{"id":81,"date":"2007-12-21T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=81"},"modified":"2007-12-21T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T19:15:00","slug":"benthic-baptisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Benthic Baptisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/13frontier368-755025.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/13frontier368-755017.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>So it begins (actually <i><i>continues<\/i><\/i>, but let&#8217;s not let accuracy get in the way of a good clich\u00e9): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seedmagazine.com\/news\/2007\/12\/deep_space.php?page=1\">the race to exploit the deep sea<\/a>.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>A couple of choice quotes:   <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;deep sea mining &#8230; has the potential to explode &#8230; The hotspots are ocean floor geysers known as hydrothermal vents &#8230;   <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;&#8230;we know almost nothing about the microbial life or their ecology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">So, yeah.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>Bring on \u03b2ehemoth! Let&#8217;s get this apocalypse on the road!<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">And \u2014 in a nice bit of timing \u2014 one Bernd Kronsbein has just pointed me to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/Abgrund-Peter-Watts\/dp\/3453524462\/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1198263984&amp;sr=8-2\">Amazon page<\/a> for the upcoming German edition of <i><i>Starfish<\/i><\/i> (which <s>evidently translates<\/s> does not after all translate as <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Abgrund<\/span>, but as another word entirely!).  The cover steers away from the rifter-collage design that Bruce Jensen so effectively rendered for the Tor editions, instead giving face time to the more conventional preshmesh armour that Yves Scanlon lumbered around in for a couple of chapters:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/german_starfish-771897.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/german_starfish-771894.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"\">I&#8217;m guessing they were looking for something a bit more space-suity, to maintain thematic consistency with their <i><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/Blindflug-Watts-Peter\/dp\/3453523644\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1198263984&amp;sr=8-1\">Blindflug<\/a><\/i><\/i> cover.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>Anyway, I like it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it begins (actually continues, but let&#8217;s not let accuracy get in the way of a good clich\u00e9): the race to exploit the deep sea. A couple of choice quotes: &#8220;deep sea mining &#8230; has the potential to explode &#8230; The hotspots are ocean floor geysers known as hydrothermal vents &#8230; &#8220;&#8230;we know almost nothing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-sea","category-writing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}