Originally Posted By: Rick in PA
Here's one visitor who's travels I found inspiring:
http://www.tractortractor.org/en/movies/
I find it amazing that activities that were once only the province of entire nations, are now often performed by common people. Activities such as sending probes to the upper atmosphere, exploring the depths of the ocean, performing sophisticated scientific experimentation, traveling across the vast expanse of the oceans, the list goes on.
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exploring the depths of the ocean" You mean
manned exploration? OK, I know James Cameron has been, but he's not exactly "common people" and it probably cost him more than the 1960
Trieste trip. (IIRC the USN only paid a $million for the slightly used bathyscape, though it needed work.)
I suppose a robotic drone submersible might be within a non-billionaire private budget, though with the support required I doubt it, and havn't heard of it being done.
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traveling across the vast expanse of the oceans" This isn't exactly a recent development. The Polynesians were doing it with a few sophisticated sticks two thousand years ago.