What would Mars look like with an earth-like atmosphere and oceans? When the sun does eventually grow bigger and life be unsustainable on earth, perhaps man will colonize Mars. Men will then definitely be from Mars. Kevin Gil used Gimp and data from NASA to visualize a fertile Mars teeming with life.
Brainstorm’s 5-color silkscreen print series focusing on the layers of physical spaces around us. You don’t have to be Jacques Cousteau diving on Lake Titicaca to know the waters around you. More prints>>
The vampire squid is an unusual aquatic creature that inhabits the waters and turns itself “inside out” to avoid predators when threatened. The deep sea cephalopod Vampyroteuthis infernalis meaning “vampire squid from hell” has large eyes to accommodate the dimness of little light where it lives. The alien looking squid is a rare sight to see in action.
There is a very good chance the information you are viewing has run through the ocean and will travel within seconds to the other side of it with ease. Most of the information highway runs through the oceans. The cutting technology is running the same paths that the telegraph has for over 100 years. There you thought the satellites spinning around the globe were transmitting the internet via new technology including cellphones. The brunt of the job for the Internet runs the old fashion way, still under the water connecting the continents. New technology is always dependent on older ones. [link]
See also:
Internet is Now 40 Years Old and 1,663 Million Strong
Leonard Kleinrock’s Personal History/Biography: the Birth of the Internet
