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The Pacific Ocean Sprung A Spring
About 50 miles off the Oregon coast, water is shooting into the Pacific Ocean from the floor
What a time to be alive, amiright? I mean, if you want to write a novel but lack inspiration, all you need to do is read through the headlines from the last few years. Most of which seem more fictitious than real life — global pandemics, global warming, not to mention the ongoing saga of mainstream politics and culture wars. But my favorite subject of our bizarre times is Science.
Maybe it’s just me, but it appears that, for some reason, everything is falling into some sort of alignment, inspiring spontaneous breakthroughs and lucky discoveries that are reshaping everything we thought we knew about, well, everything. For instance, a few years ago, a grad student randomly glanced at a boat’s sonar and spotted something experts had never seen — a spring on the ocean floor.
The Surprise Discovery — Pythia’s Oasis
Back in 2014, Brendan Philp — a Washington University grad student at the time and now a White House policy advisor — was waiting out a weather delay on a boat with other scientists while embarking on a different oceanic mission when he happened to notice some unexpected bubbles nearly a mile under the ocean’s surface on the…
