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"Ocean floor topography also helps identify underwater hazards and inform sustainable marine resource management and infrastructure development." Likely to inf
by vavooom 4y ago
"Ocean floor topography also helps identify underwater hazards and inform sustainable marine resource management and infrastructure development."
Likely to inform and fuel the Rare Earth mining already being done on the ocean floor. Take for example off the West Coast of North America: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rare-earth-elements-u-s-on-sidelines-in-race-for-metals-sitting-on-ocean-floor-60-minutes-60-minutes-2019-11-17/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rare-earth-elements-u-s-on-side...
- psychphysic 4y agoOne of my favourite stories is how deep sea mining was started because the CIA went overboard (pun intended) with a cover story [0]. [0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/deep_sea_mining https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/deep_sea_mining
- JWLong 4y agoSee also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_response https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_response
- walrus01 4y agosee also: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=the+jennifer+morgue https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=the+jenni...
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- fsckboy 4y agoI'm just the right age to have learned about the enormous potential of deep sea mining by being taught about it in grade school! we were gonna vacuum up manganese nodules!
- mnw21cam 4y agoI was the right age to learn about the enormous potential of deep sea mining by reading Willard Price. Actually, looking at when Underwater Adventure was written, I could have been born any year and still learn about it by that method.
- fsckboy 4y agoI'm talking about when it was breathlessly added to the school curriculum at the time the Glomar ship was being built. So I was saying something like "I read about leaked story of Moses parting the Red Sea in the newspaper!"; yes, you're right, anybody can learn about Moses from the Bible.
- walrus01 4y ago> Ocean floor topography also helps identify underwater hazards You think the ocean is mostly empty, until your nuclear powered attack submarine runs into a previously uncharted (or incorrectly charted) submarine mountain https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/04/asia/submarine-uss-connecticut-accident-undersea-mountain-hnk-intl-ml-dst/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/04/asia/submarine-uss-connecticu... https://www.npr.org/2021/11/02/1051422572/navy-submarine-nuclear-collision-south-china-sea https://www.npr.org/2021/11/02/1051422572/navy-submarine-nuc... It's happened more than once... On 8 January 2005 at 02:43 GMT, San Francisco collided with an undersea mountain about 364 nautical miles (675 km) southeast of Guam while operating at flank (maximum) speed at a depth of 525 feet (160 m). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_San_Francisco_(SSN-711) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_San_Francisco_(SSN-711)
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoI don't get it. Was their sonar broken?
- kmill 4y ago> Submarines do have their own sonar, but using it comes at a price – loss of stealthiness.
- encryptluks2 4y agoIs there not reliable alternatives to sonar that would maintain stealth?
- mlindner 4y agoThey're in a place where there is no lights and no sound. You have to emit something whether that be in the form of sound or in the electromagnetic spectrum in order to receive a reflection back and emissions remove stealth. Not to mention that sonar is highly disruptive to many forms of sea life as it's incredibly loud.