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Bottom of the Ocean (mander.xyz)
submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

Uh, actually, it's fish poopoos and peepees

[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 days ago (1 children)

A submersible with dead billionaires.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'm not sure those still fit the description

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

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

[–] Jax 1 points 5 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

should have brought a flashlight smh

[–] cocobean 3 points 4 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What about the second time?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I learned about brine pools recently and I'm fascinated

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Thanks that was an interesting fact. Wiki

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I believe Goo Lagoon from Spongebob is canonically a brine pool

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Assman 7 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

plastic bags

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Sand!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Microplastics

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

And dirt

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

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

[–] Mandy 4 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Water and billionaire corpses

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Dang, you were faster

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

It was a race to the bottom