/sci/ - Science & Math

>"If we keep obeying them, marking these mines, rescuing the ones who struggle to swim and performing tricks in their theme parks, surely they will reward us by sharing their technology and helping to repair the mysterious degradation of our home waters."

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>>>implying that there's anything interesting below a few dozen metres

We'll be 250 feet deep. That's well within the photic zone, but below the reach of storms.

>implying that ugly useless fish and geothermal vents are as interesting as neutron stars, magnetars, nebulae, hypernovae, exoplanets, and possible intelligences

We can see all of that from the Earth, and from orbital telescopes. The view doesn't differ much from the moon or Mars. As for nonhuman intelligence, we've already found it in the sea. Pic related.

Last I checked, you haven't found even a single microbe.

As distrubing as it seems dolphins are pretty much willing serfs. They're as eager for our approval as dogs and the military kept them in enclosures open to the sea, such that they could come and go as they pleased.

They're ideal partners. They work long hours with low "pay", seemingly thrilled simply to be involved in something greater than themselves, in the plans of a species they evidently admire and want to impress.