c/science_memes · by fossilesque@mander.xyz · 1y

Bottom of the Ocean

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30 Comments

Anticorp@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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

thefartographer@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 1y

Uh, actually, it's fish poopoos and peepees

Endmaker@ani.social · 44 pts · 1y (3 replies)

A submersible with dead billionaires.

Damage@feddit.it · 8 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I'm not sure those still fit the description

Jax@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y

A small lump of metal, glass, bone and maybe a little goopie bits if they got trapped does not elicit the same mental image.

xthexder@l.sw0.com · 1 pts · 1y

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

Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 33 pts · 1y (5 replies)

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.

affiliate@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

should have brought a flashlight smh

cocobean@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y

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.

Amanduh@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

What about the second time?

Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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.

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

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

itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I learned about brine pools recently and I'm fascinated

supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

Thanks that was an interesting fact. Wiki

Elgenzay@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y

I believe Goo Lagoon from Spongebob is canonically a brine pool

don@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y

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

pfm@scribe.disroot.org · 5 pts · 1y

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

5oap10116@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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

son_named_bort@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

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

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 1y

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.