Flash: Dead Horse Beaten

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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January 23

1960 - Bathyscaph Trieste descends to deepest part of the ocean, Marianas Trench.
From Here

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Wow! I wonder how many times we’ve been down there and for how long?

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I have never heard of this before! Wonderful. How long was it down there for? Did it ever go back? I need to know more.

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Why didn’t anyone tell me about this?!?!? You’d think that all the time I spend on this board, someone would have mentioned this before.

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Hmmmm … not sure what all the sarcasm is about. The web site clearly labels it as “This Day in Naval History.” I’m not getting the joke.

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I seem to vaguely recall something about a trench and maybe ocean salt on the earth’s crust. The search doesn’t pull up a single thing. Weird.

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When was this? The 50’s? 70’s? I must know!!

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How long did they stay down there?

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I don’t know much about underwater exploration, but if I were to take an educated guess, I’d think back in 1960 technology wouldn’t allow one to stay in the Marianas trench much more than a quarter hour or so. I’ll bet that in the 48 years that have followed they’ve been down many more times and have stayed longer each time.

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Yeah, color me :confused: also.

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It’s an in-board joke. Someone made a simulpost about the Marianas trench, and now “Once. In the 1960s. For 20 minutes” has become one of the board catchphrases, like “Hi, Opal!” and “Gotcha ya!” [/wet blanket]

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I’m sorry. The correct answer is “Rio” by Duran Duran.

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That would be the extended mix right? It runs about 20 minutes.

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Yes. It was released in 1960. But only once.

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When go back, take pie.

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But what if the submarine was on a treadmill? This will end of imploding in it I tell you!

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I burning your Bathyscaph.

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Somebody set us up the implosion!

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Well this is all very fine and dandy and, eh, stuff, but if you could extract all the salt from the Marianas trench and lay it out flat in a one inch wide line from, say, New York to LA (and possibly back again), I am still at a loss as to how many many rocks in a box and burning Labradors would need to be on a treadmill at the same time (under the scrutiny of James Randi of course) to alleviate the effects of just two (2) bags of bacon salt.

I see four (4) possibilities:

1 - One
2 - Two
3 - Three
4 - Four

Did I forget something?

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Goats