What's all this fuss about life from the Dead Sea being found in the Gulf of Mexico?
Posted on 12/06/2010 3:55:43 PM PST by chessplayer
A mile below the surface in the Gulf of Mexico, there is little sign of life.
"It looks like everything's dead," University of Georgia professor Samantha Joye said.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
What’s the norm for life 5,000 feet below the surface? So far the article says it’s a dead zone but what should be there?
IBTZ
Why would this get the zot?
OK, that’s it. Wrap it up here. No more cars, bicycles for everyone! Got it? Ok, let’s move on!
Not much.
BearManPig Algore and all the enviromentablists.
Thought it was “nothing to see here, move along”...
You mean, millions of barrels of oil spilling into waters we fish in is a bad thing?
duh
That’s what happens when things die, they fall down down down and the bottom dwellers feed on them.
Shame....all that wasted oil!
You don’t like bad news?
Change your tagline then.
Damned cleaver of BP getting that oil to sink in water.
The second zone is the mesopelagic (meaning middle sea). It is often called the twilight zone because, while its upper regions where it meets the epipelagic zone are still quite light during the day, its lower boundary at about 1,000m is perpetually dark because none of the Sun's rays can penetrate this far. Many of the animals in this strange twilight world produce their own light, bioluminescence (living light), which they use as camouflage or to find, or attract, potential food or mates. The mesopelagic zone impinges on the sea floor on the outer parts of the continental shelves and the upper part of the continental slopes. In the deep sea proper the mesopelagic zone overlies the vast, dark waters of the last great depth zone.The third zone receives no sunlight at all, so it is always absolutely dark apart from the occasional flashes of ghostly blue light produced by bioluminescent animals. It is rather arbitrarily divided by ocean scientists into the bathypelagic (deep sea), which extends down to about 3,000m, the abyssopelagic (bottomless sea) from 3,000 to 6,000m, and the hadal (unseen) for the ocean trenches. But these zones can all be grouped together into the abyss.
“Damned cleaver of BP getting that oil to sink in water”
Evil capitalist plot. By making the oil sink in water, they can cleverly hide it.
Like taking a piss in the pool....
If this had happened under Bush and a GOP Congress, we would still be hearing from the MSM about their incompetence.
What's this stuff, Covert Oil?
And, what's usually cookin' a mile deep in the Gulf? Is this "Dead Sea Life" unusual? The lyin' libs would have us believe that the floor of the Gulf usually looks like New York City at noon, but now EVERYTHING-YES EVERYTHING is dead and gone.
Me, I ain't buying this Bullchit anymore that I'm buying their GW crap.
Is ABC News violating the blackout on any news that could make Obama look bad?
Maybe they're afraid of you and are faking it Sam. Any pictures to verify?
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