TED TALK: Robert Ballard
What does NOAA stand for?
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organization
Why are people ignoring the oceans?
People think the ocean is uninteresting or they think it's too dark and scary to explore.
How much bigger is NASA's budget than NOAA's?
1,600 times the amount of the NOAA's.
Why do we not have good maps of the ocean?
Few exploring ships go to the remote ocean to make maps of the ocean floor.
How much of the U. S. lies beneath the sea?
50%.
On a good day, how many people are in the deep sea?
4 to 5.
The Mid-Ocean Ridge covers how much of the Earth's surface?
23%.
Why does most of our planet not feel the warmth of the Sun?
Most of the world's surface is the ocean floor, where the water prevents light from reaching it.
What did they find in the deep oceans?
They found found many strange things that nobody had ever seen before, like chemosynthesis, underwater rock formation, and hydrothermic vents that emitted large amounts of heat.
What is the average depth of the oceans?
12,000 feet.
What is telepresence?
When a ship sends a waterproof camera down to the bottom of the ocean on a wire so that you can see the deep sea without going there.
What is the Okeanos Explorer? What is its mission.
It is a decommissioned Navy ship now used by the NOAA. Its mission is to explore and map unexplored parts of the deep sea in U. S. waters with telepresence.
How will it run?
It will be run like a nuclear submarine, with 24 hour shifts.
What do you think about living at sea?
With hotels and ships already acting like homes away from home, I think that we are already half-way to living at sea!
Why is it important to explore our oceans?
The oceans have so many amazing things to discover and lesssons to learn about our planet inside of them that not exploring them would leave us clueless as to how half of our planet is doing.
(BUT NASA IS STILL BETTER!)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organization
Why are people ignoring the oceans?
People think the ocean is uninteresting or they think it's too dark and scary to explore.
How much bigger is NASA's budget than NOAA's?
1,600 times the amount of the NOAA's.
Why do we not have good maps of the ocean?
Few exploring ships go to the remote ocean to make maps of the ocean floor.
How much of the U. S. lies beneath the sea?
50%.
On a good day, how many people are in the deep sea?
4 to 5.
The Mid-Ocean Ridge covers how much of the Earth's surface?
23%.
Why does most of our planet not feel the warmth of the Sun?
Most of the world's surface is the ocean floor, where the water prevents light from reaching it.
What did they find in the deep oceans?
They found found many strange things that nobody had ever seen before, like chemosynthesis, underwater rock formation, and hydrothermic vents that emitted large amounts of heat.
What is the average depth of the oceans?
12,000 feet.
What is telepresence?
When a ship sends a waterproof camera down to the bottom of the ocean on a wire so that you can see the deep sea without going there.
What is the Okeanos Explorer? What is its mission.
It is a decommissioned Navy ship now used by the NOAA. Its mission is to explore and map unexplored parts of the deep sea in U. S. waters with telepresence.
How will it run?
It will be run like a nuclear submarine, with 24 hour shifts.
What do you think about living at sea?
With hotels and ships already acting like homes away from home, I think that we are already half-way to living at sea!
Why is it important to explore our oceans?
The oceans have so many amazing things to discover and lesssons to learn about our planet inside of them that not exploring them would leave us clueless as to how half of our planet is doing.
(BUT NASA IS STILL BETTER!)