i wish more ultra rich people would be more like Cameron, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk (founder of Paypal and Space X). sure their egos are massive and their ventures are definitely self serving, but they also happen to be benefiting humanity at the same time. i wonder why more egocentric rich folks don't take up similar causes, since being a pioneer in exploration and technological advancement is a lot better way to cement your legacy than by being a CEO of some random corporation
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Cameron is the first person to make the dive solo, a distinction that also had been sought by billionaire businessman and adventurer Richard Branson and Patrick Lahey, an experienced submarine pilot.
The nonprofit X-Prize Foundation has announced it will award a $10 million prize to the first person to reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
Cameron told CNN he's not interested in competing for this prize, or any other, because his mission is purely about scientific research.
"You know, there's so much we don't know," Cameron said. "I'm hopeful that we'll be able to study the ocean before we destroy it."
i wish more ultra rich people would be more like Cameron, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk (founder of Paypal and Space X). sure their egos are massive and their ventures are definitely self serving, but they also happen to be benefiting humanity at the same time. i wonder why more egocentric rich folks don't take up similar causes, since being a pioneer in exploration and technological advancement is a lot better way to cement your legacy than by being a CEO of some random corporation
Add Bill Gates and Buffet to that list of awesome wealthy people, sure they aren't adventurers but they are giving away almost all their wealth to awesome humanitarian causes.
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They never find anything very interesting super deep. Just barren landscapes and a few blind fish. This will be a yawn for sure, but whatever lame things they do find they'll pretend are the greatest discoveries ever.
They never find anything very interesting super deep. Just barren landscapes and a few blind fish. This will be a yawn for sure, but whatever lame things they do find they'll pretend are the greatest discoveries ever.
I'm dissapointed that he didn't find Leonardo DiCaprio's frozen corpse at the bottom.
There are some incredibly cool things at the bottom of the ocean.
While I doubt that Cameron was expecting to solve the mystery of the Bloop, or suddenly find a 600 foot octopus or see the Cloverfield monster sipping on a can of Japanese soda, he did take some samples of the water and the ocean floor and that might come up with some interesting stuff.
Wasn't there recently discovered micro organisms found in really inhospital conditions? Any microscopic life that lives down there and evolved under extremely adverse temperature and pressure and light situations, that would be worth finding.
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They never find anything very interesting super deep. Just barren landscapes and a few blind fish. This will be a yawn for sure, but whatever lame things they do find they'll pretend are the greatest discoveries ever.
The discovery of ecosystems completely reliant on geothermal energy (as opposed to solar) in the deep sea is, IMO, one of the most important discoveries of the last 100 years. That finding completely changed the way we looked at the concept of "life".
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I think its very important that we learn about life at the bottom of that trench so that we can figure out how to kill it, and then use that trench to store nuclear waste. Its perfect for that.
Dump Dump Dump Dump.
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