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Cameron: Earth's deepest spot desolate, foreboding
Associated Press ^
| March 26, 2012
| SETH BORENSTEIN, AP
Posted on 03/26/2012 6:28:08 AM PDT by jmcenanly
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I don't know which is more amazing, that he was able to reach the deepest point on earth with his own money, 50 years after the government did it and then gave up, or that he was able to tweet it immediately.
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posted on
03/26/2012 6:28:22 AM PDT
by
jmcenanly
To: jmcenanly
One wonders when this kind of adventuring might go badly and end his life.
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posted on
03/26/2012 6:44:48 AM PDT
by
lurk
To: jmcenanly
he was able to reach the deepest point on earth with his own moneyConsidering I shelled out my hard-earned money to see Avatar in the theaters and purchase it on Blu-ray, I'd like to think I contributed in a very small way to this impressive achievement. And as soon as Cameron gives me Titanic on Blu-ray, I'll contribute a little more.
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posted on
03/26/2012 6:46:30 AM PDT
by
Drew68
To: jmcenanly
What is remarkable is the Trieste doing it in 1960! I remember the National Geographic magazine afterward. It had pictures and the whole story. It seemed back then that we could do anything as a country...
Look at us now...
Mike
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posted on
03/26/2012 6:48:30 AM PDT
by
MichaelP
(The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools ~HS)
To: lurk
One wonders when this kind of adventuring might go badly and end his life.
This has to be one of those cases of every man dies, not every man lives. There are some people who just have to know what is on the other side of the hill, or in this case what is on the bottom of the ocean.
I respect him a lot more than the Hollywood types who blow their money on big houses and parties.
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posted on
03/26/2012 6:50:31 AM PDT
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: lurk
I do not care for Cameron at all, but I would do the same if i had the resources.... A life without risk,is not worth living.
To: jmcenanly
To quote Dennis Miller “It is amazing someone so shallow can go so deep!”
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posted on
03/26/2012 6:52:57 AM PDT
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: jmcenanly
I’m not a fan of the man(leftie, overbearing man) but I do admire his work(although never saw Avatar). And that he has used his own money to fund these expeditions. I wish him well and safe travels. Can’t wait to see the footage he shares with us.
I was always thrilled by the likes of Jaques Cousteau...almost everything I learned as a child about the ocean was from him.
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posted on
03/26/2012 7:04:33 AM PDT
by
SueRae
(Tale of 2 Towers - First, Isengaard (GOP-e), then, the Tower of Sauron on 11.06.2012)
To: jmcenanly
I'm not a fan of the man(leftie, overbearing man) but I do admire his work(although never saw Avatar). And that he has used his own money to fund these expeditions. I wish him well and safe travels. Can't wait to see the footage he shares with us.
I was always thrilled by the likes of Jacques Cousteau...almost everything I learned as a child about the ocean was from him.
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posted on
03/26/2012 7:05:09 AM PDT
by
SueRae
(Tale of 2 Towers - First, Isengaard (GOP-e), then, the Tower of Sauron on 11.06.2012)
To: SueRae
And that he has used his own money to fund these expeditionsI enjoy an author by the name of "Clive Cussler". He's written a good handful of dime store novels, "Raise the Titanic" among them.
He blows his earnings on classic antique cars and on taking his friends diving to look for famous sunken ships - the Confederate sub Hunley, among them. Interesting guy. I think he'd be fun to sit down and have a beer with.
His book, "The Sea Hunters", details a bunch of his expeditions. Some of the details might even be true. :-)
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posted on
03/26/2012 7:36:25 AM PDT
by
wbill
To: jmcenanly
James Cameron actually DOES stuff. His various works undersea are fascinating.
To: jmcenanly
I think what is most amazing is that he will find a statue of John D. Rockefeller down there-—the man whose cheap kerosene saved the whales-—and every year there is a whale pilgrimmage to Rockefeller/Mecca to give thanks :)
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posted on
03/26/2012 7:42:29 AM PDT
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually (Hendrix))
To: lurk
One wonders when this kind of adventuring might go badly and end his life. I'm reminded of the line from Braveheart, which went something like: "All men die. Only some men truly live".
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posted on
03/26/2012 7:44:28 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell)
To: GonzoGOP
This has to be one of those cases of every man dies, not every man lives. Very sage words.
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posted on
03/26/2012 7:49:14 AM PDT
by
spetznaz
(Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
To: spetznaz
I think he means FORBIDDING, not FOREBODING. I’m sure the author went to public school.
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posted on
03/26/2012 7:59:04 AM PDT
by
huckfillary
(qual tyo ta)
To: SueRae
When I was young our whole family would get together every Sunday evening to watch “The Wonderful World of Disney” and “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom”. It seems that Jaques Cousteau was featured on the later a number of times.
To: huckfillary
Correct. A mistake that is often made:
From: http://grammarist.com/usage/forbidding-foreboding/
Forbidding vs. foreboding
The adjective foreboding, meaning presaging something, connotes portent. When something is foreboding, one gets the sense that something bad is going to happen. The participle is more often used as a noun, meaning a sense of impending misfortune. Forbidding means hostile, unfriendly, or tending to impede progress. Things that are forbidding may cause fear, but they dont necessarily presage anything.
The two words are often confused, especially foreboding in place of forbiddingfor example: The iron gates of One Buc Place are strong and foreboding. [TampaBay.com]
Unless the iron gates suggest that something bad is going to happen, this writer means forbidding.
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posted on
03/26/2012 8:14:56 AM PDT
by
spetznaz
(Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
To: jmcenanly
...desolate, foreboding...What did you expect, the Macy's parade?
To: lurk
Life ends. He’s 58, so odds are growing that his will end in short order. Better to end by sudden heart failure while out for a walk, or by sudden capsule failure while exploring 7 miles under sea where none have ever been?
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posted on
03/26/2012 8:43:40 AM PDT
by
ctdonath2
($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
To: the invisib1e hand
Speaking strictly for myself, if I dived to the bottom of the Marianas Trench, I'd kinda hope to see this fellow:
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posted on
03/26/2012 8:47:56 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanAbroad
(It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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