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95 Percent!
I was shocked to recently read this statistic-Ninety-five per cent of the ocean is unexplored.
What’s down there? Why do we, as a race, spend millions on exploring space, yet who knows what is only a few miles away- seven miles at it's deepest?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Yes naomi- but it depends what we mean by unexplored? And what we mean by 95%. By volume or by area of sea bed?
Take any sea or ocean, say the North Sea. We have probably only explored 5% of the volume of that. But if we explore say one square mile of one section of the sea bed there is it going to be any different to the square mile next to it, or the one next to that?
I think space exploration has been hyped up by all the fiction, films etc over the years. It's become sexy. Not so ocean exploration. No way do I think there will be humans living on other planets. No way can we do anything to change the atmosphere and temperatures. The humans will have to evolve or live their life in goldfish bowls.
Much the same as space NMA, just space, space, space and hoping to find something something new. Who knows what lurks at the bottom of any ocean. There will be different things in different oceans in different climates and things like foods that could feed a hungry world.
I find the oceans far more interesting in general than space. Perhaps because we had a Royal Navy oceanographer in the family and no spacemen;0)
09:40, my thoughts were on page one, removed. Space is far more important and yeilds a lot of tech progress. Sure there are unexplored oceans depths but they can be mapped as needed. If people want to go down fine but there is no point "colonising" the seabed when most of the land is uncolonised. It's a dream of Stromberg from the bond film TSWLM.
I'm with Prof Cox on this one. Our existence is only a blink in the time the universe has existed. Maybe other civilisations have existed elsewhere and will exist elsewhere but the chances of us temporally coexisting are extremely extremely small.
he also believes that we should concentrate our efforts to our own galaxy as the chances of interstellar travel between galaxies is nil