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| Blue Whales. Everything about the blue
whale is enormous. It is the largest animal on earth, ever.
A big blue whale can be 100 feet long and weigh up to 150
tons. That's as large as a Boeing jet. Its heart is as large
as a small car. Fifty people could stand on its tongue.
Its spout shoots up at least 30 feet when it surfaces for
air. Like all whales, the blue whale is a mammal rather
than a fish. It is warm-blooded, has lungs rather than gills,
and nourishes its young with milk. A blue whale's milk supposedly
tastes like a mixture of fish, liver, milk of magnesia,
and castor oil. But it's very rich and nourishing for baby
blues. A baby blue whales drinks over 50 gallons of its
mother's milk in a day. In its first several weeks of life,
it gains 10 pounds an hour or a little over 200 pounds a
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"Our future, our destiny, will be greatly
affected by discoveries from our exploration of inner and
outer space." Scott Carpenter, Astronaut/Aquanaut
Underwater Exploration.
Up to the present time, underwater exploration
has been driven by human curiosity and ingenuity, and in
the future, that basic motivation won't change. Our techniques
and equipment will improve as scientists, engineers and
adventurers continue to refine the basic tools for underwater
exploration. Tomorrow's divers likely will be using improved
versions of scuba, diving dress, underwater vehicles and
underwater research stations. However, we will continue
to be drawn to the underwater world by the same sense of
mystery and adventure that inspired our early ancestors
to take that first deep breath and plunge into the unknown.
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