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I had science books in middle school that when showing an example of manganese (for the chemical elements section), they included a shot of the Glomar Explorer
by yardie 4y ago
I had science books in middle school that when showing an example of manganese (for the chemical elements section), they included a shot of the Glomar Explorer mining it from the sea floor. That's how thorough the plausibility was to make it into public school textbooks.
- DaiPlusPlus 4y agoHuh... my textbook in GCSE geography class (early-to-mid-00s) had an illustration of an ROV-style undersea robot harvesting manganese nodules. I wasn't sure how that approach would scale...