Will developed countries ever expand into the ocean?

What would the legality of that be, and what international issues might it create?

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Gas the gungens, race war now.

I'd like to expand into your anus.

This is the only real answer to true climate change.

Why do you ask these questions?

It seems easier to reach than space, with more kinds of resources that are cheaper to retrieve. Everybody's eyes are on SpaceX but I think the path of least resistance, cost wise, is industrial and agricultural exploitation of the sea. We haven't really used it for much so far, not in an organized way, but stuff is starting to happen now that makes me think there will be a lot of people living in the sea by the next century.

If we developed the technology to live in the sea, then we may as well just freely ruin the planet because we'll be able to live wherever we please on it regardless.

What would be the point though? I can kinda see the thing about resources, but with so much space in the world already what the hell would be the point of living in the sea?

>what the hell would be the point of living in the sea?

You have to live in the sea if you're going to perform saturation diving on the same fixed locations over long periods in a cost effective way, as you'd need to for large scale mining and farming operations on the sea bed.

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We did a lot of manned underwater structures in the 70s and 80s for this purpose, long term tapping of undersea communication cables and shit.

Today sat diving is done from ships, using diving chambers and deckside decompression chambers, but only because the jobs are at most 10-12 hours long and the ship doesn't have to loiter long enough to be endangered by storms

If we build more and more permanent infrastructure in the ocean for energy, minerals and farming, we will need the capability to have people on site 24/7 for survey, maintenance, repair and (for farms) harvesting.

That is unless robots become so intelligent so quickly that we can just do all of it with robotics by then, idk.

i dont wanna live out the plot of MOBA

I like where your head is at, but think about the MAIN difference between space exploration, and deep see mining/living/whatever: pressure. One is a vacuum and one has crazy amounts of pressure bearing down, constantly, and it changes. Building things to survive in space is much easier than building things to survive in the deep. It's not the ONLY reason why it won't happen in 100 years, but it's a big one.

>MOBA

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Technically some already do. Like japan for example, which artificially extended land and beaches. There is a thing called exclusive commercial zone which limits the area of water around a country that is still considered territory of that state. The problem is when more than two nations have a claim of the same area, which again, you can look at japan and the rocks in the middle of the ocean eith korea

You don't know much about how sat diving works, do you. This may sound crazy and impossible to somebody with a layman's understanding, but there is no pressure differential involved when you sat dive. Not on the bottom anyway.

These habitats operate at ambient pressure. That means the inside air pressure is the same as the outside water pressure. That's how there can be an open pool in the floor without water rising up through it. The equalized internal air pressure keeps it out. See pic.

If they didn't do this, there would be no point. The only point of having a habitat at depth is so there's someplace for divers to return to between dives that's at the pressure their bodies have adapted to.

Otherwise they would need to return to the surface in between dives, which means they can't stay down for too long otherwise too much nitrogen builds up in their blood. Their time limit is like 1-2 hours depending on depth and breathing gas mixture, then they have to either come up or have a diving chamber and decompression chamber on a ship handy.

Having a habitat at depth gets around this entirely. The divers can stay down as long as there is food, because they don't need to decompress to return to the habitat, it's at the same pressure as the sea floor environment.

They only need to decompress at the very end of the mission when they finally want to come up to the surface. But until then they can dive for however long each day their physical endurance allows, they just come back to the habitat to refill on air, eat, sleep, shit, piss and so on

>what international issues might it create?
something something joke about black people not being able to swim something something

Mmm the low hanging fruit is so ripe and tender this year

>not living in a trapped air paradome with your dolphin gf while working on super science projects for an eccentric billionaire preparing to release a virus that will depopulate the surface
Why even live?

Dolphins are not for sexual ( ಠ_ಠ)

eek eek means yes

I think he meant soma?

The only reason anybody survived the comet in that game is because humanity had underwater bases. If it hadn't been for the crazy AI, black goop and mind uploading baboozery they would have been fine.

IIRC they had fish farms, geothermal power and basically everything else needed to survive there indefinitely. If they had enough people, or frozen sperm/egg samples they could even repopulate the surface once it stopped being on fire