“Mr. President, we must not allow a Hole rover gap!”
OK, that made me laugh out loud. Once. For 20 minutes. 
I believe they found an opal at the bottom of it.
I think so too: it was either by these guys or them.
I apologise if my question has created such a stir.
It was a legitimate question that must have had some other meanings that I didn’t anticipate.
Perhaps the word “manned” was a poor choice of words as far as political correctness goes.
It was supposed to be a question about what I consider a very interesting place on planet Earth, namely the Marianas Trench.
Should I have called it something else?
Should I have posted this question elsewhere on the SDMB, maybe Cafe Society?
Is there a better way that I could have phrased this question?
Don’t worry about it - you just inadvertently walked into an in-house running joke - it’s not a problem.
read the linked thread, but only once. It shouldn’t take more than 20 minutes.
But that was an unmanned remote-control sub.
As far as I know, the Shinkai 6500 has the greatest operating depth (6500 m) of any submersible currently in operation.
I heard that when they went down there, they found this guy’s wallet…
And inside that wallet was 14k of g in a f p d.
I remember Bob Ballard saying the bottom of the trench is just a mud hole with little scientific interest.
I also remember him tellling his epiphany regarding manned submersibles, about a scientist that went down on one and was completely extatic looking out to the sea floor… through the on board monitors on the sub. :smack:
What´s the point of canning some guy up and plunging him 4 km down if he´s going to be looking at a screen?, better send a robot down and keep the duffus on the surface, less expense and risk by far.
Oh, I thought they found a guy with an unusual last name who was missing a wallet.
Some nocturnal flying rodent humanoid, given forewarning.
D’oh! :smack:
we’ve plans to make a space station on the moon. a space station! living on the moon! yet on our very own Earth, the very soil from whence we came, the very oceans where we crawled out of, we’ve only been to the deepest part only once! 40 years ago. for 20 minutes. for shame! we’ve plans to make a space station on the moon. a space station! living on the moon! yet on our very own Earth, the very soil from whence we came, the very oceans where we crawled out of, we’ve only been to the deepest part only once! 40 years ago. for 20 minutes. for shame!
Two posters walk into a joke. Strange, you’d think the second would have ducked.
Some-one set up us the joke!