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Re:More than 19,000 undersea volcanoes discovered by michelb on Saturday April 22, 2023 @08:52AM (#35666133)
How many decades/centuries would it take to map the ocean?
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Re:More than 19,000 undersea volcanoes discovered by ipaddr on Saturday April 22, 2023 @09:26AM (#35666397)
It sounds like the Human Genome Project. Well worth the effort.
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Re:More than 19,000 undersea volcanoes discovered by dragonwriter on Saturday April 22, 2023 @10:12AM (#35666792)
Its already been largely done, which is why when subs run into seamounts, you tend to see the leadership team relieved.

“Maybe it would help to have a map of the space we’re going to be driving very large, very expensive, strategically important pieces of equipment (that also have crews) through blind” is not, as it turns out, something that never occurred to the Navy.

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Re:More than 19,000 undersea volcanoes discovered by tomrod on Saturday April 22, 2023 @10:13AM (#35666798)
Oceans cover 361M km^2. So if we built 13,333 drones with a failure rate of 25% and they map at a rate of 50 km^2/day at a higher column depth with active sonar, it would take approximately 2 years
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Re:More than 19,000 undersea volcanoes discovered by cagenut on Saturday April 22, 2023 @11:30AM (#35667553)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83FQzfH_r2U
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Re:More than 19,000 undersea volcanoes discovered by tomrod on Saturday April 22, 2023 @01:17PM (#35668782)
There you go.
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Re:More than 19,000 undersea volcanoes discovered by rdl on Saturday April 22, 2023 @07:18PM (#35671793)
Also don’t need to do the entire ocean; there are specific routes and zones we care about the most, can easily prioritize those.
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Re:More than 19,000 undersea volcanoes discovered by tomrod on Sunday April 23, 2023 @08:37PM (#35682311)
Indeed. It can certainly be accomplished.
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Re:More than 19,000 undersea volcanoes discovered by toomuchtodo on Monday April 24, 2023 @12:02AM (#35683528)
https://seabed2030.org/

Project goal is 2030.

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