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Old August 5th 08, 07:29 AM posted to sci.space.history
Pat Flannery
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Neil Gerace wrote:
It won't console anyone, but fewer people have been to the bottom of
the ocean than have been into space.


Not if you count all the dead ones that went there in sunken ships. ;-)

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Old August 5th 08, 12:12 PM posted to sci.space.history
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"Neil Gerace" wrote in message
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It won't console anyone, but fewer people have been to the bottom of
the ocean than have been into space.


Define "bottom of the ocean".

I mean LEO is the equivalent of walking out to the sandbar that is hidden at
high tide.

The Moon is perhaps the continental shelf.

But ultimately both are vast, unexplored volumes.



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Old August 5th 08, 12:43 PM posted to sci.space.history
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"Greg D. Moore (Strider)" wrote in message
m...
Define "bottom of the ocean".

I mean LEO is the equivalent of walking out to the sandbar that is hidden
at high tide.

The Moon is perhaps the continental shelf.


The continental shelf defines the limit of seas (for instance, off
Queensland, there is the Coral Sea, then it's the Pacific Ocean, which
begins at the edge of the continental shelf).


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Old August 5th 08, 03:15 PM posted to sci.space.history
Pat Flannery
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Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:
Define "bottom of the ocean".

I mean LEO is the equivalent of walking out to the sandbar that is hidden at
high tide.

The Moon is perhaps the continental shelf.

But ultimately both are vast, unexplored volumes.


But you can see a lot better through space than the ocean.
And the chances of being attacked by a Great White in space are
considerably less.
Of course other dangers lurk the
http://www.chrismasto.com/delicious/images/324

Pat
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Old August 5th 08, 03:40 PM posted to sci.space.history
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"Alan Erskine" wrote:

"Greg D. Moore (Strider)" wrote in message
om...
Define "bottom of the ocean".

I mean LEO is the equivalent of walking out to the sandbar that is hidden
at high tide.
The Moon is perhaps the continental shelf.


The continental shelf defines the limit of seas (for instance, off
Queensland, there is the Coral Sea, then it's the Pacific Ocean, which
begins at the edge of the continental shelf).


OTOH, here in the Americas and in much of the rest of the world,
oceans pretty much start at the tide line not at the edge of the
continental shelf.

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Old August 7th 08, 08:43 AM posted to sci.space.history
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On Aug 5, 7:12*pm, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
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Define "bottom of the ocean".



Challenger Deep, 11025m? I think only two people have been there.
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Old August 7th 08, 02:08 PM posted to sci.space.history
Pat Flannery
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Neil Gerace wrote:

Define "bottom of the ocean".



Challenger Deep, 11025m? I think only two people have been there.


Besides Prince Namor and Attuma of course. ;-)
Actually there's a deeper depth that has never been reached in a manned
submersible.
Trieste got down to 35,800 ft.
The Soviet research ship Vityaz located a max depth of 36,201 feet in
1957: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.12/dive.html

Pat
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Old August 7th 08, 07:47 PM posted to sci.space.history
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On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:08:56 -0500, Pat Flannery
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Besides Prince Namor and Attuma of course. ;-)


....Or King Art Curry, Prince Garth, Mera, Tula and Aquadeadbaby.

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Old August 8th 08, 09:06 PM posted to sci.space.history
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OM wrote:
Besides Prince Namor and Attuma of course. ;-)


...Or King Art Curry, Prince Garth, Mera, Tula and Aquadeadbaby.


Nemo takes the Nautilus down to the deepest point in the book "20,000
Leagues Under The Sea".
In the book, the bottom is at 16,000 meters - or 52,493 feet.
That was one strong sub. :-D

Pat
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Old August 9th 08, 03:16 AM posted to sci.space.history
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On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:06:15 -0500, Pat Flannery
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Nemo takes the Nautilus down to the deepest point in the book "20,000
Leagues Under The Sea".


....I assume you haven't seen the recent "reimaging" that added an
extra 10K to that figure, the one from the dips who put out that "I Am
Omega" drek just before "The Fresh Prince Legend" came out?

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