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Robot sub reaches deepest ocean
BBC NEWS ^
| 2009/06/03
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Posted on 06/17/2009 9:01:50 AM PDT by neverdem
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Nereus can switch between free-swimming and tethered configurations
The sub sampled sediment from the Marianas Trench
Nereus aims to give researchers access to 100% of the seafloor
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:01:51 AM PDT
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
2000 more meters down than Everest is high.
Amazing.
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:05:05 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
To: neverdem
So it ought to be looking for the black boxes from the Air FRance flight.
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:05:36 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: neverdem
It could be used to recover FLT 447’s black box, couldn’t it?
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:10:30 AM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 149 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: Izzy Dunne
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:11:25 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: Izzy Dunne
Darn you. *sigh* That’s what happens when you get a phone call in mid-post...
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:11:48 AM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 149 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: Puppage
Was that really necessary?
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:12:30 AM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 149 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: null and void
Was that really necessary?I should be ashamed of myself
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:13:21 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: Puppage
Right in the middle of my lunch.That’s just discourteous.
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:21:47 AM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
To: Puppage
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:23:43 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Puppage
Now here's a Challenge, and an antidote!
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:24:18 AM PDT
by
Young Werther
(Julius Caesar (Quae Cum Ita Sunt. Since these things are so.))
To: neverdem
Just last night there was a program on TV about a group of researchers that sent a manned sub to the bottom of the trench back in the 60s. Very interesting.
To: neverdem
Weight on land: 2,800kg Payload capacity: 25kg Maximum speed: 3 knots Batteries: rechargeable lithium ionGreat. All the Tweakers will try to steal it to cook Meth.
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:26:31 AM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(USAF Air Rescue - It really helps if you're already crazy.)
To: neverdem
Did they find Hoffa’s body.
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:27:40 AM PDT
by
bikerman
(Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.)
To: Izzy Dunne
I believe that’s where it’s from....
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:30:32 AM PDT
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Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: Young Werther
Oh, man. Too many possibilities about challenges and going deep.
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:30:37 AM PDT
by
colorado tanker
("Lastly, I'd like to apologize for America's disproportionate response to Pearl Harbor . . . ")
To: Puppage
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:30:48 AM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 149 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: bikerman
“Did they find Hoffa’s body”
No, Obama’s birth certificate.
To: Izzy Dunne
To: neverdem
Paging Admiral Nelson, paging Admiral Harriman Nelson...
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:42:31 AM PDT
by
Jonah Hex
("Never underestimate the hungover side of the Force.")
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