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- Dradis, on 10/10/2007, -3/+54What you fail to understand is that by exploring space, we gain a greater understanding of ourselves and our planet, and how it all came to be. Not to mention that there are numerous technologies created for space exploration that have directly or indirectly allowed us to explore our own planet. I'm not saying that we shouldn't explore our own planet, I'm just saying we should explore everywhere and everything that we can explore.
"There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere." - Isaac Asimov - scooterbaga, on 10/10/2007, -1/+39They garner extremely useful information from both. The search for knowledge should expand in every direction possible. Period.
You can't weigh the benefits of knowledge that hasn't been gained yet. - i208khonsu, on 10/10/2007, -3/+28Pics or it didn't happen
- FeartheKnighted, on 10/10/2007, -6/+30Where the ***** are the pics?!
- OmniMe, on 10/10/2007, -5/+26I hope I'm not the only one who read "Massive Underwear Forests Found in Pacific"
O.o - FyreGoddess, on 10/10/2007, -18/+39It's things like this that make me wish that we would spend at least as much time exploring our own planet and figuring out how to get to the uncharted areas as we do trying to get to Mars, etc.
I don't understand why we're so focused on unhabitable areas of space when we don't even know what's in our own backyard. - Dralite, on 10/10/2007, -2/+21Pictures?
- Neph, on 10/10/2007, -3/+17Oh good, I'm not the only dyslexic ADD-afflicted pervert on digg. That's a relief.
- Gogara, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16Here, I'll sum it up.
"Hey guys, we found these awesome forests - not made of trees but of kelp. They've escaped global warming such as and . . . but we've got all the pictures and you cant see them. Sry!" - dweeb79, on 10/10/2007, -9/+22“Like tropical rainforests, they may be refuges from threats posed by global climate change.”
I just love how they need to throw in Global Warming when they know so very little about them. Apparently these people know just enough to accuse global warming. - Sirking, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Ok, buried, because everyone thought you meant underwater forests of trees like the ones we find on the "surface world." Not cool man, not cool...
- rudy23, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13for digg you mean?
- djphatjive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13It would seam from this article we are exploring our own planet.
- shamanlife, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10You are on the mark Dradis. We should not be limiting any research into a field simply because it is too difficult; like exploring space. Instead we should be exploring all facets of nature equally. It is like a medical researcher saying we should not be wasting time studying the brain because it is too hard to understand, and instead just focus on the heart and lungs since we don't know everything about those just yet.
- proliance, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8This just in.
Kelp is growing in the Pacific Ocean. Film at 11:00. - popothebright, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Wow it's just like a kelp forest. Wait... It is a kelp forest.
- Nougat, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Seems like you're presuming that because someplace is on the Earth, it's easy to live in when compared to space. The depths of the oceans are less habitable to humans than the reaches of space. It's a whole lot harder to safely put human beings at the bottom of the ocean than it is to put them on the moon. Intense pressure is a far more daunting obstacle to discovery than lack of atmosphere (and its pressure), lack of gravity, vast distance.
Yet, the technology that needs to be employed in very deep sea exploration is simple to describe. Any craft needs to be spherical, to balance the pressure, and it needs to be very strong. The material its walls are made of needs to be very strong and very thick. And it needs to be buoyant enough to rise back to the surface under its own power, or there needs to be a cable strong enough to pull it back up without breaking under its own weight.
Until you've got something like that, it's unlikely that anyone's going to be volunteering to go to the bottom of the ocean anytime soon. - rollaj, on 10/10/2007, -5/+13pics?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Scientists, after discovering the forest, also found a strange elevator leading further down a deep trench. "It was wierd," said one diver. "There was a sign that said, No Gods, No Kings, Only Man. And, this may sound strange, be we listened beneath the shaft and we could hear this voice.
A little girl's voice, saying, "Look Mr. Bubbles. Adaaam!"" - mglmouser, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Because exploring the depth of the oceans wont guarantee our survival in the event of a cataclysmic event. Whereas being on a different planet gives humanity (and chicken--we need chickens!) one more chance.
- thecurebr, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9Kinda sad they didn´t take a picture. I wish I could se how a underwater forest looks like. Don´t you?
- cuoops, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6source with videos(huge) - http://www.sjsu.edu/news/news_detail.jsp?id=2560
- RonBurgundy76, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5That's just it, though... we don't know what all is out there in space. What if, by exploring space, we make a discovery or invent some new technology that benefits all of mankind beyond our wildest dreams? Something that we wouldn't have discovered by just staying home here on Earth?
- MacEnvy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5The water around them is not opaque. They get some sunlight, just not as much as the surface.
- vidar808, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Kelp forest pics:
http://olympiccoast.noaa.gov/images/bodypic_kelp1_ ...
http://phycology.mlml.calstate.edu/images/Canopy.j ...
http://www.underwaterplanet.com/kelp%20forest%206. ...
http://www.glennwhite.com/Family/Family%202005/leo ...
http://green.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NG ... - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I'm surprised they found such a thing because the conventional wisdom is that fishing trawlers have scraped the ocean floor bare.
- MacEnvy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Comets don't particularly care about how well we're taking care of our planet. They'll strike just the same, and we're due.
- MacEnvy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I learned from Spongebob that jelly in fact comes from jellyfish, not seaweed.
- MacEnvy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I know you weren't joking (based on past comments), but I dugg you up anyway for the unintentional humor.
- hshadow914, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3being slightly dyslexic i read it as "massive underwear forests found in pacific" i was confused, clicked the link and then became very dissapointed.
- Mockylock, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3They obviously haven't seen The Little Mermaid. Pshh.
- skyshock1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3How do they get sunlight for photosynthesis? Or do they use something else?
- edwartica, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Ok. everyone who is asking for pics, look where the article is from....national public RADIO. It was originally a RADIO broadcast (in fact, I heard it on my way to work this morning). If you want pics, then google it.
- RxDaniel, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3That would be like walking into a forest and thinking you're in New York City.....
- vidar808, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You suck. The ocean is awsome!
- manbergur, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1you wearnt kiddin about HUGE!@!!!!!!!!! good god
- MacEnvy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Holy 227 MB dv file, Batman.
- kelly, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4Perhaps another indication of massive flood that took place roughly 6,000 years ago.
- JJVH, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
- dorianh49, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1FTA: "Graham says his computer model suggests that there are many more tropical kelp forests out there waiting to be discovered. He hopes to find the next one off the coast of Costa Rica."
And my computer model (she's posing on my background wallpaper) suggests that I might find my next TPS report on a Hawaiian shore but, if it's not there, why waste the trip, right? - cliquee, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1 I thought there would be more pics to support the story...
- picsectionpleez, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1don't post stupid ***** please
- Goombellaofgoom, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1No, don't forget the chicken. Without chicken, how would our descendants know what everything tastes like?
- Hoogs, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I don't know about you guys, but whenever I think about diving down into the ocean with giant whales and huge plants around me, I feel completely overwhelmed and almost nauseous. I don't think I could do it.
- Goombellaofgoom, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It was sarcasm, guys.
- picsectionpleez, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Jelly comes from ground horse bones.
- nomadofthehills, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0The article called them "plants," but kelp is actually a form of algae; a protist.
- auto_exec, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3Would you kindly digg this up?
- Snoop916, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2When I first read this I thought this could be evidence of "the great flood". I'm glad to see it wasn't mentioned.
- edwartica, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3Racist bigot.
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