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Scientists discover beer bottle in the Mariana Trench (2024)
- edwardtay 10mo ago[dead]
- delecti 10mo agoThe bottle in question seems to be glass, so many of those questions aren't really relevant. Glass doesn't degrade much from UV light, or at all from biological activity, whether on land or under 7 miles of ocean. Glass is denser than water, so it sank.
- homebrewer 10mo agoBecause it's an LLM spambot, it "saw" a couple of keywords and wrote a comment that's vaguely relevant to the article at hand. Do help with kicking it out by flagging its comments.
- jayrot 10mo agoUgh, thought at first you might be just being mean but a quick look at its other comments 100% confirms. I don’t understand — what’s even the point of such comment slop. I mean on Reddit it’s for karma and selling accounts or whatever. But here on HN?
- amelius 10mo agoI would be more surprised if stuff like that would not find its way to places like that.
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- CrzyLngPwd 10mo agoBut did they pick it up?
- bch 10mo agoNot worth it for the $0.10 return. Put more down there to incentivize.
- casey2 10mo agoLiteral navalgazing
- someothherguyy 10mo agodifferent source that loads without javascript https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/12/oceanographer-dawn-wright-when-we-reached-the-bottom-we-saw-a-beer-bottle https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/12/oceanographe... (lacking details on the bottle itself)
- meisel 10mo agoI'm curious what objects do/don't survive at the water pressure. I guess bottles are strong enough
- fogleman 10mo agoPresumably it was open & empty, so it's just a piece of glass surviving...
- dmurray 10mo agoEven so, wouldn't you expect that you could crush an open empty beer bottle by putting a heavy enough weight on it? A human can't do it, but I would expect an elephant can.
- jdmoreira 10mo agoThat's not how pressure works if it's opened. The forces balance out
- bracketfocus 10mo agoThe pressure inside the bottle is the same as the outside. So it’s not the same as stomping on an empty bottle.
- FL410 10mo agoBut the forces are the same all around the bottle (again assuming it is open)
- rags2riches 10mo agoThe bottle wouldn't be empty though.
- RajT88 10mo agoThere is quite a lot of pressure put outside from the beer of a full bottle, but that little bit of air is probably enough to cause it to implode at some point. I'll be honest; I have no idea how to estimate that. I'm sure there are folks on here who can (and might). It's probably not as deep as you'd think.
- jordanpg 10mo agoI agree it's something of a bummer, but why is this surprising or "bizarre"?
- apt-apt-apt-apt 10mo agoIt'd be surprising if we found it on the moon, but how is it surprising that something fell 7 miles until it hit the floor
- malux85 10mo agoScientists [ad] discover [ad] beer [ad] [popup] [ad] bottle in [ad] the [ad] [ad] [ad] Painful
- aorth 10mo agoI don't see any ads on Firefox (Android) with uBlock Origin. That site seems horrible though. Random words in the body like reddit are hyperlinks to SEO landing pages on the same site. And there must be a better (original) source for the story than this...
- pmdr 10mo agoIt's peak content form that AI was trained on and is now writing itself.
- natebc 10mo agohttps://www.esri.com/en-us/industries/blog/articles/mission-accomplished-photos-from-the-challenger-deep-expedition https://www.esri.com/en-us/industries/blog/articles/mission-... Seems like this is better, or at least maybe a primary source?
- drnick1 10mo agoYou should really use an ad blocker. The Internet is basically unusable these days without one. I block ad domains at the DNS level too, but the ad blocker is still necessary to remove the empty frames left, sad.
- add-sub-mul-div 10mo agoIf you don't want to use an adblocker that's your choice, but it doesn't make complaining about it content that we want to read.
- cbisnett 10mo agoWhat’s the chance this was dropped off one of the research vessels at some point? It seems unlikely to drift given it sank to the bottom.
- gnabgib 10mo ago2020 Commercial submarine trips to the bottom of the Marianas Trench (103 points, 66 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22702000 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22702000 2019 Mariana Trench: Deepest-ever sub dive finds plastic bag (169 points, 126 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19899374 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19899374 2019 In Mariana Trench, every animal tested had plastic in its gut (57 points, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19302531 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19302531 2018 Plastic Bag Found at the Bottom of World's Deepest Ocean Trench (359 points, 326 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17057305 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17057305
- anonymousiam 10mo agoPerhaps it was tossed overboard by somebody on the support vessel...
- fnord77 10mo agoI have a feeling someone dropped this bottle on purpose when they were over the trench. They knew what they were doing. Note the lack of other littler.
- sowbug 10mo agoThe article mentions thalassophobia, which is my new vocabulary word for today. It means fear of large bodies of water.
- andy99 10mo agoI found that to be really bad writing When it comes to exploring the deep sea, unless you suffer from thalassophobia (the fear of large bodies of water), it can be quite fascinating. What purpose does this serve, other than to introduce a word that has no future relevance in the article. It’s just an empty sentence padding the word count.
- karmakurtisaani 10mo agoHow would you otherwise be aware the author knew this word?
- nephihaha 10mo agoFear of the sea not large bodies of water. Thalassa! Thalassa! (Ancient Greek literary reference there.)
- patrickmay 10mo agoTime for a remake of "The Gods Must Be Crazy" with octopi.
- rwmj 10mo agooctopodes
- hermannj314 10mo agoFor years we were told trans-oceanic communication was best done with messages in bottles and suddenly even those are being intercepted. Finally time to switch to protonmail.
- a3w 10mo agoDepends on your thread model: Swiss police can see your proton mail if they get a court to allow viewing it. But the Swiss do not have a submarine, so underwater bottle passing is safe against them. Combine both, and you are safe! Offline mails in a bottle should be a april fool's RFC any time now.
- techjamie 10mo agoSecure Anycast IP Over Tidal Transport
- quinndupont 10mo agoSO MANY ADVERTISEMENTS. Tis a shame everything has to be fluffed up and sold
- immibis 10mo agoWe really need to do more adversarial interoperability. There should be a browser or at least a .onion site that blocks ads and bypasses paywalls. Yes, it would be illegal - just like a great many good things in the past, some of which led to the law being changed. The Decline of Deviance essay posted here a few days ago says people used to take legal risks a lot more often than they do today.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 10mo agoWhat beer was it
- hulitu 10mo agoA radler. So no technically a beer. That's why they trew it away.
- hulitu 10mo agoThey were lead by a bottle.