How a fleet of wind-powered drones is changing our understanding of the ocean | Sebastien de Halleux

Our oceans are unexplored and undersampled — today, we still know more about other planets than our own. How can we get to a better understanding of this vast, important ecosystem? Explorer Sebastien de Halleux shares how a new fleet of wind- and solar-powered drones is collecting data at sea in unprecedented detail, revealing insights into things like global weather and the health of our fish stocks. Learn more about what a better grasp of the ocean could mean for us back on land.

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34 Comments on How a fleet of wind-powered drones is changing our understanding of the ocean | Sebastien de Halleux

    • True. Though, we still don’t know about many things on Earth. The biggest being the ocean. But we certainly don’t know about a lot of planets. We don’t even really know if say Mars has a solid or liquid core? Or if water is down deep. But that’s why they sending more spacecrafts to space to find out.

    • Well on Mars it’s much easier to study the surface, considering it is smaller, has no water or rainforests. In a very limited sense he is right

  1. The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.
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  2. What research has been done to measure the potential adverse effect of all these units using sonar on whales and other sonar sensitive sealife?

  3. Came to the comments to say what everyone else is saying… There’s literally no way we know more about other planets than our own. If he actually believes that he is beyond ignorant, otherwise he is simply lying until someone foolish believes him and perpetuates the lie further.
    A great idea like these ocean surface drones doesn’t(shouldn’t) need lies to support it.

  4. I think he means there are more known knowns about other planets than known unknowns about ours. There certainly isn’t more knowledge about other planets than this one. How could that even be possible? We know so much about Earth that we know the extent of what we don’t know, but we know so little about other planets that we don’t even know how much more there is to know. Anyone who makes such a moronic statement is probably wrong about all his conclusions.

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