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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."
I hope that while down there, those folks can find some life forms with proteins that can fight off the AIDS or cancer menace.
It's sad that when afflicted by these diseases, the prognosis on the whole, is a death sentence. That is to say, it's a matter of time before the diseases exhaust your will to live.
Sad indeed.
For a completely on topic but irrelevant post, see Dilbert. :P
You're so funny. I read through your post-modern anarchistic discursive evaluation and suddenly burst out laughing at the sheer ironic perversity it describes.
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