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James Cameron Reaches Deepest Spot on Earth
Associated Press ^
| 3/25/12
Posted on 03/25/2012 6:02:22 PM PDT by anymouse
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To: anymouse
How low can the 1% sink?
-:) Good for him, on a totally pointless adventure. Probably, employed more people than DumBO’s stimuless.
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posted on
03/25/2012 6:24:42 PM PDT
by
depressed in 06
(6 November, 2012, the day our embarrassment is sent back to Kenya.)
Hope he doesn’t pull the plug... a hell of alot of water would go down the drain.
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posted on
03/25/2012 6:26:32 PM PDT
by
dmzTahoe
To: tet68
This marks a turning point in underwater exploration.
I'm not so sure. The risk is so easily offset by sending ROVs that most oceanographers don't really see the point on going themselves when they can operate an ROV in real time without the risk and expense.
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posted on
03/25/2012 6:28:03 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: corkoman
wait - Cameron is inside that thing? Why? As I understand it, he paid for quite a bit of it. He also has done many deep dives in other types of submarines, so he is actually one of the few people qualified for this type of thing.
To: anymouse
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posted on
03/25/2012 6:28:55 PM PDT
by
wolficatZ
(:"TV is king, you're my everything..")
To: anymouse
To: anymouse
“He plans to spend about six hours down there”
Wow, much better than my idea of sending down a variety of video cameras (low light, infrared, etc) with live feed and leaving them there for years.
To: Glenn
Maybe they just keep them closed at that depth and gradually open them as the rise to the surface for air? /s
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posted on
03/25/2012 6:30:55 PM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: al baby
Hell he was just trying to go someplace that never heard Of Trayvon MartinTHAT has to be one of the best posts on Free Republic of ALL time. It sure is for me. Nice.
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posted on
03/25/2012 6:31:46 PM PDT
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: anymouse
To: al baby
Hell he was just trying to go someplace that never heard Of Trayvon MartinThread winner. I am so sick of all the media publicity about that gangbanger.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
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posted on
03/25/2012 6:37:06 PM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(Dear God, thanks for the rain, but please let it rain more in Texas. Amen.)
To: al baby
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posted on
03/25/2012 6:39:08 PM PDT
by
Randy Larsen
(No Romney vote from my family!)
To: Randy Larsen
Imagine that the father of the beeper spelling something correct on the first try
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posted on
03/25/2012 6:44:16 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom)
To: cripplecreek
Your bring up ROVs prompted my curiosity and I looked it up. I guess there have only been two, 1995 and 2009, robot remotely controlled dives in the Challenger Deep. I would love for them to do some core drilling there. That is some of the oldest ocean sediment.
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posted on
03/25/2012 6:44:44 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: anymouse
Well he’s only about 4,000 miles short of the “deepest spot on earth”...
But he did go to the deepest spot in the ocean on earth...
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posted on
03/25/2012 6:46:56 PM PDT
by
DB
To: yarddog
I believe that there were two “portholes” on Trieste. They were made of very thick quartz crystal.
One of these cracked which is what made the BANG. The two scientists inside could not find any damage so they continued their mission. It was not until after they had surfaced that the damage was discovered.
Brave, brave men.
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posted on
03/25/2012 7:00:36 PM PDT
by
43north
(BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
To: dmzTahoe
“Hope he doesnt pull the plug... a hell of alot of water would go down the drain.”
Good one!
We would all hear a giant sucking sound if that happened...
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posted on
03/25/2012 7:03:36 PM PDT
by
43north
(BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
To: yarddog
“If I had been on that thing I guarantee you it would have gone back up immediately.”
If it had been me there would have been one nasty smell in the sub.
To: anymouse
“Wait a minute! That isn’t some weird geological feature. It sort of looks organic, like the tentacle of an octopus, but ten thousand times...larger...
PULL ME UP! PULL ME UP! UP! UP! UP! NOW! NOW! NOW!!!”
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posted on
03/25/2012 7:13:19 PM PDT
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." -- Hillary Clinton)
To: 43north
One view port. As per
Wikipedia, what broke was the "outer window" that was a protective cover for it. Of course it didn't sustain pressure across its face, and I assume it broke because of compression of the entire sphere and the attached bracket that held the outer window, "pinching" it, as it were.
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posted on
03/25/2012 7:38:23 PM PDT
by
dr_lew
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