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There is a place on Earth that is so deep, dark, and hostile that we actually know more about the surface of Mars than we do about what’s down there. The Mariana Trench drops nearly seven miles straight down into the Pacific Ocean. If you took Mount Everest and dropped it into the trench, the peak of the mountain would still be covered by over a mile of water. At the very bottom, the water pressure is an absolute mind-blowing 8 tons per square inch. That is mathematically identical to having an elephant standing on your thumb, or trying to hold up fifty Boeing 747 airplanes. The sheer weight of the ocean should crush everything into absolute dust, yet we are discovering bizarre, alien-like creatures thriving down there in the pitch black.

The technological contrast between exploring outer space versus exploring our own oceans is wild. If an aerospace company launches a deep-space satellite from London, the telemetry data routes seamlessly through satellite tracking farms in San Francisco, links with supercomputers in Shanghai, and streams HD footage to a lab in São Paulo in seconds. We can map distant galaxies across the universe with absolute pixel perfection, but the second we drop a robotic camera into the deepest trenches of our own planet, the intense pressure and density completely blocks radio waves and crushes our highest-grade titanium hulls like a soda can.

It gets even more terrifying when you look at what actually lives down there. Because there is absolutely zero sunlight, plants can’t grow, so creatures have to survive on "marine snow"—which is literally just a polite term for the decaying flesh, bones, and feces of dead fish sinking down from the surface. Down here, you find things like the Anglerfish, which uses a glowing lump of bioluminescent bacteria hanging over its head to trick prey into swimming directly into its translucent teeth. Even weirder, scientists recently found single-celled amoebas at the very bottom that are the size of a human hand, meaning life finds a way to mutate into giant proportions just to survive the abyss. Anyway, we've only successfully mapped about 5% of the ocean floor, so there is a very real chance that something massive is sleeping down there completely undetected.

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