Dark Oxygen
Oxygen has been believed to be the product of life itself, created through photosynthesis by plants such as plants and algae. A recent discovery show that nature has devised a way to produce oxygen without the involvement of plants.
“Twelve thousand feet under the ocean surface is a world of eternal midnight. No sunlight can penetrate to this depth to promote photosynthesis, so no plants are producing oxygen there. Yet, the life-supporting gas is abundant in this darkness-cloaked region, thanks to an unlikely oxygen factory: potato-sized, “battery rocks” on the seafloor.”
The polymetallic nodules seemed to be generating oxygen, electrochemically. The evidence had been there all along, but was ignored because it was believed to be impossible.
The oxygen producing, naturally occurring “rock-batteries” have scientists rethinking the theories of life’s evolutionary trajectory.
It’s time to re-ask the question…
Where and when did life actually begin on earth?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-discover-dark-oxygen-on-the-ocean-floor-generated-surprisingly-by-lumps-of-metal-180984778/