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Title: From the depths
Post by: kslim on March 24, 2014, 04:17:07 PM
Being combo season and all, i have always been curious what is at the bottom of the deep ocean. Do megladons still chill down there? Just frightening to think about all of the different things that could be at the ocean floor (including a Malaysian plane)

Anyone else curious what the depths of our earth hold and why we have only explored about 10% of it?

Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: CNS on March 24, 2014, 04:17:56 PM
Creepy fish. 


Case closed.
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: AST on March 24, 2014, 04:23:07 PM
why are you trying to open up my nightmares
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: kslim on March 24, 2014, 04:24:04 PM
why are you trying to open up my nightmares
i just find it extremely interesting. Such a vast place that nobody knows anything about
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: AST on March 24, 2014, 04:26:18 PM
so is the water down there really cold or really hot?
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: EllRobersonisInnocent on March 24, 2014, 04:30:04 PM
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Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on March 24, 2014, 04:31:07 PM
Have you seen transformers?
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: Trogdor on March 24, 2014, 04:32:08 PM
Those are totes adorbs. Id buy one
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: AST on March 24, 2014, 04:33:55 PM
that one fish looks like he keeps his brains in his mouth
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: CNS on March 24, 2014, 04:34:25 PM
Why do super deep fish have to look all extra horror-filmy? 
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: SabiNation on March 24, 2014, 04:35:12 PM
Have you seen transformers?

:thumbs:
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: kso_FAN on March 24, 2014, 04:40:44 PM
Have you seen Pacific Rim?

FYP.
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: kslim on March 24, 2014, 04:51:15 PM
Why do super deep fish have to look all extra horror-filmy?
see, right here. Think about the crap 10k plus deep thats never even been discovered
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: Emo EMAW on March 24, 2014, 04:58:10 PM
so is the water down there really cold or really hot?

Neither.
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: AST on March 24, 2014, 05:03:01 PM
so is the water down there really cold or really hot?

Neither.

so in a place of extremes, the water temp is average
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: Emo EMAW on March 24, 2014, 05:04:48 PM
Probably. 

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Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: AST on March 24, 2014, 05:06:36 PM
Probably. 

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well, that answer scores a point for the OP.  WHY DON'T WE KNOW
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: ChiComCat on March 24, 2014, 05:07:33 PM
so is the water down there really cold or really hot?

Neither.

so in a place of extremes, the water temp is average

If it was super cold, it would freeze.  If it was hot, it would rise.  Unless around a geological cause of constant heating, I would imagine it is cold but not some super cold temperature
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: star seed 7 on March 24, 2014, 05:08:35 PM
After 600ft the temp is barely above freezing, but consistent to the bottom
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: puniraptor on March 24, 2014, 05:11:00 PM
After 600ft the temp is barely above freezing, but consistent to the bottom

except at thermal vents, of course!
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: AST on March 24, 2014, 05:12:45 PM
After 600ft the temp is barely above freezing, but consistent to the bottom

i would file that under extremely cold, being as you could only be in in a couple minutes before hypothermia sets in
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: OK_Cat on March 24, 2014, 05:13:25 PM
Probs a ton of skeletons and old trash down there
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: Gooch on March 24, 2014, 05:16:07 PM
Lots of whale crap.
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: OK_Cat on March 24, 2014, 05:20:12 PM
King Triton
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: Spracne on March 24, 2014, 05:27:58 PM
Just spitballin' here, but couldn't the immense pressure change the properties of the "water" at that depth, allowing it to actually be colder than the normal freezing point at sea level and 1.0 atm but still remain in a liquid state? Plus, salt water freezes slightly below the regular freezing point of water, anyway.  I'm guessing it's a weird soupy sea of cold coldness.
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: OK_Cat on March 24, 2014, 05:31:44 PM
Geysers
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: Tobias on March 24, 2014, 05:33:37 PM
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Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: star seed 7 on March 24, 2014, 05:36:30 PM
I love you tobia's
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: Stevesie60 on March 24, 2014, 06:18:10 PM
Aren't there squids big enough to take down whales? No thanks bro, I'm good on land.
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: wiley on March 24, 2014, 06:33:44 PM
Just spitballin' here, but couldn't the immense pressure change the properties of the "water" at that depth, allowing it to actually be colder than the normal freezing point at sea level and 1.0 atm but still remain in a liquid state? Plus, salt water freezes slightly below the regular freezing point of water, anyway.  I'm guessing it's a weird soupy sea of cold coldness.

2 degrees Celsius in the Mariana trench.
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: Trogdor on March 24, 2014, 07:45:33 PM
Aren't there squids big enough to take down whales? No thanks bro, I'm good on land.

I think now we all know what happened to the Malaysia flight after it crash landed
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: Asteriskhead on March 24, 2014, 08:45:02 PM
@tobias  :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: Emo EMAW on March 24, 2014, 09:00:02 PM
Fwiw it only takes 15 minutes for hypothermia in like 70 degree water.

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Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: EllRobersonisInnocent on March 24, 2014, 09:01:54 PM
Fwiw it only takes 15 minutes for hypothermia in like 70 degree water.

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I don't think that is true.
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: Emo EMAW on March 24, 2014, 09:07:09 PM
 :impatient:
Fwiw it only takes 15 minutes for hypothermia in like 70 degree water.

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I don't think that is true.

You know, I thought so too, but that's what it said in a book I'm reading.  Maybe it was clarified by "hypothermic symptoms" and not hypothermia itself.  If I can find the quote (search function in Kindle?) I'll post it.
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: Emo EMAW on March 24, 2014, 09:09:54 PM
Also, here's the thing with the deep ocean.  Assuming heat flow is linear (straight up or straight down), and maybe that's a really shitty assumption...

We know the Earth's mantle is super rough ridin' hot relative to the water temperature, and we know the surface temperature should average 60 or 70 degrees F worldwide...so I'd guess there is a steady temperature gradient from the depths to the surface.  Apparently this isn't true and I wonder why.
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: Spracne on March 24, 2014, 09:12:25 PM
Also, here's the thing with the deep ocean.  Assuming heat flow is linear (straight up or straight down), and maybe that's a really shitty assumption...

We know the Earth's mantle is super rough ridin' hot relative to the water temperature, and we know the surface temperature should average 60 or 70 degrees F worldwide...so I'd guess there is a steady temperature gradient from the depths to the surface.  Apparently this isn't true and I wonder why.

crap b lurkin', yo.
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: AST on March 24, 2014, 09:19:05 PM
Also, here's the thing with the deep ocean.  Assuming heat flow is linear (straight up or straight down), and maybe that's a really shitty assumption...

We know the Earth's mantle is super rough ridin' hot relative to the water temperature, and we know the surface temperature should average 60 or 70 degrees F worldwide...so I'd guess there is a steady temperature gradient from the depths to the surface.  Apparently this isn't true and I wonder why.

and that is why i initally asked the question.  i mean goethermal heat and the such yet the cool water would need to stay at the bottom less it rise.  weird science going on in the abyss, that's for sure
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: Emo EMAW on March 24, 2014, 09:20:17 PM
:impatient:
Fwiw it only takes 15 minutes for hypothermia in like 70 degree water.

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I don't think that is true.

You know, I thought so too, but that's what it said in a book I'm reading.  Maybe it was clarified by "hypothermic symptoms" and not hypothermia itself.  If I can find the quote (search function in Kindle?) I'll post it.

Well I can't C&P from kindle, but I messed up the numbers..."just under 60 degrees = 15 minutes" before symptoms set in.
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: Stevesie60 on March 24, 2014, 09:49:03 PM
Okay, everyone realizes how far away the core of the Earth is even from the bottom of the ocean, yes? The temperature of earth's core has zero effect on the temperature of the ocean.

Fun fact: If you can imagine Planet Earth to the same scale of an apple, the skin of the apple would be the same size as the top of the sky to the bottom of the ocean.
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: Spracne on March 24, 2014, 09:51:55 PM
Okay, everyone realizes how far away the core of the Earth is even from the bottom of the ocean, yes? The temperature of earth's core has zero effect on the temperature of the ocean.

Fun fact: If you can imagine Planet Earth to the same scale of an apple, the skin of the apple would be the same size as the top of the sky to the bottom of the ocean.

Hmmm... I'm gonna need a visual to help me process the words that you are saying.
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: star seed 7 on March 24, 2014, 09:58:52 PM
Okay, everyone realizes how far away the core of the Earth is even from the bottom of the ocean, yes? The temperature of earth's core has zero effect on the temperature of the ocean.

Fun fact: If you can imagine Planet Earth to the same scale of an apple, the skin of the apple would be the same size as the top of the sky to the bottom of the ocean.

I'm glad you set these fools straight
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: AST on March 24, 2014, 10:05:59 PM
i also know that you only have to drill a well a couple of hundred feet deep to get the geothermal energy required to keep your house/pool 70 degrees year round.
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: Panjandrum on March 24, 2014, 10:08:42 PM
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Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: CNS on March 24, 2014, 10:23:47 PM
i also know that you only have to drill a well a couple of hundred feet deep to get the geothermal energy required to keep your house/pool 70 degrees year round.

Smaller Apple or thinner skin?

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Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: AST on March 24, 2014, 10:27:04 PM
i also know that you only have to drill a well a couple of hundred feet deep to get the geothermal energy required to keep your house/pool 70 degrees year round.

Smaller Apple or thinner skin?

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pb&j
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: HerrSonntag on March 24, 2014, 10:36:30 PM
i also know that you only have to drill a well a couple of hundred feet deep to get the geothermal energy required to keep your house/pool 70 degrees year round.
In South Africa, the ambient temperature of rock 2.4 miles below the surface is 131F, guys!! 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TauTona_Mine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TauTona_Mine)

The Mariana Trench is 6.3 mi deep, yet 36F, someone science this thread up, plz. tia.
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: AST on March 24, 2014, 10:47:37 PM
if i was to make an uneducated guess, the geothermal energy below the deeps is just enough to keep that huge mass of water from freezing but not enough to get it warm. 

but to say it makes no difference is just silliness

oh, and i for one never mentiined the earth's core, that's like half way to china.  learnt that in a bugs bunny episode.
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: eastcat on March 24, 2014, 11:23:37 PM
400lbs of lithium ion batteries should make some weird crap in about 1,000 years.
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: kslim on March 25, 2014, 07:17:51 AM
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fascinating
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: steve dave on March 25, 2014, 07:20:35 AM
it's mostly a whole lot of nothing
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: kslim on March 25, 2014, 07:29:45 AM
it's mostly a whole lot of nothing
but do you know that?
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: steve dave on March 25, 2014, 07:32:08 AM
it's mostly a whole lot of nothing
but do you know that?

yes
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: kslim on March 25, 2014, 07:34:57 AM
it's mostly a whole lot of nothing
but do you know that?

yes

i don't believe you. data is inconclusive
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: kslim on March 25, 2014, 07:59:27 AM
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Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: Emo EMAW on March 25, 2014, 09:05:52 AM
i also know that you only have to drill a well a couple of hundred feet deep to get the geothermal energy required to keep your house/pool 70 degrees year round.

You really only have to get below the frost line.  They still use a refrigeration cycle, though.
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: Emo EMAW on March 25, 2014, 09:10:43 AM
Okay, everyone realizes how far away the core of the Earth is even from the bottom of the ocean, yes? The temperature of earth's core has zero effect on the temperature of the ocean.

Fun fact: If you can imagine Planet Earth to the same scale of an apple, the skin of the apple would be the same size as the top of the sky to the bottom of the ocean.

It must have some effect according to the 2nd law of thermodynamics.  Anyway, from the NOAA:

Quote
Cold, salty water is dense and sinks to the bottom of the ocean while warm water is less dense and rises to the surface. Cold water has a higher density than warm water. Deep water gets colder at depth because cold, salty ocean water sinks to the bottom of the ocean basins.
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: Bloodfart on March 25, 2014, 09:15:19 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lCNie2lIhk#t=332

I have to believe the cold ass brine flowing from antarctica would find it's way to the deepest parts of the oceans. 
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: kslim on March 25, 2014, 09:20:56 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lCNie2lIhk#t=332

I have to believe the cold ass brine flowing from antarctica would find it's way to the deepest parts of the oceans.
that current is the equivalent of 500 million niagra falls combined

 :horrorsurprise:
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: Spracne on March 25, 2014, 09:29:35 AM
So, just penis sharks then? Case closed.
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: Bloodfart on March 25, 2014, 09:33:28 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lCNie2lIhk#t=332

I have to believe the cold ass brine flowing from antarctica would find it's way to the deepest parts of the oceans.
that current is the equivalent of 500 million niagra falls combined

 :horrorsurprise:

The vid also says it takes over a thousand years before that crap resurfaces.   :surprised:
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: kslim on March 25, 2014, 09:50:29 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lCNie2lIhk#t=332

I have to believe the cold ass brine flowing from antarctica would find it's way to the deepest parts of the oceans.
that current is the equivalent of 500 million niagra falls combined

 :horrorsurprise:

The vid also says it takes over a thousand years before that crap resurfaces.   :surprised:
incredible
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: yoga-like_abana on March 25, 2014, 08:03:16 PM
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Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: That_Guy on April 17, 2014, 05:52:40 PM

Why do super deep fish have to look all extra horror-filmy?

No light?


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Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: That_Guy on April 17, 2014, 05:58:25 PM
According to Spongebob, these live down there...

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It is very interesting though. Think of all the fish and creatures are yet to be discovered! :sdeek: :surprised:
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: cfbandyman on April 17, 2014, 06:30:35 PM
Okay, everyone realizes how far away the core of the Earth is even from the bottom of the ocean, yes? The temperature of earth's core has zero effect on the temperature of the ocean.

Fun fact: If you can imagine Planet Earth to the same scale of an apple, the skin of the apple would be the same size as the top of the sky to the bottom of the ocean.

It must have some effect according to the 2nd law of thermodynamics.  Anyway, from the NOAA:

Quote
Cold, salty water is dense and sinks to the bottom of the ocean while warm water is less dense and rises to the surface. Cold water has a higher density than warm water. Deep water gets colder at depth because cold, salty ocean water sinks to the bottom of the ocean basins.

To a point yes, water's most important property for life anyways it that it's densest at 4 degrees Celsius (39 F). Water at freezing is actually less dense, and floats to the top, hence why lakes, oceans, rivers, really any body of water freezes from the top down (and why ice floats). This ability to stay above freezing and have the protection of ice at the top is probably the biggest reason why water is such a unique and necessary component of life. It's nearly impossible to freeze deep down because you would have to cool it so much, and the thicker the ice above it becomes, the better protected it is from actually getting colder. Add in pressure and geothermal activity, life is quite able to survive at 39F. Big reason why NASA and others think Europa, one of Jupiter's moon might have life, cause while icy on the outside, once you get below it, it's above freezing.
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: Emo EMAW on April 17, 2014, 07:40:54 PM
Okay, everyone realizes how far away the core of the Earth is even from the bottom of the ocean, yes? The temperature of earth's core has zero effect on the temperature of the ocean.

Fun fact: If you can imagine Planet Earth to the same scale of an apple, the skin of the apple would be the same size as the top of the sky to the bottom of the ocean.

It must have some effect according to the 2nd law of thermodynamics.  Anyway, from the NOAA:

Quote
Cold, salty water is dense and sinks to the bottom of the ocean while warm water is less dense and rises to the surface. Cold water has a higher density than warm water. Deep water gets colder at depth because cold, salty ocean water sinks to the bottom of the ocean basins.

To a point yes, water's most important property for life anyways it that it's densest at 4 degrees Celsius (39 F). Water at freezing is actually less dense, and floats to the top, hence why lakes, oceans, rivers, really any body of water freezes from the top down (and why ice floats). This ability to stay above freezing and have the protection of ice at the top is probably the biggest reason why water is such a unique and necessary component of life. It's nearly impossible to freeze deep down because you would have to cool it so much, and the thicker the ice above it becomes, the better protected it is from actually getting colder. Add in pressure and geothermal activity, life is quite able to survive at 39F. Big reason why NASA and others think Europa, one of Jupiter's moon might have life, cause while icy on the outside, once you get below it, it's above freezing.
  pretty drunk but blew my mind

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Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: Spracne on April 17, 2014, 07:57:56 PM
So, about these razor-toothed penis sharks... They're pretty deep in the ocean, right?
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: Mr Bread on April 17, 2014, 08:31:53 PM
That knowledge mushroom stamp cfbandyman just slapped down on this blog was very interesting to my brain.     
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: MeatSauce on April 17, 2014, 09:02:06 PM
Bacteria, holding it down...down there

http://ocean.si.edu/ocean-videos/hydrothermal-vent-creatures
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: star seed 7 on April 18, 2014, 03:45:43 PM
What temp is Vodka densest at, cause I love pulling it out of the fridge and it pours like oil. Yum
Title: Re: From the depths
Post by: mocat on April 18, 2014, 03:47:44 PM
What temp is Vodka densest at, cause I love pulling it out of the fridge and it pours like oil. Yum

 :lol: