There is now 9 planets in our solar system.

[Drydess]

My parents told me I was smart

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[Lord Tony®]

Yeah there's noothing to see in the ocean move along people

The future is up not down.

Space exploration is more important than limited sea exploration.

[Moppy]

The future is up not down.

Space exploration is more important than limited sea exploration.

Well, we ought not give up on the ocean yet. There's still a lot to see down there. Who knows, there may yet be valuable resources that we have missed, and they'll be a lot easier to get than resources in space.

[Lord Tony®]

Well, we ought not give up on the ocean yet. There's still a lot to see down there. Who knows, there may yet be valuable resources that we have missed, and they'll be a lot easier to get than resources in space.

Actually once space travel is perfected we will be able to claim resources from other planets.

Eventually all resources on earth will dry out. We can only drill earth so much.

You know there is a planet that is 90% diamond? We could claim that planet and then instead of using diamonds for stuffty jewelry we can use them for something actually useful.

[Drydess]

Well, we ought not give up on the ocean yet. There's still a lot to see down there. Who knows, there may yet be valuable resources that we have missed, and they'll be a lot easier to get than resources in space.

Not really. There are plenty of resources (oil, minerals, etc.) but a huge piece of the population would fling stuff at the people for doing that, looking back upon the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Not to mention the fact that there are limited resources on Earth, and it'd be more practical to just give the ocean the 1%.
Plus when the shallow resources ran out, it'd be costly to make, for instance, a submarine to mine the minerals on remote control (or manned, although this soon would turn out the same way with manned space missions) that is supported at a high pressure. Keep in mind there would be little to no profit, and not many entrepreneurs work for the well-being of the world.
Space flights would essentially have the same problems with pressure and profits, although there are virtually unlimited resources out there. Also public opinion would support it more, because for one there hasn't been a chatostrophoc eco disaster caused by the production or flight of spacecrafts, and also humans naturally are amazed by scientific advances, and want to see more.
Also, like Tony said, there are planets out there made practically purely out of rich and useful metals, rather than a small deposit.
Environmentalists (emphasis on mental) are the bane of profitable and knowledgeable progress in many cases.

[Lord Tony®]

People are still going to fling stuff at us destroying other planets by hollowing them out for their resources. Not like it would matter as the planets we would hollow out would have 0% life anyways.


Also the dangers with deep, deep undersea exploration is much higher. We don't know what the forget is down there for one, there could be an undiscovered species of aggressive megalodon sharks we don't know about.
*We don't know if life is out there on other planets yet but the chances of finding life is lower than finding a man hungry giant shark in the deep ocean.

Also the slightest crack could implode a damn submarine at that depth.

It's also easier to build oxygen support on another planet on land than it is under water.

[Lord Tony®]

Scientist claim most of the mineral resources we have to this day were from asteroids of other solar systems. So we know for a fact there are planets out there that have much more resources than we have.

Believe it or not but water is also a resource. We cannot reproduce water, we will run out of water some day.

[Siren]

It's also easier to build oxygen support on another planet on land than it is under water.

Its easier to extract oxygen from rust than from H2O and the actual loving oxygen in the water right?

Also what planets are you talking about, you can cancel out the gas giants from having metals and the surface of jupiter would probably have more pressure than the deepest ocean, alot of your arguments seem horribly made up.

[Squideey]

bitch how is water limited when it comes out my richard

[Flame]

it's nibiru obviously

[Lord Tony®]

Also what planets are you talking about

None of the planets in our solar system.

[Drydess]

Its easier to extract oxygen from rust than from H2O and the actual loving oxygen in the water right?

Also what planets are you talking about, you can cancel out the gas giants from having metals and the surface of jupiter would probably have more pressure than the deepest ocean, alot of your arguments seem horribly made up.

There are trillions of trillions of planets out there, at least one is bound to match his description.
The oxygen technicality would be more practical extracting oxygen from the atmosphere, because in most atmospheres there is SOME oxygen. The reason this would be better would be that you can't rely on the water method because, like Tony said, water is a resource. Sure you can create water with the oxygen and hydrogen of it's handy, but you can't have the oxygen and water relying on each other.

[Siren]

None of the planets in our solar system.

Good luck doing anything under or at lightspeed, the most probably resources right now in the solar system are asteroids

There are trillions of trillions of planets out there, at least one is bound to match his description.
The oxygen technicality would be more practical extracting oxygen from the atmosphere, because in most atmospheres there is SOME oxygen. The reason this would be better would be that you can't rely on the water method because, like Tony said, water is a resource. Sure you can create water with the oxygen and hydrogen of it's handy, but you can't have the oxygen and water relying on each other.

At the point we can be in another solar system, the technology will be so radically different its pointless even discussing it, its like people in old rome trying to predict whats happening now.

[Space1255]

I've always wondered why we never sent manned missions to other planets. We'd be able to put more than enough food, water, oxygen and other life support neccesities in there to last them maybe even five times the trip planned, and should disaster happen, the astronauts out to have special protocols to deal with that, right? So what's stopping us?

[Lord Tony®]

I don't even know why we haven't turned the moon into an orbital space station yet. I don't see why not.

It's even safer than a regular space station.