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I remember an '80s-era middle school science textbook touting seabed manganese nodules as the future of mining, driving mass underwater settlement.
by snerbles 10y ago
I remember an '80s-era middle school science textbook touting seabed manganese nodules as the future of mining, driving mass underwater settlement.
- rbobby 10y ago> manganese nodules Hah! Except that was a CIA cover story used when they tried to recover a sunken Russian sub: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSF_Explorer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSF_Explorer
- Tuna-Fish 10y agoWell, manganese nodules are a real thing, and are of some value. They just used them as the cover when they needed to develop underwater recovery technology.
- ptaipale 10y agoManganese nodules also feature heavily in Desmond Bagley's thriller "Night of error", which was published posthumously in 1984. Not quite as good as his earlier books but still enjoyable.