A 5.3M-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone
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Documentaries showing footages of ecosystems forming around Whale carcasses at the bottom of the oceans are fascinating.
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Hadoop was famously one of those ecosystems. So many minivans and houses bought because of that shitty codebase.
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There's a team who live-stream their dives with a deep-sea ROV, and being along for the ride when they discovered a whale fall in 2019 will always be something I remember very fondly.
They returned in 2020 to document the changes to the carcass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvSNgwIqvrM
The falls in this article though seem so different due to their depth and age, and especially surprising to me is the sedimentation rate in that area, ~less than half a centimeter per 1000 years. I always imagine ocean sedimentation to be substantial and uniform, but it makes sense that currents and local ecology would play a huge role.
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I wonder if whales concept of heaven is down somewhere down, Instead of up.
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This is perhaps the most "metal concept album"-ready Nature article title I have seen. My Nature+ subscription is paying the bills this month, for sure.
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That's probably the best paper title I've read this year. My paper titles are always so boring and just a summary. Have to improve on that.
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Looks like a distribution of dust bunnies in the corners of my room and near the stairs.
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This reminds me a little bit of the claim that if a human body were to die in a spaceship there would be life living in its remnants essentially indefinitely
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