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They're very expensive and they've got all sorts of other challenges associated with them, and we tend to build multispan when we're crossing a wide estuary or a
sea
crossing.
But of course if that
sea
crossing were somewhere like Gibraltar, or in this case, the Red Sea, we would indeed be building multiple superlong spans and that would be something spectacular, wouldn't it?
But elsewhere in the world, if you ask the general public what they know about shipping and how much trade is carried by sea, you will get essentially a blank face.
We are blind to the
sea
as a place of industry or of work.
So I wanted to open my own eyes to my own
sea
blindness, so I ran away to
sea.
They're at
sea
for months at a time, and even when they're on board, they don't have access to what a five-year-old would take for granted, the Internet.
What else does our
sea
blindness mask?
Well, if you go out to
sea
on a ship or on a cruise ship, and look up to the funnel, you'll see very black smoke.
I also traveled to Cape Cod to look at the plight of the North Atlantic right whale, because this to me was one of the most surprising things about my time at sea, and what it made me think about.
I want to salute the 100,000 ships that are at
sea
that are doing that work, coming in and out every day, bringing us what we need.
Because I think we could all benefit from doing something very simple, which is learning to see the
sea.
Just a one-percent reduction in existing inefficiencies could yield savings of over 60 billion dollars to the healthcare industry worldwide, and that is just a drop in the
sea
compared to what we need to do to make healthcare affordable on a sustainable basis.
This is a solar-powered
sea
slug.
This is a
sea
dragon, and the one on the bottom, the blue one, is a juvenile that has not yet swallowed the acid, has not yet taken in the brown-green algae pond scum into its body to give it energy.
You can ask questions like, "Who lived in this palazzo in 1323?" "How much cost a
sea
bream at the Realto market in 1434?" "What was the salary of a glass maker in Murano maybe over a decade?"
We can reconstruct also the journey of the Venetian maritime empire, how it progressively controlled the Adriatic Sea, how it became the most powerful medieval empire of its time, controlling most of the
sea
routes from the east to the south.
There are errors everywhere, errors in the document, it's the wrong name of the captain, some of the boats never actually took to
sea.
Now, if you look at the high sea, there might be beautiful, calm ocean, like a mirror.
So, take the California brown
sea
hare.
This is a
sea
slug that squirts this lovely, bright purple ink at any creature that tries to eat it.
A single
sea
hare will inseminate the partner in front of it and receive sperm from the one behind, which is sort of like an awesome time-saver, when you think about it.
But if scientists had only seen this and they were like, "OK, we're just not going to touch that with a stick," they would have missed the bigger thing about
sea
hares that makes them really remarkable.
It turns out that these
sea
hares have a small number of very large neurons, which makes them excellent to use in neuroscience research.
For examples, in
sea
horses or in koalas, in fact, it is the males who take care of the young always.
I spent time skiing across the
sea
ice for weeks at a time in the high Arctic.
But maybe on that day we also find that the Greenland ice sheet is really melting unacceptably fast, fast enough to put meters of
sea
level on the oceans in the next 100 years, and remove some of the biggest cities from the map.
This, I would submit, is a
sea
change, a profound change in the economics of the world that we live in.
Such programs won't work for everyone, but for many, it could be a way to break the frozen
sea
within.
And
sea
slugs eat jellyfish nematocysts, prevent their activation with compounds in their mucus, and repurpose them for their own defenses.
And so a young scientist that I was working with at the time, Rob Olson, was able to take this thing apart, put it on a ship, put it back together and take it off to
sea.
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