say "nah", but there is a weird case: "The bizarre beasts living in Romania's poison cave" http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150904-the-bizarre-beasts-living-in-romanias-poison-cave http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150904-the-bizarre-beasts-l... (HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11682816 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11682816 889 points | May 12, 2016 | 163 comments) Anyway, in this cave there are snails, shrimps, insects and spiders, but not vertebrates.
- undersuit 5y agoThe larger animals could eat the rocks and specialized cells lining the stomach would be responsible for converting the energy released from the hydrogen sulfide reactions into an energy pathway like our ATP.
- ekianjo 5y agoYou can't have animals with bones when carbon is naturally lacking, which is exactly what the article says: such areas don't have much carbon in the first place.
- eloff 5y agoWouldn't you need calcium for bones? Or both? Anyway there are plenty of animals that don't have bones - and there's no reason to assume our chemical kind of bones are the only kind possible. You could maybe have iron bones evolve on some worlds - I don't know of anything that would prohibit that.
- baron816 5y agoHollow Earth Theory
- generalizations 5y ago*Pourous Earth Theory