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Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 week ago (7 children)

When a whale dies and its corpse falls to the bottom of the ocean, entire ecosystems rapidly develop around eating every part of it due to how scarce resources are in the deep ocean. This phenomenon is called a "whale fall" and it's a major source of energy for deep ocean ecosystems.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Sometimes I wonder if a shipping container full of billionaires would have a similar effect.

[–] lagoon8622 6 points 1 week ago

We have to find out. We need to try it immediately to see what happens. That's just basic science

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