John Delaney: Wiring an interactive ocean

[roidroid]

this guy's manner of talking is quite similar to Captain Vegetable.

watch?v=KmjLqddPqZQ

[MomoTheBellyDancer]

This very much reminds me of the ideas behind Real Drive by Shirow Masamune.

[THISNAMEOWNS]

"widely accessible, interactive telepresence" was taken straight from the bullshit generator

[HamOnCan]

it the talk about the new life forms around the vents. . how like each vent, geyser, fumerole and mudhole, all having their own bacteria . . . this where earth's biodiversity stems from? much thought needs be give to this as yet. . . is life organic ,with its origins in earth, sun merry-ly activate life's sprouting from earth on being watered by a touch of light.

[THISNAMEOWNS]

@HamOnCan decent bullshitting skills. fix the grammar and one day you just might be giving a talk on ted :D

[HamOnCan]

@THISNAMEOWNS me on a TedTalk? Ha ha, the world will never be the same. . not, that its ever been that. They'd better hurry cause this officially illiterate grannie, won't be long for life. . educate kids by drawing their brilliance out of them the way a mother brings out a baby's smile? in tween time, playfully yours, pARTicularly with ENGlish

[Zeppelinemg]

i can't even comprehend how much data is being transfered at once. a couple terabytes per second? insane.

[Toreiishi]

With so much wiring, wouldn't that affect sea life??

[dryan22]

We're introducing light into places where there isn't any in order for us to "see" what's going on.

[dryan22]

Every major river on the planet is basically a sewer now, continuously dumping waste, toxins, effluent into the oceans. Ships dump their ballast, we sink unused ships, we tow garbage out and sink it, the Pacific plastic garbage gyre is the size of Texas, and 70 percent of most of the world's midsized to large fish species are gone. 100 million sharks are killed every year. BPs oil spill is just one of five major oil spills happening right now on the planet.

[gr8light]

Another frontier into which to intrude and disrupt delicate eco-systems. Then later shows up the source of funding to be none other than those with an interest not in discovery but looking for yet another opportunity to plunder.

[613themacs]

I didn't know Donald Sutherland had a twin brother!?!? Great voice!

[bunkmasterflex]

he looks like so many different actors i don't know where to start.

[xjustamem0ryx]

was only a matter of time before man extended his meddling to the sea.

[RoZZ92]

I just love Ted... it makes me long after tomorrow so much!

[mutantlinks]

@RoZZ92 yeah exactly how i feel. good you said that

[dahmin]

I don't like the sound of this.

With all those equipments, noises, lights etc. going under the deep ocean, it's going to disturb its wild life a lot more.

[kaosgoblin]

Why is it that on every Ocean related talk on TED the video is filled with serious codec issues? Ive noticed this for at least 6 months.

[isambo400]

OH BOY! I can't wait to watch live ocean floor footage.

[cheroxx]

Why is it that half of all important pictures in TEDTalks are scrambled? I can see the whole vid, but not all pics???

[Casmige]

=OoO=

From that Right Wing CNBC:-

"If the Gulf of Mexico - the 7th largest body of water in the world, containing approximately 660 quadrillion gallons of water (that's 660 with 15 zeros) - was represented by Cowboys Stadium in Dallas - the largest domed stadium in the world - how would the spill stack up?"

"In this example, the amount of oil spilled - if the Gulf of Mexico was the size of Cowboys Stadium - would be about the size of a 24 ounce can of beer."

How about DEM "Notches"??!!

[doloppost]

John, here is where you will upset the Molocks greatly.

[neoaeonian]

Underwater life looks interesting. With all this analysis, my question is, "how nutritious, and how does it taste?"

[bvenvi]

Amazing Amazing Effort!!! Hope this dream comes true soon as a boon for the Ecological sciences!!!!

[GrimJackal]

Great talk, even if I'm not convinced the project can reach it's full potential. If we're going to abandon manned space exploration, let's at least sink some effort into exploring and researching our oceans.

[Rombizio]

So, he wants to fill the ocean with small TV stations full of metal and plastic parts so people can see the ocean and learn more about it? I dont like the idea of disrupting on a semi-permanent way the ocean life. I got the point but I think the implementation is poor.

[didikh]

@Rombizio I am agree too with you ,but since it is no more roots of any trees avalaible to keep us together at the least we will have those wires to holding earth together.

For years I was looking for that solution , :) I see it just now !

[mooktank]

It's reassuring that people are working on these things. I definitely see the need for underwater infrastructure for power and data transfer.

[pel6413]

an entire lecture about technological triumph and the f**king iphone gets the applause, WTF.

[HigherPlanes]

So many people just got trolled

[chungdha]

Google streetview in the sea?

[biozamadotcom]

Now this is something special.

Man should be making nature better,

not destroying it like the oil companies.

[aerobique]

awesome

[smkymcnugget420]

Finally a well put together and highly informative TED. they've been sub-par recently

[sp4zzpp2]

Oh an iPhone! Applause!

[AlexanderArts]

Wow... the biomass under the sea floor sounds very interesting!

[tv3992]

yawn

[humacyrnus]

YAY for youtube compression ruining some of the images.

[mooxim]

omg i just realised! wisdom is to wizards as drink is to drunkards and spain is to spaniards.

[frvfilms]

it sucks that it will feel like an INVASION to them , but it the only way we can learn --

its funny how we know so little of everything...

i knew he was a apple customer--

[frvfilms]

it gets good @ 11:11

[Harshfate]

fast forward to about 3 minutes or u will fall the fuck asleep

[EtherTrogg8]

@hwnzero don't knock it till you try it :P and i didnt actually say anything about normal perception enhancement, infact you would enjoy the experience better with your two eyes closed! its the 3rd eye aka the pineal gland that i was referring to, ofcourse if you have been drinking fluoridated water for a long while it would be calcified. sounds like you have been consuming too many drugs in your food (additives) your real aggresive towards a neutral comment! lighten up my friend :)

[rochet75]

about time we find out whats down there!

[EtherTrogg8]

pine tree=pineal gland ;-) i recommend 5g dry magic mushrooms to open that eye up nice and wide!

[fog13]

snore

[xilliah]

No description and what's with the title? I hope my favorite youtube channel doesn't change to that TedX one, where there's no good titles to be found.

[createsutoo]

I'm wondering.... if there have been any Studies regarding any possible harmful affects from these gadgets, for any , or all Life down there.

[FraserGLParlane]

Is the clapping in the beginning canned?

[quosmo1]

zzzzzzzzzzzz wishy washy crap g g g get to the point already!

[Th3Wab3]

despite the horrible track record humans have I'm still slightly optimistic that this will cause more benefits than harm....

[123backinyerface]

We should have a zero tolerance policy for crimes and gross negligence against the planet. BP should be fined 100% of its value (screw the shareholders) and the money used to reverse the damage it did by funding people and organizations like the guy in this video.

Delaney said a great thing at the start, "Technological Opportunity", we have the people, the technology, now give them the opportunity to use it in a productive progressive way.

Another great Ted Talk.

Fav'd

[BBQPeanut]

@123backinyerface You know the reason why BP cut corners is because of OUR materialistic attitudes. If we didn't demand it as much as we do at the price we do, we wouldn't need to use offshore drilling.

[teapot55]

@BBQPeanut

Word.

Although Hayward going yacht racing with his son during this didn't really help BP's image. Buy yeah, I agree, we're so hungry for oil n oil products what did we all expect? of course oil companies will rush to do things. I don't believe either Obama or BP took care of the accident correctly, but it was still an accident that we are all responsible for.

Meaning...... if we are to massively demand nuclear, wind, (even fusion) or whatever energy, we should learn from this mistake.

[BBQPeanut]

@teapot55 What Hayward was doing is completely irrelevant. You can't possibly have one man oversee 20,000 employees. As much as it is his job to oversee the whole company, you can't fire a guy for that. It has nothing to even do with the cars we drive either. We use electronics, have dry homes, eat chips, all of which is from BP plastics. Though, yeah, they didn't take care of the accident well.

[sosolidshoe2]

@123backinyerface Yeah! Fuck the shareholders! Fuck all those arseholes in the UK who's pension fund managers invested their money in what seemed like a strong stock, they can just fucking starve when they hit retirement!

Moron.

[123backinyerface]

@sosolidshoe2

"A 1999 report from the government’s Minerals Management Service (MMS), leaked by Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington, found that there were 117 BOP failures in a two-year period in the late 1990s."

I think that would be a good time to sell stocks and protect the interests of the of investors, but noooooo, better just to risk it until it breaks.

Don't blame me, blame BP....hey that rhymes :P

[SuperAtheist]

@123backinyerface

zero tolerance doesn't exist in nature.

[HigherPlanes]

I think this rotten huckster is trying to pitch a sale to big media corporations like comcast for fiber optic cable.

[Kargoneth]

I find the prospects of a permanent presence on the sea floor to be both positive and negative. While the data will no doubt be useful, constant human presences have resulted in lots of ecosystem damage in the past and present.

[DavidSabine]

@Kargoneth To be accurate, our 'industrial' efforts are often the cause of damage to ecosystems. But rarely are our 'research' efforts. I'm in favour of careful research activity in the oceans; I'm afraid this will instead lead to major industrial exploitation of resources at the ocean bottom.

[Th3Wab3]

@DavidSabine can u separate the two industrial motives and research... research is funder by industry for industry...

[DavidSabine]

@Th3Wab3 I can separate the two, yes. One, "research", is the result of curiosity and educational exploration - to know ourselves and our surroundings. The other, "major industrial exploitation", is the result of careless and profit-driven capitalization of our surroundings.

[Kargoneth]

@DavidSabine

I suppose you are right to an extent. But even things like non-industrial-scale fishing has caused a massive drop in the number of fish in the oceans due to the sheer amount of humans on the planet.

I agree with you that I am in favour of careful research activity in the oceans. The problems come from unscrupulous people using the information gleaned from the research for their own gains.

I don't know how to fix this since even well-intentioned people can cause great harm.

[DavidSabine]

@Kargoneth You're right. Well-intentioned people can cause great harm. But I DO know how to fix it: there are too many people requiring too many resources.

Curbing the population growth and the gradual shift towards 1st-world lifestyles is the only way to resolve this. I'm in favour of taking drastic measures (by means of 'education' and governmental 'regulation') to severely reduce our world's population by 30% within the next hundred years. I don't mean mass killings. I mean birth control.

[neobattle2]

Is the title a mistake?

[neil73]

@neobattle2 My thought too. It must be.

[Shalek]

Colonize the ocean then colonize space!

[HigherPlanes]

If oceans are central to the quality of life on Earth, then BP just knocked the quality down a few notches.

[screenflicker1]

@HigherPlanes its not BP its us. Please, us. Humans. BP is just doing its job

[adj789]

@HigherPlanes have you seen the spill recently? It's almost all gone

[smkymcnugget420]

@adj789 omfg are you fucking kidding me... that's complete bullshit. we sprayed so many damn dispersants and now the oil is suspended at neutral buoyancy or straight up sank to the bottom where it can enter the food chain for decades. try going down there and jumping in. its like swimming in diesel fuel you come out all greasy. just because u don't "see" it on the surface doesn't mean everything's all better... that's exactly what they want u to think, y do u think they used dispersants

[adj789]

@smkymcnugget420 I guess the experts are confused when they say the oil has been "reabsorbed into the environment." That could be inaccurate but I think mother nature has a way of dealing with things like this since oil seeps into the ocean all the time, of coarse not of this magnitude.

[smkymcnugget420]

@adj789 i agree. mother nature would've dealt with the ALL NATURAL Crude made by natural processes. what i think she will have trouble with is the synthetic dispersants that we sprayed all over

[HigherPlanes]

@adj789 Don't make me laugh.

[adj789]

@HigherPlanes which part was funny?

[HigherPlanes]

@adj789 All of it. Come on man. Have you flown over the gulf and saw with your own eyes that the spill is almost gone? Most of it is under water. But what's funny about your comment is that even when the oil is visibly gone, it's impact on the environment will last for decades. Some animals might go extinct because of it, and coral reef that has been forming for 1000's of years will be wiped out completely when all said and done. The damage hasn't even begun yet.

[jamesbizs]

@HigherPlanes Go do some research about how much oil has been spilled, prior to this. 20,000 species go extinct every year as well.

[cuntscab555]

@HigherPlanes lol niggers!

[jjmm112]

@Higher Planes .

The "blow out preventer" is made by "Cameron International", a company based in Houston, Texas!!!.

American engineering is responsible!, look it up!!.

[sealyoness]

@HigherPlanes

But not for long. The ocean is pretty resilient. Note: That glacier in Greenland just last week calved enough fresh water to keep the US going for days. Was it in response to that oil slick? Who knows?

[TheDistilledMan]

@HigherPlanes No, we caused that, by demanding oil and all it's distilled products. Humanity is seeking oil from increasingly risky sites just to meet demand. Blaming one company is way, way too simplistic a perspective.

[capaneo]

I want a high res of that slide with all the processes!!! Where can I find it? the one at 5:05

[tomatoso27]

@capaneo try at ted.com

[Kargoneth]

"JohnDelaney 2010Z 480"

Funny video title.

[defaultuser88]

JohnDelaney 2010Z 480

ITS THE KILL COMMAND

[archolon]

He needs work on his story telling skills.

[BallinTrollin]

what is this? i don't even....