Challenger Deep (science tidbit for today)

[windsor]

I've been following tweets from James Cameron and his team for the last couple hours. Successful descent to the deepest point on earth, Challenger Deep. Only the third person in history to descent to sea floor (the first two, aboard Trieste in 1960 only stayed on the bottom a short time due to visibility and cracking windows) Cameron should spend 4-6 hours tooling about armed with HD camera's and movie quality lights.

7 miles down....holy freakin' crap. I bet the footage he brings back is amazing.

Vibes for his safe return to the surface.

I am such a freakin' geek....

[captmojo]

I bet he finds some tarhole hearts down there.
;)

[CathyCA]

I think this is so cool!

I can't wait to see the pictures.

[OZZIE4DUKE]

I'll bet he discovers several new species of sea life. Maybe some alien colonies, too! ;)

[CameronBornAndBred]

The brief glimpse of the watery depths visited earlier this week by Cameron in his Deepsea Challenger submersible show what the director of Avatar, Titanic, and, appropriately enough, The Abyss described as a "completely featureless ... almost gelatinous flat plain"

So some footage was released and it sounds incredibly boring. Which is kinda what I'd expect.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2402234,00.asp
It's still very cool that he went and hopefully something interesting was filmed.

Edit...they removed the video because apparently the footage of the "completely featureless ... almost gelatinous flat plain" is not only boring, but copyrighted.