It is said that we know more about our own moon than we know about our
oceans on this planet. In this section of The Wet Web you'll learn
more about the mysterious deep and if you like what you hear you might go
on to study this huge wonder of the world. Who knows you might even win
a Nobel prize for it.
Where, oh where, to begin. Well, since its usually the best to start
with the beginning, so lets start with the past. If you're like me, you
hate history, but sometimes learning the history of something interesting
can be fun. A long time ago the Earth was under water leaving the potential
for real cool water microorganisms. Life started with microorganisms. Think
of your favorite animal. Now picture it with fins and flippers. That just
might be what its ancestors looked like. Animals evolved from one cell creatures
such as paramecium, which still exists today. Then the stupid, (brain wise,
not that they are not important) single celled creatures became more advanced.
From that you got your basic sea animal such as jellyfish. Guess what? They
got even more advanced. Now they're pretty much the prehistoric dinosaurs.
All dinos evolved from the dinos of the deep. Some prehistoric animals still
exist today such as the alligator/crocodile. The only difference is many
of the animals a long time ago were much much larger.
You can find out about the oceans of today in the rest of this site, so I'll skip a decade or two and go to the future. The future is full of possibilities and we're the ones who have to shape it to be a good one. I know you, like me, hear this stuff a lot, but this time it's different. Regretfully ,not much, but just hear me out.
Pollution is one main problem. Do you have any idea how long it takes
for something like a disposable diaper to decompose. Years, and lots of
them. Then multiply that by over a million. If everyone threw away one plastic
cup a week we'd have no ocean at all. People don't want to have a dump in
their yard by their pool, so they dump it in the ocean. Think of it this
way. The ocean is like a big salt water swimming pool and aquarium all in
one. If you don't like trash in your pool or in the public aquarium, why
dump it in the international one? Yet, even though it sounds hopeless we
have a chance to save the ocean
The world is running out of resources and if we don't start saving them
now, all of our fossil fuels will be gone before we, the generation of kids,
die. If the fossil fuels disappear then they'll be nothing for things to
run on . Then we'll have to find a new source of fuel or find a way to make
new nonrenewable resources. If that doesn't happen we will eventually die,
due to the fact that we are no longer barbarians who live on the land and
eat raw, unpasteurized food, but civilized people who have forgotten how
to survive on their own.
The first world represents the world with no humans. In the second the
gray and white spaces are the room we're using
We're also running out of room to live and habitation on the moon is
still a long ways off. There is a lot of room not yet settled in the oceans.
I have no idea why they aren't already settled but I have a some ideas that
might solve the hang-ups that you might have. For starters, oxygen. How
would you get oxygen? Plants won't last long. My answer is one that is plain,
yet hard to do. Since 80% of the world's oxygen comes from the water you
could make gills to squeeze out oxygen and other materials needed to breathe.
Power is a another hang up. Since you're in the water it just makes sense
to have big turbines and make an underwater hydroelectric plant and there
won't be any hangup except for fish getting caught in the turbines. That
problem is simple to solve use a huge net with fine holes to act as a filter.
Water is a big problem. Yes, true you're in the water, but sea water is
not usable. I would run the water through an underwater volcano. The volcano
would act as a huge solar still. From the water I would also get salt for
seasoning for the fish.
Some of this stuff isn't as far off as it may seem. We are already farming
the ocean land. That's called mariculture. We are getting minerals from
nodules in the sea, also. The minerals that are found in nodules are copper,
nickel, and cobalt. These are very important.
