Re: Ocean Floor Civilization

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:14:46 GMT, Logan Kearsley <chrono.surfer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| This is two questions, really.
| First one: if you had a civilization scattered over the abyssal plains, with
| no contact with the surface, at what point would they be likely to become
| aware of the existence of another civilization developing on land / the
| ocean surface? What if they also spread out over the continental shelves?


They may be able to hear powered shipping and/or submarines, but I think
the dead giveaway would be laying a communications cable through one of
their cities. Or having the Titanic fall on them.


| Second question: what kind of tech level could a deep-ocean civilization
| maintain, assuming that they could have as much help as they needed from the
| surface to get set up? You could use turbines in ocean currents to generate
| electricity, and geothermal power, but could you do extensive metallurgy to
| make new stuff and maintain what you've got? How about making ceramics? I'm
| assuming that it's not plausible to maintain large gas-filled enclosures at
| the bottom of the ocean in anything like conditions that would allow simply
| copying industrial processes used on land.


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