95 Percent!

[Sinead_O]

I was shocked to recently read this statistic-Ninety-five per cent of the ocean is unexplored. 

What’s down there? Why do we, as a race, spend millions on exploring space, yet who knows what is only a few miles away- seven miles at it's deepest?  

[Sinead_O]

Thank you- not sure ocean exploration is going to catch on too much after the second Titanic disaster, but it is intriguing. 

[Sinead_O]

I'd never heard of TTT before, but wish he/she/it all the best!  

[andy-hughes]

Sinead - // What is TTT? //

TTT is an abreviation for 'Tora Tora Tora', the AB Name of one of our regular contributors.

[naomi24]

It's pitch dark, freezing cold, and the pressure is so great that a human being if exposed to it would die instantly.   A more inhospitable, uninhabitable place is hard to imagine.  I'll plump for space exploration every time.

[andy-hughes]

naomi - // It's pitch dark, freezing cold, and the pressure is so great that a human being if exposed to it would die instantly.   A more inhospitable, uninhabitable place is hard to imagine.  I'll plump for space exploration every time. //

 

Your description applies exactly to deep space, so it's hardly a preferable option is it!

[naomi24]

You couldn't set up home in 'deep space'.  You'd need to park yourself on a planet.

[douglas9401]

Might I refer you to the aspirational Deep Space Nine?

[ToraToraTora]

AH: "Your description applies exactly to deep space, so it's hardly a preferable option is it!" - err nope not dark and not high pressure, is a bit taters though. 1 out of 3, could do better.

[naomi24]

I didn't bother to contradict that.  I stopped at the notion of somehow colonising 'deep space'.  Way out man!  :o)

[DTCwordfan]

I guess if one goes exploring the ocean beds, one can have a whale of a time.

[Countrylover]

I was just going to post much the same as Andy!  Who knows what the future may bring in the way we progress in being to explore the oceanssafely.  Why on earth are we even considering other planets. The oceans offer  a chance to help humans sustain themselves.  I can't see that happening in space.  I see space now as a waste of money which  could be better used to explore our planet.

[naomi24]

I think space is our future. 

[ToraToraTora]

17:34, did you look at the list I posted listing just a few of the things that space exploration has given you?

https://247wallst.com/special-report/2019/06/13/inventions-we-use-every-day-that-were-actually-invented-for-space-exploration/

Do you not use any of these countrylover?

[Countrylover]

I don't dispute that TTT?  I never have.  It doesn't alter my way of thinking that there's so much more we may have in our world.

I certainly don't think space is our future.  I think humankind is on its way out and this world will evolve and  see a other huge change.  

[ToraToraTora]

But if it was a "waste of money" then why do we have all those things?

[naomi24]

I think we will eventually colonise other planets/moons.  Stephen Hawking thought so too.  Who am I to argue?  

[DTCwordfan]

any candidates for the 1st Interplanetary War? 

I guess Xi Jin Ping, Putain, our KC or Monsieur le Président Macron will make great leaders of our attack - certainly not President Blinden.

[douglas9401]

We have all of those things because of the money spent on space exploration.

Whether the money was wasted or not in another matter.

I for one would say that the invention of the 'Dust Buster' as an effective vacuum cleaner is up for debate.

[andy-hughes]

Countrylover - // I was just going to post much the same as Andy!  Who knows what the future may bring in the way we progress in being to explore the oceanssafely.  Why on earth are we even considering other planets. The oceans offer  a chance to help humans sustain themselves.  I can't see that happening in space.  I see space now as a waste of money which  could be better used to explore our planet. //

Simply - space is sexy, the ocean is not.

The idea of man forging ahead and breaking the bonds of earth has appealed for generations, and the Americans were keen, not to land a man on the moon, but to land a man on the moon before the Russians - a simple case of international bragging rights.

Somehow the idea of colonising the ocean, or even exploring its possibilities simply doesn't carry the same level of excitement and adventure, which is why we aim at space, instead of the sea.

[douglas9401]

You're wrong, but what's the point?