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[SCULLIBUNDO]

Given the high risk factor, I'd think you'd get the sarcasm.

I didn't know sarcasm and tastelessness were mutually exclusive.

 

[Carbonox]

Wouldn't it be funny if his craft imploded and he died.

Classy.

But I do wonder what it would visually be like for something to implode at that depth.

 

[dejay]

Actually, no. How is that funny?

(edit) anyway, good luck to him. I like to see rich people doing interesting things with their money, especially when it's used to better humanity's understanding of our Universe.

 

[xbhaskarx]

Wouldn't it be funny if his craft imploded and he died.

No. And given there is a pretty high risk factor, I think that is a very tasteless comment.

What if Cameron's craft imploded and he died, and Borgnine made a movie about the disaster and became filthy rich, would that be tasteless?

 

[Zeliard]

What if Cameron's craft imploded and he died, and Borgnine made a movie about the disaster and became filthy rich, would that be tasteless?

Snapples

 

[sphinx]

anyone knows how deep can you go into the earth until you reach the outside of it from the other side?

 

[LuCkymoON]

He needs to stop wasting time and get on that live action Battle Angel remake.

 

[Burger]

Hard to believe the Trieste ever made it.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

All of you clamoring for Battle Angel should just try to keep the mindset that it will never happen. That is what I do, because there is a high probability that could be the case.

I still remember the day in 2005 that they announced Avatar was finally happening and I couldn't fucking believe it. I was so goddamn hyped.

 

[Kitschkraft]

anyone knows how deep can you go into the earth until you reach the outside of it from the other side?

Edit : NM, at first I assumed that you were asking if he could literally reach to the other side.

 

[DrForester]

anyone knows how deep can you go into the earth until you reach the outside of it from the other side?

Bet it's pretty close to the diameter of the earth....

 

[disappeared]

James Cameron's Atlantis. 2014.

 

[Koodo]

I was so goddamn hyped.

We know.

 

[owlbeak]

Get a grasp on how fucking deep the ocean is:

http://realitypod.com/2011/05/how-deep-is-the-ocean-infographic/

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

We know.

Do you? I think my first threads about it were in 2006, a couple of years before you joined.

 

[ComputerMKII]

anyone knows how deep can you go into the earth until you reach the outside of it from the other side?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Universal_Solvent_(comics)

 

[Koodo]

Do you? I think my first threads about it were in 2006, a couple of years before you joined.

Your hype couldn't be contained within Gaf's walls.

Legendary.

 

[DrForester]

So is he going down in a 1 man craft, or with a small crew?

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Get a grasp on how fucking deep the ocean is:

http://realitypod.com/2011/05/how-deep-is-the-ocean-infographic/

That's a great graphic. I'm gonna go ahead and post the long ass pic to give people some perspective.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

So is he going down in a 1 man craft, or with a small crew?

It was originally going to be a two man vessel, though every single report over the last few months has said it is now a one man dive. Cameron is going it alone.

 

[disappeared]

Love those images.

 

[Zeliard]

Battle Angel will happen. Cameron's gotta get his expedition fix first and then make another silly amount of money with Avatar 2. But I have no doubt it'll come to fruition.

 

[PairOfFilthySocks]

Is the Battle Angel manga good? Why does Cameron seem so fond of it?

 

[Archer]

Guess no beans or spicy food is in his diet for the next few weeks. Imagine having to cut gas, or drop a deuce, being that far below the surface.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Battle Angel will happen. Cameron's gotta get his expedition fix first and then make another silly amount of money with Avatar 2. But I have no doubt it'll come to fruition.

You're forgetting Avatar 3. He's making two sequels.

 

[owlbeak]

Guess no beans or spicy food is in his diet for the next few weeks. Imagine having to cut gas, or drop a deuce, being that far below the surface.

I live with this fear in regular life, let alone 35,000ft below sea! :O

 

[Zeliard]

You're forgetting Avatar 3. He's making two sequels.

I knew about Avatar 3, but is he filming them back-to-back?

 

[Koodo]

Fanged fish 14k ft below sea level?

No thank you.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

I knew about Avatar 3, but is he filming them back-to-back?

That was the original plan. Though the way the cast and Cameron himself have been talking about Avatar 2 in interviews recently, it is beginning to sound like he is only prepping the one film right now.

 

[Nizz]

Two people did it in the 60's only they couldn't see anything because of how dark it is down there and they had no equipment to do anything else. I believe the longest they stayed was 40 minutes.

Cameron is going down there with hi-tech lights, 3D cameras and will be staying on the ocean floor for six hours.

Damn, just the thought of that makes me cringe. I think one of my biggest fears is being out in deep ocean. The ocean kind of terrifies me. I'd never even go out on a boat to fish. And he's going deep down to top it off? So much of the ocean is unexplored, who knows what kind of creatures exist down there.

Hats off to him for doing something he's passionate about, but I wish he would just stay above ground and get going on some more movies.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Damn, just the thought of that makes me cringe. I think one of my biggest fears is being out in deep ocean. The ocean kind of terrifies me. I'd never even go out on a boat to fish. And he's going deep down to top it off? So much of the ocean is unexplored, who knows what kind of creatures exist down there.

Hats off to him for doing something he's passionate about, but I wish he would just stay above ground and get going on some more movies.

What are you saying? Cameron is going to encounter the equivalent of the Megalodon down there?

James Cameron and the taming of Cthulhu.

 

[Archer]

What are you saying? Cameron is going to encounter the equivalent of the Megalodon down there?

James Cameron and the taming of Cthulhu.

More like Cthulhu and the taming of James Cameron.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

More like Cthulhu and the taming of James Cameron.

Fuck I lol'd. I imagined Cthulhu pleading with Cameron to stop escalating the budget of his next film and Cameron telling him to get fucked.

 

[Flatline]

A decent screenwriter?

hehe that was good

 

[cloud_sleep]

Cameron's got balls and/or is crazy. That graphic of the ocean depths makes me feel ill. If something goes wrong I guess he will simply disappear without a trace? Like falling into a black hole. Nuts.

 

[bud]

looking at that image scares the fuck out of me. it's so dark and barren down there.

 

[Solo]

He should look for a screenwriter.

I hear he hired Joss Whedon.


































To wash his car collection.

 

[astroturfing]

Cameron's got balls and/or is crazy. That graphic of the ocean depths makes me feel ill. If something goes wrong I guess he will simply disappear without a trace? Like falling into a black hole. Nuts.

yikes that thought scares me. he'll basically be the most isolated person on earth for all those hours... i would just flip out and lose it. no way i could keep my composure down there.

 

[dmshaposv]

The image really puts things into perspective, and shows how grand this undertaking is.

Don't know if lifeforms exist that far away from the sun, but he'd surely get some nice footage for the Abyss 2. Good luck, jimbo!

 

[Kagari]

The image really puts things into perspective, and shows how grand this undertaking is.

Don't know if lifeforms exist that far away from the sun, but he'd surely get some nice footage for the Abyss 2. Good luck, jimbo!

lol, they certainly do.

 

[Nizz]

What are you saying? Cameron is going to encounter the equivalent of the Megalodon down there?

James Cameron and the taming of Cthulhu.

He's going to be in giant squid territory! F that. :0 Like I said before, the deep ocean terrifies me, and that pic posted earlier above just cemented that fact. Cameron's got balls, I'll give him that.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

People shouldn't forget that Cameron was once very close to going into space at one point. He had been training with the Russians for many, many months before their committee cancelled the mission at the last minute. It's a real shame since he's probably too old to go now.

Man is a fucking baller.

 

[THE:MILKMAN]

The guy has balls. I'll give him that.

The 1000 tonnes of pressure per square foot scares the shit out of me just thinking about it.

What is the damn sub made out of?

Will he release any footage when he's done?

 

[JB1981]

I'm having a panic attack just thinking about it. Godspeed, Jim.

 

[water_wendi]

i dont wish the man any harm.. but how cool would it be to be exploring a place nobody has been and die? You get to experience something that nobody else has or likely ever will. You also get to have a place named after you and everything. Cameron's Tomb (hypothetical.. if i jinx it, my bad).

 

[Qwomo]

Wouldn't it be funny if his craft imploded and he died.

hahaha

yeah

 

[Kagari]

The guy has balls. I'll give him that.

The 1000 tonnes of pressure per square foot scares the shit out of me just thinking about it.

What is the damn sub made out of?

Will he release any footage when he's done?

Well, he went to see Titanic in one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIR_(submersible)

 

[THE:MILKMAN]

Well, he went to see Titanic in one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIR_(submersible)

Quite impressive considering they were made in the 80's. Only certified to 20000 feet though.

I think Jim will need to use unobtainium to make the new sub!

 

[Truant]

James Cameron visits R'Lyeh.

 

[invaderzim69]

I hope that one of those giant prehistoric sea creatures still survives down their in the Trench.

This is very exciting.

Godzilla???