/sci/ - Science & Math

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/8228548/Brazil-to-replace-oil-rigs-
with-underwater-cities.html

"Petrobras plans to turn science fiction into reality to extract oil from the vast pre-salt oil fields discovered off the south east coast of Brazil.

The plan is to construct 'cities’ more than 2,000 metres under water, containing machines, giant pieces of equipment and robots that could inspect the systems being used to extract millions of barrels of oil. Many operations would be fully automated while others would be controlled by humans at a distance."

Yay for oceanic development, but boo for automating it or relying on remote administration.

Interestingly though this exact development was popularly predicted in the 1970s. Pic related, they got everything right except assuming it would be manned. My hope is that as these operations expand it will become a practical necessity to have populations living down there to service all of it. People who live paycheck to paycheck tend to live where the work is.

Add this to the hydrothermal vent mining operations and the discovery of deep sea rare earth mineral deposits by Japanese oceanographers and it's becoming increasingly obvious where the next big frontier is. How do you plan to get your piece of it?

Waiting on a few more

>>2113340

Precisely. When you consider ambitious plans for expansion into space, you must ask where the wealth and exotic metals will come from.

Which naturally shifts your gaze to the sea. A source which remains almost totally unexploited because the technological challenges to getting down there and extracting ore have kept us out until now.

Think of it as an unlockable store of wealth that we're gaining access to right when we need it the most. And think of exploring the sea as a tutorial stage for exploring space.

If we can do it here, we can do it out there.

>>2113340

Precisely. When you consider ambitious plans or expansion into space, you must ask where the wealth and exotic metals will come from.

Which naturally shifts your gaze to the sea. A source which remains almost totally unexploited because the technological challenges to getting down there and extracting ore have kept us out until now.

Think of it as an unlockable store of wealth that we're gaining access to right when we need it the most. And think of exploring the sea as a tutorial stage for exploring space.

If we can do it here, we can do it out there.

How about an International Deep Sea Station?

Let us discuss mankind's future beneath the sea.