It'd be ironic if those sea floor nodules have value now. "Mining" them has an extremely interesting cold-war story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azor

It'd be ironic if those sea floor nodules have value now. "Mining" them has an extremely interesting cold-war story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian#Building_Glomar_Explorer,_and_its_cover_story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian#Building_Gloma...