Posted on Nov 6, 2023
Why mapping the entire seafloor is a daunting task, but key to improving human life : Short Wave
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https://www.npr.org/2023/11/06/ [login to see] /mariana-trench-challenger-deep-ocean-map-tsunami
Life at the bottom of the ocean is extreme. It's pitch black, the temperature hovers right above freezing and the pressure is immense.
Although many species have evolved to survive and thrive at these depths, the seafloor is very much uninhabitable to humans. In fact, only around a couple dozen people have actually been to the deepest part of the ocean floor, a place known as Challenger Deep.
Life at the bottom of the ocean is extreme. It's pitch black, the temperature hovers right above freezing and the pressure is immense.
Although many species have evolved to survive and thrive at these depths, the seafloor is very much uninhabitable to humans. In fact, only around a couple dozen people have actually been to the deepest part of the ocean floor, a place known as Challenger Deep.
Why mapping the entire seafloor is a daunting task, but key to improving human life : Short Wave
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
"Scientists have mapped less than 25% of the world's seafloor. Experts say that getting that number up to 100% would improve everything from tsunami warnings to the Internet and renewable energy. That's why there's currently a global effort to create a full, detailed map of the seabed by 2030."
"Scientists have mapped less than 25% of the world's seafloor. Experts say that getting that number up to 100% would improve everything from tsunami warnings to the Internet and renewable energy. That's why there's currently a global effort to create a full, detailed map of the seabed by 2030."
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Having accurate maps will go a long way in exploration, but the tsunami part kind of lost me. Without putting seismometers all over the bottom of the ocean, predicting quakes or movement that might cause a tsunami pretty much only leaves the map of what it looked like before the quake/tsunami.
Don't get me wrong, I think this is an outstanding effort, but even the most noble of enterprises has limitations on what outcomes might come.
Don't get me wrong, I think this is an outstanding effort, but even the most noble of enterprises has limitations on what outcomes might come.
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