Thalassaphobia is a real thing
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When a whale dies and its corpse falls to the bottom of the ocean, entire ecosystems rapidly develop around eating every part of it due to how scarce resources are in the deep ocean. This phenomenon is called a "whale fall" and it's a major source of energy for deep ocean ecosystems.
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fun fact: we kill 3 TRILLION animals a year, most of which are sea animals.
fun fact: animals, exluding humans, kill about 1 MILLION of us humans a year, most of which are not sea animals.
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what if we finally get to the moon and thereβs another ocean there waiting for us
Liquid cheese? Oceans of Cheese Whiz?
I would give everything to experience this.
you are in luck we have the answer: https://youtu.be/aIIBBj6KR-Y
Maybe it'll be fun enough that we'll simply forget to explore it's depths YAY
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There are lakes in the ocean called brine lakes/pools. Brine is essentially concentrated saltwater; its high salinity means it's denser than water. On rare occasions, brine doesn't mix enough with the existing saltwater around it, sinking to the bottom of the ocean and forming these lakes. The lake itself is usually devoid of life; brine itself is so salty that animals go into toxic shock if exposed for too long. However, the edges usually are full of life, where usually things like mussels and other extremophile organisms thrive.
Side note, subnautica's lost river is based off of this. No big leviathans in real life though, at least none observed yet...
Video for fun: https://youtu.be/ZwuVpNYrKPY
I have thalassophobia, im from a beach country and im like βnah Iβll stick to the poolβ
Fuck no. You canβt Breathe underwater. The ocean is essentially space but with actual monsters in it. And if you canβt see the bottom, fuck no Iβm not going in there
It's easier to survive in the space as in the deep sea, aspaceship only has to support 1 atm pressure of the cabine. in the deep sea the pressure increase 1 atm every 10 meters until more than 1000 atm on the ground. A leak in the spaceship is bad, but in the deep sea you're dead before you can say fu....
The ocean is a desert with its life underground and the perfect disguise above.
Global warming has a slower effect on the oceans than in air temperatures, yet we've passed a tipping point where many sea regions are consistently 3C warmer than pre-industrial era, and they are helping air temperatures set records too. Even since 2016, summer tropical North Atlantic ocean has been over 2C warmer than 2016. This region is also called "hurricane alley", and ocean heat has an exponential effect on hurricane strength.
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isn't space just like, an inverse ocean?
hits blunt
Greenland sharks are pretty amazing
They can grow up to 24 feet putting them at the same giant scale as great whites and basking sharks, but most are usually closer to 5 meters long
They can live for hundreds of years due to extremely slow metabolism and ambush feeding, some individuals found around 400 years old are as old as the Jamestown colony, Don Quixote, and the discovery of logarithms.
They are opportunistic feeders and have been found with polar bear and reindeer in their digestive systems, and can pull/vacuum in water to catch their primary prey of fish, eels, and other sharks.
Be me
young shark, ready to make my mark on the world
Find a book falling from the sky called Don Quixote
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Ignore humans for a few hundred years, eat some fish instead
Find out it's become a core component of their identity and everyone knows about it
Even had a ballet about it
wtf
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Back to the horrors of the deep...
They also commonly have eye parasites that severely impairs their vision or blinds them called Ommatokoita elongata.
So they get to live long with multiple generations of parasites stuck in their eyes they can't get out.
24 feet ~ 7.3m
5m ~ 16β5β
...i was going to say 16 β feet based on 1 Β½ meters being about 5 feet, pretty close...
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Andrew wouldn't like Solaris me thinks
Is that a StanisΕaw Lem reference in the wild? Will wonders never cease...
One of many things to love about lemmy.
It's not about not knowing about the sea. It's about the sea not knowing about us.
I don't want periphylla periphylla to know where I live.
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It's almost entirely located on land.