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Bottom of the Ocean (mander.xyz)

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[-] Endmaker@ani.social 47 points 4 months ago

A submersible with dead billionaires.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 9 points 4 months ago

I'm not sure those still fit the description

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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.

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months 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.

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 44 points 4 months ago

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

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 12 points 4 months ago

Uh, actually, it's fish poopoos and peepees

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 38 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

should have brought a flashlight smh

[-] cocobean@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

Is that so? The bottom of a glass is glass. But the ocean is not the glass; it's the water in the glass. You wouldn't say that the bottom of the water in the glass is made of glass.

[-] Amanduh@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

What about the second time?

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Would you wanna look out and see a wasteland of trash, dirt and stuff?

[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 4 months ago

I learned about brine pools recently and I'm fascinated

[-] supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Thanks that was an interesting fact. Wiki

[-] Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago

I believe Goo Lagoon from Spongebob is canonically a brine pool

[-] don@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] Assman@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago

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

[-] pfm@scribe.disroot.org 7 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Phineaz@feddit.org 7 points 4 months ago

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

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

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

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 months ago

there is a youtube channel that shows all that shit tho

https://m.youtube.com/user/SchmidtOceanVideos

It is hours and hours of the most powerful non-fiction hallucinogens you can possibly take but also it is very calming and relaxed often with a friendly science narrator.

In a way I guess it is like going on a field trip with Mrs. Frizzle but from the slightly horrifying perspective of actually being on the field trip.

The deep sea dropped so much acid it just got stuck down there, and at this point nobody fucks around down in that neighborhood when it comes to being as absolutely fucking weird as possible.