Underwater Life
Last night I watched an episode from TEDTalks about deep oceans, and I wonder, why those animals can live in the deepest ocean, for thousands of years, survived. The deep oceans always fascinate me. Every time I see it on TV or somewhere else, I got this excitement. It's not highly explored compared to the surface, and not so many shows on TV (e.g Animal Planet mostly shows.
I think giant squids, big jellyfishes, and other weird-shaped creatures that looks like alien from another planet are great. They could live deep underwater, in a cold and high-pressure environment, and light-less. The only light is the one that you bring. Some creatures even emit their own lights, but I don't think they really see things the way we see. You could say that they live without the sun (directly, but I think they need the sun indirectly). Deep down there, earthquakes and other phenomenon that usually considered as natural disasters happen regularly. But they live.
They live together mutually, in balance. A small shrimp eats from a crab's back, and the crab eats from an underwater-animal-that-looks-like-a-plant, which has no digestive system and eats bacteria, which come from earthquake, which happens regularly. And I imagine that a giant squid comes and wipe out all that small animals, and another bigger squid or fish eat that giant squid.
I wonder, what stops humans to live underwater like that. Maybe one day, when the surfaces are heavily polluted, people will start to look for a new place to live, in outer space or deep underwater (or both, underwater in another planet). Don't say it's impossible, because nothing is.
*pictures taken from google images*
