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Scientists discover beer bottle in the Mariana Trench (2024)

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It'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

For 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.

Depends 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.

Secure Anycast IP Over Tidal Transport

2020 Commercial submarine trips to the bottom of the Marianas Trench (103 points, 66 comments) 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

2019 In Mariana Trench, every animal tested had plastic in its gut (57 points, 3 comments) 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

What’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.

I 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.

I would be more surprised if stuff like that would not find its way to places like that.

And it's not like there is anything (other than submersibles) that might cause it to find its way out again.

I would like to see some movie like unresponsible guy throws his bottle to somewhere than some natural power moves it.

Isn’t that The Gods Must Be Crazy?

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0080801/

This is an incredible film

That was a great movie, thanks for sharing! :)

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Painful

I 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...

It's peak content form that AI was trained on and is now writing itself.

https://www.esri.com/en-us/industries/blog/articles/mission-...

Seems like this is better, or at least maybe a primary source?

You 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.

If 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.

Time for a remake of "The Gods Must Be Crazy" with octopi.

octopodes

different source that loads without javascript https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/12/oceanographe...

(lacking details on the bottle itself)

I'm curious what objects do/don't survive at the water pressure. I guess bottles are strong enough

Presumably it was open & empty, so it's just a piece of glass surviving...

Even 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.

That's not how pressure works if it's opened. The forces balance out

The pressure inside the bottle is the same as the outside. So it’s not the same as stomping on an empty bottle.

But the forces are the same all around the bottle (again assuming it is open)

The bottle wouldn't be empty though.

There 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.

I'd imagine the cap will fail under the pressure long before the forces get high enough to implode the bottle.

Solids and liquids mostly don’t compress so as a general rule most can handle those pressures without experiencing any real mechanical stress, as they instantly provide a perfectly matching internal pressure that balances out the forces to zero.

It’s mostly things that contain gases that can get crushed by high pressure. Almost any type of closed cell foam for example, will either collapse to a small size or crack and crumble apart depending on how rigid it is.

Living things tend to get harmed by pressure changes because they have compressible gasses and/or biological compartments that contain things that experience phase changes between gas and liquid at different pressures.

I agree it's something of a bummer, but why is this surprising or "bizarre"?

Perhaps it was tossed overboard by somebody on the support vessel...

The article mentions thalassophobia, which is my new vocabulary word for today. It means fear of large bodies of water.

I 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.

How would you otherwise be aware the author knew this word?

Fear of the sea not large bodies of water.

Thalassa! Thalassa!

(Ancient Greek literary reference there.)

SO MANY ADVERTISEMENTS. Tis a shame everything has to be fluffed up and sold

We 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.

But did they pick it up?

Not worth it for the $0.10 return. Put more down there to incentivize.

What beer was it

A radler. So no technically a beer. That's why they trew it away.

They were lead by a bottle.

Literal navalgazing

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