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22 days agoOk, but what about the ecosystems dependent on that chemical energy staying underground?
I firmly believe that a “crustless ice mantle” meets the definition of an ocean.
Ok, but what about the ecosystems dependent on that chemical energy staying underground?
The worm was found a decade before COVID. It’s just being disclosed now.
It’s a thermostat.
I’m coming from a field where supporting software written in the 70s is the norm.
Your argument is horribly short-sighted and wasteful.
Only 16 years old is extremely recent software that ought to be easily maintained in any sane world.
Yes.
These ecosystems are well studied.
This paper from the oil industry opens with the sentence “Methane-oxidizing bacteria (MOB) have long been recognized as an important bioindicator for oil and gas exploration.” We literally look for these ecosystems to know where to extract their food.
This isn’t controversial in the slightest. We are destroying unique ecosystems with every barrel we extract.