The 21st Century (CBS) - "The Deep Frontier"
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[0:07] this is a world that holds more secrets
[0:10] than the Dark Side of the Moon it is a
[0:12] world unlike any other for in so far as
[0:15] astronomers can tell Earth is the only
[0:17] planet in the solar system that has an
[0:20] ocean it is the ancestral home of all
[0:22] life on Earth and has within its
[0:24] vastness the smallest and largest of all
[0:27] creatures from here man's precursors dra
[0:30] onto the land 360 million years ago
[0:33] since that time it has been for man a
[0:36] place of incredible hostility of cold
[0:39] dark and crushing pressures a world
[0:41] without air and scant sunlight a world
[0:44] of enormous Challenge and opportunity it
[0:47] is the one challenge that may require
[0:49] man to change himself we have artificial
[0:52] lungs we have artificial kidneys we have
[0:54] artificial hearts and plastic blood
[0:56] vessels um artificial eyes hearing a
[1:01] a lot of us have artificial teeth uh why
[1:03] not artificial gills the little switch
[1:05] that you could you could switch from
[1:07] using your lungs to using your
[1:09] gills men with gills are not yet a
[1:12] reality but we can see today the
[1:14] outlines of a host of new devices that
[1:16] will be used to explore the Deep
[1:18] Frontier by the 21st century
[1:35] [Music]
[1:43] [Music]
[1:47] the 21st century is brought to you by
[1:49] Union
[1:53] Carbide the discovery company
[2:00] [Music]
[2:03] there is only one ocean and it covers
[2:05] 71% of the Earth's surface men sail the
[2:08] ocean fearful of its power mystified by
[2:11] the secrets that lie beneath its surface
[2:13] the ocean bottom begins as a shoulder of
[2:16] land called the continental shelf here
[2:18] the depth of the water averages 600 ft
[2:21] most marine life is found between th