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NASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years.
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Robert Ballard
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: June 30
Academic
Film Director
Geologist
Naval Officer
Non-Fiction Writer
Oceanographer
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Wichita
Kansas
Robert Duane Ballard
Robert D. Ballard
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There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
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The body is sort of a pain. It has to go to the bathroom. It has to be comfortable. But the spirit is indestructible. It can move at the speed of light.
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You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.
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Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas.
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I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.
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