I have sometimes been asked why we didn't release the exact locations of the deep wrecks we found over the past two years (USS Johnston and S. B. Roberts). Here is why. And shame on the Chinese government for allowing this. https://t.co/sHYJmi6rOT
Dr. Kathy Sullivan, the first person to visit Challenger Deep and space, interviewed me about my experience on Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital flight last June. If you'd like to know what the experience was like from beginning to end, here you go: https://t.co/d5bMdzSR9V
Well done SpaceX, well done.
Cleared the tower, reached Max Q. One can theorize all one wants, for years, but the best data, and the eventual solutions, come from actual flight tests.
"Qui audet adipiscitur." (Latin for "Who dares, wins.") @elonmusk@SpaceX
A new, great episode on the Smithsonian Channel about many brave Captains. How could they not tell the story of Commander Ernest Evans of the USS Johnston? Well . . . they do. https://t.co/m21zyCExad
The second major paper published recently documents our team's discovery of the *deepest jellyfish ever recorded*. A Trachymedusa at 10,063m, a Octacnemidae at 8,077m, and a Ctenophore at 10,040m. That last one was in the Kermadec Trench visited in 2022.
https://t.co/5HgIi4WgtS
Very fortunate to attend a special tribute at the NY Explorer's Club to honor Captain Don Walsh, who with Jacques Piccard, were the first people to dive Challenger Deep. Later, Don, RADM T. Gallaudet (frmr NOAA) and I posed with a US Navy Flag I took down on my first trip there.
Drs. S. Earle and D. Kammen wrote a piece regarding seafloor mining that I mostly agree with. The key minerals miners need to extract to make it work financially are cobalt and nickel, but half of Teslas built in Q1 don't even need them (they use LFPs). https://t.co/hbOBTr7mHh
When he’s not building rockets, boring tunnels beneath Los Angeles, or sending cars into space, Elon Musk reads a lot. Here are 9 nonfiction books he thinks we should all read.
A great article today on seafloor mining. Some believe mining the seafloor can provide the minerals needed for electric vehicles, but the destruction is perhaps not worth it since alternative battery chemistries could be available soon. My view, anyway. https://t.co/KrTOvyPfnf
#wordsonwater2020 Blue Institute’s Annual water themed writing contest in Poetry, Prose, and Plays - Due date June 30th - rules at https://t.co/eS5CfoZhcP