On Thu, 14 Aug 1997 tg@fisher.biz.usyd.edu.au wrote:
> Has anyone noticed the news item that the Japanese are about to begin
> seabed exploration after a 100m longterm investment in technology.
> That would make it resource less-dependent, semi-independent, or even
> independent. It would also make the Pacific island area exclusively
> techno-peripheral to Japan?
I don't know about that last sentence, but a 100 million dollars
(I assume that's the figure you had in mind) in hardly big
bucks in the high tech development business. However, it does
make sense for the Japanese to invest in seabed exploration.
They're an island, after all, with both shallow and deep
oceans to investigate, and we've known since the 60's that
the oceans have resources worth exploiting.
More power to them.
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