Motherboard
A wise crab named Sebastian once dispensed some sage advice about the
virtues of ocean living. “Up on the shore they work all day, out in the
Sun they slave away,” he pointed out, “while we devotin’ full time to
floatin’ under the sea.”
This sales pitch for the undersea
lifestyle is undeniably attractive, and it will probably be stuck in
your head all day now. It is also part of a much larger, cross-cultural
obsession that humans have with underwater civilizations, which dates at least as far back as ancient Greece.
Much
like outer space, the isolation and foreign nature of subocean habitats
lends itself naturally to grand themes of humanity’s place in the
natural world, and our drive to settle exotic and unexplored frontiers.
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