Apparently, we still don’t know where Blue whales go to breed. How is this possible with all our modern technology? We have satellites, GPS, trackers, sensors, submarines, and deepsea drones, yet hundreds of 300,000-pound mammals just disappear every year? Someone tie a string to the damn thing!
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It’s easy to lose track of someone in a mall, especially if the mall has multiple floors. Even in an close-in environment, where you’re able to move around freely, it’s still possible to lose sight of someone.
Now consider that just the Pacific Ocean alone is larger than every piece of land on the planet combined…then there are all the other oceans, too.
Now consider that the oceans go down around 12000 feet on average – roughly the equivalent of an 1,000 floor building, and it gets harder and harder to even send a machine down as you get deeper and deeper. All of it in complete darkness.
Long story short: you are *vastly* underestimating how huge the oceans are – it’s almost impossible to grasp the scale we’re talking about here. At that scope, it’s easy to lose even a whale.
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