Interesting small creatures, which (as a side note) can have enormous ecological impacts as the Wikipedia article mentions:

"On the other hand, in the late 1980s the Western Atlantic ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi was accidentally introduced into the Black Sea and Sea of Azov via the ballast tanks of ships, and has been blamed for causing sharp drops in fish catches by eating both fish larvae and small crustaceans that would otherwise feed the adult fish."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctenophora

> Archaea lipids behave differently than those found in bacteria and eukaryotes

That's a hell of a thing to drop with no further explanation. I thought eukaryotes were supposed to have evolved from basically archaea, or at least very archaea-like ancestors. How do eukaryotes end up sharing chemistry with bacteria but not archaea?

I don't really understand what's the “problem” with high pressure for living things: they are full of water at the same pressure as the surrounding water so there's no risk to be crushed, so it's not clear to me what “resisting the high pressure” means.

Very interesting - it is as if the healthy membrane shape is the target bytecode to which the varying "source" shapes in varying categories of jellies converge to under varying temperature/pressure conditions in order to live.

So is the idea that the behavior of the deep sea membrane, which is like a compressed spring, could be mimicked in artificial materials to resist high pressures?