We know less about our oceans than we do about space. Should do more to explore

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   DrPPoorlukposted 13 years ago

   We should absolutely do more exploration here on our own planet. That's not to say that we should give up on space, but the longer we're around and able to use our brains, the weirder things seem to get here on earth. For example, I've heard it theorized that tiny black holes could be the answer to anomalous happenings in places such as the Bermuda Triangle. Probably not the case as theories bounce around until something concrete is found, but in order to do it, calls for more explanation right here where we are, instead of where we can't yet reach.

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   thelyricwriterposted 13 years ago

   Good question. Yes we should. It is hard telling what we haven't found yet. Water covers 70% of our world. The future may be under that water and we need to begin exploring it.

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   juiwei2000posted 13 years ago

   That is so interesting, we know so much about the galaxy, but we don't know that much about our own home.  Interesting, ha  I suddenly got a funny idea.  We are constantly looking for intelligent alient life form/civilization, what if there really is another intelligent civilization life form other then human right on our planet, maybe deep in the ocean. 
   
   Hmm... I wonder what would happen when human and that species meet.  Would we be allies or will we declare war on each other ?

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   mojefballaposted 13 years ago

   I don't think we should divert funding to know more about our ocean..i mean both are very important, as none is less important than the other.

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   stephaniedasposted 13 years ago

   I don't think we should divert money from the space program, but yes, we definitely should study the oceans more.

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   tosha11posted 13 years ago

   I think we hardly know anything about space. I mean nobody knows exactly how big it is. But, I do belive we should be investigating our oceans. Land changes gernerously over time and I think our history and new species are waiting to be added to by unexplored waters.

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   Don Fairchildposted 13 years ago

   Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
   I wonder what would have happened if Queen Isabella told Christopher Columbus, "No I will not fund your travels on the ocean because we haven't figured out all there is to know about Europe."
   Besides, why can't we do both?  Goodness knows we need more jobs these days.

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   ThomasRydderposted 13 years ago

   First of all, the space program is a joke. We landed a man on the moon in 1969. What have we done since? Not much...while we continue to destroy the splendor around us. The space program should go on...but it should be privatized. I'll just bet that a corporation with a bottom line would do alot more to make progress than an inefficient, overfunded government entity like NASA. At the same time, the ocean affords us a huge area to be populated, with natural food and energy sources that could support mankind for centuries to come. This is, of course, assuming that we wouldn't neglect its care like we have the land portion of earth.

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   mitowriteposted 13 years ago

   Yes, definitely! I mean there are new stories all the time about unique marine animals that can survive extreme temperatures. How did we not know about a lot of that until now?

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    farhanfarooqiposted 13 years ago

    I think we know less about our minds than any thing else..maybe time to turn inwards and have a long hard look before we go stuffing up the external world any more!

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    CuriousVagabondposted 13 years ago

    It's completely logical that we KNOW more about space than our own oceans because look how undeniably vast space is! Our ocean is only a molecule in the vastness of space, all-the-while space research and exploration continuously advances so knowledge is soaring in almost faster than we can obtain it. I remember reading something about the Mariana Trench explorations. The Mariana Trench is the deepest part of any ocean in the world, at the very bottom you would have something like 16,000 pounds of pressure on every square inch of your body! There has only been 3 separate instances, I believe, that we've explored this area... the most recent being 1995. I believe if we are capable of doing this, exploring to such depths, it won't take long before we know most of what we can about the ocean. I do believe that ocean exploration and studies should possibly increase, if we Have to take some of the funding going towards space and supply ocean exploration I believe that should happen, but not entirely divert funding from the space program to ocean research.

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    Nexusx2posted 13 years ago

    I would think that we know a lot more about our oceans then space. Our oceans are mapped out. Space can never be mapped because it keeps expanding.

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    frankiefingersposted 13 years ago

    We are already diverting funding from the shuttle program and that is a good thing because the problem has been our insistence on manned flights.  Deep probing spacecraft is a much better use of funds.  Putting a man (or woman) in a spacecraft creates too many burdens in providing life support that can be much better accomplished by robots.  Unmanned spacecraft can travel farther, longer. The space shuttle has outlived it's usefulness.  We don't need to study the effect of space on cockroaches or whatever.  The only limit we have now is how far a craft can travel and still provide information to earth.  We should divert the money from the space shuttle program to increasing our reach into deep space for answers.  If we were to divert any money from the space program to earth sciences, it should be spent toward creating an international NATO type of organization that creates and enforces international laws against practices that destroy earth's natural resources.

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    MonsterSearcherposted 13 years ago

    yes absolutly in fact on tv it said that at the botem of ur ocians ALIENS might just but scouting there

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    souvikm16posted 13 years ago

    Exploration is an infinite process. We have been exploring our planet since her inception and continue to do so. I am not too sure as to whether our knowledge of space overrides our knowledge of the planet, but I am do sure about the reasoning that if it wasn't for the constant exploration by our ancestors and for that matter even the present generation of the humanity in general, we wouldn't be where we are today.
    Have we ever wondered as to why space exploration is always fascinating for us humans? That's because of the supposition and to a certain extent the certainty of discovering life form in other planets! It's with this sole motto that all the space explorations are motivated and inspired for!
    As far as funding goes, let's not look at the budgetary allocation on an annual basis! There are millions of organizations, apart from the government,  which sponsor and fund land explorations on our planet and if you combine them all, the total funding devoted for land exploration far overrides those of Space programs. Since space programs are a domain strictly controlled by the government with no encouragement or opportunities to the private sector, the funds allotted does seem more to a common man, but in reality it is not!
    We do know a lot about our oceans and new species are being discovered on a daily basis. Since such discoveries appear late to the common public, we come to the erroneous conclusion of not much being done on exploring our own planet!

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    YellowOC1posted 13 years ago

    Deep sea exploration just doesn't have the same ring to it as space exploration!

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    wastetech55posted 13 years ago

    Seeing as we have made such a mess of the parts of the planet that we do know, perhaps we should be gratefull that the oceans are less explored!

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    zachmacposted 13 years ago

    I would say regardless of what we know more we should explore both. I think the oceans hold a lot of opportunity in terms of alternative power. I also think that if we could colonize a ocean OR space that would be really cool. Do Both!

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    CWanamakerposted 13 years ago

    I support exploring our planet thoroughly.  There is plenty of information to learn and not enough people working on it.  These are the kinds of things that will help humanity (and this planet)out in the long run.  Besides, if we wait too long, we will miss out on some things completely.

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    thumbi7posted 13 years ago

    I think we should stop exploring further, whether it is sea or sky, and try to conserve as much as we can for the future generation. We are being really rude to our mother nature and let her not become impatient and strike back.

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    kingofmetalposted 13 years ago

    All researches tend to have economic background these days.. if exploration of the deepest oceans is economically efficient we probably should.. on the other hand you never know what you see there

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    Beth Pipeposted 13 years ago

    I guess it depends on why you want to explore it.  If it's to find more oil and gas and wreck the habitats then maybe not.  If it's to increase our knowledge and learn more about the amazing creatures down there then maybe we should.
    
    The reality is that we'll end up exploring whichever is most likely to give the government the best financial return.

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    adelacuestaposted 13 years ago

    There are less opposition in exploiting space than in our oceans.

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    lorenmurciaposted 13 years ago

    I think our scientists know equally about oceans and space. If you care to read various books that deal on these topics, you can find there are loads of them.

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    wanzulfikriposted 13 years ago

    I think that we actually explore both equally. Based on your statement, I think that one reason that people want to explore space more is because of the fact that the Earth is dying. Space exploration might be focused more because of the hunt for new habitable 'Earth-like' planet.

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    Faceless39posted 13 years ago

    I'm going to say no.  The less we explore, the less chance it will be exploited and ruined.  Sorry for the negative comment, but there's some truth to it, isn't there! 

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    Brooke Lorrenposted 13 years ago

    I personally feel that we need to have a space program, and it is a shame that the United States has no shuttle that can do things like fix the Hubble telescope.
    
    That being said, I think that most research should be done by private companies and foundations.  If they want to explore the oceans, more power to them.  If they want to explore space, that's fine too.

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    jainismusposted 13 years ago

    Yes you are right. And the worst thing is that many people are interested in knowing the aliens from space than the people on our earth

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    Justin Krestyposted 13 years ago

    Comparing the size of space to our oceans, we will most likely always know more about our ocean than space.  There are depths of the ocean man has not explored, but there are distances of space man doesn't even know exist.
    
    Justin Kresty

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    BayouDumbbellsposted 13 years ago

    Irony is, we do more harm to our Earth than to the ocean and the space.

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    Felixedet2000posted 13 years ago

    The oceans has been explored so well, man has known a whole lot about oceans, remember space is endless, so it will be very wrong to compare the study of space and that of ocean, because they are not in the same league.

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    AgesMGMTposted 13 years ago

    really I think we need to stop spending so much money exploring and start using it to fix problems we have at home.  We are at a point where the exploring we need to do to make real progress is wayyy to much in the future that spending a lot of money on it now isn't worth while.  We should wait for technology to progress and then start back up again.

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    shadowprancerposted 13 years ago

    I think we should explore our oceans more than space. We live with our oceans, we get food out of our oceans and we pollute our oceans. The more we know about our seas, the more we can benefit from them and protect them.

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    Rai 18posted 13 years ago

    I believe so.  We have aliens in our own 'swimming pool,' so to speak.  There are so many different kinds of sea monsters in the oceans.  There are levels of the ocean that scientist can not reach.  I even saw pictures of a jungle in a cave.  We defiantly need to explore home before even beginning to think about space.

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    darrinmarsposted 13 years ago

    Yeap, we definitely should do more to explore our planet .Who knows what we might discover in the oceans.

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    joehilton84posted 13 years ago

    Hmm agreed that we should do less exploring of other planets than of our own, however I disagree about knowing more about space. Space is never ending as far as we know. There is tons left unexplored, especially towards the sun. We could have a huge asteroid coming at us from way of the sun and we wouldn't see it until it is too late(as if we could do anything to stop it....Better call Bruce Willis and the rest of his Armageddon troops). 
    
    But yes we need to worry about our own planet and how to keep this old girl living for another 20,000 years

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    phoenixarizonaposted 13 years ago

    Most definitely. Why do we explore space when we don't entirely know our own planet!
    Perhaps humanity needs to stop destroying the planet we reside on, all other planets have proven inhabitable, maybe under the sea we will find the answers to healing the earth and preventing its destruction.

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    iAnimeshposted 13 years ago

    Nice question... The reason behind the less knowledge humans have about oceans in comparison to the space is the fact that oceans are much more difficult to explore. It is very difficult to study the mrine life under the oceans because of the high pressure and darkness out there...

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    Geonewsposted 13 years ago

    it is true that now a days the full concentration of researches is on the side of space. But actually they want to discover a new world as the ocean is a visible world and everyone knows complete about the oceans. But we know less about the space and the things are not visible to us which concern to the space...

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    aesta1posted 10 years ago

    I think a lot of people know so much about our oceans. There are many divers out there and people living along the coast, the fishermen, and scientists. We have a scientist friend in Maldives who knows so much about the ocean and work with many other scientists as well.
    
    However, there are many of us who have not really gone into the depths of ocean knowledge. Only when I started snorkelling that the ocean world became an amazing revelation and I started reading. And to think I grew up  in an island.

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