Yesterday, I read in our local newspaper that the swiss deep sea research pioneer and explorer Jacques Piccard died at the age of 86. The article was quite small, and so I started to explore the web, looking for more information.
Though it may seem very unlikely to some people that a man named “Piccard” explored the depth of the ocean instead of the depth of space, he indeed was one of the greatest oceanographers of our time. He also holds the record for the deepest dive done by man (with a submarine, that is): 10 910 meters. Phew!
While some of you might be impressed by his deeds, others may wonder why I am posting this here. Well, let me tell you what you have perhaps already guessed: it is somehow related to our game! The question is: How?
That’s something I wont tell you right now. Just keep coming back and you might find out soon…
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Chris says:
November 4, 2008 at 1:29 pm (UTC 2 )
According to Star Trek:
The Next Generation supervising producer Robert Justman, Captain Picard was named for French oceanographer Jacques Piccard (1922-2008), who explored the depths of Earth’s Marianas Trench aboard the bathyscaph Trieste.
Joerg says:
November 4, 2008 at 7:46 pm (UTC 2 )
Haha, I didn’t know that. Weird
Ole says:
November 5, 2008 at 10:40 pm (UTC 2 )
I really hope, that they named the race “Borg” because of Björn Borg and not Andy Borg !
5000 year old American civilization found in Peru | Rough Sea Games says:
December 22, 2008 at 12:19 pm (UTC 2 )
[...] This is news has again a small link to our game. If you did follow our blog closley, you should step by step get an idea, what our game might be about. Please check also our older blogposts about Copernicus and Piccard. [...]