Hey NASA, space is the other way!!

Full writeup by NASA here: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/antarctic-shrimp.html

Also I'd love some HD borehole footage. (Get your minds out of the gutter!) The wall texture looks gorgeous, especially when you can see the shrimp reflecting off of it.

what an ice hole!

Dupe of http://www.videosift.com/video/A-Shrimp-Like-Critter-Where-Nothing-Should-Live ?

Four more and you got a cocktail!

>> ^deathcow:
what an ice hole!


Bastage!

Does anyone consider this a dupe of this video:

http://www.videosift.com/video/A-Shrimp-Like-Critter-Where-Nothing-Should-Live

I think it is, because the only difference is that this one has no narration (and I find the narration helpful). What do the rest of you think?

Yup, it's a dupe. My usual procedure in these cases is to let this one have its run in the Top 15 before invoking dupeof, then the other vid can have the votes. It's just too bad all the comments get lost.

From <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.vg.no/iphone/article.php?<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.vg.no/iphone/article.php?artid=591795">http://www.vg.no/iphone/article.php?artid=591795">VGNett

Translation of the quotes from scientists:

"the only sensational thing about this case is that its presented as a sensation.." , "Jørgen Berge, professor in marine biology at UNIS, Svalbard.

"Norwegian scientists have been studying these animals for 30 years, and the idea that this is news probably stems from old beliefs about how nothing could live under the ice"

"- If they had turned the camera around and looked at the seafloor they would have found a rich community of animals. Even if this drill is done well into the ice(far from the open sea) there are under-ice paths out to the ocean"

I've killed my earlier post (let's call it a retro-active dupe), because the comments here are more informative. Especially the debunking above.

It would also be good to note that these aren't shrimp. They're amphipods; a very diverse group in their own right. Crustaceans, but more closely related to krill.

>> ^grinter:
It would also be good to note that these aren't shrimp. They're amphipods; a very diverse group in their own right. Crustaceans, but more closely related to krill.


So lets pull another krill on the barbe!

WTF is NASA doing boring holes for cocktail?? Thought space outside of our ball was the final frontier....

Europa. Practice.

*water

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