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• Interesting! : cjcharv
• crazy : Maarten Goldstein
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  The Mariana Trench contains the Challenger Deep, which is where that bathyscaphe went. : Marrbe
  • Yeah, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_Deep : Nitrium
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  holy crap mt. everest is tall :( : mikecyb
  • It just sails on past the death zone : Dave-A
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympus_Mons : Marrbe
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      what's the emoticon for crying like a little girl? : mikecyb
      • //:_;\\ : Marrbe
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      Both the size of Olympus Mons and its shallow slope (2.5 degrees central dome surrounded by 5 degree oute : mikecyb
      • Ah, we both caught that. lol : jayacheess
      • Too bad Mars has such a thin atmosphere. Imagine flying a kite from the top with an Earth-like atmosphere... : Marrbe
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      Wow, that's interesting. I didn't realize it was such a gradual slope (5%). And you aren't able to really... : jayacheess
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        I'm struggling to comprehend that. : ShekkyBoy
        • same here : riptyde
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      Sounds like the name of a whore in Roman mythology. : riptyde
      • Think earlier. Mount Olympus. : thetangent
  • It really is. If you read Krakauer's "Into Thin Air", it'll give you a whole new understand of exactly ho... : reelbk
• wow that's pretty crazy actually, didn't realize the oil pocket was that deep. : Shadowdane
• see, plenty of room for oil left : askedrelic
• Man, this gives some serious perspective on our planet. Also, that's a long fucking way to drill for oil... : eseiat
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  Dang rupellsvulture can fly freaking high. Also the Russians drilled equally as deep and deeper on la... : theghostofsmdever
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    You know something is crazy when then Russians say it's too dangerous. : Blackdawgg
    • For real. The shit that comes out that deep is Abiotic oil, there is all sorts of nasty benzine and god k... : theghostofsmdever
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    Chevron is currently drilling a deeper well in Canada right now. : cltcprd
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      Offshore? : theghostofsmdever
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        Yessir. http://www.oilmarketer.co.uk/2010/05/12/chevron-canada-commences-drilling-for-deepest-oil-well/ : cltcprd
        • ruh-roh, it's on this side of the country too : Dave-A
        • Chevron Canada has commenced drilling the country’s deepest oil well on record, in a bid to preven : riptyde
    • not our problem!!! : mikecyb
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  Holy shit, puts things into perspective. Did not know the leak was situated so deep : caveatemptor
  • we're fucked :( : umegastar
• So seep. So deep, put her ass to sleep? : magistersmax
• that's really cool : biskits
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  It needs to have the TauTona gold mine on this map. Over 12,000ft deep. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... : ant_hillbilly
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    that was a cool ep. : CoRDS
    • Shit was scary. I would never go down there unless of course I could have some free gold. : ant_hillbilly
  • fuck those fucking dwarves they are going to dig too deep!! : mikecyb
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    The mine is so deep that temperatures in the mine can rise to life threatening levels. Air conditioning e : mikecyb
    • If you ever get a chance watch the episode. Its on the science channel. : ant_hillbilly
• too deep, too greedily : c0bra
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  Deep oceans scare me. : soggybagel
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    same, had a strange feeling of anxiety as I scrolled down, deeper and deeper - don't know why : lonepie
    • I blame watching The Abyss at a young age. : soggybagel
    • Well, if you notice, after about a mile, there is no light whatsoever. Anything can creep up on you, and ... : AlexW1203
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  goddamit, so how long does it take to boil an egg on the ocean floor? : filthysock
  • 0.2 seconds : cltcprd
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    Haha my first thought as well, especially since I ate one 5 minutes ago. : Porkasaurus
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      You did?!? : CrustaR
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        http://www.shackpics.com/files/deeptrench_pzz8vlmw21z63t1liqfb.jpg : Porkasaurus
        • what the : CrustaR
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    water no longer boils past about 218 atmospheres down and the liquid and gaseous states merge, becoming ... : YamatoTwinkie
    • Thanks for ruining this thread with interesting scientific facts : caveatemptor
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  and to think with all that distance between the highest mountain and the deepest sea the earth has a smoo... : cap n KRUNCH
  • I was thinking this as well. : riptyde
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  damn that is fucking deep. Must be like going into outer space to go down there. : baconisgod
  • Funnily enough, more people have walked on the Moon than been to the deepest known part of Earth. : ShekkyBoy
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  Yeah we have heaps of oil left! so we're drilling how deep to get it now? wow. : abrasion
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    the thing that blows my mind about it is that oil is just decaying organic matter that's been compressed ... : beastrabban
    • Those are the decayed ruins of the dwarfs. : DarkWolf5
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      Until the 1990s, nobody even knew that gigantic deposits of oil and natural gas had pooled under the deep : cltcprd
      • wow, neato! thank you kind sir. : beastrabban
    • It's mostly plankton. Surface life doesn't have anywhere near that kind of density. : yakz