It Is A Quiet And Peaceful Place

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.

So, You Know, I Think The Age Of Exploration Is Just Beginning, Not Ending, On Our Planet.

There's Probably More History Now Preserved Underwater Than In All The Museums Of The World Combined. And There's No Law Governing That History. It's Finders Keepers.

The Fact That This Chain Of Life Existed [at Volcanic Vents On The Seafloor] In The Black Cold Of The Deep Sea And Was Utterly Independent Of Sunlight - Previously Thought To Be The Font Of All Earth's Life - Has Startling Ramifications. If Life Could Flourish There, Nurtured By A Complex Chemical Process Based On Geothermal Heat, Then Life Could Exist Under Similar Conditions On Planets Far Removed From The Nurturing Light Of Our Parent Star, The Sun.

The Greatest Discoveries All Start With The Question "why?"