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Posted: 2/8/2017 6:17:52 PM EST
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Humanity has had a few manned trips to the Mariana Trench. I think one was in the 60s. I'll look it up and edit it. We definitely could do a super crazy deep water sub. Trieste explored a very small bit of the trench in the 60's. Not much has been done since. |
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Posted: 2/8/2017 6:18:05 PM EST
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I wouldn't be surprised to learn that we are overlooking a mountain of critters.
One would think that the more obvious ones would turn up considering all of the shipping and pleasure traffic that travels around. I'm likely mistaken. |
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Posted: 2/8/2017 6:21:40 PM EST
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Megladon would show up on SONAR. Fast moving whale... Or we would've found a dead one by now. |
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Posted: 2/8/2017 6:25:04 PM EST
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I fucked a mermaid. Smell like chicken? A.W.D. |
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Posted: 2/8/2017 6:28:17 PM EST
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got damn loch ness monster
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Posted: 2/8/2017 6:28:48 PM EST
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Sorry, my only government hypocrisy is NASA. I can't agree with you on that. However, I'd happily throw a hundred bucks or so on a massive crowd fund to do some awesome deep water exploration. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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What I wish we (as a nation, or as several nations) would do is stop with the surface pops down to depth gen return. We have the technology to do my idea, but no one in the industry would ever bite. We built a mother fucking international space station.. why not take the designs for our biggest nuke subs hull designs (or some old Russian sub plans for that matter if your worried about "national security" and modify it for long duration deeps search. Considering all the military shit you could strip out... there would be a lot of room to work with. Sorry, my only government hypocrisy is NASA. I can't agree with you on that. However, I'd happily throw a hundred bucks or so on a massive crowd fund to do some awesome deep water exploration. |
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Posted: 2/8/2017 6:31:23 PM EST
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Posted: 2/8/2017 6:34:09 PM EST
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I'm talking about ones big enough to take down a large ship. If it is big enough to take down a ship, it must eat stuff the size of a ship. Like blue whales. |
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Posted: 2/8/2017 6:37:39 PM EST
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I fucked a mermaid. Poor Manatee. 
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Posted: 2/8/2017 6:40:10 PM EST
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The sea serpent most likely to exist is the cadborosaurus.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadborosaurus |
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Posted: 2/8/2017 6:40:28 PM EST
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Humanity has had a few manned trips to the Mariana Trench. I think one was in the 60s. I'll look it up and edit it. We definitely could do a super crazy deep water sub. Edit: Yep, 1960 Look up Graham Hawkes and the deep flight project. Richard Branson is now funding part of it. He started the project back in the late 90s. The goal was to conquer the ocean. From a point of view he's done it. 20 mil sub can it can withstand the water pressure. |
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Posted: 2/8/2017 6:41:57 PM EST
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Trieste explored a very small bit of the trench in the 60's. Not much has been done since. I was just saying, technology wise, I have full confidence we are capable of building submersibles that can withstand deep sea pressures with multiple scientists inside. |
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Posted: 2/8/2017 6:45:11 PM EST
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If it is big enough to take down a ship, it must eat stuff the size of a ship. Like blue whales. Not necessarily, but to know would be fascinating. Whales eat krill, which is kind of ridiculous when you think of your size. Obviously, a big ass shark isn't eating krill, it's definitely going to hunt. Maybe it eats other big ass fish really deep underwater. Or maybe it's like a hummingbird, hours away from death at all times, and just feeds on medium fish constantly. Who knows? On the other side, Sperm Whales hunt giant octopus I think, so who freaking knows. |
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Posted: 2/8/2017 6:46:03 PM EST
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Look up Graham Hawkes and the deep flight project. Richard Branson is now funding part of it. He started the project back in the late 90s. The goal was to conquer the ocean. From a point of view he's done it. 20 mil sub can it can withstand the water pressure. Brb, definitely looking that up. Edit: That's really cool, but... "Based on testing at high pressure, the DeepFlight Challenger was determined to be suitable only for a single dive, not the repeated uses that had been planned as part of Virgin Oceanic service. As such, in 2014, Virgin Oceanic "scrapped" plans for the five dives project using the DeepFlight Challenger, as originally conceived, putting plans on hold until more suitable technologies are developed." |
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Posted: 2/8/2017 6:49:27 PM EST
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Posted: 2/8/2017 6:54:01 PM EST
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Good god, people from up there talk fucked up. I made it about 15 seconds. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Good god, people from up there talk fucked up. I made it about 15 seconds.  Attached File |
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Posted: 2/8/2017 6:58:35 PM EST
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Brb, definitely looking that up. Edit: That's really cool, but... "Based on testing at high pressure, the DeepFlight Challenger was determined to be suitable only for a single dive, not the repeated uses that had been planned as part of Virgin Oceanic service. As such, in 2014, Virgin Oceanic "scrapped" plans for the five dives project using the DeepFlight Challenger, as originally conceived, putting plans on hold until more suitable technologies are developed." Didn't know that. Deep flight II was the sub that could do it. I guess they had issues. |
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Posted: 2/8/2017 6:59:24 PM EST
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I have Thalassophobia so bad, I don't even want to be in this thread!
So... Fuck this thread! 
Fuck these pictures.... 
Fuck water and the ocean..... 
Fuck the nightmares I'll have tonight... 
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Posted: 2/8/2017 7:03:53 PM EST
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Posted: 2/8/2017 7:04:26 PM EST
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I fucked a mermaid. Did it smell like fish? |
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Posted: 2/8/2017 7:07:31 PM EST
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chupacabra 
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Posted: 2/8/2017 7:09:33 PM EST
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There are probably creatures that live in the oceanic trenches that we have no clue about. They have caught some extra rare creatures on camera down in those trenches  Attached File |
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Posted: 2/8/2017 7:10:49 PM EST
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Quote HistoryHoly hell, that guy talking sounds exactly like a guy I used to work with. His nickname was Brooklyn and he sounded just like this dude! Hilarious! |
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Posted: 2/8/2017 7:14:18 PM EST
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Posted: 2/8/2017 7:16:37 PM EST
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got damn loch ness monster about tree fiddy |
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Posted: 2/8/2017 7:24:30 PM EST
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Probably some giant mollusk of some sort. I wouldn't be surprised if there was an even bigger giant squid than the Colossal Squid. Yep, imagine the outrage if it was called the UUUUge squid in honor of the President. |
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Posted: 2/8/2017 7:40:39 PM EST
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Probably some really crazy shit down at the really deep areas. Seems like every really deep expidition turns up a strange new creature. Not much surprises me about the ocean.
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Posted: 2/8/2017 7:59:54 PM EST
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Nope. NOPE. NOPE.
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Posted: 2/8/2017 8:25:30 PM EST
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Quote HistoryA huge shark bigger than a Blue Whale... Awesome. Terrifying, but awesome. Terrifying in the way you can't kill it. You might be able to stab a Great White and make it go away. You're just dead if Megaladon wants to eat you. |
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Posted: 2/9/2017 12:07:29 AM EST
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you would be a mere wrasse to a giant shark
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Posted: 2/9/2017 10:58:40 AM EST
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Quote HistorySome of those sizes are pretty dubious. Largest estimate for liopleuridon (sp?) were 30ft (10m) not 30m. Scary shit nonetheless. |
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Posted: 2/9/2017 11:04:23 AM EST
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Posted: 2/9/2017 11:18:38 AM EST
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That is comedy GOLD right there Jerry! |
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Posted: 2/9/2017 11:20:54 AM EST
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http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/7504/20140610/great-white-shark-disappears-hunt-for-super-predator-begins.htm
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Posted: 2/9/2017 11:23:53 AM EST
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Some of those sizes are pretty dubious. Largest estimate for liopleuridon (sp?) were 30ft (10m) not 30m. Scary shit nonetheless. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Some of those sizes are pretty dubious. Largest estimate for liopleuridon (sp?) were 30ft (10m) not 30m. Scary shit nonetheless. Yeah... that estimated size of the giant squid has me VERY skeptical. You can see bones for the other creatures shown there. But unless someone's actually found body parts of a squid that size... I'm not buying it (despite being a big fan of all things architeuthis). |
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Posted: 2/9/2017 11:25:00 AM EST
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYTKQntqvs4
http://youtu.be/JYTKQntqvs4 Got to love the "SUNDAY,SUNDAY, SUNDAY, DRINK BRAWNDO, WELL SELL YOU THE WHOLE SEAT BUT YOU ONLY NEED THE EDGE" type commentary. |
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Posted: 2/9/2017 12:49:22 PM EST
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Would anyone here volunteer to be on a submersible going to the bottom of the Mariana Trench?
I'd have to think about it, I'm not sure what I would say. Fascinating and really rare experience, but that much pressure, all that way down would certainly make me nervous. |
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Posted: 2/9/2017 12:54:28 PM EST
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Would anyone here volunteer to be on a submersible going to the bottom of the Mariana Trench? I'd have to think about it, I'm not sure what I would say. Fascinating and really rare experience, but that much pressure, all that way down would certainly make me nervous. The Challenger Deep and the voyage of the Trieste has fascinated me since I was a kid. Piccard and Walsh must've had balls of titanium to undertake that possible suicide mission. No less than the balls of the Gagarin and Shepherd. Yes... I'd love to have been those guys. But no... realistically, I don't have ballz that size. |
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Posted: 2/9/2017 1:00:13 PM EST
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Would anyone here volunteer to be on a submersible going to the bottom of the Mariana Trench? I'd have to think about it, I'm not sure what I would say. Fascinating and really rare experience, but that much pressure, all that way down would certainly make me nervous. |
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Posted: 2/9/2017 1:06:12 PM EST
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I've got fossil teeth from a shark that are as big as my fist. While they may not exist anymore (I do believe they are down there somewhere) there is simply no denying that 40 and 50 feet white sharks or Magalodons did exist at one time. There are plenty of teeth to backup their existence.
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Posted: 2/9/2017 1:07:53 PM EST
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Gigantic balls.
From the Deepsea Challenge website: "It is thought that the pressure is so great that calcium can’t exist except in solution, so the bones of vertebrates would literally dissolve. No bones, no fish. But nature has also proven scientists wrong many times in the past with its remarkable capacity for adaptation. |
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Posted: 2/9/2017 1:17:55 PM EST
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Posted: 2/9/2017 1:19:52 PM EST
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In a heartbeat. Those pressures are unreal. I know one of the setbacks was damage to the sub, making it unusable after one dive. 16,500lbs/sq inch |
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Posted: 2/9/2017 1:25:40 PM EST
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Smell like chicken? A.W.D. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I fucked a mermaid. Smell like chicken? A.W.D. Tuna. |
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Posted: 2/9/2017 1:26:16 PM EST
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Posted: 2/9/2017 1:38:23 PM EST
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Quote HistoryFuck that. This is why the ocean scares the shit out of me. |
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Posted: 2/9/2017 1:38:39 PM EST
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Good god, people from up there talk fucked up. I made it about 15 seconds. LoL. The lliterate bastard child of Ricky Ricardo, some degenerate Yenta, Teddy Kennedy and the Jerky Boys. Idiocracy was the greatest documentary of our time. |
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Posted: 2/9/2017 1:40:51 PM EST
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Considering how little we have really explored our oceans, which sea creatures from legend do you think actually exist that researchers have not found? yes this is inspired by the squatch thread. Personally I see a megaladon type fish still alive, among other things. The ocean just has too many places to hide to completely right one of those off. http://sharkopedia.discovery.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/prehistoric4-NEW3-550x350.jpg Well there are fossils and teeth proving that mega-sized sharks once did in fact exist.....so if one was seen again, it would not surprise me. Bigfoot on the other hand......not once single shred of good evidence. |
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Posted: 2/9/2017 1:53:28 PM EST
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Would anyone here volunteer to be on a submersible going to the bottom of the Mariana Trench? I'd have to think about it, I'm not sure what I would say. Fascinating and really rare experience, but that much pressure, all that way down would certainly make me nervous. I know what I would say. "Once you get to the bottom, you do plan on coming back to the surface, correct?" |
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Posted: 2/9/2017 2:04:50 PM EST
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I know what I would say. "Once you get to the bottom, you do plan on coming back to the surface, correct?" Kinda cool, so the ballast system on Deepsea Challenger dumped its ballast via power doors. However, if the system failed, the doors automatically opened due to specially designed releases which are activated by corrosion from salt water over a specified time. |
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