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Bottom of the Ocean (mander.xyz)
submitted 18 hours ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 hours 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.

[–] brlemworld@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Microplastics

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 4 points 6 hours ago

plastic bags

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 31 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours 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.

[–] cocobean@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours 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.

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

should have brought a flashlight smh

[–] Amanduh@lemm.ee 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

What about the second time?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours 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.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 41 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 12 points 16 hours ago

Uh, actually, it's fish poopoos and peepees

[–] Endmaker@ani.social 43 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

A submersible with dead billionaires.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 9 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

I'm not sure those still fit the description

[–] luciole@beehaw.org 11 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Bits of submersible with dead billionaires? Sand formed by the sudden and thorough crushing of a submersible with dead billionaires? The Logitech F710 aught to be mentioned as well. Of all the things cheap game controllers have suffered, utterly destroyed by deep sea pressure is one.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours 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.

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I learned about brine pools recently and I'm fascinated

[–] Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 5 points 12 hours ago

I believe Goo Lagoon from Spongebob is canonically a brine pool

[–] supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

Thanks that was an interesting fact. Wiki

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

And dirt

[–] Phineaz@feddit.org 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] don@lemm.ee 13 points 17 hours 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.

[–] pfm@scribe.disroot.org 6 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 7 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] 5oap10116@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Phineaz@feddit.org 3 points 13 hours ago

Dang, you were faster

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 13 hours ago

It was a race to the bottom

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

Sand!

[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 17 hours ago

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