Recently NASA sent a rocket to hit the Moon (at a cost of how many millions of dollars?) to see if there was any water ice in a crater near the Moon's South Pole. Meanwhile down here on Earth there a few trillion gallons of water that have not been completely explored.
In addition, the tsunami that devastated Japan which has the best tsunami-warning system in the world, yet they only had 20 mins warning. If you were testifying before Congress as the head of NOAA ( the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) how would you make your case for more money for your research programs?
In the era of ever tightening Federal budgets should we be spending more money to research space or the worlds oceans?
Support your viewpoints with references and specific areas of the oceans or space that we haven't explored or oceanic phenomenon that are not yet fully understood.