Race to the bottom of the ocean: Why go down? - Polidicks

and then fucking jellyfish hit against your window and you have a heart attack and that's why we use drones

[URL=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096754/][img]http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTIwMDA4MTEzMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTcxMTU1MQ@@._V1._SY317_CR5,0,214,317_.jpg[/img][/URL] Well, now we wait and see

If we further explore the oceans, and lets say find huge deposits of minerals/metals, the mining corporations are going to have a field day, corrupting more of the already harmed oceans.

more gold at the bottom of the sea anyway

[QUOTE=Elfy;34890595]I didn't think anyone has ever seen the true bottom of the ocean until now. When did it happen?[/QUOTE] Like, 50 years ago. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6QeQOpVL6c&feature=related[/media] they didn't do alot

[QUOTE=DesolateGrun;34891911]If we further explore the oceans, and lets say find huge deposits of minerals/metals, the mining corporations are going to have a field day, corrupting more of the already harmed oceans.[/QUOTE] that is, if they'll be able to corrupt it in the first place being so low in the ocean can only cause so much problems to the things down there (that we use of course)

[QUOTE=OvB;34891137]I want to be the 3rd person to hit rock bottom :([/QUOTE] Well you can try doing hookers and blow until you hit rock bottom. As horrified as I am by the deep, there's absolutely no reason why there shouldn't be more support into this. I look forward to welcoming our new R'lyehian overlords.

So the last time man went into the deeps was 50 years ago. With current technology, it wont be that hard right?

I'm going to go down, and when I do I'm taking Sean Connery with me. Who better to guide a submarine?

-snip didn't come out right-

Time to start searching for Y'ha-nthlei. First sorry son of a bitch to meet a Deep One gets a prize!

It's time we finally found out if their's a loch ness monster!.

Geologists have known that there are gigantic gold and copper veins ndersea for decades. They're just really hard to get to though. There are at least three deepsea mining companies that i know of to date: a Canadian one, a Chinese one, a French/EU one (I think). They use giant robotics tracked vehicles that scrape the sea bed making it a frothy cloud which is dredged up to a boat and sifted. It's very expensive and still in its infancy. Marine scientists are uneasy at best about its impact which is not yet fully known. [editline]27th February 2012[/editline] That was suppose to be a quote to people taking about mining. On phone, not gonna fix it.

Please don't wake Cthulhu. He's sleeping, you know? Hastur won't be happy if you woke his brother...

Hehehehe i wonder if there is anything like the creatures from Star Wars episode one on Naboo down there.

Shit be scary down there. I'm not going to volunteer to go down. Light up squids everywhere.

[QUOTE=gamefreek76;34891420]Dark indeed. Pitch black. You run out of light long before you reach the bottom. What's even worse, is the submarines designed to dive that deep are small. Very small. There's no room to get up and walk around. So you're stuck for hours in a small cramped space, with limited light, surrounded by only darkness and the unknown. Sounds fun, doesn't it?[/QUOTE] That actually does sound like fun to me. It's not like anything down there actually has much of a chance of hurting you; the worst that could happen is some kind of mechanical faiure, or something very very big and scary that we don't know about swimming at you really fast and giving you a heart-attack. Then again, if something were to go wrong, you'd probably be stuck down there for a few days or maybe even weeks before help comes along.

[QUOTE=OvB;34890989]Diving without a submarine get's tricky very quickly. You have to use different breathing gasses depending on what depth you intend to go to, and then you have to time your dive so you have enough gas to go down then go back up. If you shoot straight back up from a very deep dive you probably won't be conscious by the time you surfaced. You must allow time for the gas in your lungs to equalize with the water pressure. As far as the pressure alone? I'm not quite sure how much the human body can take if all other physical harms of diving are taken out of the equation. The record scuba dive is 1,083 feet. Which is really fucking deep. There just comes a point when diving in a suit that has normal atmospheric pressure(which for the trench, would have to be insanely strong) , or going down in a sub are more practical and safe than diving.[/QUOTE] Which was probably absolutely fucking terrifying. I've only been diving in blue water once at a depth of around 90 feet, and that was absolutely nerve-wracking. What do you do for a living, by the way? You know an awful lot about the ocean. [editline]27th February 2012[/editline] Also [b]BLUE HOLES, GAH[/b]

[QUOTE=ewitwins;34895768]Which was probably absolutely fucking terrifying. I've only been diving in blue water once at a depth of around 90 feet, and that was absolutely nerve-wracking. What do you do for a living, by the way? You know an awful lot about the ocean. [editline]27th February 2012[/editline] Also [b]BLUE HOLES, GAH[/b][/QUOTE] Community college student :V

Dr Alan Jamieson is one of my professors - He and the rest of the HADEEP team are pretty awesome. If I was a Marine Biologist, they're doing what I'd like to do. (Ocean Lab is really cool, one of my friends who is a Marine Biologist was helping in the design of a trench lander a couple of weeks back)

The deep ocean is where all the ugly fish go to hide from the public's ridicule.

[QUOTE=theninfort;34890850]2 people have seen the bottom? What's the lowest one can go without the pressure killing them?[/QUOTE] Going by a post down here, the record is 1083ft for scuba diving. That's 330.1m. Going by the fact that the average density of the sea is 1025kg/m^3, that puts the total pressure of that depth at: P=dgh; P=1025·9.81·330.1; P= 3,319,238.03 Pa which is approx. 32.75 atm. Taking away the 1 atm that we live under at sea level, that's 31.75 atm on top of the normal amount of pressure. Damn that's a lot of weight on your head. Regardless, it's gonna take a lot to get to the bottom of the sea, effort and cost-wise, and with how scientific research is nowadays, I don't see much progress being made anytime soon, as sad as taht may be...

[QUOTE=Dr Magnusson;34897920]The deep ocean is where all the ugly fish go to hide from the public's ridicule.[/QUOTE] Just like 4chan!

The deep ocean is pretty much the result of evolution doing shrooms.

[QUOTE=Aerkhan;34898811]Just like 4chan![/QUOTE] That's deep web :v:

Am I the only one who's noticed how fitting OvB's avatar is to the thread?

[QUOTE=Elfy;34890608]My automerge! [editline]27th February 2012[/editline] Fuck! Again![/QUOTE] Why do you care? The posts weren't related at all, I've never understood why people cry about someone "breaking their automerge"