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99% of what's 10 meters below the surface on land is probably also unknown.
by BurningFrog 4y ago
99% of what's 10 meters below the surface on land is probably also unknown.
- hinkley 4y agoSoil scientists and some conservationists will tell you that 95% of what's a centimeter underground is unknown as well.
- JKCalhoun 4y agoI read somewhere E. O. Wilson stating that were he to start over again he would go into research of life in the soil. He also said there is so little we understand about the things just beneath our feet.
- asdff 4y agoWe don't even know how to document it all when we extract DNA from soil. You might be able to put things into general families of species but too much is uncharacterized. Some research is opting to just consider things in terms of ecological niches occupied instead of absolute species found.
- louky 4y agoEven on, and in our feet.
- JamilD 4y agoThere's an aquatic cave in Death Valley called Devil's Hole; divers have gone to ~600 ft, but the cave is likely over twice as deep. A magnitude 7.6 earthquake 1,500 miles away caused 4 ft high waves at Devil's Hole: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-earthquake-triggers-4-foot-waves-death-valley-national-park/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-earthquake-triggers-4-fo... It may be that the aquifer in Devil's Hole is somehow connected to a network of underwater aquifers thousands of miles away in Mexico… but we just don't know, and have no way of knowing right now.
- iamgopal 4y agoCan’t we just use some form of ultrasonic wave from one end and detect at other end ?
- wincy 4y agoI’d imagine the amount of energy you’d have to push into the water would be insane to hear it 1500 miles away, wouldn’t it?
- naavis 4y agoWhale noises travel thousands of kilometers underwater. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_vocalization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_vocalization
- totalZero 4y agoThere's an inverse relationship between wavelength and range, and the higher the frequency the better the resolution. https://acousticstoday.org/wavelength https://acousticstoday.org/wavelength
- alanbernstein 4y agoWhat other end?
- BurningFrog 4y agoPour in some traceable mix of chemicals, and see if it turns up somewhere.
- tuatoru 4y agoThere're these fish called the Devil's Hole Pupfish. Can't do that.
- BurningFrog 4y ago