Re: To Grav or not to Grav?

The Glomar incident was covered in some detail in "Blind Man's Bluff".

Richard and Emily Bell wrote:

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>Beth.Fulton@csiro.au wrote:
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>>Seriously, humans have made quite a pasttime out of going to
ridiculously
>>harsh places because there were resources (minerals etc) there that
were
>>valuable/required. For instance there's a proposal to "vacuum up" the
>>manganese nodules off the bottom of the Pacific... you don't get much
more
>>remote and non-human friendly than that!
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>[OT, but amusing]
>Vacuuming manganese nodules off of the bottom of the Pacific Ocean was
actually
>a cover story for the CIA plot to recover a sunken soviet ballistic
missile
>sub.  Although the idea was bizarre to the point of being absurd,
Howard Hughes
>was spending tens of millions of dollars to construct the Glomar
Explorer (for
>the CIA), people fell for it.
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>What a shame that one of the crew talked to much, and blew the whole
operation.
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