Descending into the darkness

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black of space

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that's anything like the inky black of

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the deep sea

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going to the bottom of the ocean

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contrast was like the world's smoothest

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calmest elevator ride and it took us

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four hours to go from the surface to

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nearly 36 000 feet

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it is kind of like a magic school bus i

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mean you're sitting inside this cozy

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little metal sphere you might be

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munching a tuna fish sandwich and yet

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outside that sphere pressure's about

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1100 times greater than it is here on

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the surface of the earth

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it's dark except for what light you

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bring with you on the submarine

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we could maybe see 30 feet in whatever

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direction we were looking at the

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viewport it was like a moonscape or an

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underwater desert

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it really is in a lot of ways harder to

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explore and understand the ocean

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i've spent a fair amount of time living

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in these complex machines

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i think intense