When I say that we still don’t even know what we don’t know, I mean that we are discovering new things all the time that we didn’t know existed and therefore didn’t know that we didn’t know them.

You’d think we’d know all there is to know about the oceans, especially the surface and currents, since man has been sailing the oceans since the dawn of time.  But now scientists have discovered enormous votices (plural of “vortex”) of water called mesoscale eddies that swirl their way across the oceans, each one a 60 mile wide and 3,000 foot deep mountain of water that will persist for months or even years.  These are different from the large circular ocean currents known as “gyres”.  The discovery will likely change atmospheric modeling methods.  Huh.  I thought the science was settled.

call me “Eddie”

This reminds me of some years ago when scientists were surprised to find eddies in the rings of Saturn.  Read more about it here – Wired.com: Giant Ocean Vortices Seen From Space Could Change Climate Models

Cross posted at Men Out of Work Blog