Aliens of the Deep Page #4

- We're at 840 meters,

Surface, this is Rover Two, We are

at 840 meters, We are on the bottom,

God, these structures are gorgeous,

OK, there's the rendezvous point,

and they are right there,

MIR Two, MIR Two,

this is Rover Two. Do you copy? Over.

MIR Two, MIR Two,

this is Rover Two, Do you copy?

That's affirmative, Rover Two.

We have a very good visual on you.

We were doing something

that no humans had ever done.

This was the first time that four deep

submersibles had ever dived together.

The water pressure that you get

down at 3,000 feet is mind-boggling.

If you've ever carried a bucket of water,

you know that's about a foot of water.

Now imagine being under

And all that weight

of all those buckets lined up on your head

are all pressing down on you

and on the submarine.

Definitely not something

that humans were evolved to do.

OK, Loretta, can you relay to Mike

that we are in position for 'bot ops? Over,

Copy,

MIR Two, MIR Two,

are you go for 'bot deploy?

Uh, roger that,

We'll get set for 'bot ops, Over,

- OK, There it is,

- Yeah, there he is,

There's Jake,

Can you see his tether spinning out?

It's like a spider spinning its web,

I'm just gonna pull a little tether

out here, to the left, into the current,

and then I'll yaw back to the right,

We were really

pushing the boundary

of being out in

an extreme environment.

I had this incredible experience of feeling

like I'd been transported into the future.

Hi, 'bot!

That I was on a space mission, and

we were watching another spacecraft

coming up to work with us.

Hi, Mike,

Get me out of here,

- Affirmative,

- Affirmative,

Push in a tiny bit in here,

and I get just right in as close as I can go,

Oh, wow,

Are you seeing the structure?

Yeah, Beautiful,

OK, Mike, If you come right

about 30 degrees, and come forward,

you'll come to a big fan right on

the corner of that rock, Over,

Copy that.

Oh, this is gorgeous,

I feel like I'm out there,

- Are you liking this?

- I'm loving this,

OK, I'm gonna have to come up a little bit,

Well, we're doing pretty good here,

I've encountered a little

more current than I expected right here,

Oh, my gosh!

Hello, Mr, Big,

He's like, "Don't even mess with me,"

Oh! Oh, my God,

Wow,

Wow,

Kevin Hand is one of our astrobiologists.

And he's a brilliant guy.

Really.

That's one of the interesting things

I think about the Europan ocean,

is that you can ask

two questions about life on Europa,

Could life have originated on Europa?

Astrobiology is

the study of life on other worlds.

But since Kevin doesn't have any real

extraterrestrial specimens to analyze yet,

he's out here doing

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