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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.” quote by Robert Ballard — Download Open image

“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.”

Robert Ballard

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Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours.

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Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?

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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…

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There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.

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What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

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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…

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You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.

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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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I can't travel without Sudoku.

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The fact that this chain of life existed [at volcanic vents on the seafloor] in the black cold of the deep sea and was utterly independent of sunlight-previously thought to be the font of all Earth's life-has startling ramifications. If life could flourish there, nurtured by a complex chemical process based on geothermal heat, then life could exist under similar…

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I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

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Hence I feel no shame in asserting that this whole region engirdled by the moon, and the center of the earth, traverse this grand circle amid the rest of the planets in an annual revolution around the sun. Near the sun is the center of the universe. Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the…

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Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It is surely a matter of outrage that over half a million women die annually from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. This is nearly half the annual global death toll, and arguably, a direct reflection of the disempowerment of women…

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