And I thought space would be scary

reaverdestruction · 11 months

I like this one better: http://i.imgur.com/DUbag.jpg

Hamish27 · 11 months

Is that Cthulu at the bottom?

casual_shoggoth · 11 months

I have always found the massive amounts of dark, silent, empty spaces in the ocean terrifying. At least, I hope they are empty.

auptpa · 11 months

Wow. Only 10% has been mapped. I bet the things we have yet to discover down there would blow our minds.

stephenjwz · 11 months

The heaviest, deepest, most brutal part of the ocean. Cthulhu don't gots no good metal to listens to.

deltaeta395 · 11 months

This gave me chills. This combined with my fear of drowning makes my decision on going out into the ocean easy; never.

The_Evil_Eye · 11 months

Maybe that's where all the dinosaurs are hiding.

clowdedbrain · 11 months

Oh, don't mind me. Just leaving this here. http://imgur.com/3i3yc

0110_1001 · 11 months

My favorite:

http://i.imgur.com/QmIdw.jpg

Whiskey-Business · 11 months

and yet, it couldn't keep Megatron down.

EphemeralMemory · 11 months

Just out of curiosity, what does 16,000+ lbs per square inch do against modern submersibles?

How deep in the ocean can we traverse safely? Is it even possible to reach any point lower than the Abyssal Zone?

Srinx · 11 months

Watch this image, then listen the to the Bloop!

"The Bloop is the name given to an ultra-low frequency and extremely powerful underwater sound detected by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in 1997. The source of the sound remains unknown."

LadyLollerskates · 11 months

Thought that was a Big Daddy at the bottom. Oh Rapture, why can't you be real? :c

curtdammit · 11 months

Holy shit now that is perspective, thank you.

LordOfGummies · 11 months

Quick someone get Brenden Frazer there is a shitty 3d movie to be made.

mgbgtv8 · 11 months

TIL: There is water at the bottom of the ocean.

Smap_di · 11 months

Release the KRAKEN!

Lolazaurus · 11 months

I always imagined what it would be like if the ocean was clear and you just looked down... O_O

Wookovski · 11 months

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.

litchykp · 11 months

Thought process: "Oh, this is interesting...wow that's crazy, I wonder what they say is at the bo- WHAT IS THAT THING"

Gearishfear · 11 months

The first thing I thought of when looking at this is the Avanc from China Mieville's The Scar.

AwesomeTowlie · 11 months

DAMN OCEANS YOU SCARY!

hiddenlakes · 11 months

Anyone else fucking terrified by the mere thought of the deepest parts of the ocean? :/

OmegaVesko · 11 months

I knew I was going to see something on the bottom, and I still clicked.

NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE

terriblehuman · 11 months

my balls went inside me.

asshatnowhere · 11 months

come to think about it, if there are creatures that far down they are probably really small if not microscopic. i dont think a large animal could widstand that much pressure. then again.....

MidnightSun · 11 months

Relevant:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop

While the audio profile of the Bloop does resemble that of a living creature, the source is a mystery both because it is different from known sounds and because it was several times louder than the loudest known animal, the blue whale.

Five other significant unexplained sounds have been named by NOAA: Julia, Train, Slow Down, Whistle and Upsweep.

meechmong · 11 months

For awhile there I kept licking my finger and trying to get that piece of dust off my monitor.

phillycheese · 11 months

I don't know why people are saying that the ocean is so scary compared to space. Space is about... ohhh... INFINITELY LARGER THAN ALL OF THE OCEAN.

Mackem · 11 months

what is that thing at the bottom supposed to be?

rocketbelll · 11 months

I held my breath the entire time I read that.

BoreasBlack · 11 months

I swear I thought that said "fleshlight fish"...

Irishfury86 · 11 months

I fucking love Earth.

cubicle_slave · 11 months

I am on the fence about space exploration. On one hand, there have been many positive discoveries because of it. On the other hand, there is so much on this planet that haven't been discovered. New creatures are discovered almost monthly. Things and places we didn't know existed come to light. The ocean is the biggest mystery. It's so much closer and approachable. If I remember correctly, the last time a manned submersible visited the deepest known part of the ocean was in 1960. The visit was fairly brief due to structural concerns. In 50 years, that's it. Shuttles can be created to take people to the moon and back and yet, no one wants to go to the bottom of the ocean. It's sad.

[deleted] · 11 months

"Beginning of the Abyssal Zone".

NOPE.

Ratmotored57 · 11 months

Cloverfield.

HeartJacker13 · 11 months

You know, they say we know more about the moon than about our ocean.

smeezy · 11 months

The one thing that strikes me when looking at illustrations like this is how difficult it is to engineer a habitable environment under this kind of pressure.

Sending humans into space is a problem of propulsion, not of survival. Negotiating a difference of 1 atmosphere between the inside of your suit and the space outside is relatively simple. Even a leak in a space suit isn't necessarily fatal.

Sending humans underwater is primarily a problem of survival, not propulsion. Whatever vessel you use to dive into the deep has to withstand 1000 atmospheres across a very small distance. A leak at that pressure can mean instant death.

I think exploration of the deep belongs to robots. Design them so they don't need a pressure gradient (i.e. equalize their inside pressure with their outside). Send down autonomous scanners that survey the environment and just let them roam free for years on end, streaming up data.

Wazowski · 11 months

I hate to debunk the captions, but airplanes don't fly underwater. They fly up in the sky.

ghosttrainhobo · 11 months

If Mt. Everest was dropped into the Challenger Deep, it would have a mile of water above it.

DirtyBojanglez · 11 months

Sweet Jesus.

johnmd32 · 11 months

"Ow" - My Brain

ididntwantausername · 11 months

Dayum.

360walkaway · 11 months

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK... the airplane reference blew my mind.

[deleted] · 11 months

My two most important life wishes: Go to space and go to the deep ocean.

PhilipTheGreat · 11 months

Someone make a movie about humans discovering something insane at the lowest point in the ocean. NAO.

dyaas · 11 months

This is why I'm afraid of swimming in the ocean.

[deleted] · 11 months

The fleshlight fish.

andtome · 11 months

I cannot seem to fully understand this perspective with this strange system of measurement you have here.

xilpaxim · 11 months

Wow. Reading that actually made me feel nervous. I'm going to go get some froyo and forget about it now. "shudder'

KingTsu · 11 months

What are we doing on the Moon and Mars when we've only explored 10% of the ocean floor?

solidiquis · 11 months

Cloverfield is down there

bobaimee · 11 months

What depth did Dethklok record Dethwater??

randomlogik · 11 months

Where is Seaquest DSV?

emceelokey · 11 months

It's kind of cool knowing there's essentially a whole unexplored world under the sea.

bullet-art · 11 months

The Challenger Deep looks like a giant, glowing mutant spider from the depths.

Ray3142 · 11 months

DAE think this was going to end up as a "your momma" joke?

spartansheep · 11 months

They forgot to add Rapture to the lower half!!!!

Travis-Touchdown · 11 months

Space is scarier because there is no end

Schaafwond · 11 months

Use. The fucking. Metric system.

Cbarbourttu · 11 months

I did a paper about the challenger deep in college for one of my 4000 lvl geophysics class (maybe geology i dont remember) Crazy shit i discovered. But this picture would have been amazing for putting just how deep this thing is into perspective.

Russ91 · 11 months

this is why the ocean terrifies me.

Acidyo · 11 months

Cthulu rain supreme.

sokoteur · 11 months

Megalodon anyone?

daaaaaaaaniel · 11 months

Fuck the end part of it.

CasanovaValentine · 11 months

Is it possible to for there to be life at the very bottom? Forgive my ignorance.

JxFTW · 11 months

I wonder what is near the bottom? I mean, it would probably be terrifying looking but I still wonder.

Ericthemighty · 11 months

thanks, i really enjoyed that post

dewdnoc · 11 months

Does anyone know: If you were to take a sample of life from the bottom of said trench, and bring it to the surface... Would it survive? Would it explode? o.O

ahoydizzle · 11 months

I really like these sort of infographics about the ocean. Makes me feel so small.

alurkin · 11 months

Looking at this makes me want to throw up. I had to close the browser window because I thought I would be sick. Aaaugg.

halapi · 11 months

I was expecting there to be something creepy at the bottom of the page, and I still freaked out when I saw it.

MOS_FET · 11 months

Deep, Bro... A metric version of this would make things easier for me tho :-/

leaptheman · 11 months

I suddenly remembered the Seaquest DSV theme playing in my head. That's on Netflix.. might have to give it a watch.

Zeppelanoid · 11 months

I was always more interested in the undiscovered part of our own planet as opposed to other planets.

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