Bob Ballard "Why We Explore"

In "Why We Explore", Bob Ballard expresses numerous reasons for why we should be exploring the ocean. He explains that a single year of funding NASA could fund the ocean exploration program NOAA for thousands of years. Ballard also points out beneficial resources that can be obtained by further exploration. Massive amounts of commercial grade metal can be found, as well as methane that is produced from volcanos in the Gulf of Mexico. I believe that we should be exploring the ocean more, especially because we know more about space that we do our own planet.

picture: Bob Ballard speaking on "Why We Explore" http://blog.utc.edu/news/files/2012/02/BallardRobert2012-NOAA_16-300x239.jpg