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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 1 day ago

should have brought a flashlight smh

[-] cocobean@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day 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 1 day ago

What about the second time?

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 1 day ago

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

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago

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

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago

Uh, actually, it's fish poopoos and peepees

[-] Endmaker@ani.social 47 points 1 day ago

A submersible with dead billionaires.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 9 points 1 day ago

I'm not sure those still fit the description

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

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

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

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day 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.

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day 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.

Scifi movies don't have shit on the actual real deep sea.

[-] Zip2@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

Makes perfect sense if read in the voice of Cat from Red Dwarf.

[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 day ago

I learned about brine pools recently and I'm fascinated

[-] Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

I believe Goo Lagoon from Spongebob is canonically a brine pool

Thanks that was an interesting fact. Wiki

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 5 points 1 day ago

plastic bags

[-] NuraShiny@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

Water and billionaire corpses

[-] don@lemm.ee 15 points 1 day 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.

[-] pfm@scribe.disroot.org 7 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Assman@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

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

[-] brlemworld@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Microplastics

[-] Phineaz@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago

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

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

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

[-] 5oap10116@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

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

[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

And he may have said to himself "my God, what have I done!"

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago
[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago
[-] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

It was a race to the bottom

[-] Phineaz@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

Dang, you were faster

[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago
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