Jupiter Shrimps?

[bogeyman]

"Shrimp have taken over one of the most inhospitable places on Earth — at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea. Down there, the environment is so extreme that scientists think it could resemble conditions on Jupiter's watery moon, Europa.

This begs the question: Do alien shrimp exist?"


http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/these-weird-animals-make-scientists-think-that-life-could-thrive-on-one-of-jupiters-moons/ar-AA9hjmN?ocid=mailsignoutmd

Life can exist in all sorts of extreme conditions so why not on Jupiter or Mars?

[LivioRazlo]

If they exist, I'm certain they are just as tasty as their predecessors. :p

[sirdipswitch]

They probly went down there to get away from all that junk BP sprayed into the Gulf of Mexico!!!:wizard:

[Axman]

Amen brother I am sure outer space is filled with things we have no clue about. Well someone might but not us at this point

The Axman


"Shrimp have taken over one of the most inhospitable places on Earth — at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea. Down there, the environment is so extreme that scientists think it could resemble conditions on Jupiter's watery moon, Europa.

This begs the question: Do alien shrimp exist?"


http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/these-weird-animals-make-scientists-think-that-life-could-thrive-on-one-of-jupiters-moons/ar-AA9hjmN?ocid=mailsignoutmd

Life can exist in all sorts of extreme conditions so why not on Jupiter or Mars?

[Kryztian]

2nd question. Is there cocktail sauce on Jupiter or Mars?

[shadowstalker]

they are called extremophiles
ex·tre·mo·phile (ĭk-strē′mə-fīl′)
n.
Any of various organisms that require extreme conditions of temperature, pressure, or chemical concentration, as in very cold or salty environments, in order to thrive.

[WhiteFeather]

Unexpected Life Found In The Ocean's Deepest Trench.
Talk about Aliens and ET. They got nothin on these sea creatures.
No light, no oxygen and living in an unbelievable pressures miles beneath the ocean.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p0_09wPRXo


The Mariana Trench cuts a 1,500-mile incision in the bottom of the Pacific Ocean near the island of Guam. That's where an international team of scientists has just spent over a month sending probes down to the deepest place on Earth.

The scientists were stunned by the amount of life they found there, including a fish species inhabiting the deepest depths.

The bottom of the trench lies 7 miles below the ocean's surface. It's a place of perpetual darkness and freezing cold. To explore it, scientists aboard the research vessel Falkor dropped "landers" over the side. Each one is about the size of a large refrigerator and bristles with instruments and cameras.

The Falkor on Aug. 28, 2013.i
The Falkor on Aug. 28, 2013.
Schmidt Ocean Institute/Mark Schrope
The landers use thick glass spheres full of air to provide buoyancy that controls their up and down movement. The spheres have to withstand pressures that would crush a human like a tin can.

"If they crack, they implode in a microsecond," says biologist Jeff Drazen of the University of Hawaii, who is a senior scientist on the team. "And that sets off a shock wave like a stick of dynamite going off."

And that's just what happened to one lander. The sphere's implosion was recorded by its microphone, and in those cold depths, the sound kept echoing along the trench. But the lander itself survived, as did all but one of the others.

Once on the bottom, they waited and watched. And they got some big surprises. "We saw the deepest living fish ever recorded," says Drazen. "Definitely something new. We took one look at the thing and were amazed — big, wide, winglike fins, this eel-like tail and this scalloped face. It was very unique." They nicknamed it the "ghost fish" for its almost translucent skin. It appears to be a new species of snailfish — living 5 miles below the surface.

The landers also carried baited traps that drew fish to be videotaped. What the fish didn't eat was consumed by hordes of shrimplike amphipods. Other traps actually caught animals, including another new species of snailfish. Several were brought back up to the ship, though they didn't survive the decompression.

The reason the fish can withstand pressure that's thousands of times that at the surface is because of a special chemical in their bodies. Called trimethylamine oxide, it keeps the cell walls of the fish and amphipods flexible so they don't get crushed or infiltrated with saltwater.

More here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/12/25/372894314/unexpected-life-found-in-the-oceans-deepest-trench


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRm8wr08xsU


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCv5SlSV_00

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

they are called extremophiles
ex·tre·mo·phile (ĭk-strē′mə-fīl′)
n.
Any of various organisms that require extreme conditions of temperature, pressure, or chemical concentration, as in very cold or salty environments, in order to thrive.

Teehee,

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pVCiTA86umk/Sx5Uan9tpGI/AAAAAAAACY8/qbXdK8gtmeU/s400/09+segar005+copy.jpg

edit: for the life of me, i can't seem to find a clip of Popeye saying "jumpin jupiter" anywhere lol

[Snoweagle]

If they exist, I'm certain they are just as tasty as their predecessors. :p

Why is it that mankind has to consider any other living moving thing as something to eat?

Am so glad there wasn't any life found on the Moon as if there had we would have shuttles back and forth. lol

I think the surviving shrimp moved deeper to escape us. lol