Marianas
About Marianas
The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), is an unincorporated territory and commonwealth of the United States consisting of the 14 northern islands of the Mariana Archipelago in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The southernmost, Guam, is a separate U.S. territory. The Northern Mariana Islands were listed by the United Nations as a non-self-governing territory until 1990.
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Auguste Picard was the first person to travel basically to the closest point of space in a balloon. Then his son was Jacques Picard, who went to the bottom of the ocean to the Marianas trench. And then his son was John Luke Picard.
from 51: No Such Thing As Dodecahedral Shredded Wheat, 2015-03-07 at 00:04:33 · read transcript
Other times Marianas came up
There are all these crazy stories. For example, Bob Ballard, who find the Titanic. I don't know if you guys were following this, but after the whole catastrophe, with that submersible, Ballard and James Cameron came out publicly and were like, look, there were safety concerns, there were always safety concerns. We've tried to highlight this, like, etc, etc, etc. What was really fascinating is watching the interaction between the two of them, because at one point, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, turns around and goes, I mean, yeah, I'll defer to what he said about the mechanics of it.
491: No Such Thing As The Beurre War, 2023-08-10 · listen
Maybe it was, I once dropped a can of coke into the ocean, very shallow, and it hit the bottom and came back up. Maybe that's what they did. Maybe they had sort of a... What are you even talking about? Maybe they got over the Marianas trench, dropped a can of soda. Was it Diet Coke? It was, I can't remember actually. Because diet Coke floats and normal Coke sinks.
No Such Thing As Newsbite, 2022-06-02 · listen
It was I can't remember anything about it, but it does sound like an amazing expedition Yeah, yeah, maybe it was I once dropped a can of coke into the ocean Very shallow and it hit the bottom and came back up. Maybe that's what they did Maybe they had sort of what are you even talking about? Maybe they got over the Marianas trench drop Was it was it Diet Coke? It was I can't remember actually because Diet Coke floats and normal Coke sinks.
429: No Such Thing As Newsbite, 2022-06-02 · listen
He can show me some cool new constellations. I was thinking a lot about James Cameron recently, because, again, because of the ocean gate thing. When I first heard about what he did in the ocean space, I'll be honest, I didn't really believe it. Because he went down to the bottom of the Marianas trend? Yes, he did. He's been deeper than any person. He's been saying that the guy who directed Avatar 2 has been deeper than anyone else on the planet.
491: No Such Thing As The Beurre War, 2023-08-10 · listen
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