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James Cameron Begins His Deep-Sea Dive

Posted by timothy on from the ok-you're-jealous-and-so-am-I dept.

James Cameron is on his way down. The director's long-planned trip to the deepest spot on Earth — the Mariana Trench's Challenger Deep — is in progress; by the time you read this, if all goes well, Cameron will be navigating around in depths unvisited since 1960. National Geographic's coverage of the dive is excellent as well, as is the BBC's (with video).

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  1. Re:Good by Penguinisto · · Score: 5, Informative

    He created a sci fi world with at least some effort at plausibility.

    Oh, c'mon! Where the frig in the Periodic Table does one find "Unobtanium"? Seriously? I heard that, and gave up on the flick from that point on.

    The reason the "indians" won was because the entire planet was a biological entity that could defend itself, by mobilizing all resources against the human invaders

    Entity, meet biological warfare (easily possible, given the ease with which the DNA was replicated) and a gaggle of large asteroids being flung at the surface just for good measure (also possible, given the massive energy require to go FTL (or was it near-light?) speeds in the first place). There's at least half a dozen ways, given that story's tech, in which to destroy the inhabitants without harming the material, endangering a single human being, and basically turning the place into an airless rock that can be strip-mined.

    Seriously... good visual effects (easily give it that), but the story had more holes in it than a sieve.

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  2. Re:Cool rich guy by lucm · · Score: 5, Informative

    He means Bill Gates, though I don't his dig about 'monopoly'. Say what you will about Bill Gates the OS monopolist, but the Gates Foundation has done very good work.

    I happen to have many friends working in NGOs in developing countries and I'm getting the same feedback over and over: the Gates Foundation is like a bulldozer that rolls over all the "competition" and forces people to do things their way. The foundation also has close ties to Monsanto and is pushing around the small organizations that disagree with their vision of "green development".

    I guess you have access to Google, it's worth a quick search.

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    lucm, indeed.