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The Joides Resolution may have sailed its last expedition
- dang 2y agoRelated: Dismantling the Ship That Drilled for the Ocean's Deepest Secrets https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/26/science/drilling-ship-science-joides-resolution.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/26/science/drilling-ship-sci... https://archive.is/3UMcU https://archive.is/3UMcU (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41360598 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41360598, but no comments there)
- r00fus 2y agoSo this ship exists, but the funding for the expeditions have been cancelled from the NSF (US). The wrinkle at the end seems to posit the China challenge - and possibly that's for the best as the US seems to have given up on non-military seafaring ventures.
- causal 2y agoRight in the middle of the decade of ocean science no less