Living in the Underground

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

So a form of asexual reproduction?

[willow (they/her or yours are was/were)]

mhm, mainly since the only form of reproduction that either of our species’ have otherwise only happens as a result of damage, which is very not optimal

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Also I do hope we have a good level of oxygen tolerance with our critters…

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

So basically like planulocysts that just instantly become polyps istead of ever being planulas?

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Will we learn about the continents of the planet once the glaciers come off it’s face?

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

Thinking of a supercontinent when the ice melts…

[willow (they/her or yours are was/were)]

if we don’t, we can always make our membranes so thicc barely any oxygen can pass through(what cyanobacteria did), or evolve a cell wall oxygen can’t pass through(probably a really bad idea for anything that isn’t exclusively an autotroph) or become huge to minimize oxygen exchange with the environment

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Why wouldn’t we be able to increase our oxygen tolerance?

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

Well, since the crust cracks barely have oxygen, they don’t have much oxygen tolerance.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

But will they be able to increase the tolerance?
And will we have to make our critters tolerant to smaller pressures before heading to the surface?

[willow (they/her or yours are was/were)]

if you don’t have any oxygen inhibited processes, you could, but otherwise, you’d at least want some cells oxygen can’t get into

@aah31415

And will we have to make our critters tolerant to smaller pressures before heading to the surface?

that tends to only apply to macroscopic creatures(or at least creatures bigger than a tardigrade), unless it’s a hydrothermal vent adapted eukaryote heading to the surface, but then you have much more to worry about

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

Yes, tolerance can be increased, as long as there are no oxygen inhibited processes. Oh yeah, and pressure adaptation.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

And some desiccation adaptations will be needed for life out of the water I presume.

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

Yes, as well as temperature adaptations for going into the cold oceans.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Shouldn’t be already be in a rather cold water?

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

No, the crust cracks are warm due to geothermal heat.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I see. Still shouldn’t there be colder zones near the ice?

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

Yes, the lower crust cracks are around hydrothermal vent heat, while the upper is around room temperature.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

And all our critters currently live near the vents?

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

They currently live somewhere in the middle.