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Is there any actual news about the trip? Am on my phone so its a bit hard to look around the interwebs.. And this thread was to be my news
He went down, he came back up, trip was a success.
Is there any actual news about the trip? Am on my phone so its a bit hard to look around the interwebs.. And this thread was to be my news
Any early reports on what he saw? Did anything malfunction? Did everything go as planned?
I think he's being honest when he says that he didn't see shit. I don't think he'd be able to contain himself if he saw an actual fish, that'd be a huge deal.
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Be pretty shitty if he saw some awesome stuff but was holding out for the documentary. I know he wouldn't do it but it would be such a dick move.
I think he is still reeling from the shock of having to cut the mission short after seeing a megalodon swim in front of his sub. He has seen things....
I think he is still reeling from the shock of having to cut the mission short after seeing a megalodon swim in front of his sub. He has seen things....
So I guess after Avatar, he decided he really hadn't hit the bottom yet?
Eh guys? Eh?
He's released some video from the bottom:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthvideo/9168817/James-Camerons-first-footage-from-the-deep.html
Yeah, this is going to be a boring documentary.
He's released some video from the bottom:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthvideo/9168817/James-Camerons-first-footage-from-the-deep.html
Was underwhelming to say the least. But he's not going to blow his load in a short clip. I'm sure the documentary will have some really cool shots (hopefully).Yeah, this is going to be a boring documentary.
Any early reports on what he saw? Did anything malfunction? Did everything go as planned?
No sea monsters. No strange life. No fish. Just amphipods — tiny shrimplike creatures swimming across a featureless plane of ooze that stretched off into the primal darkness.
“It was very lunar, a very desolate place,” James Cameron, the movie director, said in a news conference on Monday after completing the first human dive in 52 years to the ocean’s deepest spot, nearly seven miles down in the western Pacific.
“We’d all like to think there are giant squid and sea monsters down there,” he said, adding that such creatures still might be found. But on this dive he saw “nothing larger than about an inch across” — just the shrimplike creatures, which are ubiquitous scavengers of the deep.
Care of the NY Times
Very interested to watch that footage, but yea sounds like nothing really. But, the fact that life exists even down there is very cool in itself. He said this is the start of an era of exploration and I agree. Will be interesting to see Branson's dive as I believe that one will be travelling around the Challenger Deep instead of just being in a stationary position which will provide some more interesting footage and the ability to see if there is any variation in the environment.
I thought Cameron's sub could move around?
uhhhh... just because I think all his films in the past have been trite it doesn't follow I think his next one will be. Maybe I don't know what "trite" means (although obviously I do because I used a synonym "fluff" in an earlier post), but you don't seem to get logic
And anyway I was up front about it being a petty knee-jerk reaction.
Jesus, so much Cameron circle-jerkyness in this tread.... sorry for having an irrational emotional reaction. I guess no one else has those...
If the documentary partly is about how the sub was developed, I'll be happy.
If the documentary partly is about how the sub was developed, I'll be happy.
If the documentary partly is about how the sub was developed, I'll be happy.
I believe that there is high volcanic activity in the trench due to its geographic location. That heat should allow at least micro organisms to exist.I doubt there is much life to be found at that depth. No sunlight and or any other sources of energy would mean no means of sustainable life. The occurrence of thermal vents does seem remote too. Until now they are only found on oceanic ridges. Not trenches.
http://www.marianatrench.com/mariana_trench-biology_001.htmThe deepest part of the ocean is called the abyssal zone. it is host to thousands of species of invertebrates and fish including such oddities as the Angler Fish (see illustration), so called because it uses a bioluminescent (life light) protrusion to attract its prey. The Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench is very cold, and highly pressurized; its floor features hydrothermal (hot water ) vents formed by spreading tectonic plates which release hydrogen sulfide and
other minerals which are consumed by the barophilic bacteria which are then consumed by other microorganisms, which are in turn, consumed by the fish, and so on. The temperature around the vents can reach up to 300° Celsius (572° Fahrenheit). The venting fluid is highly acidic, while the water from the deep ocean is slightly basic. Although the venting fluid is prevented from boiling due to its dissipation into the surrounding freezing water, creatures from the deep show an incredible resistance to temperature extremes by having different proteins which are adapted for life under these conditions; allowing the animals to eat, process food, and reproduce.
you, and this post, pretty much sums up why the headline on CNN.com was "tiger woods wins putting ball in little hole sport after sticking his dick in a bunch of ugly old bitches" instead of something as fucking amazing as this.
Not feeling some of the disappointment.
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I believe that there is high volcanic activity in the trench due to its geographic location. That heat should allow at least micro organisms to exist.
http://www.marianatrench.com/mariana_trench-biology_001.htm
"Life... Life finds a way"
Not feeling some of the disappointment.
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"Houston, we wasted a trip. Just rocks LOL."
Not feeling some of the disappointment.
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"Houston, we wasted a trip. Just rocks LOL."
Not feeling some of the disappointment.
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"Houston, we wasted a trip. Just rocks LOL."
Is it really possible for a large creature--sea monsters or what-have-you--to really exist on that kind of place seeing how incredibly large the water pressure is?
Nah, it's mostly squishy little colourless bottom feeders. The cool stuff is around halfway down.
Give em some Red Bull, Jimmy. That'll wake em up!
Sounds boring. I mean, sure, the moon just had dirt and rocks, but that was a place entirely different from anywhere mankind had been before. I mean, we've been to the bottom of the ocean, just not that super deep section. Unfortunately there was nothing interesting there. Certainly you have to go to find out, but damn. *snore*
Just get some good CGI guys and...damnit i was hoping he'd seen some awesome giant something.
Exploring isn't always about finding something interesting though. Sometimes it's just as important to find nothing at all. Before this dive all we really had were lots of speculations, and it will take many more dives to explore the trench enough to get a good overall view of it, but even if we find that it is barren and devoid of anything really interesting, then at least we will now know that for certain. Questions answered is what exploring is all about, even if the answers are less than exciting.
Calcium can't exist as a solid at that pressure, there shouldn't be any fish. Much less a megalodon.
Not feeling some of the disappointment.
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"Houston, we wasted a trip. Just rocks LOL."