Board 8 > So we officially have a 5th ocean now.

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https://www.npr.org/2021/06/11/1005668441/coming-soon-to-an-atlas-near-you-a-fifth-ocean

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ah yes, the all blue

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we officially had one two decades ago

why does national demographic have precedence over every oceanology organization

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Yeah, I was gonna say I thought we had 5 for a while now.

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Its crazy, how long did they think about this? how much time went into looking into this possibility?

Is there just a council of scientists sitting in a dark room arguing and debating this day after day?

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Punnyz posted...

Its crazy, how long did they think about this? how much time went into looking into this possibility?

Is there just a council of scientists sitting in a dark room arguing and debating this day after day?

they're in the same building as the people who decided Pluto isn't a planet anymore

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Punnyz posted...

Its crazy, how long did they think about this? how much time went into looking into this possibility?

Is there just a council of scientists sitting in a dark room arguing and debating this day after day?

the panel that defined its most recent boundary had a huge controversy based on the name they used for the Sea of Japan

it is as far as possible from being an interesting event

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https://earth.nullschool.net/

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xp1337 posted...

Yeah, I was gonna say I thought we had 5 for a while now.

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The Southern Ocean was always on the maps I had as a kid, I didn't realise it wasn't 'official' or whatever. This certainly doesn't feel new.

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I thought it was seven

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NFUN posted...

the panel that defined its most recent boundary had a huge controversy based on the name they used for the Sea of Japan

it is as far as possible from being an interesting event

idk that sounds incredibly interesting.

nvm I looked into the controversy and it's just politicals I should have seen that coming

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"Antarctica is so far away that most people don't think about it on a day to day basis. They're not seeing how important it is to literally all of our survival," says Brooks.

Am I supposed to be thinking about South America, Asia, Europe, Africa, and Australia on a day to day basis?


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Antarctica is so far away that most people don't think about it on a day to day basis.

I can't get over this line.

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I've certainly heard about the Souhern Ocean before.

I do find it a bit confusing though, just because it's not really clear where it ends and other oceans begin. While there are clear points where the ocean narrows to separate the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific from each other, there isn't anything remotely equivalent for the Southern... do they just define its border by latitude?

But it's obviously useful for oceanographers to consider it a separate entity, and I'm not gonna argue with them.

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NeoElfboy posted...

I've certainly heard about the Souhern Ocean before.

I do find it a bit confusing though, just because it's not really clear where it ends and other oceans begin. While there are clear points where the ocean narrows to separate the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific from each other, there isn't anything remotely equivalent for the Southern... do they just define its border by latitude?

But it's obviously useful for oceanographers to consider it a separate entity, and I'm not gonna argue with them.

It's defined by latitude in general, though I think some organizations have more complex boundaries for it. issue is that the currents surrounding it change by season which would change the border year-by-year, so they just kind of approximate it

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I read about this a couple years ago, and was so confused to find out this comes from the early 90's. We certainly never learned that there were 5 oceans when I was school, and that was after this was initially established.

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I've heard people say there was an Arctic and an Antarctic Ocean, but I laughed at them for the latter because it's just part of the other oceans.

Now, someone want to explain the Sargasso Sea?

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In first grade I learned there were 5 oceans, with the 5th being the Antarctic Ocean. But then I moved and the 5th ocean was never mentioned again. I assumed it was some sort of Mandela Effect.

But I guess this time my memory was correct. (I was in first grade in 1989, so whoever said this was from the early 90's was pretty much spot on.)

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