/sci/ - Science & Math

>>4567958

Actually, in theory you could do it exactly like the ISS. Modules only weigh as much as you want them to; If you ballast them to be precisely neutral buoyancy you could have a "seastation" hovering at any depth you like, slowly rotating, drifting along the gulf stream with neither the surface nor the ocean floor in view. Just hanging silently in a glowing blue void.

There is no telling what we might find, and conditions are analogous to those on Europa. If there's life in Lake Vostok, it bodes well for the prospect of life in Europa's ocean.

>>4309603

Sure, but if you think about it, it's a cheaper way to insure humanity against every other conceivable disaster besides an asteroid impact, and some that would also destroy life in offworld colonies (gamma ray burst)

Of course that's beside the point as you don't put people in the ocean primarily to safeguard against extinction, that's what the moon and Mars are for. You put people in the ocean to increase the efficiency and speed of resource extraction and aquaculture farming. Protection from most (but not all) extinction events is just a nice perk.