/sci/ - Science & Math

>>5363814

The way I see it, space exploration is extremely promising in the long term, less so in the short term. And undersea exploration is exactly the opposite.

Space is inarguably the future of humanity, but for right now, we're dicking around in low earth orbit doing the same old microgravity experiments on plants and worms in a 150 billion dollar space station many times larger than needed for that. Meanwhile our only underwater lab which was only the size of the ISS's Destiny module, which was invaluable for longterm study of coral decline as it relates to oceanic acidification, was recently shut down to save 3 million a year.

So while I recognize that space is our destiny, prioritizing it so completely over ocean exploration in the near term is the wrong path. Especially when it involves defunding one entirely. There's a lot of amazing stuff in our oceans waiting to be found, let's put at least SOME funding towards it.

Hydrogeology or Geohydrology?

It's been months since this happened. I know he took high def cameras. When are they gonna show us the footage?

>>4617273
>I don't know about you, but I think this asteroid mining mission is possibly the first great piece of news of the century.

:I

http://www.nautilusminerals.com/s/Home.asp
http://www.neptuneminerals.com/
http://www.kona-blue.com/

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.

http://deepseachallenge.com/
http://www.virginoceanic.com/
http://www.race2innerspace.com/
http://www.doermarine.com/?page_id=704
http://www.nautilusminerals.com/s/Home.asp
http://www.neptuneminerals.com/
http://www.kona-blue.com/
http://www.underseacolony.com/
http://www.poseidonresorts.com/poseidon_flash.html
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/7897378-coral-world-park-an-underwater-resort-hotel-is-set
-to-be-built-in-palawan
http://www.jul.com/
http://aquarius.uncw.edu/

>>4606896
>How can you see it if you're underwater

There are many ocean worlds, even within this solar system. Ours is only 7 miles deep at the lowest point. Think of it as the tutorial before Europa's sixty mile deep globe-spanning abyss.

Obviously you can just click the link, but I just realized if I don't reproduce it here there's not much to say in this thread. And it's an excuse to dump sea/space pics.


As above, so below: The sea/space analog

It was by fortunate happenstance that my mission on analog Mars coincided with James Cameron's history making dive to the Challenger Deep. Mr. Cameron is, for reference, a member both of the Mars Society and the Atlantica Expeditions. On the 25th, Cameron sailed down 7 miles to the hadal depths in a vessel not so dissimiliar to the capsules which first put men in orbit. Within the Deep Sea Challenger, a 2.5 inch thick steel sphere withstood the tremendous pressure differential and the pilot's respiratory needs were provided for by a chemical rebreather that is in principle identical to the life support systems which kept the Apollo astronauts supplied with fresh oxygen and removed their exhaled CO2. These are the commonalities familiar to everyone, which spring to their minds immediately when sea/space similarities are brought up.

>>4567863
>Technically it's a new day.

The dawn of a new day indeed my friend. A new era of exploration and settlement of all frontiers. Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise. A morning filled with four hundred billion suns: the rising of the Milky Way.

>>4563647

That was done recently. An unmanned hadal "lander" was sent down with Cameron's sub. It autonomously recorded any motion around it.

Here's footage of Cameron in his sub, taken from the lander outside of it.