[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
[quote]Paste42 wrote:
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
[quote]coolnatedawg wrote:
30,000ft seems like a lot of rope…[/quote]
For reference, Earth’s equator is about 25k feet.[/quote]
The equator is 5 miles? or am I doing it wrong[/quote]
Shit, lol. Apparently I’m a retard. The earth’s equator is 25k MILES.
I’m so ashamed.[/quote]
I actually was trying to figure out how that was possible for about five minutes lol
haha i bet that jellyfish is the jellyfish queen in spongebob. WOOPS. i did not say that. i still don’t get what’s so scary with that crab. i mean, its a CRAB. im like salivating at the thought of all the ways you can cook the monster, black pepper, steamed, deep fried, with salted egg yolk ( ;D one of the delicacies in singapore, and try the chilli crab in singapore man, haha)
but im guessing its hard to build something that can withstand that kinda pressure right? its hard to even test it out as im thinking producing that amount of pressure for a test run would be very expensive/not feasible?
and anyone wonder what if we wake up some ancient race of monster THAT WILL EATZX US ALIVE?!?!?!
[quote]legendaryblaze wrote:
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Full scale:
Something about the “monster” at the bottom of the drawing really freaked me out. The thought of what’s in the water at unkown depths is almost as frightening to me as thinking about what happens when we die. There has got to be some unbelievably scary shit down there.
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
You assholes can get technical all you want! This weekend I’m taking my rowboat out to the middle of the ocean and dropping a big, metal 10x10 trap attached to 35,000 feet of rope. When I catch enough sun I’m going to pull it back up and see what I’ve got.[/quote]
this sounds a new biceps blasting routine.
1.first row out into the middle of the ocean.
2.Then drop a 10’x10’ metal cage into the water
3.then jelg for 2 hours, you know to work your forearms
4.Then pull the cage up 35,000 feet blasting youre biceps.
[quote]horsepuss wrote:
not sure what this is called[/quote]
FREAKING UGLY
[quote]Geddan wrote:
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See the size of that right claw?..obviously got a hold of some synthol.
I had a boner from the food challenge thread. Now it’s gone…
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
Why can’t we just drop a big ass trap down to the bottom of the ocean and pull it up to see if we caught anything? I’d love to see what kinda weird shit is down there.[/quote]
I think I remeber hearing on NPR that things from that far down tend to fall apart real quicklike in our low pressure atmosphere and our bright lights. the crustaceans may be an exception cause its hard for armor to fall apart
I’m still intrigued by the idea. Let’s solve the problems one at a time:
Yup, just build it from solid steel (not pipes) and it should work fine. 1000 bars of pressure a side = no problems.
The problem with long ropes is that they have to withstand their own weight too, which is kinda heavy when the rope is 35 000 ft long.
A floating rope (i.e. cheap polypropylene shit) should work. The resulting force on the rope is directed upwards and the weight of the trap and the beast is all we have to worry about.
Hmm, maybe we should just build a camera that works when filled with water and send down a nice rod painted with some fluorescent shit, so it doesn’t burst.
OR: We freeze the fucker in a block of ice, thereby preserving the pressure and keeping it from exploding. How? Maybe by sending down some chemicals that when mixed cause some endothermic reaction.
Does it eat? It has to get energy and since there’s no sun it can’t work like a plant. Some things live on salt and a lot of things live on things, so maybe it lives on things that live on things that live on salt or something like that. Sweet.
[quote]kakno wrote:
Does it eat? It has to get energy and since there’s no sun it can’t work like a plant. Some things live on salt and a lot of things live on things, so maybe it lives on things that live on things that live on salt or something like that. Sweet.
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if there are thermal vents that deep (and being that far below sea level, the crust has got to be thing in places) then there should be thermal thriving bacteria, which is satisfies the food requirement. even if said beastie doesn’t eat bacteria, SOMETHING will. then beastie will eat that something.
[quote]Big_Boss wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua[/quote]
The parasite looks like an underhanded Chinese merchant.
another weird deep sea creature Dropout - Independent, ad-free, uncensored comedy.
A British scientific expedition says it has discovered the world’s deepest known underwater volcanic vent off the Cayman Islands
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/04/12/worlds-deepest-known-undersea-volcanic-vent/
Marine geophysicist Maya Tolstoy said Monday that the new discovery is nearly one kilometer (3,000 feet) deeper than the next-deepest vent.
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
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Oh. My. God.
HAHAHAHAHAHA. Epic stuff. I loved how she had the same facial expression in every picture.
I hope they threw that thing back into the ocean. It might be a species with a naturally low population.
