Robert Ballard Quotes About Ocean Exploration
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Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.
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My final question: Why are we not looking at moving out onto the sea? Why do we have programs to build a habitation on Mars and we have programs to look at colonizing the Moon but we do not have a program looking at how we colonize our own planet, and the technology is at hand!
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NASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years.
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Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.
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There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
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Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.
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The Titanic will protect itself.
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It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.
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If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.
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Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas.
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Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.
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The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.
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I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.
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There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers.
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