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This is both exciting and somewhat disappointing. It sounds like the water is so deep that it's probably solid ice (due to the intense pressure) before you get
by klyrs 4y ago
This is both exciting and somewhat disappointing. It sounds like the water is so deep that it's probably solid ice (due to the intense pressure) before you get to a rocky core. Life on earth needs nutrients extracted from the rocks. If life formed on this planet, any non-buoyant corpse would sink to the bottom and disappear forever. That is to say, it would almost certainly die out very quickly from lack of nutrition.
- gus_massa 4y agoA lot of minerals dissolve in water. Without oxygen in the air (like here, before those nasty cyanobacteria released a lot of oxygen) you can get also iron salts disolved in the oceans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event#Geological_evidence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event#Geologic... Also, if there are volcanos, they will create plumes dirty of hot water with a lot of disolved things. Something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrothermal_vent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrothermal_vent And you may even have some floating islands made of pumice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumice_raft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumice_raft
- ProjectArcturis 4y agoYou might have tiny pockets of life around undersea volcanic vents.