Robert Ballard Quotes
Before you can exploit, you explore.... When President Reagan signed the paper defining our Undersea Exclusionary Zone, we doubled the size of the United States land. But unlike the Louisiana Purchase where we had a Lewis & Clark Expedition to survey the new land, we don't know what we have.
Actually starting in the Obama Administration, his ship and a NOAAA Government Research ship both were surveying the new undersea areas, However, it would take 20 such ships to do the job in the next decade–so vast was the new territory that we now have.
Robert Ballard, Marine Biologist and Underwater Explorer, Discussing the American territory under the sea, CBS 60 Minutes, August 16, 2015r
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His expedition to Kentucky was illegal as it was against British law to expand to the West. Soon, hundreds of thousands of Americans would follow Boone and his men.
While Peres and many others think that the Arab nations can become developed countries, there are major barriers in the way. One is oil. No country that has had a great deal of oil has ever developed. Then there is education. Israel’s technological success requires a very high level of education in secular subjects which no Arab nation provides. The Western cultural values of inquiry, freedom of thought, individuality are were in large part developed from the traditional Jewish values. The Muslims had these at the early 2nd millineum. But political and religious forces since then, have created contemporary Arab cultures whose vaues are in many ways antithetical to modern technological development.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Venter developed an entirely new method of finding new species and hence new genes by collecting water samples from all over the world and using computers to catalog all the life forms and determine whether or not each is new and then isolating the genes if unique. As a very wealthy business man he had a personal sailing yacht which he turned over to graduate students and young scientists who then sailed much of the world taking indiscriminate samples, preserving them and sending them back to Venter’s computer bank for analysis. The cost per gene and specie discovered was amazingly small as it was an industrialization of finding new life forms.
This image of reality is a little disconcerting to most people as it represents the kind of world political philosophy wants to avoid. It also gives us a different perspective on marine environmentalism and conservation.
Desertification is occurring on every continent except Antarctica.
He was referring to land where there were people already living. People included Indians and Mexicans. He was one of the few American Presidents who were not enthusiasts for Manifest Destiny and expansionism of America.
Withdrawal meant not allowing certain public land to be sold or allotted to homesteading, commercial development, mining, industrial, ranching, or agricultural use. It was reserved as wilderness areas and/or national parks or forests.
“Dear” was an adjective that was used (and still is) in England. It means “expensive”. Like so many activities today, this has existed throughout time. Here, in many of the very early American Colonies (in this case, Virginia), where a few ended up with most of the land while many who fought and bled for it did not.
Robert Duane Ballard is a retired American Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is most noted for his work in underwater archaeology: maritime archaeology and archaeology of shipwrecks. He is most known for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989, and the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in 1998. He discovered the wreck of John F. Kennedy's PT-109 in 2002 and visited Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana, who saved its crew. He leads ocean exploration on E/V Nautilus.
