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> “It sometimes seems hard to believe that we humans have managed to explore so little of what we have so much of: the seas.” Apparently fewer people have been

by FabHK 6y ago

> “It sometimes seems hard to believe that we humans have managed to explore so little of what we have so much of: the seas.” Apparently fewer people have been to the bottom of the Mariana trench (between 11 and 12,732 km away from you) than to the moon (about 400,000 km away from you).

RandomBacon 6y ago
Visiting the bottom of the Mariana Tench might be feasible for some people here. Apparently there are three slots available on a first-come-first-serve basis, for $750,000. https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/marianas-trench-challenger-deep-dive/index.html https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/marianas-trench-challenge... Climbing Everest used to be a bucket list item for me, but not anymore after I hear how bad it's gotten over the years. Going into space seems more feasible for me than the trench, only $250,000.
- FabHK 6y ago
  Yeah, Mt Everest... nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded ;-) I happened to be in Guam in 2012 and in some dodgy dive bar (...) ran into the crew that took James Cameron down to Challenger Deep, only the second manned descent ever. Didn’t believe them a word until I saw my couch surfing host dancing with Cameron.
  - dragonwriter 6y ago
    > Yeah, Mt Everest... nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded ;-) Mt. Everest is the kind of place where that could be literally true (though I don't think it is, yet), if you count corpses as part the crowding...
    - obmelvin 6y ago
      While I do feel like it is still an appropriate joke to make in the sense that it sounds ridiculous to say you aren't interested in Mt Everest because its too crowded, sadly it seems we have already reached that point in time - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/05/24/mount-everest-has-gotten-so-crowded-that-climbers-are-perishing-traffic-jams/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/05/24/mount-everes...
  - rurban 6y ago
    You can try Biography/Realization. Not too crowded, near Céüse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realization_(climb) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realization_(climb) But about a dozen already climbed it.

by FabHK 6y ago

RandomBacon 6y ago

Visiting the bottom of the Mariana Tench might be feasible for some people here. Apparently there are three slots available on a first-come-first-serve basis, for $750,000. https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/marianas-trench-challenger-deep-dive/index.html https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/marianas-trench-challenge... Climbing Everest used to be a bucket list item for me, but not anymore after I hear how bad it's gotten over the years. Going into space seems more feasible for me than the trench, only $250,000.

FabHK 6y ago
Yeah, Mt Everest... nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded ;-) I happened to be in Guam in 2012 and in some dodgy dive bar (...) ran into the crew that took James Cameron down to Challenger Deep, only the second manned descent ever. Didn’t believe them a word until I saw my couch surfing host dancing with Cameron.
- dragonwriter 6y ago
  > Yeah, Mt Everest... nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded ;-) Mt. Everest is the kind of place where that could be literally true (though I don't think it is, yet), if you count corpses as part the crowding...
  - obmelvin 6y ago
    While I do feel like it is still an appropriate joke to make in the sense that it sounds ridiculous to say you aren't interested in Mt Everest because its too crowded, sadly it seems we have already reached that point in time - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/05/24/mount-everest-has-gotten-so-crowded-that-climbers-are-perishing-traffic-jams/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/05/24/mount-everes...
- rurban 6y ago
  You can try Biography/Realization. Not too crowded, near Céüse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realization_(climb) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realization_(climb) But about a dozen already climbed it.