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Swiss Alps Hide a Lethal Lake Layer: A Poisonous Sulphuric Layer Home Of Alien Bacteria (www.arktrek.shop)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Nice article, but that headline is so misleading, I'm not inclined to upvote it.

tl;dr: Microorganisms used to live without oxygen. Some organisms started sprewing oxygen. Oxygen killed off most of these oxygen-free microorganisms. Life evolved and adapted. There's this lake in which the bottom layer is oxygen-less and oxygen-free microorganisms exist there. Scientists are doing a bunch of studies of this ecosystem.

I wouldn't call those organisms "alien." They were first in this planet!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And lethal...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I mean, sure. We'd deserve it for striking first.

Edit: I misunderstood your comment. I see it now :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

My bad. I meant the "lethal" in the title. Title makes it sound as if a deadly pandemic happens if that lake thaws.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Oh hehe, apologies.

And I know, right?!! So click-baity.