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>Pic extremely related

>>6024536
It'll be ok

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-07/09/china-underwater-mining-station
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21774447
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/9951299/Japan-breaks-Chinas-stranglehold-on-rare-metals-with-sea-mud-bonanza.html
http://www.seacormarine.com/
http://www.nautilusminerals.com/s/Home.asp
http://www.neptuneminerals.com/

Energy:
http://en.dcnsgroup.com/energy/civil-nuclear-engineering/flexblue/
http://www.gizmag.com/otec-plant-lockheed-martin-reignwood-china/27164/
(Links to underwater oil rigs removed because system mistakes them for spam)
http://www.thegwpf.org/worlds-methane-hydrate-mining-begins-japans-coast/

Farming:
http://www.kampachifarm.com/
http://www.openblue.com/
http://techland.time.com/2012/11/01/best-inventions-of-the-year-2012/slide/a-drifting-fish-farm/
http://www.oceanspar.com/seastation.htm
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/11/the-coming-green-wave-ocean-farming-to-fight-climate-change/248750/2/

Recreational:
http://jul.com/
http://www.redseastar.com/aboutus-en.php
http://huvafenfushi.peraquum.com/Spa/default.aspx
http://conradhotels3.hilton.com/en/hotels/maldives/conrad-maldives-rangali-island-MLEHICI/amenities/restaurants.html
http://kihavah-maldives.anantara.com/facilities.aspx
http://inhabitat.com/poseidon-undersea-resorts-finalize-designs-for-outlandish-submerged-hotel-in-fiji/

Undersea colonization:
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-09/aquatic-life-dennis-chamberland
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-3288737.html

Ocean surface colonization:
http://blueseed.co/
http://www.seasteading.org/

Scientific:
http://www.hydronaut.eu/index.php/hydronaut
http://seaorbiter.com/home/
http://aquarius.fiu.edu/

>>6010324
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-07/09/china-underwater-mining-station
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21774447
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/9951299/Japan-breaks-Chinas-stranglehold-on-rare-

metals-with-sea-mud-bonanza.html
http://www.seacormarine.com/
http://www.nautilusminerals.com/s/Home.asp
http://www.neptuneminerals.com/

Energy:
http://en.dcnsgroup.com/energy/civil-nuclear-engineering/flexblue/
http://www.gizmag.com/otec-plant-lockheed-martin-reignwood-china/27164/
(Links to underwater oil rigs removed because system mistakes them for spam)
http://www.thegwpf.org/worlds-methane-hydrate-mining-begins-japans-coast/

Farming:
http://www.kampachifarm.com/
http://www.openblue.com/
http://techland.time.com/2012/11/01/best-inventions-of-the-year-2012/slide/a-drifting-fish-farm/
http://www.oceanspar.com/seastation.htm
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/11/the-coming-green-wave-ocean-farming-to-fight-climate-

change/248750/2/

Recreational:
http://jul.com/
http://www.redseastar.com/aboutus-en.php
http://huvafenfushi.peraquum.com/Spa/default.aspx
http://conradhotels3.hilton.com/en/hotels/maldives/conrad-maldives-rangali-island-MLEHICI/amenities/restaurants.html
http://kihavah-maldives.anantara.com/facilities.aspx
http://inhabitat.com/poseidon-undersea-resorts-finalize-designs-for-outlandish-submerged-hotel-in-fiji/

Undersea colonization:
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-09/aquatic-life-dennis-chamberland
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-3288737.html

Ocean surface colonization:
http://blueseed.co/
http://www.seasteading.org/

Scientific:
http://www.hydronaut.eu/index.php/hydronaut
http://seaorbiter.com/home/
http://aquarius.fi

>>5922723
>>5922756

How could humans colonize the ocean? I was thinking you would start near the underwater volcanic magma vent, because you wouldn't need a dependence on outside energy.

pic related.

Not even a little bit

So we're finally harvesting methane hydrate from the deep? And minerals too recently, and there's those farms in Hawaii. We Seaquest now

>>5597277

See: >>5597068

Inquire with the ESA about their Hydronaut program. Or, more plausibly, go to work for Florida International University since they own Aquarius Reef Base now. You'd want to either be a marine bio student, marine bio professor, or commercial saturation diver.

>>5597277

See: >>5597068

Inquire with the ESA about their Hydronaut program.

>>5511325

>>5480451

>>5413095

Within our own solar system, the most promising location to find life is the oceans of Europa. We'll use oceanic technology to explore it. Space travel is just how we get there, ocean exploration is the point of the trip.

Even on habitable exoplanets we'll just wind up industrializing it's ocean for the same reasons we did on Earth; It's a huge almost inexhaustible (until you get up to 10 billion humans) source of food, minerals and energy.

We evolved on a terraqueous planet, we're a terraqueous species. We'll keep doing this shit no matter what planet it's on. Space isn't a substitute for ocean explo, it's how we find and reach new oceans to explore.

>You were born precisely at the dawn of the oceanic homesteading movement
>You will tour the first floating seasteads
>You will depart from them by submarine to underwater colonies below
>You will speed along vibrant coral reefs in your supercavitating subfighter
>You will pay Virgin Oceanic for a cruise along the Challenger Deep, seven miles down in a high speed hydrobatic sub
>Fuck space, into ocean

>>4948744

They may also be indifferent or oblivious to the fact that their science fiction dreams of massive nuclear vessels crewed by hundreds cruising through the vast black abyss, manned bases inhabited by researchers studying strange lifeforms and advanced motor-augmented life support exoskeletons have all come true, but in the ocean rather than space.

No underwater colonization thread, /sci/?

I'm disappointed.

15 minutes until the SpaceX launch to the ISS.
http://new.livestream.com/spacex/Launch

Simultaneously, there's a mission taking place aboard the Aquarius undersea lab.
http://www.ustream.tv/aquariusreefbase

Born at the wrong time, my ass.

It was no accomplishment to climb out of the sea; we were driven from it by predators. At that time our greatest ambition was to survive long enough to reproduce, and from that point on up until perhaps a century ago, if one of us went below water it was by accident and almost always a death sentence. The year is 2012 and we have returned to the sea. We go not just to extract it's mineral treasures but to settle millions of years worth of unfinished business. This time it will not drive us out, for we've returned as masters.

The other thread where the hippie complains about space mining got me thinking, are there any legit environmental objections to deep sea mining? I keep hearing "sediment plumes will disturb sea life around the mining site", but it's never really explained what "disturb" means or why ot disturbing sea creatures is more important than plentiful high grade rare earth and precious metal deposits that can bring down the prices on all the technologies we badly need to preserve our current standard of living in a post-oil world.

I can see scientific objections to tearing up hydrothermal vents, but rare earth mud? Nothing relies on that. And it's harvested via suction, the worst it could do is suck up small organisms along with the mud.

Are these people just dead set on stopping any expansion of humanity's resource base or what?