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Don't be so sure - the first pictures of a live giant squid are only around a decade old. The ocean is deep and dark.
by swordswinger12 14y ago
Don't be so sure - the first pictures of a live giant squid are only around a decade old. The ocean is deep and dark.
- ZanderEarth32 14y agoVery true. Apparently we've only explored 5%, leaving 95% for a giant something to be living. It would be a sad day to realize there is nothing left to be discovered. Even at an older age I still find it fascinating and exciting to think there is something unknown, mystical and possibly magical in this world. [1]http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/exploration.html http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/exploration.html
- lifeformed 14y agoWell, there's always more space to discover.
- charonn0 14y agoimagine the mysterious compression waves we'll find out there :)
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- whatshisface 14y agoGravity waves?
- charonn0 14y agoMaybe. Plus waves so strange that we haven't invented a word for them yet. Space is big and weird; we'll never be bored!
- mwill 14y agoI was talking to a friend recently about how little of the sea we had explored, and he wondered out loud why it seems like people tend to take a bigger interest in space than deep sea exploration. I joked that it's because the sea is goddam scary and we're less likely to find things with tentacles in space. But it's still a good question. Space exploration gets a lot more love from entertainment, pop culture, and news outlets.
- noonespecial 14y agoIts easy. To explore space, all you need is a ship that can withstand pressures between 0 and 1 atmosphere. The ocean, on the other hand... That said, spacecraft seem to get lousy fuel economy compared to submersibles.
- Someone 14y agoThe start may be expensive, but currently Pioneer 10 moves at over 10 km/s on about 100W of power. That is over 360,000 km on a kWh, and that mostly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_anomaly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_anomaly) is not spent for propulsion.
- gehsty 14y agoI work in the subsea industry and when our ship has planned downtime we're allowed to go do marine research, basically just looking at the marine life that grows on and around structures at >1000m. So it does happen. Just on a very small scale!
- DanBC 14y agoI'm amazed that someone with FU Money hasn't funded some kind of underwater equipment to be bolted onto ships like yours, and a website to collate that data and any other data that people want to contribute. A bunch of data isn't science, but it's a start. I guess it's a problem that most submarines are military vessels - they could collect lots of data but releasing that data is tricky.
- Evbn 14y agoI will bet it is neither mystical nor magical down there.
- mupster 14y agoHmm....any chance this is mere misdirection by our future live giant squid overlords? (jk)
- brazzy 14y agoIt's also rather starved of energy sources - not the ideal environment for large organisms. I'm sure there are hundreds or even thousands of bizarre and interesting species to be discovered, but the likelihood that any of them will be impressively large is very slim.
- demallien 14y agoHuh? Actually it's actually the reverse - deep sea creatures that we have discovered so far have a tendancy to be larger than their shallow-sea counterparts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-sea_gigantism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-sea_gigantism
- brazzy 14y agoVery interesting - so having a large body may actually save energy via the increasing mass-to-surface ratio, and of course it's much easier to keep a large body mobile underwater thean on land. So there is hope for finding some Great Old Ones after all!