Joe wrote:
Who here has been in the middle of an ocean?


raise hand

Even Better who here has crossed an Ocean?


raise hand

For 2 ASA points.

Why would anyone want to be out in the middle of an ocean?


'cuz it's cool?
Cleanest & healthiest air on the planet?
Study pelagic species?
Widest & least light-polluted sky?


Bonus question

For those old timers here they might remember me asking this question
as the first question I ever posted here, and BTW I never got a
straight answer. I ask you this. If you were to sail around the world
would you go east or west? Why?


Umm, you can't go straight & still sail around the world.
You have to make some turns. Maybe that's why you didn't get
a straight answer?

Personally I have no interest in "sailing around the world"
as some kind of bragging-rights stunt. It is easiest &
fastest to go west-to-east because of prevailing winds &
currents.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

DSK wrote:
Joe wrote:
Who here has been in the middle of an ocean?


raise hand

Even Better who here has crossed an Ocean?


raise hand

For 2 ASA points.

Why would anyone want to be out in the middle of an ocean?


'cuz it's cool?
Cleanest & healthiest air on the planet?
Study pelagic species?
Widest & least light-polluted sky?

I thought in the middle of the rain forest has the best air on earth.
Would you stury the Mesopelagic, bathypelagic, Abyssopelagic or the
Hatydel Zone?

I think the haydel would be the most fun and interesting, maybe hook a
cracken.


Bonus question

For those old timers here they might remember me asking this question
as the first question I ever posted here, and BTW I never got a
straight answer. I ask you this. If you were to sail around the world
would you go east or west? Why?


Umm, you can't go straight & still sail around the world.
You have to make some turns. Maybe that's why you didn't get
a straight answer?

Personally I have no interest in "sailing around the world"
as some kind of bragging-rights stunt. It is easiest &
fastest to go west-to-east because of prevailing winds &
currents.


Bragging stunt, or true measurement and accomplishment?

Joe


Fresh Breezes- Doug King

DSK wrote:

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Cleanest & healthiest air on the planet?
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Fresh Breezes- Doug King


1974, 500 miles off the west coast of Africa, a few miles north of the
Equator, G.A.T.E. Project, N.O.A.A. ship Oceanographer (OSS-01) - I was
asking one of the scientists aboard about air quality as he was testing
it. He replied something to the effect that where we were it was the
cleanest air on Earth. Then he told me it had something like 150
particles per cubic [inch/centimeter/something or other...] of mostly
dust which I thought sounded like pretty dirty air. He proceeded then to
tell me what NYC had for air particulate content, and I thought "That
sounds like it has to be a solid block!" Quite an eye opener.