Scientists discover beer bottle in the Mariana Trench (2024) (unilad.com)

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

But did they pick it up?

Literal navalgazing

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(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

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

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Painful

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.

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

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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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

What beer was it

They were lead by a bottle.