/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3334492

>>Sounds like engineers might get more jobs.

Why would engineers create robots that eliminate the need to build long, rigid living structures in which sweaty shirtless men coexist in cramped conditions?

>>1958236

>> Both the exploration of the oceans and space exploration are needed for advancement.

Agreed. Space is a longer term investment with a more distant payoff. That's the only real difference. I'm saying oceanic exploration and colonization offers the same benefits, to a larger degree, and the payoff is more immediate.

We should do both, but oceanic science is criminally under-funded, even compared to space.

>>1915079

>>so then how realistic was the undersea mining platform in The Abyss?

It's based on actual prototype platforms developed by Jacques Cousteau for the french oil industry in the sixties. (pictured)

Though his team demonstrated that it was easily possible to do the necessary labor and meet quota while living and working underwater, Jacque himself sabotaged the program. He had a change of heart during the course of filming his documentaries. He suddenly went from advocating colonization of the sea to strict ecological conservationism.