At this moment Lucy Macfarlan

At this moment in the universe I am lying awake because I've been having nightmares about the Mariana trench and the continental shelf. That ish is too scary. We have no idea what lies at the bottom of (or even near the middle of) these two almost infinitely deep chasms in the Earth. There could be billions of undiscovered species of aquatic life, there could be billions of dollars worth of ship wrecked treasure, for all we know, there could be another civilization of humanlike organisms. As of right now we have no feasable way of even begining to look, our current technology of Cuba tanks can only hold a finite amount of air and if that air is put under too much pressure, it is used up almost immediately. Along with this concern is the concern that if a human being were to descend deep enough he himself would be crushed to death by the pressure which increases by one atmospheric pressure for every 33 feet or 10 meters below the surface. This coupled with the fact that these two places are so dark and so vast that human perception of direction is all but destroyed makes it seem as though we will never be able to explore them.  The answer to every question ever posed by man may dwell at the bottom and we will never know it. I'm sure you can see why I'm lying awake after those nightmares. I also have a horrible headache in case anyone was curious.