• OpenStars@discuss.online
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    1 month ago

    Yes, come to space...

    *removed externally hosted image*

    We welcome you here Uh I mean nobody is here, it's entirely empty.

  • Thorry84@feddit.nl
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    1 month ago

    Also not true, we know much more about the oceans than the moon, because the moon isn't really that interesting.

    We know pretty much all there is to know about the moon. The oceans are much more complex, so there is a lot more to learn. But we also know a whole lot about the oceans, way more than we could ever know about the moon. Sure there's still a lot of things more to find out about the oceans, so percentage wise we maybe know less than the we know about the moon. But again this is because there really isn't that much to know about the moon, so you can get up to a high percentage really quick.

    Now people may say we have high res scans of the entire moon and not of the bottom of the ocean, but that isn't true either. We have scans with pretty decent resolution of the ocean floor, not as good as the moon, but still decent. There really isn't that much there. Everywhere we've seen something interesting we've focused in on and checked out. Most of the ocean bottom is pretty much a dark desert under water, so no we haven't "explored" it, there is nothing there.

    People use this argument as a shortcut to maybe there's a whole lost civilization of Atlantis down there. Well no there isn't because humans haven't been around all that long let alone civilization, so the Earth isn't all that different in terms of land masses compared to when the first civilization started. Also something that big would definitely show up on scans and under water archeology is a thing. But maybe there's dinosaurs down there. Again no there really isn't, if something that big were there we would have come across it a long time ago. Even if we hadn't seen it directly, we would see signs of it being there. But scientists are discovering new species every day in the oceans! Yeah but have you met scientists? They go crazy for some kind of weird jellyfish which is exactly like most other jellyfish but is technically a different species. Most people wouldn't be able to tell those species apart, only people who really know their stuff can. All of the big stuff has been found.

  • Krauerking@lemy.lol
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    1 month ago

    You are just saying this cause you found out about the butt worm.

    Don't let the idea of multi butts scare you. Come back to the oceans.

  • Flyberius [comrade/them]
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    1 month ago

    What about all the oceans on all the other planets?

    This is such an apples and oranges comparison, it grinds my gears every time it gets used to justify some nonsense conspiracy or cryptozoology nonsense.

    Sorry for being a grump.

    • fossilesque@mander.xyz
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      1 month ago

      And it occurred to me that the animals are swimming

      Around in the water in the oceans in our bodies

      And another had been found, another ocean on the planet

      Given that our blood is just like the Atlantic, and how

      Well the universe is shaped exactly like the earth

      If you go straight long enough you’ll end up where you were

    • tamagotchicowboy [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      Yea and I'd purely guess most worlds with life of some kind are on some sort of water planet, so you flee the 'scary oceans' at home to encounter alien ones of the same. If you can't adapt to the first real good luck on the second.

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    It is much more complicated and difficult to explore the depths of the ocean than going into space, given that in space there is no need for vehicles that must withstand these enormous pressures. In space they only have to withstand an air pressure of 1 atm and not a thousand atm in the depths of the seas. A simple crack in the hull and you're dead before you can say sh....

    • Annoyed_🦀 🏅@monyet.cc
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      1 month ago

      Just like how we explore moon/mars, we been using remote controlled submarine for quite a while now

      https://youtu.be/I1ozbgy5N-U?si=Z33ZZ0ij04uKl1le

      The challenge of deepsea is not pressure, it's the limited visibility and range they can get with the submarine drone. On moon and mars, everything on the horizon is visible once the sun hit the surface, but deepsea doesn't have that perk, and water block any radiation so well the submarine need to be tethered in order to receive signal and send video feed.

      • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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        1 month ago

        No, space is hard because of radiation and great distances, but a hole in the hull of the ship, for example due to a micro meteorite, can even be covered with a piece of duct tape. A hole in the hull of a submarine however is a catastrophe, if it does not directly cause the hull to implode, the water that enters has enough pressure to cut you in two.

        • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social
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          1 month ago

          The current "space" we go into, tends to have a tinny amount of atmosphere. (1.322×10-11 Pa according to some random top result on Google)
          So if you want to keep inside conditions at around 1 atm for a human to stay, that's all the difference you need to keep, and a duct tape might work.

          But the void I refer to, is very different.
          Think:

          • Vaporising metals
          • Theoretical quantum bubble formation

          Normal spacecrafts made for "space", might even have their outer surface constantly being diffused in the void.


          Disclaimer: I'm not a space nerd. The above is just speculation