‘It changes everything! This could revolutionise cellular theory. I have so many questions! How deep is it really? What is in there? And how rare is the site? Could there even be a whole class of “super-vents” that we are yet to discover, or have we stumbled upon a truly exceptional phenomenon? We know almost nothing about sub-abyssal depths, and I’ve been thinking: what if this place is the remains of a truly ancient site? The legacy, perhaps, of an extraordinary cataclysmic impact millions, even billions of years ago? Could we be in contact, essentially, with a location of singular
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