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Nereus deep sea sub 'implodes' 10km-down
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| 5/12/14
| Jonathan Amos
Posted on 05/12/2014 11:12:53 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
I think a Kraken got to it.
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posted on
05/12/2014 11:26:38 PM PDT
by
Cowboy Bob
(They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: Cowboy Bob
You mean it wasn’t the secret undersea base of the Flying Saucer invaders from Space, the secret undersea base of the escaped Lunar NAZIs, or the secret Navy-Air Force undersea beas for Advanced Alien Technologies? Shucks....
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posted on
05/12/2014 11:37:34 PM PDT
by
WhiskeyX
To: F15Eagle
Mid 60s, yep. 8 miles or so from memory. Very cool and ugly as sun contraption, the Trieste was.
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posted on
05/12/2014 11:39:50 PM PDT
by
lefty-lie-spy
(Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
To: WhiskeyX
You mean it wasnt the secret undersea base of the Flying Saucer invaders from Space, the secret undersea base of the escaped Lunar NAZIs, or the secret Navy-Air Force undersea base for Advanced Alien Technologies? Shucks....No, it probably stumbled on one of the things you list, and was destroyed by the space invaders to continue to hide their secret base.
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posted on
05/12/2014 11:42:18 PM PDT
by
Mogger
(Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
To: Cowboy Bob
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posted on
05/12/2014 11:42:50 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: F15Eagle
Had to check Wiki on that. The Trieste reached the bottom of the Marianas trench; i.e., 6.78 miles down. So the Nereus didn’t make it that deep, which is a serious engineering embarrassment, as far as I’m concerned, given our 50 years’ metallurgical advancement over the old timers.
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
05/13/2014 12:20:37 AM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
To: LibWhacker
Should have been insured . Wonder if it was,in any event back to the drawing boards hope they can pull what’s left up to see what happened.
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posted on
05/13/2014 12:22:23 AM PDT
by
mosesdapoet
(Serious contribution pause.Please continue onto meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: Liberty Valance
that's so kewl! ..arh!
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posted on
05/13/2014 12:40:05 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? :-)
To: LibWhacker
“So the Nereus didnt make it that deep, which is a serious engineering embarrassment, as far as Im concerned, given our 50 years metallurgical advancement over the old timers.”
Nereus also dived in the Marianus Trench and reached a comparable depth of 10,902 metres (35,768 ft) to the revised Triests dive of 10,916 metres (35,814 ft). So, Nereus did “make it that deep” given the inaccuracies of measuring the actual depths of the dives.
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posted on
05/13/2014 12:40:53 AM PDT
by
WhiskeyX
To: F15Eagle
The Trieste used a cone shaped plexiglass to withstand the pressures, but it partially failed when it cracked on the way to the bottom of the Challenger deep. Nerues likely suffered a failure due to a component that had been overstressed one too many times by the repeated dives. The Trieste was rebuilt so many times it contained hardly any of the original parts. However, the steel diving sphere housing the crew of two and built by Krupp was reused in the construction of Trieste II.
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posted on
05/13/2014 12:47:37 AM PDT
by
WhiskeyX
To: WhiskeyX
*eerie space music/*
the Abyss...it's under there. ..somewhere.*/eerie space music*
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posted on
05/13/2014 12:47:56 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? :-)
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
05/13/2014 12:54:04 AM PDT
by
fso301
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Man-made global pressure.
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posted on
05/13/2014 1:38:20 AM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: Gene Eric
i put the whole episode down to Stress.
The operators have been over working it lately ,due to being under a lot of Pressure.
Thank goodness there was nobody on board.
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posted on
05/13/2014 2:28:09 AM PDT
by
moose07
(the truth will out ,one day.)
To: LibWhacker
"It was a one-of-a-kind vehicle that even during its brief life brought us amazing insights into the unexplored deep ocean, addressing some of the most fundamental scientific problems of our time about life on Earth."
Not any more....
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posted on
05/13/2014 3:34:54 AM PDT
by
SERE_DOC
( “The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.” TJ.)
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