Why are oceans spooky?

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Spooky shit dawg
 
Because it's huge and mysterious, you can't see very far in front of you, the physics of being in it (floating and swimming) are not natural for the human body, it's filled with giant monsters that want to eat you or at least can kill you, and we've only discovered something like 10% of the animals that live there. Plus if it managed to kill Steve Irwin then we have no business being there.
 
I used to be spooked by the ocean, then I realized that's silly.
What, some huge monster is going to be way down there? How? It gets harder to maintain structural integrity and find energy as one goes deeper, how would they manage that if they can't on the surface? What would they eat to have enough energy to maintain themselves? The physics simply don't work out.

The biggest organisms you're going to find are going to be the ones within maybe the first half mile of the surface, and any that exist further down that aren't incredibly tiny will be extremely lethargic and have incredibly slow metabolism. Yes, stuff like giant isopods
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Look pretty creepy, but unless you're laying around for weeks on the bottom of the ocean they aren't much of a threat.

There's also a barrelfish (those two green globes are actually its eyes, the dots in front are its nostrils) and a dumbo octopus in the attachments. I'll leave them there because they're stupid looking.
 

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It's just the fear of the unknown compounded with stereotypically 'creepy' deep sea life. Even though there are still perfectly normal creatures I.e. crabs at such depths too. And many of them, like the blob fish, only look bad when dead. Because their bodies were never meant to be below extreme pressures.


Look pretty creepy, but unless you're laying around for weeks on the bottom of the ocean they aren't much of a threat.

@Uberpenguin not entirely true.


But you have to be smaller than a human to be a target.
 
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