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RE: The Changing Face of Our Oceans Part 12: The True Terror of the Deep
I recall a scifi movie regarding the deep sea The Abyss, in which the intelligent beings living in the deep decide to wipe out humanity because of a threat from a nuclear submarine. They should have made the cause of the Abyssal beings' decision stemming from humans using the ocean as a giant trash bin.
We probably know less about the deep sea than we discovered concerning the emptiness of space. How sad that we are destroying entire ecosystems even before being aware of their existence.
I love The Abyss, fantastic film. It's right on the cusp of cgi and practical effects, too, and somehow ends up looking much better than many films. Notably, it used the first edition of photoshop- the special effects department painstakingly went through and altered individual frames in photoshop to achieve the desired effects in many scenes.
We definitely know less about the deeps than we do about space. And yeah, it's as though we think as a society that what we don't see isn't happening, and as though what we do in one domain can't have rippling effects spreading through other domains.