alt Hacker NewsWow! It's amazing how little it seems we've explored of the deep ocean, whenever I hear about it. A whole other world down there, lying in wait... the frontiers of our own planet have yet to be conquered!
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randallsquared • today at 4:43 AM
There's so many kinds of microbe we don't have catalogued. The last 30-40 years have been pretty astonishing in that regard.
hackable_sand • today at 7:01 AM
Conquered
nkrisc • today at 8:02 AM
I think we should be doing less conquering of the planet we live on.
erikerikson • today at 8:06 AM
s/conquered/experienced/
Or
s/conquered/discovered/
...
Indeed. Until around 2021 or so, more people had been to the moon than to the bottom of the ocean (Challenger Deep).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_Deep