This is my entry to @galenkp’s Weekend Engagement #113. I picked the second topic: Up or Down.
You have the choice of travelling to space for a week, or spending a week on an exploration vessel diving the depths of the ocean. What do you choose and why?
Miles of Ground to Explore Before I Sleep
I asked my wife about these choices and she chose to go explore the depths of the ocean. She said that only to piss me off because she likes the beach and I don’t take her every weekend. She is not a good swimmer and she is afraid of most animals on earth. I am sure she will panic after a few minutes under water. She is scared of turtles. She can go ballistic is you try to make her get close to a tiny one, let alone touch a big one. I don’t want to imagine what she will do under water when she sees big sea creatures.
@manujune said she’d choose to travel to space. I know she said that because she was half-sleep and also to piss me off because she wants to get as far away from Venezuela as possible and, well, I have not been able to get her out of here. She is a Marvel fan and space looks cool and crowded from those movies. I know that if she read what I read recently about a cosmic void in space that even if you traveled at the speed of light, you could spend more than 300 million years without seeing anything. Nothing, Nada. I know I would get desperate after 24 hours. She will want some space fast food or something after a few minutes.
Thus, and just to contradict them both, I would choose neither. The depths of the oceans, like outer space are way too mysterious for my liking. The vastness of the unknown, the dangers that lurk in every step of the way, the challenges to the law of gravity and everything we are used to, are too much for me to fathom. Time and distance are tricky under water and in outer space, and so is our behavior. There is no technology modern, expensive or good enough to save us from the underwater or outer space if either throws any of their tiniest complications at us.
I would rather keep my feet firmly on ground, explore the thousands of beautiful and friendly-looking places and creatures we still have on the surface. There is still plenty we do not know or understand on the ground. Even though I recognize that human fascination by the unknown and the unexplored has led to important discoveries and technological advances, I would rather enjoy a little bit more of certainty and safety on earth, while it lasts.
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Your position is completely valid, if we are critical and realistic, I think I would do the same. Hahahaha
Although if I would dare to see humpback whales up close. So with a lot of fear, I would go down to the ocean. Blessings 🙏
Thanks.
Yes, I guess seeing a whale must be in anyone's bucket list.
It must be an amazing experience
Blessings to you too
I like to explore the depth ocean too to see other beautiful creatures down there up close.. It must be scary but for sure, worth exploring 😊
With the right safety equipment, I may go with you 😁
Last time I tried scuba diving with some friends, one of them got an octopus on his back. We had to drag him to the shore and it took us a long sticky and (for him) painful time to get every tentacle away from his back. I think he still must have the marks of the suckers.
That does not happen to every person who goes underwater, but that happened to us. Underwater life is amazing but it can be really scary.
If that happens to me, I might get a panic attack 😅.. Really need someone who knows better about dealing with some creatures down there. 😂
I chose the depths of the ocean because I am attracted by its beauty, I remember as a child watching Jacques Cousteau on television. Space is also attractive and it is incredible that more is known about it than about the oceans. Your position is valid, there are many things to know on land. As it must have happened to you, it is not possible for me to see any image, only text in this horrible internet that we have in Venezuela. Greetings.
Sorry about that. I just had an image of Roraima and at the end a guacamaya, just as symbols of all we still have unexplored on land.
I too grew up watching documentaries of Cousteau. He made the depths of the oceans something real and tangible for kids back then. Unfortunatelly, even in cities by the sea like Cumaná, after 500 years, scuba dicing is a luxury. Those who have governed and those who have the money to make some important changes have no clue where the money should go and what kinds of things should be developed, for the sake of science and also for the sake of tourism and just fun.
Both things I would like to know it, to explore it, of course I'm still afraid of it.
But it would only be for a few days. I think that being underwater is more dangerous, lest we get a whale and it's not a nice one hehehehe.
I really like the banner and separator you have at the end of your post. They are beautiful.
Greetings and blessings @hlezama
You say "a few days" as if it were just seconds 😂
It reminds me of that joke about the guy who asked God a million dollars (because money has no value for god and a million is just like a cent), and God asked him to wait a minute (which for god can be a century).
Bug sea creatures, even if harmless are just so impressive. I think I'd get a heart attack if I go underwater and run into a 🦈 or 🐋
About the separator, my daughter @imabby17 made the one with the map of Venezuela. The animated banner comes from @doze (he has done amazing designs for free use).
Oh I chose the ocean! It is 80% undiscovered and we should try to explore it hehehe
You are brave. Good luck in your explorations 🙂
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