Why We Sucked At Counting Fish (Until Now)
Thanks to http://www.audible.com/minuteearth for sponsoring this video. A new fish counting method has revealed there are ten times more fish in the sea than we previously thought.* *But unfortunat...
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When Galileo trained his homemade telescope on the night sky, it transformed from a blackpool populated by a few thousand stars into a sparkling sea filled with ten times thenumber. And today, with the help of bigger and better telescopes, we know that our homegalaxy - the Milky Way - is an ocean of as many as 400 billion stars.However, telescopes can’t help us peer into the watery oceans here on Earth, so to counttheir inhabitants, we've used fish trawls to drag them up into the light - and then- more often than not - onto our plates. But now we don't have to fish fish in orderto count fish. In 2010, Spanish researchers sailed around the world with an ultra high-poweredSONAR, shooting sound waves into the depths and using the reflected signals...
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When Galileo trained his homemade telescope on the night sky, it transformed from a blackpool populated by a few thousand stars into a sparkling sea filled with ten times thenumber. And today, with the help of bigger and better telescopes, we know that our homegalaxy - the Milky Way - is an ocean of as many as 400 billion stars.However, telescopes can’t help us peer into the watery oceans here on Earth, so to counttheir inhabitants, we've used fish trawls to drag them up into the light - and then- more often than not - onto our plates. But now we don't have to fish fish in orderto count fish. In 2010, Spanish researchers sailed around the world with an ultra high-poweredSONAR, shooting sound waves into the depths and using the reflected signals...
