My final question: Why are we not looking at moving out onto the sea? Why do we have programs to build a habitation on Mars and we have programs to look at colonizing the Moon but we do not have a program looking at how we colonize our own planet, and the technology is at hand!
Robert BallardThe deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.
Robert BallardThere are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
Robert BallardNASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years.
Robert Ballard