the ocean

Joymarie · New Member Joined: 05 Jun 2006 Posts: 8

In this world today we actually know more about outer space than we do about our own ocean.... Men have travled to the moon yet no ones seen the bottom of the ocean or what lives there.

Unclever title · Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 10:33 pm Post subject:

I fail to see how that compares. The moon is yet the first step in space exploration, whereas the bottom of the ocean is the limit of sea exploration, It's not like we hit a rock wall right after the moon, but with the ocean, well, we kind of do at the seabed.

Yes there is so much we don't know about the ocean, but we know even less about space, all that we know beyond our solar system, is simply the gathering of visual information, using most of the electromagnetic spectrum, beyond light. The moon is the only extraterrestial object that any human being has ever set foot on, yet, (Though I don't know for sure) with the ocean we have gone deep below the surface, not to the bottom, but I think we have explored most of the ocean. In exploring space, we haven't even made a recognizable fraction!

Space is so immensly huge, that people can't realistically comprehend it's size. We have enough trouble on our own planet let alone undestanding the universe. Space is exceedingly (possibly infinitely) more vast than our oceans and yes it is a lot less dense, but in general it has more matter. Much more, and every atom of matter has a story, we'll never know every one, but we'll learn most of the secrets of the ocean far, far before we learn most of the secrets of space.

diminuton · New Member Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 7

While I agree that space is vastly more unknown than the ocean, geologists and oceanographers have still mapped less than 5% of the sea floor. There's still a lot left to discover in the ocean I'm sure, it'll be a long time before we hit a rock wall in our searchings for new life- even the diversity of freshwater species are amazingly abundant, and over 50% of the earth's crust remains unexplored as well. But as Unclever stated already, we haven't even discovered a recognizable fraction of space. It's amazing how little we know.

Unclever title · Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 3:24 am Post subject:

What is truly more amazing is how much we pretend to know. Evolution seems like a plausible idea right? And it's taught in schools. So it must be right, right? Well there are many holes, such as how the little pieces fit together. The good way to add conclusive evidence, rather than saying, "gee, these bones sure are similar" or " hey look at this, there are only a few differences in human blood from a chimp." But can anyone tell you how the first brain developed? Or how blood first began to be able to clot? Or perhaps how did the amino acids caused by primordial soup and static electricty suddenly jumped the gun and became living cells?

How old is human society, and we stil don't know how our own minds work?

Every answer brings more questions and we only discover how little we know.

But we can make a skin creme that makes you look a few months younger!