On exploring the oceans - Robert Ballard

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Ocean explorer Robert Ballard takes us on a mindbending trip to hidden worlds underwater, where he and other researchers are finding unexpected life, resources, and even new mountains. He makes a case for serious exploration and mapping. Google Ocean, anyone?
Talk by Robert Ballard.

[@dimensionless99]

Such passion! I've had science teachers who were able to communicate this kind of passion, and it's thanks to them that I'm pursuing a career in science.

[@marcberube3729]

How's your career 8 years later? :)

[@Prof_Tickles92]

The passion of this guy is unreal!

[@eerievibes6854]

Unless ur effin him🙄

[@Tulipstarful]

"a future engineer, or a future scientist in the battlefield for truth". I love the way this man speaks.

[@moristar]

I think one of the best passionate, real passionate talk! About very important thing!

[@ClockworkCake]

It's talks like these that make me excited to see what we will find and/or produce in the future. Very inspiring.

[@TazManiac008]

An amazing lecture spectacularly delivered! Deep-sea exploration is definitely one of the most underrated and overlooked fields of science in spite of the astonishing knowledge it could tap into. I am pleased to see it gaining momentum and exposure.

[@wuldntuliktonoptb6861]

I had the opportunity to get to know robert personally my high achool guidance councillor said he had an office at the mystic aquarium in ct so i did, he came to my school twice, he showed me some stuff he got off an anchient roman shipwreck. He really is an incredible person who would take the time to talk to any adverage joe.

[@terrenceromano]

Great talk! Really enjoyed how his enthusiasm builds as the video progresses.

[@LudwigSpiegel]

Can't wait for more new and exciting discoveries!!!Thank you TED for this video.

[@tomsand1800]

The 20 people who disliked this video are NASA scientists

[@kneeco8093]

28 now

[@tomsand1800]

@PoRtLaNdIaBoI Relax bud, i dont even remember watching this video

[@Keithustus]

Tom Sand, crazy you would. This is absolutely unforgettable and I keep referring to to people over the years, since it was first publicly available.

[@eqserts]

30 now 😎

[@soniabera05]

Agree!🤣🤣

[@redtailpunk]

Dr. Ballard was the first man (besides my father) who I looked up to. I was a little kid, obsessed with all things Titanic, and his enthusiasm for the subject was and still is nothing short of contagious. Dr. Ballard is truly a gift. I sleep better knowing his work inspired much smarter people than myself to pursue careers in all things "under the sea" for lack of a better term haha.

[@zandymoss]

I wish they would have shown how long that standing ovation lasted

[@harsh213]

Great presentation. TED did its job- motivated us, inspired us, and enlightened us. Now it is up to us to get the knowledge out of it and invent tomorrow's future. It is up to us to explore both ends of this universe.

[@onlyashes89]

The way he was getting excited when talking about the methane volcanoes and upside down pools and the life signs they’d discovered, was getting me choked up.

[@wushish]

I hate how he sees opportunity for exploitation everywhere, but then i love how passionate he is. Seeing such complete and honest passion is sadly pretty rare.

[@mosshaus]

What a great lecture! I love his passion for oceanic research.

[@akshaygowrishankar7440]

😊

[@akshaygowrishankar7440]

😊😊😊😊😊o😊😊😊😊

[@z_monty]

Probably one of the best public speakers in the scientific field

[@pagusmusic6254]

Spectacular, in 18 mins I learned more about the oceans and seas than I could ever imagine! Talk like Ted chapter 4 talks about him!

[@winter32842]

What he said is very true: we know more about outer space, galaxies and birth of the universe than we know about the ocean.

[@turricanedtc3764]

Speaking for myself, I think what I admire and respect most about Dr. Ballard is that he went out and did exactly what he describes as "in the works" from about 14:00 onwards. That "command centre" was built. It is now attached to two research ships which set out on annual expeditions of discovery. The discoveries *are* connected to some of the foremost experts that exist (in the US anyway) within minutes of the discovery itself and the results are shown to children and young people of all ages and backgrounds via schools and clubs later on. He could have rested on his laurels as the co-discoverer of the "Titanic" wreck and made a fortune on the speaking circuit for the rest of his days, but he has ended up providing an apparatus which has the potential to make an indefinitely positive impact on the future.

[@Keithustus]

Great follow-up, thanks!

[@nINJABISH]

Opened up my eyes for the oceans! :)

[@gailcullinan]

Prof Bob Ballard, what an amazing man he is

[@MrSinfold]

Fantastic presentation, he was very passionate, very enthused about his career, and it rubs off on the viewer. I wish I went into some sort of research field. Excellent video, made me curious about marine biology. Agree very much with what he said r.e. education, that's the future.

[@Yukiyukiyukichi]

i can listen to him all day

[@cohan000]

This was a great lecture that taught me a lot in an area I knew next to nothing about. And the image of the girl on the end of the lecture was incredibly inspirational. You must really love your job!

[@kylehetzel9928]

Great talk! Well done and so true with the colonization concept! It hasn't dawned on me until now how little we are doing with what we already have on Earth!

[@kimpeater1]

his enthusiasm is so infectious

[@felipemonteiro995]

Yes!

[@MECKENICALROBOT]

still a strong believer in an expanding earth... amazing ted talk

[@MrEjemploanonimo]

Wonderfully spoken and perfectly explained.

[@G_Ozare]

Loved this.

[@riderlibertas2580]

What a passionate speaker. I had no idea that so much of our planet remains unexplored. I have a feeling I'll be hearing his name again :)

[@pirate546]

Amaaaaaaazing!!! Someday I wanna explore the oceans too

[@chuckwagon9973]

Ted Ballard is the BEST!

[@TheReal7Bit]

What a great guy.

[@Marshzzz]

aww I wanna see the exploration too!

[@MAledish]

I agree! All this talk about finding another earth like planet, when we already have one.

[@MrBobTheMan32]

We have all the time in the world to explore oceans and enough people that we shouldn't have a problem exploring both. I personally find more wonder in the cosmos than in the ocean, maybe my view will change when i go deep-sea diving, maybe not.

[@StrawberryStarfish78]

Super exciting! Watch this space...or rather Ocean!

[@theoracle1945]

Bottom line, We aren't done learning and finding. These are exciting times!

[@nitconsultants8892]

Pursuit of Truth Great sir

[@WMfin]

I find this so interesting! Thank you! Btw, don't blame that NASA gets all the money because that isn't the case. Take a look at the military budjet and cut that. Good speech!

[@DavidKirwanirl]

Great stuff!

[@james1327]

this guy is really into it

[@imonfb]

this really gets you thinking

[@JerryMetal]

He is trying to start a new idea. He wants to know why we are mapping other planets with more funding, then we are mapping our own planet. The correct use of 'throw' is 'through' in your comment btw, just helping out.

[@JackMitchinson]

Perhaps its a good thing that we aren't exploring the oceans, considering the damage we've caused to Earth from our activities primarily on land.

[@McLovinlt]

Inspiring, but I can see what's gonna happen next - I'll about to lose the rest of my afternoon looking up underwater exploration videos, I BLAME YOU BALLARD

[@jerrylittlemars]

What happens if they find Megatron buried down there?

[@yelloduckie05]

16:27-17:40 = Enders Game.

[@jrat92]

Man, I wish I was him!

[@bemanos12345]

this guy is awesome!

[@RegularBeico]

"Do not even suggest" is a great way of preventing progress because some barely informed person thinks it could maybe go wrong.

[@o0Rice0o]

wow, amazing!

[@tavobenne]

this video has been out for agessss

[@JacobBassett]

Robert Ballard, I am unsure whether you will see this but if you do can you do me a personal favor. Create a youtube channel yourself or someone with this exploration to post weekly videos of what your finding. No more than ten minutes please. I think that would go a long way to seeing the real interest of the public for this. Thanks. Oh and please share a link with me.

[@Germanbiscuts]

I wonder if someone built an underwater city already... we wouldn't even realize it.

[@StanleyKingChan]

I'm trying to say how space just is so much more significant than the oceans, not that the oceans are unimportant. Neil DeGrasse Tyson did an excellent explanation in a video. Maybe you could look for it. It had to do witht he importance of NASA's budget.

[@NautyEskimo]

this guys amazing he was the one who found the titanic

[@Spartucus101]

Meteor no. But, considering there at at least 5 Massive Volcanic Caldara visible on land with capacity to at least alter the course of human history if not take a nice chunk out of the population. Imagine, given the activity below the surface of the ocean. How big one might get down there.

[@jrbaskind]

Brilliant!

[@pamshewan9181]

Amazing

[@RichEvans_staycurious]

Charlie Hutto....not Titan sir, Europa and potentially Ganymede, yes.

[@GlobalLandArt]

Can anybody tell me why it looks like there are 8 mile wide tire tracks all over the ocean floor?

[@XachB]

Google Ocean? Yeah!

[@NJ104]

amazing.

[@godzilko]

Oh good.Let's sell the rest of uncovered gold...

[@felipemonteiro995]

Wonderful!!!! Amazing!!!

[@JungleJargon]

I agree this is better than going to the moon or Mars. Hey, our moon doesn't even have a name.

[@holleey]

bashing? he merely described, comprehensible and objectively, that ocean exploring should receive way more attention, similar to the exploring of space. in no sentence he "bashed" nasa.

[@truvelocity]

We kind of view the sea as sacred and scary. Now, the mysteries will be revealed to us all.

[@Niragan]

Space exploration is just as exciting and has more spin off then Oceanic Exploration. And for the love of God please do not even suggest building colony in middle in the sea, just imagine the damage will it do to the ocean. Anyway both path are noble and as long as we exploring, its a good thing, why not explore both?

[@tntruther]

I can answer that final question. It's simple. The ocean floors were bulldozed over 12,000 years ago and probably much earlier than that. All kinds of giant trees were cut down and covered over. The perpetrators did this so that they could take all of the advanced technology of the day and use it to set themselves up as gods after knocking the rest of us back to the stone age. The bulldozers were 400 miles wide and 100 miles wide. Before the flood (and after the flood as well), people were obsessed with terraforming the earth. They also cut down all the giant trees. The combination of this and who knows what else, caused the earth to shift and that caused the flood. After the flood was over someone got out there with these giant bulldozers and covered up the distruction.

[@mariushav]

robert billard fuckin is a fantastic speaker

[@tdredz2]

WOW just WOW.

[@Elykar]

Don't frame the funding as a competition with space! Frame it as a competition with the military or other non-scientific expenditures. (I realize military purposes have spearheaded lots of scientific research but it would be nice to have governments and people motivated by pure exploration and scientific curiosity rather than blowing up other countries).

[@xenomann442]

Anon Amous Yes exactly. Although NASA gets more funding than NOAA, it's budget is puny compared to the military. NASA= 18bil/yr. Military = 1tril/yr.

[@turricanedtc3764]

In fairness, he goes out of his way to say that it isn't a zero-sum game. He's not advocating transferring NASA's budget to NOAA; he's asking why the funding can't be taken from elsewhere to have them both as effective at their jobs as each other (it's a given that NASA will take a lot more funding to make exploratory findings as significant as NOAA can, simply due to the vast discrepancy in the total areas involved).

[@BertSingels]

Let's build the SeaQuest :D

[@JungleJargon]

You have to prove objects made you before you can say they did.

[@jadenedaj]

Okay I can answer this guys questions pretty damn easy- More people are inspired by space travel than ocean travel. The end. Thanks for asking. How does he not get this? Sure there is bunch we can get from under the sea but children are not going to be inspired to seek an education because of oceans. Unless those oceans are in space.

[@amitnagpal1985]

It’s typical human behavior isn’t it? We just value what we have. We want what we can’t have.

[@Kings_Playin]

that is a point why are people going in to space if we did not explore the entire sea they should have done that instead of just wondering off to space!

[@JungleJargon]

No, porque hay muchas lunas en el universo.

[@charliehutto77]

We could explore both the ocean and space at the same time if we went to Titan.

[@droompht]

9:05 shhhhhhh

[@samuelanderson8893]

Que esta expedicion, me parecio muy interesante, ya que estuvo lleno de intereses,emociones entre otras

[@JungleJargon]

Maybe we could call the moon, Ted.

[@michaeldebreau5923]

I believe in Robert Ballards belief in taking care of and exploring the ocean and Gods resouces he has given

[@isabellaburgoss]

shut up. he really did find the titanic. oh my gosh. he's the coolest dude alive. AND EXTREMELY SMART #saveouroceans

[@Neclearpuppy]

i want more of this ocean exploration and enjoyed this talk despite the creationist tone robert seems to have.

[@Keithustus]

No Easter Bunny mentioned by creationists I’ve heard talk.

[@Feenposhleen]

A+

[@jackboi6540]

why

[@GigaBoost]

Yes they are, they discriminate against lies and humbug.

[@TheBelmontClan]

Huh, anti-synthesis, is that like outside in or inside out? Something from something or vice versa? Can there be such a thing as nothing from something, when something is nothing.

[@montywright3234]

Thing is ... if they found as much a flea on another planet they'd spend a *ba-zillion dollars* on it.. .

[@dizzizzi12]

30 rock

[@truvelocity]

You're proof positive that the mind (personal experience) is subjective. That misunderstandings happen all of the time. You thought he said something he didn't say. He compared space mapping of the geology of Mars and the possibility of colonizing it with our lack of mapping of our oceans and creating an effort to colonize our oceans. This in no way, takes away form NASA or is bashing NASA. As far as the department of defense, what do you think Halliburton is? Billions go into defense.

[@DaRealFiberOptix]

fuckin yes sir

[@cyberbadger]

This TED talk is comparing the budget of NASA to NOAA in the beginning. Are you trying to claim that I am against NOAA and the exploration of the oceans on earth. Farther from it! I know that they are largely unexplored and should be explored more! There is an implication at the beginning of the video that NOAA should take from NASA's budget, and that's counter productive to both agencies. Look at the Federal budget and then make a comment.

[@tyson2481]

honestly, bashing on nasa and space exploration was rude, and unnecessary..

[@josephbaz333]

everybody likes the cgi of nasa than underwater

[@chuckwagon9973]

GODDAMN IT , I MEANT ROB >:(

[@JB1994]

+Johan Delaney He goes by 'Bob'.