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Paul Allen's Twitter seems to be a good source of up-to-the-minute news on the dive: https://twitter.com/#!/PaulGAllen https://twitter.com/#!/PaulGAllen He say
by dandelany 15y ago
Paul Allen's Twitter seems to be a good source of up-to-the-minute news on the dive: https://twitter.com/#!/PaulGAllen https://twitter.com/#!/PaulGAllen
He says he's on "Octopus," which I assume is one of the support vessels. Aparently Cameron's sub has just touched down on the seabed, Allen's latest tweet:
#deepseachallenge hit bottom at 0752 local time "All systems ok"
and a few minutes before that:
"Now on the bottom 35755 ft!! Plan is for #Deepseachallenge to spend 4-6 hours on the seabed- take samples....Huge Congrats what a relief!!!"
Very exciting!
- marcelvr 15y agoOctopus is Paul's yacht: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus_(yacht) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus_(yacht)
- Danieru 15y agoOne of his yachts.
- deleted 15y ago[deleted]
- bradhe 15y ago"yacht"
- jordanb 15y agoMan, whenever I see Paul Allen whining about Gates or Ballmer, I think, it sure is curious way to screw someone over: turning them into a billionaire.
- saucetenuto 15y agoDoes Paul Allen actually whine, or is it just that other people whine on his behalf? All the quotes I've read from him have been classy, or at least reserved.
- 6ren 15y agoNow on the way up (18m ago); now surfaced.
- samstave 15y agoThey should have had a 737 communicating with the sub, tweeting it, at -35755 Feet below sea level - that is the same distance that commercial airlines cruise at. They would have had the world record for "longest vertical distance between two terrestrial crafts communicating with one another"
- mseebach 15y agoWhy is a commercial airline more terrestrial than a space shuttle or the Apollo Command Module? /pedantry
- samstave 15y agoI was trying to specify "within atmosphere" meaning it would be the furthest vertical distance two people could communicate from without being in space. However I now realize that we have flown planes far higher than ~70K feet - which would have been a greater distance that what i was thinking.