/sci/ - Science & Math

>>4594541

I think consciousness could be maintained even at those depths if we could gradually increase the firing threshold of neurons with depth. Or incease them at the surface and then awaken the diver once he's on the bottom.

Deep sea fish have brains. They manage to operate at extreme depth. If we can figure out what's different about their neurons that permits this, we could attempt it with humans.

>>4567508

The problem is every additional square foot of air needs 64 pounds of ballast weight, just to cancel out it's buoyancy and ideally two or three times that to hold it firmly on the ocean floor. So habitats should be only as large as is necessary to fit all the amenities inside like a toilet, fridge, microwave and so on with a comfortable amount of room for moving about. We're used to excessively large homes, but there's no reason you can't live just as comfortably in one with only as much space as you'll actually use. >>4567552
>So what are you gonna do about all that waste heat coming from the nuclear power plant? Surely that's gonna increase water temperature, decreasing dissolved oxygen content and fucking up temperature sensitive coral reefs.

>>4558025
>>wanting to explore/colonize trenches

No, not trenches. Explore, yes. Colonize, no. Nobody wants to live there.

>>still haven't explored/colonized siberia, American southwest, Alaska, Canada.

Lots of people want to live undersea in tropical waters. Nobody wants to live in those places. It's a matter of demand, not taking the path of least resistance technologically.

>>4360051

Naw, I am all about the continental shelf. (Pic related). I'd love to visit it though. And supposedly Virgin Oceanic will be taking tourists there if the Race to Inner Space goes smoothly (i.e. no implosions) for them. I'm inclined to believe they ca make it happen, considering that they've gone ahead full steam with Virgin Galactic.

www.virginoceanic.com