psocoptera

So apparently people have been to the bottom of the Marianas Trench. Once. In 1960. Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard, in the Trieste.

What?

This feels like a crazy thing to have somehow not known. Like not knowing there were moon landings, or that people have made it to the South Pole, or the top of Everest, or broken the sound barrier. I'm not saying I expect to be familiar with every cool thing humanity has done, obviously, but, I don't know, cultural literacy, Armstrong and Aldrin, Amundsen, Hillary, Yeager, these are familiar names, shouldn't Walsh and Piccard ring a bell in the same way? Did I know about this at some point and then somehow just forget? (What else have I forgotten about?)

Anyways, this is a nifty infographic, and if you scroll all the way to the bottom, Don Walsh is down there to surprise and confuse you, if you are me.