HUGHES GLOMAR EXPLORER MINING MINERALS IN THE DEEP OCEAN MAGANESE NODULE RECOVERY 21054

[@macmedic892]

I can neither confirm nor deny that I liked this video.

[@ALSNewsNow]

This was one of the BEST stories in history! They were SOOOOO CLOSE!!! They had it, but dropped it at the last second!

[@jonharson]

Mining Russian titanium and uranium nodules.

[@axeman3d]

It's a tremendous cover story, that's for sure.

[@VariableRecall]

Yo! The documentary "Azorian" is on Amazon Prime and all about this submarine recovery mission! It's a great watch!

[@DSC800]

Howard Hughes, they don't make em like that anymore.

[@AndrewTubbiolo]

We have one right now. Elon Musk. He's not pissing in jars yet tho.

[@pfcwar5150]

Yeah, they do… I just don’t have any money

[@flipflopsguy8868]

Growing up in the sixties I didn't want to be an Astronaut or Elvis I never heard of Chase or Morgan and I didn't want to be a Rockefeller, I Wanted TO Be Howard Hughes !

[@brentboswell1294]

I remember reading kids magazines about the Glomar Explorer, and the supposed "mining" mission. As a college grad, I remember popping into a bookstore and finding a cool book called "Blind Man's Bluff". Wow, how wrong those kids magazines were 🤣

[@pennise]

The front company for "mining nodules" came to my hometown in the 80's and had a public meeting. All the environmentalists were up in arms as were the commercial fishermen. I was at the meeting. It was interesting to see my government at work.

[@TomOhms]

The Nodules are going to be pissed we messed with their eggs I bet

[@willjones7132]

I wonder when the mining of modern refuse facilities will begin? Funny the extremes people will go to find resources just to toss them in a dump and forget the fact that many of the molecules and minerals that we mine are still intact in refuse facilities, which are far more accessible than the deep ocean. (I understand we need deep sea mining, but it is inevitable someone will be deep sea mining for resources that are in their garbage at some point.)

[@alanpartridge2140]

But if you think about it, modern household refuse is low grade. Most metal has been removed, the glass is useless, the organic matter rots away and the plastic is only useful for a fuel

[@ALSNewsNow]

What did we learn from this video? That 80's analoge synthesizers sound a hell of a lot better than they do now. Muhhfukkin Oberheim baby!!!!

[@alphadog6970]

I loved the nodules part. Nothing to see here just a good ol' mining operation.

[@allengrantham6693]

I used to work for the US Bureau of Mines in the early 1990's. I have seen nodules from the Atlantic. I was told there was a test of a small mining robot that lifted material to the surface as a slurry. From what I was told and the pictures i saw, it was very similar to what is shown here. Anyway, they were testing it in Seattle sound when Greenpeace acitivists boarded the ship and destroyed the equipment, injuring one of the researchers. The scientists who told me this, were not sure if the Greenies thought it was dredging the sound, or if they knew it was testing a deep sea sampling robot. The work was deemed too controversial and further funding was blocked, so it was not repaired.

[@Oldbmwr100rs]

Ahh, back in the early 70's all this was such big talk, a new mining, the ocean floors covered in manganese nodules! This was part of the future, a near limitless supply of minerals just waiting to get scooped up right there. Kind of wondered what happened, to find out years later that was all a cover story. The Glomar ship was stored for years under a special cover in redwood city california before being taken away.

[@AndrewTubbiolo]

@3:05 the lady's name on the right is Jennifer. It's her project.

[@jameswest4819]

In the areas where the strategic element is located in the nodules and sediment you will not have to worry about sediment plumes covering the little organisms there, it will all be vacuumed up to the ship's holds and transported home to be processed. Hopefully, the damage can be repaired, maybe with rocks being dropped into the bare spots.

[@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb]

I remember seeing it mothball fleet in the SF Bay near Suisun in the late 70s. She was refitted for deep sea drilling in the 90s but don't know if it ever did any drilling.

[@mikejohannessen9772]

I'm surprised they showed that huge drydock with the tiny little robot in it.

[@trackhoe23]

I was thinking the same thing!

[@BELCAN57]

This whole thing was financed by a Nigerian Prince.

[@AustrianAnarchy]

They left out the submarine thing.

[@Questionhex]

10:20 yes critical checks such as "is Clementine spelled with a Y?"

[@AndrewTubbiolo]

Am I the only one who thinks those nodules look a bit like Soviet Ballistic Missile Submarines?

[@PilotVBall]

They are waste from ET ships.

[@kevinjachim2378]

K129,gotta love the old propaganda films.lol

[@orygun9mm]

Nodules? 100% pure CIA bs. I love it.

[@MrLifesavers1]

Big thumbs up to the CIA for the largest and most expensive covert action in history. Fooled everyone, even the Russians. But what the Baltimore school kids who want to grow up and mine "nodules" off the ocean floor?

[@KubotaManDan]

How many watched this to see what propaganda the mining industry was dishing out back in the day?

[@norcanexs.g.llc.4625]

A US propaganda film

[@clambino7980]

I wonder if any kids actually watched this film of lies!

[@christopherconard2831]

I remember reading articles in Popular Science and Mechanics Illustrated around the time the Glomar was being built. It was being widely pitched as a viable form of mining.

[@clambino7980]

@@christopherconard2831 I took a look to find more info about the nodules and there are recent articles and organizations that deal with harvesting. Unreal.

[@AndrewTubbiolo]

I did in the 1970's. They did an episode of Nova too.