I don’t have to prove you wrong, I don’t think you really exist.
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.
Not many people know that salt cod is from the Dead Sea. Lutefisk is from the Lycian Sea. Eels are from the Sargasso Sea.
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
and look at posting #41.
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?
No.
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.
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.
Man has visited the deepest part of the world’s oceans, Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, just once. In 1960. For 20 minutes.
I mooned a Congressman with my bottom just once. In 1960. For 20 minutes.
Was it covered in a crust of sea salt?
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?
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.
But still, they come. Not many people know that.
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.
The ocean consists primarily of fish pee, whale turds, and hospital byproducts. Who the hell would want to explore that?
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?
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.
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
from http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/11_november/28/parky_caine.shtml
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.
My CITE.
I’m feeling rather Dadaist, today…