{"id":7714,"date":"2016-09-09T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T07:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7714"},"modified":"2016-09-01T14:01:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T21:01:06","slug":"aliens-underneath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/09\/aliens-underneath\/","title":{"rendered":"Aliens Underneath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23130860-500-alien-oceans-searching-for-life-in-the-solar-systems-secret-seas\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from New Scientist<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Ocean worlds: The search for life in the solar system\u2019s other seas<\/h1>\n<p><b>Our best chance to find alien life lies in the vast oceans inside the icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter \u2013 and we don\u2019t have to leave Earth to start looking<\/b><\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0<span class=\"author\">Joshua Sokol<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d1o50x50snmhul.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/10110000\/oceanworlds_main-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"OceanWorlds_MAIN\" width=\"480\" \/><em>Valerii Ilnitskii<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SUDDENLY, out of darkness, a ghostly city of gnarled white towers looms over the submersible. As the sub approaches to scrape a sample from them, crew-member Kevin Hand spots something otherworldly: a translucent, spaceship-like creature, its iridescent cilia pulsing gently as it passes through the rover\u2019s headlights.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a dispatch from an alien world, but it could be.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/science.jpl.nasa.gov\/people\/Hand\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hand<\/a>\u00a0is a planetary scientist at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, and one of a select few to have visited the carbonate chimneys of the Lost City at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the site of an extraordinary ecosystem \u2013 one that Hand suspects might be replicated on icy moons orbiting distant gas giants. \u201cIn my head, I was saying to myself: this is what it might look like,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23130860-500-alien-oceans-searching-for-life-in-the-solar-systems-secret-seas\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at New Scientist<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from New Scientist Ocean worlds: The search for life in the solar system\u2019s other seas Our best chance to find alien life lies in the vast oceans inside the icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter \u2013 and we don\u2019t have to leave Earth to start looking By\u00a0Joshua Sokol Valerii Ilnitskii SUDDENLY, out of darkness, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}