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Research Vehicle Reaches the Bottom of the Ocean
timothy found BBC coverage of the voyage of the Nereus, which on May 31 dove to the bottom of the Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench. Only two vehicles have accomplished this feat before, the last 11 years ago. "The unmanned vehicle is remotely operated by pilots aboard a surface ship via a lightweight tether. Its thin, fibre-optic tether to the research vessel Kilo Moana allows the submersible to make deep dives and be highly manoeuvrable. Nereus can also be switched into a free-swimming, autonomous vehicle. ... The Challenger Deep... is the deepest abyss on Earth at 11,000m-deep, more than 2km (1.2 miles) deeper than Mount Everest is high. At that depth, pressures reach 1,100 times those at the surface."
Aye aye, Captain!
Do they have a good pizza/wing place down there?
No, but there's a Starbuck's.
"Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?"
Men had steel balls in the 60s.
Fixed that for you.
That'll make for one traumatic moment when the lead mermaid tries to surface and bursts open from the tremendous drop in pressure. I don't think my kids would want to see that one.
That's why I'd do it at night.
And it's easy for Google too; no complaints about privacy breach.
They are getting sued by SCO though, for violating their patent for sinking to the lowest depths possible.
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.