What will we find in the twilight zone: the vast, mysterious, virtually unexplored realm hundreds of meters below the ocean's surface? Heidi M. Sosik of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution wants to find out. In this wonder-filled talk, she shares her plan to investigate these uncharted waters, which may hold a million new species and 90 percent of the world's fish biomass, using submersible technology. What we discover there won't just astound us, Sosik says — it will help us be better stewards of the world's oceans. (This ambitious plan is one of the first ideas of The Audacious Project, TED's new initiative to inspire global change.)
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Elon Musk needs to make DeepX!
George Mathieson my thoughts exactly!!! I wish i could give this comment 1000 thumbs ups!!
SUBNAUTICA!!! Sorry, but no regret
same! pretty sure there’s reapers and sea dragons down there
The ocean is literally like entering a new world, I couldn’t imagine what we have yet to discover in the twilight zones.
Edit: and of course we are already messing it up (nice job humans)
They’ll all be dead soon if we don’t stop the pollution and the oceans heating…
rainfrog – large parts of the ocean are already anoxic.
you are right and we should stop pollution and the oceans heating
The Ted has made me realize each part of my life. Thanks for that
from somaliland republic deep mining ted talk i liked very well
Dack Hacksaw: You moron, Somaliland and Somalia are 2 different countries
Research it for yourself if you don’t believe me
-Democratic Socialist Comrade’s Republic- different but same
-Democratic Socialist Comrade’s Republic- by the way socialism is a defunct ideology. Not sure you’re in the best position to be calling anyone a moron, buddy.
-Democratic Socialist Comrade’s Republic- yeah its 2 different countries joined and bring back him each other clear duud
Alright..
“socialism is a defunct ideology” You mean communism friend.”,
“different but the same” No, they are completely separate nations, and although one is not officially recognized, they are still different
Ocean 8 sucks
Absolutely clueless.. If we do not start pulling rabbits out of the hat pretty sharpish and clean the oceans up then we will have to fight through the plastic to find the death that awaits us explorers..
Absolutely amazing, I’ve said many times over, we (humanity) have still got massive amount to learn about our planet before we fly off to space.
Moses Jonson a catastrophe is pending. If we dont colonize other planet’s soon we would literally have to start over from scratch and end up primitive again.
it wouldnt be the first time that happens.
Always loved the ocean
Real life aliens right here on planet earth
Haven’t you ever seen Hillary Clinton before? She’s a lizard man from the planet xenu here hiding in him skin trying to ruin the planet and make it warmer so her lizard brethren can come here and make a home for themselves
Please! How can we see more of her
I think we know less about earth oceans than all of the info we “pretend” to know about how things go in the outer universe
Who doesnt carry capsules of living creatures in their pockets?!?!
Looks dead and preserved to me.
A fish can’t live in that. It’s either dead or fake.
And then people will overfish it all anyway and nobody will care about sustainability because MONEY MONEY MONEY!
I’ve always wondered why almost everyone is fixiated on space exploration yet we have yet to fully explore the planet we’ve been living on.
Simple, because they are looking for another habitable planet to ruin because we are on the verge of ruining this one.
We do not have sufficient defences against asteroid strikes. A big enough strike and we’re extinct. Add to that the possibility of MAD, plague, environmental collapse and we are in a precarious situation. We need to create self-sufficient off-planet colonies to ensure the future of mankind. There’s not enough public will to do that for its own sake, but commercial space mining will get us there, while making people rich at the same time. A resource boom will also give us options to make cheap goods which are less harmful than petrochemical plastics.
And if whatever trees upon the earth were pens and the sea [was ink], replenished thereafter by seven [more] seas, the words of Allah would not be exhausted. Indeed, Allah is Exalted in Might and Wise.
(The Noble Quran. Surah Luqman. Verse 27)
Corruption has appeared throughout the land and sea by [reason of] what the hands of people have earned so He may let them taste part of [the consequence of] what they have done that perhaps they will return [to righteousness].
(Surah Ar Rum. Verse 41)
[He] who created death and life to test you [as to] which of you is best in deed – and He is the Exalted in Might, the Forgiving
(Surah Al Mulk. Verse 2)
Listen to the voice of the Noble Quran.
Maybe your life will be changed If God allows.
Really amazing
French : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVY8pwx9B74
English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omh4oG8T_Fw
German: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXWTxB6oS6I
I loved this talk, profound exposure. Well done.
I am so excited to know what we will find next. How is it possible to not be curious about it <3
10x biomass? Shhhhh! As soon as some one finds out, they will fish it empty, and feed it to pigs and chickens, in a matter of a few decades.
Its amazing how we seem to know more about the moon and Mars than our own oceans.
3:50 Are they absolutely sure that’s not Cthulhu arising?