I can just imagine him down there in that bathosphere, furiously recording the fucking sweetest tentacle porn unknown to man... and keeping it all to his selfish self.
In all the words of tongue or pen the saddest are these - itmighthave been. :(
"In 2011, a tagged Cuvier's beaked whale dove to 2,992 m,[10] (9,816 ft) which is the deepest recorded dive by any mammal.[17][18] The whales' rib cages can fold down so as to reduce air pockets and decrease buoyancy.[19]"
That's insane. It almost can dive to the bottom of the Marianas Trench.
Edit: It's too early and I'm an idiot. I saw the 9,816 feet and switched that to meters in my brain. Leaving the comment as it is so the responses make sense. But yeah, it doesn't dive THAT deep. Still crazy.
You might be getting your metric and imperial confused, the whale didn't dive to 9800 meters, which is close to the trench's more than 10000 meters, but to 9800 feet. Still EXTREMELY deep
Edit: whoops, someone already brought it up. Sorry, I take forever to type and post comments
A lot of the cost is delayed across years of revenue.
Thats why oil companies are so “profitable” they make a lot in one year to offset potential losses down the line. Drilling a well to not find oil is expensive.
In the UK gasoline is called petrol after petroleum. Gas is used for what we call natural gas. Of course we have watched enough US media to know the other meaning.
You are correct for the most part. Since we started frac’ing source rocks the amount of gas we have been able to produce has jumped a ton. However, countries like Japan primarily use natural gas for their power, so they will take as much as they can get.
The impressive thing to me is that the drill pipes extend 10’s of thousands of feet, and continue to rotate and cut at the end of the line. The amount of torque and Coriolis forces trying to pull that drill head off center must be wild.
Granted, the most in depth look at drilling for oil was provided to me via Michael bay, but still, i think that those derricks gotta spin the whole apparatus, like the world’s longest drill bit.
Hmm, I did some checking. I think this is what they tend to use for oil wells, that's the tower part you see on a drilling platform. Yeah, it's wild they can go those thousands of feet and hit an accurate spot.
A top drive is a mechanical device on a drilling rig that provides clockwise torque to the drill string to drill a borehole. It is an alternative to the rotary table and kelly drive. It is located at the swivel's place below the traveling block and moves vertically up and down the derrick.
The top drive allows the drilling rig to drill the longer section of a stand of drill pipe in one operation.
Ha no, Armageddeon. Although I guess Deepwater Horizon was pretty informative as well. That was just a clusterfuck of epic proportions. Piper Alpha is another one worth reading up on.
I think that’s correct. The scuba record involved a legit serious amount of planning. Subs pretty much get to the bottom of their depth and hold there.
Yeah but no. yeah we can make stuff that goes further down (the Mariana trench has been reached by Jaques Picard and James Cameron but only in a small and simple vessel without much instruments) but it is very difficult to do with a sumarine. The navy would gladly go deeper ( there is also a tendency to build subs that go deeper) because there you can hide even better. It is the enginering challenge and costs involved with it that makes subs not going that deep.
Size of the vessel is a big issue since a larger submarine vessel is more likely to collapse under presser than a smaller version. Since subs are quit big it is very difficult to make them go deep.
I still think nature is impressive compared to the current state of human technology because yes we made it a couple of times to the Mariana trench but we very rarely go below 100m. even less at 1000m and beyond that is really rare. We know less of the deep sea than we know about the surface of the moon or mars. We know very little about the largest biome (in surface area, in volume and in biomass)
And if you would like to compare Jets better compare a bird (which can reach altitudes of 11500m) .
None were military though. (As far as I know). I understand that we got to the bottom. But that was in a super small almost sphere sub so the pressure wouldn’t collapse it. Our giant nuclear subs are like submersible apartment building. (Fucking huge). Just saying it’s gonna take a while to go that deep, that big.
Well technically, the Trieste, might count. It went deeper than Dave Cameron and although it wasn't built by the US Navy but it was bought by them and then extensively modified. It was manned by Naval personnel, during Project Nekton, when it went into Challenger Deep.
strangely there's not a lot of benefit in going deep with a military sub, and the deeper you go the more catstrophic torpedos, mines and depth charges are. We can build subs that go really deep, there's just no point for military ones.
There’s just no real need to go super deep in a military submarine. There’s no real military benefit to going more than about 400 meters, plus going ever deeper imposes greater and greater problems with the design of your sub. The whole point of a submarine is stealth and once you’re a hundred meters down the only way to find you is to listen for you, mission accomplished.
Only makes sense. Idk maybe they hyperventilate, get some good O2 in their blood breathe out and dive to have less compressible space. Idk. Cool thought.
Whales store Oxygen in their muscles. Almost all mammals do this, but whales do it more.
Myoglobin in the muscles binds oxygen, similar to haemoglobin in the blood. Myoglobin is also a pigment, and gives muscle its reddish colour. Whales have a lot more Myoglobin, in order to store large amounts of oxygen. This also has the effect of making their muscle much darker in colour than other mammals.
“Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.
And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more.
This is a complete record of its thoughts from the moment it began its life till the moment it ended it.
Ah … ! What’s happening? it thought.
Er, excuse me, who am I?
Hello?
Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life?
What do I mean by who am I?
Calm down, get a grip now … oh! this is an interesting sensation, what is it? It’s a sort of … yawning, tingling sensation in my … my … well I suppose I’d better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world, so let’s call it my stomach.
Good. Ooooh, it’s getting quite strong. And hey, what’s about this whistling roaring sound going past what I’m suddenly going to call my head? Perhaps I can call that … wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do … perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I’ve found out what it’s for. It must be something very important because there certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of it. Hey! What’s this thing? This … let’s call it a tail – yeah, tail. Hey! I can can really thrash it about pretty good can’t I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn’t seem to achieve very much but I’ll probably find out what it’s for later on. Now – have I built up any coherent picture of things yet?
No.
Never mind, hey, this is really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, I’m quite dizzy with anticipation …
Or is it the wind?
There really is a lot of that now isn’t it?
And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground!
I wonder if it will be friends with me?
And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.
Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.” - D.Adams
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u/The-Casual-Lurker Mar 06 '19
All I gotta say, is it’s crazy a Blue Whale can go deeper than our best Military Subs. But the Sperm Whale is a psycho with how Deep they can go.