It wrinkles my brain that Jupiter’s moon Europa has oceans that are sixty miles deep, while Earth’s oceans only reach seven miles deep at most. I’m willing to bet good money that there’s life in Europa’s oceans. Like five bucks. You hear me, NASA? I bet you five bucks that there’s life on Europa… Now that there’s money and reputation on the line, I bet they send a mission there real quick.

I have no idea when this was originally posted, but NASA is working on their Europa mission RIGHT NOW to look for alien life! But get this, they theorize that because of the depth, gravity, and composition of the oceans, any organisms that lived there would be waaay bigger than aquatic life on Earth. So far everything’s going well with regards to their Europa mission so they should have a spacecraft on its way to look for giant sea monsters in space in only a few years. (The planned date is in the early 2020s.)

Looks like my negotiations worked. You’re welcome, humanity.

I’ve never been gripped with such cold terror and pure delight in my LIFE

explaining to an 18th century sailor that we’re looking for sea monsters in space. 

The launch date for the Europa Clipper is October 2024.

Please let there be sea monsters in space Please let there be sea monsters in space Please let there be sea monsters in space Please let there be sea monsters in space Please let there be sea monsters in space Please let there be sea monsters in space 

ITS THIS THING TUESDAY

Just so y'all know, it's a Melibe viridis

Sea slug/nudibranch.

Thanks, assporn!

Ch🤒

Monaco's actual sea wall

when it comes to hubris italians are running the game

Look! Seahorses!

@cat-with-no-name ur so fucking right

Wait, beneath the sea floor?

OUGHGH??

OIUOHGHHVOIH!!!!!

Look below the sea floor and you may find a little dude and friend

Ooo fun! Basically flipping over rocks to look for isopods, but thousands of feet underwater

Monaco's actual sea wall

People who think this planet was created for humans to be ours are so wild to me

70% of the planets surface is undrinkable uninhabitable death water that sharks love. How is that a human-centric design.

the earth was created for various types of crabs

Under sea ecosystems are bullshit.

Like imagine you're a little rabbit and you go to nibble on a tree sapling but as soon as you go to take a bite it takes off like a fucking helicopter and disappears over the horizon.

Then, before you can process what just happened, the entire patch of grass you were standing on turns out to be a fox who had turned itself inside out and you die.

are you okay do you need to talk about it

Look I'm just saying I'm glad I exist in a place and scale where the main form of getting dead is just something trying to make your blood fall out.

I couldn't handle being a crab. I would register a formal complaint but crabs can't write.

Jim Musil on Instagram

i promise: however big you think this wave will be, it is bigger

That wasn’t a joke. I aimed my estimate high and then added some.

The wave was bigger.

I like to imagine that, thousands of years ago, humans still stood a (reasonably) safe distance from the ocean during weather like this to watch the waves, hooting and cheering when the spray came closer than expected and left them drenched

FUCK aliens ! we got these crazy shits under da sea and we’re not payin any attention!!!

YES

“the colony can regenerate injured parts or continue growing after being broken apart. Unless all individual clones are killed at the same time, a colony can theoretically live forever”

This thing is fucking mythical

yeehaw

ain’t that the giant Alaskan bull worm spongebob warned us about

As someone that has grown up surrounded by beaches and done surf life saving, I know how the sea works. Lots of people dont. Every summer multiple tourists die here because they don’t respect the sea, if you’re going to the coast, here’s a thing I saw on Facebook.

wow.

reblogging for all of us that grew up in land locked states, then visit the ocean and are used to just plunging into a lake.

Wow.

We call this planet “Earth”. That’s not entirely accurate…

Hey if u like the ocean look at this its rly cool I think

as someone who was already scared of the ocean uhhhhhh