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James Cameron Commissions Submarine To Visit Challenger Deep

Posted by Soulskill on from the ed-harris-can-probably-help-you-out dept.

frank249 writes "In January, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Trieste descent, the X Prize Foundation announced a $10 million prize for the first privately funded craft to make two manned descents to the bottom of Challenger Deep, the deepest surveyed point in the oceans. Now, James Cameron has announced he has commissioned a submarine capable of surviving the tremendous pressures at a depth of seven miles, from which he will not only try for the X prize but also shoot 3D footage that may be incorporated in Avatar's sequel."

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  1. Sequel? by Dr.+Evil · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Oh no.

    1. Re:Sequel? by derGoldstein · · Score: 4, Insightful

      ...that Avatar, like Terminator and Alien and The Matrix, is a movie that should never, ever, ever have a sequel.

      Terminator *2* was the good one. People remember Arnold fighting the T1000, not some soft human.
      And you can edit the Matrix Reloaded down to about 50 minutes of entertainment.

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    2. Re:Sequel? by Sparks23 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      In fairness, the Lord of the Rings films were basically just one single unbelievably long movie, which happened to be broken into thirds for semi-sane human consumption.

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    3. Re:Sequel? by geekoid · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Are you crazy? both the Terminator sequel and the Aliens Sequel we're awesome and well made movies.

      And Avatar was a fine movie, the was beautiful toy watch, even if the plot was one that had been done several times before.

      Ideally he will be success, add further to mans knowledge, help advance science in a small way, and go on to to do an Avatar Sequel you will be free to not see.

      Of course you will come up with a reason to see it anyway, and then complain about how bad t is so you can look like you are a hip nerd.

      HINT: nerds aren't haters.

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  2. Re:Sooo by bigrockpeltr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Snorks! *Dives*

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  3. Re:Sad, actually by TheUnFounded · · Score: 5, Insightful

    On the other hand, it got them there, but didn't do a whole lot of good. From Wikipedia:

    "The descent took almost five hours and the two men spent barely twenty minutes on the ocean floor before undertaking the three-hour-and-fifteen-minute ascent. Their early departure from the ocean floor was due to their concern over a crack in the window caused by the intense pressure of their descent, and also because their landing on the sea bed had stirred up a cloud of silt which reduced visibility to zero and showed no sign of settling." So hopefully the new technology will give us a longer, more interesting time at the bottom...

  4. Re:Space Smurf Pocahantas by Corbets · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sorry, buddy, but I have not seen James Cameraschlock's Space Smurf Pocahantas and I never will. There are plenty of us who actually, really and truly do not like crap Science Fiction, will not see it, will not buy the Blue-Ray and won't mention it until some idiot tries to defend it or imply that, actually, I really really like it but I'm too much of a snob to admit it.

    Um, not to disagree or anything, but how do you know it's crap if you haven't bothered to watch it?