Why so much emphasis on space when 95% of our oceans remain unexplored?

agree.

Lochness monster be laughing at us right now.

Because we're probably not going to live 8,000 feet under the ocean one day.

by george I think you've just come up with an irwin allen tv series

Because we are going to expend all our resources one day and Matthew McConauhey isn't going to live long enough to send that baw into space to find a new planet.

Our ancestors made a treaty with the mer-peoples long ago.

I would think that it's harder to overcome the physical limitations of a deep water environment than it is in the vacuum of space.

this is why

My dad used to say this to me all the time. Said we likely have untold resources in the depths.

While as far as space, the only profitable venture I can see would be sending rocket drones to small asteroids, then crashing them into the moon, and then harvesting the precious metals in the asteroids.

I have read about this somewhere and something it could make a return on investment.
We can look at achievements in our past and every one has been something to advance civilization or to make a business out of.

The short term plans are tourism, $100,000 twenty minute flights and such.

Long term would have to be mining.

Kracken

You don't wanna go down there baw

The ocean is fricking unforgiving. Twelve people have walked on the moon. Only three people have been to the deepest part of the ocean. The oceans are that fricking hostile to us.