Watched a show last night about the Nereus and the dive to Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench. I love shows about deep ocean dives and what we don’t know about our planet…
But at one point during the descent the narrator said, “More vehicles have reached the surface of Mars than have reached the ocean floor.”
I know what they meant, but I think they may want to clarify this statement…
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BTW, If I was one of the two men in the Trieste and the other guy insisted on completing the dive after the plexiglass shattered, there would only have been one man coming up alive because at that point, it’s a fight to the death as I try to surface. Were they braver than I am or just stupid? Or possibly, they knew more about their own craft than I learned by reading a single Wikipedia article…
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Of course, I’m not a doctor (unless you count witch doctor)…
I’ll never know the real pain and heartbreak of a doctor/nurse having to tell a patient’s family that their loved one isn’t going to make it. But every time I tell an agent that their Hard Drive is dead and needs to be replaced, I get to feel a little like a doctor:
Detached yet sympathetic and in the end I have to think to myself, hey, fuck ‘em! They should have backed up their files more often than “that one time three years ago!”
Had a Waffle waitress pull up her shirt and pull down her jeans to show us the tattoo in her butt crack. Five minutes later she made a quote from “Scarface” (but not the “Say hello to my little friend” line). She kept verbally abusing us and telling us stories you’d never hear in a “real” restaurant.
We gave her a $10 tip on a $24 check…
Can this day get any better?
One must maintain composure and remain calm during combat;
otherwise the dice get thrown all over the table…
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