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How many decades/centuries would it take to map the ocean?
by michelb 3y ago
How many decades/centuries would it take to map the ocean?
- ipaddr 3y agoIt sounds like the Human Genome Project. Well worth the effort.
- dragonwriter 3y agoIts already been largely done, which is why when subs run into seamounts, you tend to see the leadership team relieved. “Maybe it would help to have a map of the space we’re going to be driving very large, very expensive, strategically important pieces of equipment (that also have crews) through blind” is not, as it turns out, something that never occurred to the Navy.
- tomrod 3y agoOceans cover 361M km^2. So if we built 13,333 drones with a failure rate of 25% and they map at a rate of 50 km^2/day at a higher column depth with active sonar, it would take approximately 2 years
- cagenut 3y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83FQzfH_r2U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83FQzfH_r2U
- tomrod 3y agoThere you go.
- rdl 3y agoAlso don’t need to do the entire ocean; there are specific routes and zones we care about the most, can easily prioritize those.
- tomrod 3y agoIndeed. It can certainly be accomplished.
- toomuchtodo 3y agohttps://seabed2030.org/ https://seabed2030.org/ Project goal is 2030.