/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3341736

Sunlight can be artificially replicated. And even so, nothing prevents them from taking Vitamin D supplements.

>>3341705

It's economic if you can find people willing to pay a sufficient amount to cover the costs of sustaining them underwater. It's a niche market but sufficient for at least a few shallow water tropical communities.

>>The only thing of value in the ocean are fuel sources and food.

And energy (Turbines in the gulf stream, OTEC, etc.) plus medicinal discoveries. Did you know we've discovered a species of jellyfish that is biologically immortal? The secret to immortality may well come from oceanic science.

>>subsea technology should be focused on getting oil and gas,not hurr durr rapture micro nations

Why needlessly constrain the variety of things we can do in the sea? If the market will support subsea communities, hotels, resorts, restaurants (of which a few already exist, pic related) then why do you object? Do you just hate the whole idea or what?

>>3255285

>>Won't ever happen, no matter how safe it is because of scared crowds.

It may happen in France specifically because they are staunchly pro nuclear and a sovreign country. Scared crowds in the US and Japan can't force them not to.

If they don't for whatever reason it'd be a shame, check this out; in 2004 a small undersea restaurant and hotel called Ithaa survived a tsunami which devastated coastal resorts without itself suffering any damage whatsoever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaa

"The tsunami which followed the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake topped out at 0.31m below the staircase entrance, and caused no damage to the restaurant."