Studying species in the deepest parts of the ocean: A new method of analysis

A better video of the worms: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=qbzd71Rwx0g" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=qbzd71Rwx0g</a>

These little guys have no conception of light, the sea floor, or the existence of a surface. Any aliens we could cross paths with are probably more relatable.

Very exciting technique.<p>Prone to artifacts, but smart idea to solve a very old problem with gelatinous animals. really difficult to preserve because they burst at surface. Also very good to turn information to digital, so it can be sent long-distances. This technique will prove to be very useful when we explore Europa under the ice, for sure<p>Is not only about tomopterids, the deep sea siphonophora are incredible. Some have a few floaters shaped like space ships but made of gelatin. Other are a &#x27;culthuesque&#x27; ball with tentacles. Avoiding us to touch the animals is a plus (the group is known to make very strong venoms and deep sea will have a lot that we still didn&#x27;t know).

This is awesome, but this phrasing is FN brutal - This is what it feels like to be abducted, I would imagine:<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>&quot;beach ball-sized chamber so that an animal is simultaneously contained and yet swimming freely in an environment nearly identical to its natural home.</i><p>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>..The RAD-2 contains a device that collects and pulverizes tissue samples from the organisms and sucks these samples through a hole where the samples are hit with preservative and deposited on one of 14 filters for later analysis.&quot;</i><p>-<p>The interesting thing is that if it uses the antennae to detect ammonia and other chemicals as signatures of its food, a few questions would be;<p>Could we use the same sensor types as these gossamer and other sea creatures to develop a better life-detecting signature for chemical indicator mixtures of what we may find in atmospheres?<p>Can these things have a fully 3D spherical awareness of their environments so they know where the food is based on the flows of the trace chemicals it smells - its it following the thread of a scent to the food?

If anyone finds this an interesting idea, you should try blackwater diving. It’s one of my favorite things to do it’s absolutely like being an outer space finding weird aliens. You don’t have to dive very deep and it’s super easy to pay attention to the light so you don’t get lost.