View Poll Results: How much of the world do you think is still left undiscovered?

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  • 90% (we've only scratched the surface)

    18 22.50%
  • 75% (there still so much more, we got a long ways to go)

    14 17.50%
  • 50% (we've seen a lot, but there still equally more to see)

    13 16.25%
  • 25% (there's probably still something big out there)

    12 15.00%
  • 10% (Most of what's out there, we know now)

    23 28.75%
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    How much of the world do you think is still left undiscovered?

    Think about this:

    In this day and age, we've imaged the entire surface of the Earth from high altitudes. Making a trip around the world is as easy as pulling out a credit card, when less than 1 century before, it would be been a massively costly (and likely dangerous) endeavor.

    95% of the worlds Oceans have not been explored.

    Contrary to what you probably expect, not even all land as been fully explored!

    They have found (bacteria) life between rock layers over 3 miles below the Earth's surface!

    Most caves have never been fully explored and have (even recently) opened up news areas of life we didn't think was possible.

    "discovered" can be a loaded term, you may find something to be "important" to warrant "discovery."

    But whatever, what's your take?

    How much of the world do you think is still left undiscovered?

    Or do you think we found most of what will ever be "important."

    I'll go first:

    I think we've only scratched the surface. I can't wait to see what is revealed in the Deep Oceans, and what lies await for us! I still think there is plenty more of Earth to see, before we start moving to other planets!

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    Only parts left to be discovered are the spots with oil. Then we move on to space.

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    Most of it. /shrug

    Until we can do stuff like build the guys in my avatar, it'll remain mostly undiscovered
    too, methinks. There's only so much that robots can do.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zoaric View Post
    Most of it. /shrug

    Until we can do stuff like build the guys in my avatar, it'll remain mostly undiscovered
    too, methinks. There's only so much that robots can do.
    You are probably right! The already need robots to survey the extreme deep oceans!

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    "Important" is not a simple yes/no answer.
    A given plant or other organism might seem to be not interesting or valuable scientifically, but where should we draw that line.
    Is a discovery which can benefit us the one sort that is important ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by ComputerNerd View Post
    "Important" is not a simple yes/no answer.
    A given plant or other organism might seem to be not interesting or valuable scientifically, but where should we draw that line.
    Is a discovery which can benefit us the one sort that is important ?
    This is my point.

    To some, the simple knowledge of something previous unknown is a "discovery." Like a difference species of Beetle in the Rainforest.

    But to others, "discovery" is usually applied to unknowns that in some way benefit us, like "the New World" (AKA America)

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    Once we master deep sea exploring and drilling we have seen everything

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    Just need to find atlantis

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    The thing is, the part about the oceans is an urban myth and complete bullshit. We have been to the deepest parts a long time ago. In 1960 a sub went to the challenger deep in the maryana trench, a record recently beaten by James Cameron doing it solo.

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...-science-sub/#

    Most of the ocean is well known. Now if we are talking undiscovered species of animals/bacteria etc we still find new stuff or new variations from time to time.

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    We know more about the surface of the moon then about the deep ocean (and not only the bottem, the part between the bottom and the surface is also unknown terrain.
    About 90% of all life lives in the undiscovered parts of the ocean.
    So we still have lots to look for (unless you're hydrophobic )

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bantokar View Post
    The thing is, the part about the oceans is an urban myth and complete bullshit. We have been to the deepest parts a long time ago. In 1960 a sub went to the challenger deep in the maryana trench, a record recently beaten by James Cameron doing it solo.

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...-science-sub/#

    Most of the ocean is well known. Now if we are talking undiscovered species of animals/bacteria etc we still find new stuff or new variations from time to time.
    We've been to the bottom, we covered a few square miles of it. Are you telling me the 99,99999999% of the bottem that we didn't go to is exactly the same?

    Its like saying you've explored Africa when you stood on the rock of Gibraltar and gazed in a southwards direction xD

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    Quote Originally Posted by Forgon View Post
    95% of the worlds Oceans have not been explored.
    By volume? What counts as "explored"?

    Quote Originally Posted by Bantokar View Post
    The thing is, the part about the oceans is an urban myth and complete bullshit. We have been to the deepest parts a long time ago. In 1960 a sub went to the challenger deep in the maryana trench, a record recently beaten by James Cameron doing it solo.
    That's like going to Mars, scaling Mount Olympus and claiming you've seen everything.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mormolyce View Post
    By volume? What counts as "explored"?



    That's like going to Mars, scaling Mount Olympus and claiming you've seen everything.

    My point being, sure we have some small discoveries to make. But it´s not like there is some mystery part of the ocean hiding Kaiju

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mormolyce View Post
    By volume? What counts as "explored"?
    http://www.noaa.gov/ocean.html

    First sentence.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bantokar View Post
    My point being, sure we have some small discoveries to make. But it´s not like there is some mystery part of the ocean hiding Kaiju
    It's not an environment we can freely operate in... yet. Once we can, I'm sure there's much to be discovered.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JfmC View Post
    We know more about the surface of the moon then about the deep ocean (and not only the bottem, the part between the bottom and the surface is also unknown terrain.
    About 90% of all life lives in the undiscovered parts of the ocean.
    So we still have lots to look for (unless you're hydrophobic )

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    We've been to the bottom, we covered a few square miles of it. Are you telling me the 99,99999999% of the bottem that we didn't go to is exactly the same?

    Its like saying you've explored Africa when you stood on the rock of Gibraltar and gazed in a southwards direction xD
    The rock of Gibraltar is in Europe though.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bantokar View Post
    My point being, sure we have some small discoveries to make. But it´s not like there is some mystery part of the ocean hiding Kaiju
    You never know, just a few months ago they discovered what i am pretty sure was touted as the largest volcano on earth by a long shot.
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    I think there's lots of space and area left undiscovered, but is it relevant? No. sure 95% of the oceans are unexplored, but what's there? Just more water. We live on the land and we've explored all that, that's all we need or care about. Underground or underwater, I doubt there's much there anyway.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kyux View Post
    I think there's lots of space and area left undiscovered, but is it relevant? No. sure 95% of the oceans are unexplored, but what's there? Just more water. We live on the land and we've explored all that, that's all we need or care about. Underground or underwater, I doubt there's much there anyway.
    Resources, it stands to reason that if the Ocean covers 70% of the planet there are plenty of metals and other valuable resources down there.
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    Define "undiscovered". We have at least rough knowledge about more or less the entire surface of the planet, submerged included. When it comes to detailed, that's a lot harder question to answer. I would say that we lack detailed knowledge about some 60-70% of the planet's surface, vast majority of it being the abyssal plain(s) in the middle of the oceans, simply because we do not frequent depths at which abyssal plain(s) exist, and because abyssal plains cover some 50% of the planet's surface alone. The rest of the "60-70%" would be hard to reach places on the continents (areas deep in rain forests, be it the equatorial or boreal ones, mountain ranges, arctic and antarctic areas).

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    90% because oceans.
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