Zitat des Tages von Robert Ballard:
Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.
Don't confuse facts with reality.
I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.
It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.
The Titanic will protect itself.
If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.
There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.
I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.
I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.
Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.
Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.
So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.
Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.
It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.
I prefer sayings over jokes.
Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.
There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.
You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.