What is the One Myth About the Ocean That Is Just Wrong?

A common refrain about the ocean and the Moon has no scientific basis, say deep sea researchers.

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00:00we know more about the moon than we do about the deep sea crazy right except that it's no more

00:10based in fact than is the myth that humans only use 10 of their brains as the conversation reports

00:17the idea most likely comes from this quote taken from a 1957 research paper the deep oceans cover

00:23over two-thirds of the surface of the world and yet more is known about the shape or surface of

00:29the moon than is known about that of the bottom of the ocean however it also predates modern survey

00:36techniques such as swath bathymetry which uses ship-mounted eco sounders to map the ocean floor

00:43to date nearly a quarter of the world's seafloor has been mapped in high resolution

00:47equating to roughly three times the moon's total surface area also worth noting is somewhere between

00:5527 and 40 or more people have visited the earth's deepest point compared to only 12 who have set

01:02foot on the moon according to nasa comparing what we know about the ocean to the moon is at best a 70

01:09year old analogy while it contradicts the vast amount of deep sea research that has surfaced in the years

01:15since there's still so much that's left to be known which is why even scientists keep repeating it

01:22you