eidolon @shaderphantom@awoo.space

What they discovered in that cave was this. Giant Crystal Cave, or the Cave of the Crystals. Some of the largest crystals ever discovered, bigger than trees, beneath the Chihuahua desert they had been growing in the perfect environment for 500,000 years.

In 1986 some geothermal teams in communist Romania drilled their way into a subterranean world, a world which had been cut off from the rest of the biosphere for 5.5 million years. No food, water, sunlight, or even radioactive particles from the Chernobyl disaster had made it there, these biologist and cavers were the first. It was warm and full of toxic gases, and it had a lake that was absolutely teeming with creatures. This is Movile Cave in Romania.

The cave was filled with 33 unique and endemic species of troglobites, among them were spiders, centipedes, leeches, and many, many isopods. They fed on a thin gooey film of chemosynthetic bacteria on the water and walls, the first known example of a terrestrial chemosynthetic ecosystem.

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@shaderphantom we should make a second big truck and get neil cicierega involved

love too have half the internet stop working because one single service provider fucks up

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