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Biologists Have Discovered an Underwater Octopus City And They're Calling It Octlantis

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 02:18:36 -0700

At the end of last year, scientists discovered a small octopus city – dubbed Octlantis – a find that suggests members of the gloomy octopus species (Octopus tetricus) are perhaps not the isolated and solitary creatures we thought they were.

Waves

Mon, 22 Jun 2015 16:24:15 -0700

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Even the Deepest Parts of the Ocean Are Full of Trash | Motherboard

Thu, 01 May 2014 13:39:47 -0700

These are some of the pieces of trash the group found. Image: PLOS One We know from the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, and the fact that there are huge garbage patches floating in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans there is trash floating everywhere on the oceans' surfaces.

Mat of microbes the size of Greece discovered on seafloor

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:02:10 -0700

Gargantuan whales and hefty cephalopods are typically thought of as the classic marine mammoths, but they might have to make way for the mighty microbes, which constitute 50 to 90 percent of the oceans’ total biomass, according to newly released data.

These tiny creatures can join together to create some of the largest masses of life on the planet, and researchers working on the decade-long Census of Marine Life project found one such seafloor mat off the Pacific coast of South America that is roughly the size of Greece.

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Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:34:30 -0700

Offsetting sea level rise: An engineering idea of Biblical proportions | Ask Metafilter

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:12:00 -0700

The seas are rising. Climate change has made it inevitable. I have a strange question... Assuming that world sea-level rises by 1 metre over the next hundred years - Would it be possible to cordon off a section of land, somewhere in the centre of a continent, and flood it to create an artificial ocean, thus reducing the consequences of the sea rise?

This Biblical scale engineering feat must take these issues into account:

The section of land would have to be a very large 'bowl', in the centre of a continent, that is already below sea level. Another section of land, leading from the ocean to this central 'bowl' section, would have to be carved out to create the biggest dam system mankind has ever witnessed. Does somewhere like this exist?
The number of humans currently living in this 'bowl' would have to be less than the number of humans who would be displaced by the 1 metre sea level rise. Otherwise this huge engineering feat would not be worth undertaking.
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