Do you think life could exist many miles beneath the surface in cavities?

Question

There could be cavities with the right mixture of gas, water synthesized deep underground, and sufficient heat from plumes or just being at the optimum depth, life extracting the right minerals from certain rock types.
Could it be possible that original life might have originated from such places? Scientists do say we came from hot vents, but could we have come from deeper and migrated upwards? Is there other life deep in the crust that have been evolving longer than life on the surface?

I'm not saying people, stupid, im saying something a bit more than just microbes.
Life exists on the vents at thousands of degress C, so intense heat doesnt prevent life.

Answer 1

I definately do,microorganisms have been found living around super hot vents deep in the ocean bed,so why not deep down in the earths crust?

Answer 2

Actually, the boiling temperature does seem to keep life in check, it's only pressure which keeps things in check. Otherwise given some sort of energy and free chemicals with the availability of some sort of solution - you get life.

Deep sea vents and ultradeep mines have all uncovered microbes living happily well before man ventured into the deep.

This is the strongest argument - actually - for life in the universe elsewhere, Probably within the lifetime of the kids on YA, the US or ESA will send a probe to Europa or to Enceleadus - to probe the surface for evidence of life - either in the surface ice itself/near to the surface or in the deep oceans of these moons, the issue of life elsewhere in the universe would be a question of the determining whether the life existing on these moons was truly originally evolved on these other mini-planets OR are these samples of organisms in fact transplants from Earth that hitched a ride on debris from a meteor impact.

Answer 3

it isn't thousands of degrees, its about 350 C in the black smokers, and the nearby water is about 2degrees C so the crabs and tube worms and all do not live in the hot water, and neither do the bacteria. But yes, chemophilic microbes exists at very great depths (kilometer(s)) in the crust. Not enough space for invertebrates,

Answer 4

I do because it does and it's been found. It may be that the total mass of life in the crust is greater than the mass of life living on the crust

Answer 5

MICROBES PERHAPS NOT PEOPLE. IN THE DEEPER GOLD MINES IN AFRICA IT IS SO HOT TWO MILES BELOW THE SURFACE EVEN WITH AIR BEING PUMPED IN THAT MINERS CAN ONLY WORK 30 MINUTES OR SO AT A TIME. FORGET ABOUT FANTASIES.

Answer 6

It does, in fact they've found bacteria living miles below the surface.

Answer 7

it could , it lives in the deepest water under all the pressure

Answer 8

yes i do think life excists beneath the surface...........thats where all the polish and eastern europeans come from to invade the social security in the UK