The world's oceans. They take up most of our planet we call home. We have this large task ahead of us and we spend all the money on space exploration. I think that its time that changes. This big blue is right in front of us and we've only explored less than 5% of it. With our evolving technology the time is now to explore our oceans. We've come a long way in out technological field. Everyday new, amazing creations are being built. With the new advances in our technology, its encouraging opportunities to explore the big blue. A team of geologists took advantage of our new technology. In Cheryl Bardoe's article, "Living in the Dark" she states, "In 1977, a team of geologists squeezed into the research mini-sub called Alvin, hoping to confirm whether geysers existed on the ocean floor. The hydrothermal vents were there, all right. So was a 'Garden of Eden' as the scientists called it, of mussels, anemones, and 7- foot worms with crimson feather-like plumes. …show more content…
Though we didn't know much about underwater geysers before we began ocean exploration. In Cheryl Bardoes article she discusses the discovery of hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. Before we began to explore the ocean, we practically knew nothing about geysers under the surface, but because of ocean exploration we know so much more about them than before. Another piece in the article (lines 87-130) she discusses the new and interesting topic of these hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. If we didn't dive a little deeper we might not even know about them today.
I can understand the reasons why people might be against ocean exploration- the safety issues, expenses, and the knowledge needed. With the right people though, we can build a safe and functioning submarine, receive the money needed, the right people for the job, and anything else that may concern anybody. Because of these pieces of evidence and reasoning is why I believe ocean exploration is worth the risk and worth the
understanding of how the oceans work. The hope is that as a result, we will
The book Fearfully and Wonderfully Made by Dr. Paul Brand & Philips Yancey gives a whole new meaning on what is studying biology. He starts by describing the very first time he saw a cell. He was amazed and from there on he learn how to be a biology student, while still having strong beliefs. He compares the human body as a community. Since each individual cell can live for itself. All cells come together to sustain the larger organism and properly function the way it should be.The analogy in 1 Corinthians 12, compares the human body to the church, where he states how god put each individual cell in its place for a reason. We all are made up of many cells but, we can not function if there are not together as a whole.
“Living the American Dream” If you look up the meaning of the American Dream, you will keep finding definitions similar to this one: “the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative.” The real meaning of the American Dream, however, varies from whom you ask. Many people argue that the American Dream is alive and well, whereas others might argue that the dream is pretty much dead. If you ask me what I think, I personally believe that the American Dream was once a farfetched goal of the people of America, where people dreamed of going from rags to riches. Though the dream might still be alive, it is no longer what it used to be.
In the favela of São Paulo, Brazil, 1958, Carolina Maria de Jesus rewrote the words of a famous poet, “In this era it is necessary to say: ‘Cry, child. Life is bitter,’” (de Jesus 27). Her sentiments reflected the cruel truth of the favelas, the location where the city’s impoverished inhabited small shacks. Because of housing developments, poor families were pushed to the outskirts of the city into shanty towns. Within the favelas, the infant mortality rate was high, there was no indoor plumbing or electricity, drug lords were governing forces, drug addiction was rampant, and people were starving to death. Child of the Dark, a diary written by Carolina Maria de Jesus from 1955 to 1960, provides a unique view from inside Brazil’s favelas, discussing the perceptions of good
Major exploration may harm the environment due to how we exploit resources. According to Philippe Cousteau’s commentary, he states that “the world has fished, mined and trafficked the ocean’s resources to a point where we are actually seeing dramatic changes that are seriously impacting today’s generations” (70). This emphasizes that attempting major exploration has an impact in our environment. Additionally, Elisabeth Rosenthal’s “Stinging Tentacles Offer Hint of Oceans’ Decline” gives us an idea how pollution affects the climate. Dr. Josep-MarÍa Gili
The ocean takes up about 71 percent of the world, and, oddly enough, if someone can’t grasp how massive that is, it is also 1.3 billion cubic kilometers, holding over 99 percent of area that
Written in the late 17th century, “The Wonders of the Invisible World” by Cotton Mather is a timeless work in which he wrote against the presumed witchcraft that was taking place at Salem, Massachusetts. At the time, descendants of the puritans that arrived with the Massachusetts Bay Colony believed that Satan was real and he wandered this earth; therefore, the supernatural was part of everyday life. Prominent puritans believed God was the only thing protecting them. Puritans ascribed their losses and misfortune to external forces conspiring against them. It was only after the Salem witch trials began that the institution of religion and spectral evidence in the court system and government would begin to be dismantled. While there were a multitude
In my opinion, I think that there are many different places that we could drill so our ocean won’t get affected so much. From my own experience, I went scuba
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on. – Jacques Yves Cousteau. Never before has Cousteau been so right. Until recently, it seemed humanity had discovered all it could about its habitat. However in 1996, when European ERS-1 satellite focused on the Antarctic shelf, it depicted Lake Vostok, a subglacial lake the size of Lake Ontario, completely isolated by a two mile sheet of ice for at least 14 million years.(Edwards, 2011) Theories of liquid bodies of water under Antarctica have been made as early as the late eighteen-hundreds. The existence of Lake Vostok itself has been known of since the 1970’s. (Morton, 2004) However, it is only recently that the existence of life in Lake Vostok has gained any credibility. Even though concrete evidence of bacteria has been found in ice core samples above Lake Vostok, speculation still remains a factor, as expeditionary efforts have only been recently given the go-ahead. Time will tell how realistic these expectations of Lake Vostok are, and the possible implications they could have, but for now, they are all we have.
Hydrothermal vents are created when the earth’s crust on the ocean bottom spreads apart. The earth’s surface is made up of crustal plates that are continuously moving together at some points and apart at others. The hydrothermal vents or black smokers, so called because of the dark plumes arising from the vents like chimneys, are places where heat is transferred from the lithosphere to the ocean (Parson 1995). Jack Corliss first discovered hydrothermal vents in 1977 while exploring a volcanic ridge in the Pacific Ocean (Simpson 1999). Up until the discovery of the vents scientist believed that the ocean floor was primarily lifeless because of the water pressure, the cold temperat...
A strong first place to evaluate the past and future working in tandem in a piece of science fiction is that of the novel The Left Hand of Darkness. In the novel, two nations rule over the planet Gethen, Karhide and Orgoreyn, who both seem to embody two different ages of labor and production. In a way, Karhide represents the old labor, and Orgoreyn the "new" labor. This all starts to change when Karhide pushes to modernize, which becomes a major plot point of the book.
Clive Cussler wrote, "We have mapped and photographed almost every square inch of the moon, but we have viewed less than one percent of what is covered by water". The computer will be of the same great benefit when it comes to the exploration of the oceans as the computer has benefited the exploration of outer space. This benefit will be to two major forms; finding and understanding the past (cause and effect), finding the as yet unknown and determining its benefits. As any historian will say, we need to know where we came from in order to understand where we are going.
“The truth however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful for the seekers after it.” - Agatha Christie. In mystery books there is always an ugly truth which detectives are always after. Agatha Christie was one of the the biggest mystery writers of all time. She was born on September 15, 1890 in Torquay in United Kingdom and, sadly, died on January 12, 1976 in Wallingford, United Kingdom. Agatha Christie wrote many mystery books & plays, persisted to write them even after the sad life she lived which set an example for other authors , and illuminated the world by introducing the new genre of mystery.
[Transition: Let’s start by examining the cost benefits of exploring the ocean instead of outer space]
The ocean can serve man purposes things for many different people; as a school, a home, a park...