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Tom Hark Preston Park said:

This is a fascinating new discovery that might have far-reaching implications

Dark oxygen made by deep sea 'batteries'

The discovery that lumps of metal on the seafloor produce oxygen raises questions over plans to mine the deep ocean.

www.bbc.co.uk

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A mex eyecan said:

well we know that we’ve managed to F up almost everything on the planet that we know about, so why not go right ahead and start to F up the things we don’t know anything about.

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chickens said:

The fact that our first thought upon making this discovery is “let’s dig it all up and f*** the consequences” definitely triggers one of my occasional “I loath the human race and can’t wait for the planet size meteor to hit” episodes.

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raymondo said:

True - the other life on this planet would be far better off without us

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Bedsex said:

Agreed - this is the subject of the book “The World Without Us” by Alan Weisman, which has a series of case studies where humans have suddenly left a particular area, eg DMZ between North and South Korea, certain previously touristic areas of Cyprus and Chernobyl. In all of these areas, the wildlife has thrived once the humans have gone and surprisingly quickly too.

I love this book as it gives me some hope that the planet will recover after we end up killing ourselves off.

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