i watched seaquest as a kid. lots of us were disspointed it never happened. so when i got older , i researched the history of sealab(s) and , after having gone

i watched seaquest as a kid. lots of us were disspointed it never happened. so when i got older , i researched the history of sealab(s) and , after having gone scuba diving, did a bunch of research on human biological response to partial pressure of gasses, as well as high pressure and low pressure. knowing what i know now , the clickbait title might be misleading if you think china is proposing HOUSING HUMAN BEINGS underneath 10,000 feet of water. there is no fucking way in hell that is going to happen. you can barely get a manned MOBILE submarine to depths below a couple thousand feet. and the static bathyscapes ( deep diving manned diving structures) that do exist have pretty much demonstrated you can do little to nothing under the current design constraints of a deep ocean high pressure bathyscape. any sophisticated machinery or equipment you build on or outside of the bathyscape, allowing interaction between the environemtn inside of the structure with the surface of, or the environment outside of , the structure, are severely limited by the crushingly high pressures. i'm not saying there is no future where this technology could exist, i'm saying the timeline is at least as distant as that for human beings colonizing mars. and honestly, as nuts as it sounds, i think the technological innovation required to place a small colony at 3000 meters below the ocean surface is far less advanced now, than is the technology that is in development for putting men on mars. living and functioning on the ocean floor is FAR DIFFERENT than sending james cameron to the bottom of the marianas trench for an hour and coming right back up. and if the only point of going down there is to be isolated in a black box that does not interact with its environment , than what is the point of going down there to begin with. it would be like going to mars, getting there, while asleep, and returning back to earth before waking up. 10,000 feet. nuh-uh. i just want to clafiry i am talking about building an underwater housing structure that allows human beings to send robots in and out of it and interact with the environment through rov's that can be controlled from inside the bathyscape by human operators.