Yes, come to space...

~~We welcome you here~~ Uh I mean nobody is here, it's entirely empty.

Have you seen what's down there? It's terrifying.

You don't have to tell me. Deep down at the bottom of the ocean? The whole place is crawling with...capitalists.

Yeah, yeah. I know. Andrew Ryan gave us all the big, shiny speech, "sweat of your brow" and all that, but what's he got down there now? Just a buncha junkies and opportunists running guns and peeling off all of that pretty art deco veneer.

Thanks but no thanks, Ryan.

There isn't much to see on the moon. It's a giant piece of rock. You're been there once, you've seen it.

Deep ocean is a whole different story. Very many, very different ecosystems.

Tbh I've never been to the moon so I'm not sure actually

If Lovecraft has taught us anythig, it's that looking too closely into either one is a BAD idea.

Spoken like a true thalassophobian.

Also not true, we know much more about the oceans than the moon, because the moon isn't really that interesting.

We know pretty much all there is to know about the moon. The oceans are much more complex, so there is a lot more to learn. But we also know a whole lot about the oceans, way more than we could ever know about the moon. Sure there's still a lot of things more to find out about the oceans, so percentage wise we maybe know less than the we know about the moon. But again this is because there really isn't that much to know about the moon, so you can get up to a high percentage really quick.

Now people may say we have high res scans of the entire moon and not of the bottom of the ocean, but that isn't true either. We have scans with pretty decent resolution of the ocean floor, not as good as the moon, but still decent. There really isn't that much there. Everywhere we've seen something interesting we've focused in on and checked out. Most of the ocean bottom is pretty much a dark desert under water, so no we haven't "explored" it, there is nothing there.

People use this argument as a shortcut to maybe there's a whole lost civilization of Atlantis down there. Well no there isn't because humans haven't been around all that long let alone civilization, so the Earth isn't all that different in terms of land masses compared to when the first civilization started. Also something that big would definitely show up on scans and under water archeology is a thing. But maybe there's dinosaurs down there. Again no there really isn't, if something that big were there we would have come across it a long time ago. Even if we hadn't seen it directly, we would see signs of it being there. But scientists are discovering new species every day in the oceans! Yeah but have you met scientists? They go crazy for some kind of weird jellyfish which is exactly like most other jellyfish but is technically a different species. Most people wouldn't be able to tell those species apart, only people who really know their stuff can. All of the big stuff has been found.

Source is CenturiiChan.

It is much more complicated and difficult to explore the depths of the ocean than going into space, given that in space there is no need for vehicles that must withstand these enormous pressures. In space they only have to withstand an air pressure of 1 atm and not a thousand atm in the depths of the seas. A simple crack in the hull and you're dead before you can say sh....

I can see the moon from right here.

fr are these oceanographers just trying to wake The Old Ones or what? Ain’t nobody got time for that shit.

You are just saying this cause you found out about the butt worm.

Don't let the idea of multi butts scare you. Come back to the oceans.

What about all the oceans on all the other planets?

This is such an apples and oranges comparison, it grinds my gears every time it gets used to justify some nonsense conspiracy or cryptozoology nonsense.

Sorry for being a grump.

How's Dagon these days? Haven't heard from him since that whole Innsmouth incident.

"We know more about space than the oceans"

Bitch the stars are out in the open. All you have to do is look up. We've been doing it since the dawn of civilization.

Sorry, I hear that factoid too much from people don't know better.

Is Nadeau the opposite of Cousteau?

This is revisionist actually, we must Return To Sea