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> from the mud on the deep sea bottom in an area off Minami-Torishima Island, a coral atoll in the Pacific Ocean about 1,900 kilometers southeast of Tokyo. If
by h0l0cube 4y ago
> from the mud on the deep sea bottom in an area off Minami-Torishima Island, a coral atoll in the Pacific Ocean about 1,900 kilometers southeast of Tokyo.
If they were a way to make resource extraction from asteroids commercially feasible, I’d take that over ruining this or any other planet to make our gadgets.
- midoridensha 4y agoThat would be nice, but it's a ways off. The question here is: which is ecologically worse? Conventional mining on land, or mining the sea beds? I don't know the answer here.
- h0l0cube 4y agoIt’s an easier decision for me when it’s just digging a deeper and deeper hole in the ground to extract iron ore to make steel structures vs deforesting large swathes of forest for timber. But I’d err to destroy ecosystems we somewhat understand and can rehabilitate vs deep sea where we can’t even comprehend the damage we’re doing, if those were my only choices.