Shane Jones will begin a mining resurgence.

[Lilith7]

Nice little bit of science showed up on my screen recently. Dark oxygen, they're calling it. You know those nodules of rare earth minerals and metals the deep sea miners have their eyes on? Well, it seems they lie in groups on the sea floor for a reason. By a process of electrolysis they interact with each other and the salts that surround them to produce this dark oxygen as a primary source. They produce the first components of the air we breathe.
And so, of course we are going to bulid machines to harvest them, to haul them up, to process them, to make our smart phones and our computers, to provide homes for the new masters of the planet. Who cares if the oxygen supply diminishes. Artificial intelligence doesn't need to breathe.

Oy vey....


You have to wonder if the reason no other intelligent forms of life have so far been discovered by humans is that they all went down the very same path our species is rushing down now...