JFC. These polymetallic nodules form over millions of years. We should leave them alone. Remember that time when we decided to mine something that formed over millions of years and caused climate change? - ThreadSky

davidho.bsky.social • 3 days ago

JFC. These polymetallic nodules form over millions of years. We should leave them alone.

Remember that time when we decided to mine something that formed over millions of years and caused climate change?

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doctorvive.bsky.social•3 days ago

Omg what's happened to NOAA 😭

tapirtrouble.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's like they've been taken over -- kind of like those parasitic wasps that lay their eggs in caterpillars.

rachelcoxcoon.bsky.social•3 days ago

There’s no way NOAA would have put something like that on their website a few months ago. Feels like Elon’s acolytes are in charge of website editing there now. Or it’s a ‘blink twice if you’re being held hostage’ message.

peoriabummer.bsky.social•3 days ago

Predicting hurricanes? Fuck you. We’ve got corporations to help.

melissarymer.bsky.social•3 days ago

friedrichmoser.bsky.social•3 days ago

Are they involved in the production of oxygen? Read about that, seems to be a quite recent discovery .

renaissancedreamer.bsky.social•3 days ago

These rocks create oxygen. Mining them will permanently damage the deep sea environment, creating an uninhabitable wasteland.

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024/july/deep-ocean-floor-produces-its-own-dark-oxygen/

tapirtrouble.bsky.social•3 days ago

Wow -- I hadn't heard of this before! Thanks for sharing. Very cool!

renaissancedreamer.bsky.social•3 days ago

It’s sounds crazy but it’s literally the rocks that create a habitable environment for the deep sea creatures. The areas that have been mined can no longer sustain life & are void, even after decades.

andykaitken.bsky.social•2 days ago

Well, if the NOAA is mining the seafloor, that means everybody will start. Unless Trump has claimed the whole seafloor as US property.

thammerlund.bsky.social•3 days ago

I love this alt text on this one

climatepebber.bsky.social•3 days ago

Although some aspects of the modern collector design may cause reduced physical impact compared to this test mining experiment, our results show that mining impacts in the abyssal ocean will be persistent over at least decadal timeframes...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08921-3

climatepebber.bsky.social•3 days ago

Deep sea mining caused irreversible damage 44 years ago. It was only a test.

vegantankgrrrl.bsky.social•3 days ago

called my representatives about this. deep sea mining should be banned under all circumstances.

olenargy.bsky.social•3 days ago

The amount of money it would take to recover minerals like this from the ocean floor would be prohibitive compared to…trade

disasterqueer.bsky.social•3 days ago

I thought that post sounded, uh.... not great.

bejesus0.bsky.social•3 days ago

Not exactly an Agatha Christie novel.

maniagnosis.bsky.social•2 days ago

Anyone remember the Glomar Explorer and manganese nodules on the sea floor?

Yeah, that was a lie.

concerned2.bsky.social•3 days ago

WTF

ratingbook.bsky.social•3 days ago

From the people who want America to sweep its forest floors.

How long did it take American farmers to take virgin prairie topsoil and cast it to the winds in the Dust Bowl?

barryconnolly.bsky.social•3 days ago

No ahhhhh

gcnp58.bsky.social•3 days ago

Do they want Godzilla? Because messing around with the abyssal seafloor is how you get Godzilla.

calnier108.bsky.social•3 days ago

Well hey, that might actually improve the situation

m-f-bee.bsky.social•3 days ago

At this point, I'd vote for Godzilla.

firstprinciples.bsky.social•3 days ago

Every organisation with any environmental credibility is sounding caution about this. Why is @noaa.gov suddenly keen to cause more damage by messing up systems we don't understand?

ba55fr33k.bsky.social•3 days ago

NOAA is a captured entity

Remember last year when they increased the number of Cetaceans the US Navy is 'allowed' to kill each year while practicing their gunplay

quercusmax.bsky.social•3 days ago

Is this like the police having a number of dogs they are "allowed" to shoot? Guys with guns sure love killing stuff.

agstenson.bsky.social•3 days ago

Is this what they’re doing now rather than studying our sick oceans?

s-isabelle.bsky.social•3 days ago

Shouldn't you stop following them?

s-isabelle.bsky.social•3 days ago

Sorry! I just read this and I didn't mean it snarky!! I should have asked if you knew you were still following them!!

srnyc.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yet another reason this administration must be stopped.

feemus.bsky.social•3 days ago

Whatever is left of the NOAA staff must be wailing and gnashing their teeth.

kvetcherntherye.bsky.social•3 days ago

The MO of this admin is to strip EVERYTHING for parts—the ocean, national forests, all of this

herbalkoxon.bsky.social•3 days ago

And they may play a role in making the deep sea inhabitable for many organisms. Yeah but fuck that. Let’s just consume it all.

ybrisali.bsky.social•3 days ago

And where's INA here?
"The International Seabed Authority is a body of the United Nations which was established in 1982 to regulate human activities on the deep-sea floor beyond the continental shelf."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seabed_mining

jaywilliams.pro•3 days ago

once the red matter reaches the Earths core...

thetruemichael.bsky.social•3 days ago

"waiting to be scooped up and processed"

I don't think the Bikini Bottom Oxygen-bots are waiting, I think they're quite busy generating oxygen, which was pretty important last I checked.

dwnstrm.bsky.social•3 days ago

Balrog wakes

whyhumans.bsky.social•3 days ago

We really should leave them alone... https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01480-8

joshmleslie.bsky.social•3 days ago

Oh this is where the zombie virus comes from, got it

originsdesigngroup.bsky.social•3 days ago

This NOAA post sounds like a post-war Tabacco ad expounding the health benefits of cigarettes... it's a sugar coated cyanide pill. Never mind the poor souls mining the polymetallic nodules who develop cancer from the alpha radiation or the surrounding ecosystem that is poisoned for years to come.

jasonbeghe1.bsky.social•2 days ago

this is corporate spin at its ugliest. NOAA dressing up deep-sea mining as “progress” ignores the human and environmental devastation it causes. It’s profit over people and planet, and we can’t let them get away with it. #ProtectOurOceans #PeopleOverProfit #EnvironmentalJustice

basiccitygirl.bsky.social•3 days ago

Trump has got to go.

r3d00c.bsky.social•3 days ago

mining also sterilizes the area for decades

melibe-l.bsky.social•3 days ago

Bizarro world NOAA

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