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This has a slight air of the manganese nodule seabed mining that was propagated as cover for the Glomar Explorer expedition...

• dsfyu404ed 8y ago
  This. Other than incremental improvements in deep sea drilling I can't read an article about deep sea resource extraction and take it seriously. There will forever be a voice in the back of my head telling me it's just a CIA cover story.
• MarkSummer 8y ago
  Ha, agree. This is an amazing story if you haven't read about it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian The kind of thing that kind of makes you second guess the "whacky" conspiracy crackpots.
• PavlikPaja 8y ago
  They actually exist thought, they just weren't worth mining.
• deleted 8y ago
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