# Not many people know that... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 28, 2004, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647 "2004-10-28T11:32:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/81 "2004-10-29T20:03:52Z")
[Didn’t Captain Nemo take the Nautilus further beneath the surface of the sea?](http://verne.thefreelibrary.com/20000-Leagues-Under-The-Sea/1-1)If you took all the salt out of the sea, [how much Marinara Sauce could you make with it](http://www.italianchef.com/marinara.html)? ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/82 "2004-10-29T20:12:20Z")
yes **Tapioca** - I’m glad you brought that up. Captain Nemo rode the “Nautilus” **20,000 Leagues Under the Sea".** Wow - that’s deep !!! It dwarfs the Marianas Trench by comparison don’t you think? ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/83 "2004-10-29T20:19:33Z")
> [@Ilsa\_Lund](#): > > **Gadfly** : Man has visited the deepest part of the worlds oceans, Challenger Deep in the Mariana’s Trench, just once. In 1960. For 20 minutes. Sorry, what? I had my headphones on. In 1940, for four minutes, students at Yale laid 100 pretzels on the moon to spell out “Mariana”. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/84 "2004-10-29T20:23:30Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > That would be important information, but, most vacuums are not nearly 299,792,458 meters long. I have several and am practically an expert in vacuumology. Most are at best 1-2 meters, including all attachments. Frankly I think the light would get bored in a vacuum after a few seconds. Not if it brought all the girls who went to Yale’s prom in 1960. Once. For twenty minutes. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/85 "2004-10-29T20:43:12Z")
SDMB Members always want a cite for facts. Okay, here is the incontrovertible proof that Captain Nemo travelled **"20,000 Leagues Under The Sea"** > **[20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - SNL Transcripts Tonight](https://snltranscripts.jt.org/93/93qleagues.phtml)** > > 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea ---
**Author:** ![Severian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@Severian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Severian)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/86 "2004-10-29T21:01:12Z")
> [@legion](#): > > … Yet man has visited the deepest part of the worlds oceans, Challenger Deep in the Mariana’s Trench, just once. In 1960. For 20 minutes.[Man has visited the deepest part of the worlds oceans, Challenger Deep in the Mariana’s Trench, just once. In 1960. For 20 minutes.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Trieste) Was there pie? ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/87 "2004-10-29T21:05:26Z")
> [@Severian](#): > > Was there pie? When come back, bring pretzel. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/88 "2004-10-29T21:26:29Z")
Where’s JohnDM when you need him? This surely has something to do with the Pyramids, Masons, Jack the Ripper, Chandra Levy, the statue on top of the Capitol building, aliens, and the moon landing. Can we unban him for 20 minutes in the 1960s? ---
**Author:** ![pontia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/839c29/32.png) [@pontia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pontia)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/89 "2004-10-29T21:41:42Z")
> [@Nightwatch Trailer](#): > > To Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, which is in fact the deepest part of the oceans and has been visited only once, in 1960. For 20 minutes. Pay attention! Can we stay for …I dunno, 300 hours or so? Do we even have enough pretzels for a trip of this magnitude? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/90 "2004-10-29T21:51:35Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Yes, but a very salty glaze at that. Who’d a thunk it? My mother had a [Jello cookbook](http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/jello/16.html) featuring a cake with a salty glaze. It cooked at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. But that cookbook was published in the 1960s. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/91 "2004-10-29T21:56:59Z")
I think, were you to cover the entire earth’s surface with the salt from the oceans… some of the salt would be absorbed into said ocean when it was covered again, this needing extraction… and redistribution… ad infinitum… wait… is this a Zen thing? ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/92 "2004-10-29T22:11:10Z")
I read that in the Pine Barrens, a nuclear missile caught fire. Just once. In 1960. for 45 minutes.[Just once. In 1960. for 45 minutes.](http://www.capitalcentury.com/1960.html) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/93 "2004-10-29T22:15:31Z")
> [@Ilsa\_Lund](#): > > How much time did they spend in Mariana’s trench? I don’t know but Gilligan probably visited several times when we weren’t looking. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/94 "2004-10-29T22:29:21Z")
> [@Nightwatch Trailer](#): > > Um, no. Remember, man has visited the deepest part of the worlds oceans, Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, just once. In 1960. For 20 minutes. [Cite](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianas_Trench). > > Saddam Hussein was only twenty-something when this happened and not at the time the leader of the Iraq under Saddam’s regime. > > Therefore, if man has visited the deepest part of the worlds oceans, Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, just once, in 1960, for 20 minutes ([Cite](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianas_Trench)), that trip would not have involved Iraq. > > Hence there would be no point to looking in Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench (the deepest part of the ocean, which has been visited by man only once, in 1960, for 20 minutes; [Cite](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianas_Trench)) for WMD since no man has been there since 1960, and even then for only 20 minutes. [Cite](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianas_Trench). If no one has visited the place since 1960, you can’t prove the WMDs weren’t dumped off a big old Iraqi navy vesel two or three weeks ago, can you? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/95 "2004-10-29T23:00:09Z")
From the _Wikopedia_ article cited more than just once in this thread: > [@](#): > > On January 23, 1960, she reached a record depth of 35,813 feet (10.92 km) in the Challenger Deep carrying Lieutenant Don Walsh, USN, and Jacques Piccard (son of Auguste). So Walsh was a lieutenant\*, but Piccard wasn’t a CAPTAIN? (Man, I can’t believe none of the _Star Trek_ geeks beat me to that one!) And **Ilsa** , an orgy involving all the Yale co-eds in 1960 would have been pretty pathetic, as Connecticut’s Ivy League university didn’t go fully coeducational until 1969. [Cite.](http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9077745) Heh, '69… \*but not, I assume, **lieu** ’s tenant ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/96 "2004-10-30T00:22:32Z")
> [@Ilsa\_Lund](#): > > How much time did they spend in Mariana’s trench? It was a three hour tour. A three hour tour. The slut. ---
**Author:** ![Elvez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8491ac/32.png) [@Elvez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elvez)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/97 "2004-10-30T00:39:03Z")
> [@BurnMeUp](#): > > I think, were you to cover the entire earth’s surface with the salt from the oceans… some of the salt would be absorbed into said ocean when it was covered again, this needing extraction… and redistribution… ad infinitum… wait… is this a Zen thing? I think it has to be spread on the earth’s _land_ surface, and it only has to stay there for 20 minutes. Someone already did this, back in 1960 if I’m not mistaken. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/98 "2004-10-30T00:44:11Z")
You know what? Man has visited the deepest part of the worlds oceans, Challenger Deep in the Mariana’s Trench, just once. In 1960. For 20 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/99 "2004-10-30T01:01:36Z")
> [@Ilsa\_Lund](#): > > You know what? > Man has visited the deepest part of the worlds oceans, Challenger Deep in the Mariana’s Trench, just once. In 1960. For 20 minutes. No, that is incorrect. ---
**Author:** ![Elvez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8491ac/32.png) [@Elvez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elvez)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/100 "2004-10-30T01:03:48Z")
> [@Nightwatch Trailer](#): > > No, that is incorrect. cite? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647.md?page=6)