love when there's an article about how life is sustainable in the superheated waters surrounding a hydrothermal volcanic fissure on the ocean floor and then like six paragraphs in you find out the author's parents are chemosynthetic bacteria 🙄

February 21, 2026 - 07:51 UTC

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You need to have a connection in one of those places if you want people to talk to you, hyrothermal fissures are really cliquey and stuck up.
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lol another doctorow post nice
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Another Guardian columnist who just assumes everyone’s family could spend summers in the hadal zone…
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it's surprising the author didn't find it inhospitable to even short visits. Economic indicator.
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Are you... venting? If so, you're playing right into the cillia of Big Sulfide.
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the reveal that they were "gifted" a giant tube worm trophosome to live in... it never fails
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tired of all these bentho babies in the media
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Don't we all have ancestors who lived around the vents?
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Yeah, then you hit middle age and the spreading zones start to dominate your life.
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All you Krebs Cycle guys are just jealous
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this post is art
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