This summer, a first-of-its-kind global research expedition followed up on that surprise. Drilling for fresh water under the salt water off Cape Cod, Expedition 501 extracted thousands of samples from what is now thought to be a massive, hidden aquifer stretching from New Jersey as far north as Maine.
It’s just one of many depositories of “secret fresh water” known to exist in shallow salt waters around the world that might some day be tapped to slake the planet’s intensifying thirst, said Brandon Dugan, the expedition’s co-chief scientist.
“We need to look for every possibility we have to find more water for society,” Dugan, a geophysicist and hydrologist at the Colorado School of Mines, told Associated Press journalists who recently spent 12 hours on the drilling platform. The research teams looked in “one of the last places you would probably look for fresh water on Earth.”
I non sarcastically love how everyone is so cynical here 😂
I’m tired, boss. Grifters are wasting all our resources to prop up capitalism when all we need is a few well placed “Go get the fuck out of here”-s.
Obscene amounts of resources and energy being burned up to give us
Artificial general inteligencea really stupid chat bot that is constantly wrong.Artificial general intelligence built by people who don’t have any. Sounds great, give them half a trillion dollars!
I don’t. I find the constant negativity quite draining, and I don’t want to spend too much time here as a result.
Do you like self righteous smugness? We have an abundance of that as well.