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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

Wrong.

The bottom of the ocean is gonna be sand or dirt or rock. Possibly all of them. The water will actually be sitting above the bottom.

Real facts: The gnarliest thing about the first submersible to touch the bottom of the Marianas Trench was only down for like, 30 minutes IIRC, because it had a glass porthole and they were unsure of its stability (even though it was hella thick and had a pretty small diameter), but they wanted it to be able to observe what was down there. But when they hit the ground, it kicked up a cloud of silt and they were unable to see anything for the whole duration they were down there. Oof.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

should have brought a flashlight smh

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

What about the second time?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I don't know if anyone's ever been down there again. I vaguely remember a headline in the last 5 or so years that said someone was trying, to, though I don't know if they have yet.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I learned about brine pools recently and I'm fascinated

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

I believe Goo Lagoon from Spongebob is canonically a brine pool

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

Thanks that was an interesting fact. Wiki

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Actually, it's sand or rock. The water is on top of that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago

Uh, actually, it's fish poopoos and peepees

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

A submersible with dead billionaires.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

I'm not sure those still fit the description

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Also the majority of it has been recovered and brought back up. The hull and billionaire bits are back on shore somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Bits of submersible with dead billionaires? Sand formed by the sudden and thorough crushing of a submersible with dead billionaires? The Logitech F710 aught to be mentioned as well. Of all the things cheap game controllers have suffered, utterly destroyed by deep sea pressure is one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

A small lump of metal, glass, bone and maybe a little goopie bits if they got trapped does not elicit the same mental image.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Wouldn't the bottom of the ocean NOT be water?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

this guy clearly hasn’t been to the bottom of the ocean

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

David Byrne was actually the first person to discover this during a Once in a Lifetime opportunity

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Would it really be the bottom if there was just more water

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

It was a race to the bottom

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Dang, you were faster

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

So it’s just water all the way down? Then why are all these geologist types talking about some mythical “crust” and “mantle” nonsense? You should probably talk some sense into them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

It's called Big Geo and they keep lyin' to us!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

Crust? Mantle? We're talking about the ocean, not pies or furniture.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

I wouldn't wanna know what cuthulu monster lies dormant on those depths

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