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One of my favourite stories is how deep sea mining was started because the CIA went overboard (pun intended) with a cover story [0]. [0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/
by psychphysic 4y ago
One of my favourite stories is how deep sea mining was started because the CIA went overboard (pun intended) with a cover story [0].
[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/deep_sea_mining https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/deep_sea_mining
- JWLong 4y agoSee also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_response https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_response
- walrus01 4y agosee also: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=the+jennifer+morgue https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=the+jenni...
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- fsckboy 4y agoI'm just the right age to have learned about the enormous potential of deep sea mining by being taught about it in grade school! we were gonna vacuum up manganese nodules!
- mnw21cam 4y agoI was the right age to learn about the enormous potential of deep sea mining by reading Willard Price. Actually, looking at when Underwater Adventure was written, I could have been born any year and still learn about it by that method.
- fsckboy 4y agoI'm talking about when it was breathlessly added to the school curriculum at the time the Glomar ship was being built. So I was saying something like "I read about leaked story of Moses parting the Red Sea in the newspaper!"; yes, you're right, anybody can learn about Moses from the Bible.