# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![khansi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/94ad74/32.png) [@khansi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/khansi)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/121 "2004-11-02T11:51:19Z")
> [@Odinoneeye](#): > > Not true. > > It was faked in a soundstage on the moon. It took them approximately 209 hours to set it up, 20 minutes to shoot and an additional 90 hours and 40 minutes to disassemble the stage. This is why they spent 300 hours on the moon. > > I dare you to prove me wrong. I don’t have to prove you wrong, I don’t think you really exist. ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/122 "2004-11-02T11:59:35Z")
It was faked in a soundstage on the moon. It took them approximately 209 hours to set it up, 20 minutes to shoot and an additional 90 hours and 40 minutes to disassemble the stage. This is why they spent 300 hours on the moon. This was payed for by Bruce Springsteen, who left it behind so they could hold Live Aid in the Marianas Trench. For 20 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/123 "2004-11-02T13:20:20Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > There are _no_ fish in the Dead Sea. > > If you were to visit the Marianas Trench would you see any fish? Would it take more than a 20 minute visit to find them? Are the chances of seeing any fish in said trench be greater or lesser than they were in 1960? > Discuss. Not many people know that salt cod is from the Dead Sea. Lutefisk is from the Lycian Sea. Eels are from the Sargasso Sea. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2004, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/124 "2004-11-02T15:04:26Z")
I can see that this topic is evolving into the new “1920’s Style Death Ray” running joke on the SDMB. I’m all in favor of it actually. In fact, why not spread this to other threads? Visit this link [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5442571#post5442571](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5442571#post5442571) and look at posting #41. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/125 "2004-11-02T16:31:55Z")
The highest manned balloon flight was in 1961 by Commander Malcolm Ross and Lieutenant Victor A. Prather, Jr. of the US Navy. It reached 113,740 feet (34,668 m). The name of the balloon was USN Strato-Lab V. It took more than 20 minutes. How much salt they took with them is not recorded. So much for aerial exploration. Has anyone visited the deepest part of the world’s oceans (Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench)? If so How long did they stay there? ---
**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:** [November 2, 2004, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/126 "2004-11-02T17:13:22Z")
> [@Small Clanger](#): > > So much for aerial exploration. Has anyone visited the deepest part of the world’s oceans (Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench)? No. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/127 "2004-11-02T17:16:39Z")
After some research I’ve found that my last post was in error. Man has indeed visited the deepest part of the world’s oceans, Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench. However, this has happened only once, in 1960, and the expedition only lasted 20 minutes. [Cite.](http://www.conc.es/cite/cite.gif) ---
**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:** [November 3, 2004, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/128 "2004-11-03T00:17:10Z")
Earth is the most poorly-mapped planet in the solar system. Even the Moon (yes it is NOT a planet) was fully surveyed in the early 1960’s when the Soviets launched a satellite into lunar orbit and revealed the “other” side of the Moon for the first time. Heck, the Moon has actually been visited 6 times by 12 different people. These facts prorbably were what prompted a US Congressman to remark “I am more interested in the ocean’s bottom than the Moon’s behind.” Very little of the ocean floor has been mapped to any detail. Even the deepest part of the ocean has been explored just once - but I forget the details. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2004, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/129 "2004-11-03T00:21:03Z")
Man has visited the deepest part of the world’s oceans, Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, just once. In 1960. For 20 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/130 "2004-11-03T00:33:01Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > These facts prorbably were what prompted a US Congressman to remark “I am more interested in the ocean’s bottom than the Moon’s behind.” I mooned a Congressman with my bottom just once. In 1960. For 20 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/131 "2004-11-03T16:11:40Z")
> [@LilyoftheValley](#): > > I mooned a Congressman with my bottom just once. In 1960. For 20 minutes. Was it covered in a crust of sea salt? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/132 "2004-11-06T05:29:27Z")
> [@LilyoftheValley](#): > > I mooned a Congressman with my bottom just once. In 1960. For 20 minutes. Had he been partying with Yale coeds while drinking margaritas during an orgy for 300 hours on the moon? Or was it all faked on a soundstage at the bottom of the Marianas Trench? BTW, did you know that the bottom of The Marianas Trench was visited only once, in 1960? For 20 minutes? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Seventh\_Deadly\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6bbea6/32.png) [@The\_Seventh\_Deadly\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Seventh_Deadly_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/133 "2004-11-17T08:56:05Z")
Speaking of the heavenly bodies and probability, not many people know astrophysicist Jeff Wayne’s work on the subject-- the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, he said. [The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one](http://members.aol.com/skyyeyes/jwwow.htm). But still, they come. Not many people know that. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/134 "2004-11-17T16:40:26Z")
Not many people know all the girls that attended the Yale prom end to end, but if they did it would be covered in a thick layer of salt. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/135 "2004-11-17T16:42:43Z")
The ocean consists primarily of fish pee, whale turds, and hospital byproducts. Who the hell would want to explore that? ---
**Author:** ![Greenback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/2bfe46/32.png) [@Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greenback)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/136 "2004-11-17T16:59:00Z")
> [@legion](#): > > As I don’t see Disco Stu prominent on NASA’s hall of fame, yet an entire wing is dovoted to the bravery and self sacrifice of Inanimate Carbon Rod, I call bullshit on this dancing thing. Can an **inanimate** carbon rod dance? Does that require a sodium additive to achieve such an effect. If so, is there some location on earth that harbours vast amounts of sodium? If such a place exists and I would like to spread the sodium over the world landmass, how deep could I make it? ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/137 "2004-11-17T17:01:11Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > I can see that this topic is evolving into the new “1920’s Style Death Ray” running joke on the SDMB. I’m all in favor of it actually. In fact, why not spread this to other threads? Visit this link [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5442571#post5442571](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5442571#post5442571) > and look at posting #41. I for one am both humbled and proud at whatever small part I may have had in the elevation of topic to Cheesy In-bred Cultural History. And, **legion** , while I offer my sincere apologies for shitting on your thread, I invite you to join me now in seeing my participation for what it truly was . . . spreading fertilizer. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/138 "2004-11-17T17:25:13Z")
Many river fish are being exposed to fairly large doses of anti-depressants and viagra due to human waste management measures not removing such chemicals before returning water to the rivers. Not a lot of people know that > [@](#): > > Caine then reveals to Parkinson the history of the catchphrase which has been attached to him for many decades - and is still used by several Michael Caine impressionists to this day. > The culprit? Peter Sellers. > Michael explains: "Peter Sellers said that. Peter always had the new gadgets. So he was the first one to have an answerphone. > "I called him one day and he wasn’t in, and there was me saying ‘My name is Michael Caine and I just want to tell you that Peter Sellers isn’t in. And not many people know that’. > “He invented that [phrase] so anyone that called him got me saying ‘not many people know that’.” from [http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/11\_november/28/parky\_caine.shtml](http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/11_november/28/parky_caine.shtml) ---
**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:** [November 17, 2004, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/139 "2004-11-17T18:02:03Z")
**Greenback** In reply to your question: _Is there some location on earth that harbours vast amounts of sodium? If such a place exists and I would like to spread the sodium over the world landmass, how deep could I make it?_ I believe the location you seek would be the world’s oceans. It contains a vast amount of sodium in the form of NaCl (or salt). The volume of the oceans is HUGE and so the amount of salt it would yield would also be HUGE. Most people do not think of the oceans as being very deep but there is much water beneath that surface and in fact, some parts of the world’s oceans can be up to several MILES deep. I think the deepest part is a trench located somewhere in the Pacific. It would be interesting to know if that trench has ever been explored. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647/140 "2004-11-17T18:16:40Z")
> [@](#): > > …who threw potato salad at CCNY lecturers on dadaism and subsequently presented themselves on the granite steps of the madhouse with shaven heads and harlequin speech of suicide, demaning instantaneous lobotomy, and who instead received the concrete void of insulin metrazol hydrotherapy electicity therapy occupational therapy pingpong and amnesia… > > - Allen Ginsberg My [CITE](http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_nov2003/GoodbyeTattoo.jpg). I’m feeling rather Dadaist, today… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-many-people-know-that/271647.md?page=8)