James Cameron is conducting final test dives to reach the deepest part of ocean

[Herding Cats]

To newsies, this *is* the entertainment catagory. Cameron is not a papered scientist; just a man with enough money to fund the exploration. And that is not putting Cameron down at all; rather, it's putting down MSM that they can't see the scientific angle of this, which is gigantic and huge and breathtaking and everything else all at once.

And to be honest, the reason why research scientists didn't initiate this is not just simply money; most scientists are far more comfortable in controlled environments than taking part in the experiment themselves...which is, to be frank, what Cameron is doing - he's taking part in the experiments themselves.

Go, James Cameron! Woot for you, and for us. Because now, there is NO excuse. It can be done, and it needs to be done again and again; the oceans of our world have long been unexplored, and many things are left to discover. YAY.

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[legalmania]

Gee hope he doesn't run into any Icebergs..

 

[Fishee]

This article is from two days ago so I'm assuming the special was already on but I'm sure it will repeat.

The story hit TV screens tonight on "James Cameron: Voyage to the Bottom of the Earth," a half-hour documentary premiering on the National Geographic Channel.

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_new...eep-sea-to-outer-space-in-adventure-tale?lite

Cameron described the bottom of the seafloor as looking like "white Latex paint on a sheet of masonite."

 

[hollyblue]

This is so facinating. I'm waiting for the mega lights that light the whole place up so you can see everything down there for miles.