Robert Ballard is a Dick! (Scientific Sour Grapes Thread!)

DR. BALLARD: One interesting thing about the deep sea is that it's 12,000 feet down and skeletons don't survive in the deep ocean. The human bodies naturally fell to the bottom. Just like when someone dies in the woods, animals will find the body and they'll remove the flesh and expose the skeleton. But, the deep sea is under-saturated with calcium carbonate and that's what bones are made of. Bones dissolve very quickly--in just a matter of a few years. What's left behind? Shoes. Deep-sea animals don't eat the shoes. They haven't had long enough to know how to eat the leather, so the shoes are left behind. If you go along the bottom, very sadly, you'll see pairs of shoes that will remind you that it's a very special place. That's why we never took anything. We don't think that we should, because it's a very special place.

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