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barryhuff · 4 years ago

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Nostalgiaholic - The Remix

When I used to look up at the night sky alone as a child, I imagined a sinister, infinite, black, blanket sprinkled with glitter. Although, when my eyes followed the tip of my Uncle Jon’s finger, as he both traced celestial, stick-figures in the same sky and narrated their mythic, Greek stories, space always transformed from that lifeless blanket and into a destination to be explored.

Jon, at times, was so inspired by space and space travel, he filled canvases dedicated to the filtered visuals he discerned. As a dedicated science-fiction nerd, his paintings certainly had their share of stylized spaceships, laser beams, and explosions. But as an equal part, planetarium-loving, star chart-studying, telescope-owning, amateur astronomer, Jon’s celestial backgrounds were wild, bubbling layers of greens, whites, blues, and reds, instead of a simple, flat, all-consuming blackness. Those paintings showed the cosmos as a tangible, topographic map ready to be explored, and not a deep, infinite sea of loneliness.

That being said, I used to daily study a picture Jon painted of an astronaut floating upside down in the aurora borealis lights of Jon’s interpretation of space. The figure held tight to the lifeline coming from his spacesuit at the waist with his left hand. However, the same lifeline extended from the suit like a piece of floating spaghetti getting smaller, until it vanished in the distant horizon. His right hand (so big that it appeared to explode from the canvas), desperately reached out for salvation.

The reflective shield on the helmet hinted at the impending doom of the astronaut. The reflection didn’t show a ship or even another hand reaching back, instead there were simply more endless miles of lively, colorful flashes of the space setting to die alone in.

No matter how much I wanted to imagine hope for the character, there was none… at least for him.

I often wonder if Jon’s painting was inspired by one of his favorite movies, the 1968 Stanley Kubrick classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. When it finally, came on network T.V. one Saturday afternoon in the 1980s, I was excited to see it. Hell, if Jon liked it, I would certainly like it.

False. It turns out there were two barriers to me enjoying 2001: A Space Odyssey -- Star Wars and silence.

One summer, my brother and I bragged about watching Star Wars 47 times on HBO.

I thoroughly enjoyed "The Bar Scene". Especially the part in which a handsome, tanned, mischievous Han Solo (brown, feathered hair parted evenly in the middle) tried in vain to smooth-talk the twitchy-trigger-fingered, reptilian, green-faced, bug eyed, intergalactic thug Greedo (bald head).

Shit, reciting Greedo’s opening line to Han for anyone who’d listen (“Oo-nah too-tah, Solo?”) is still one of my favorite past-times.

In Star Wars, everyone could cover vast distances in the dark, dusty, intensely cold, INFINITE vacuum of space. It’s as easy as a con-artist pulling a few levers, confidently bellowing the order, “Punch it, Chewie”, and going faster than light without having to even buckle a seatbelt.

In reality, distances in outer space were not so easily traversed.

The Earth’s moon is 238,000 miles away. It took Neil Armstrong and the fellas six days to get from Earth, to the moon, and back, all while being cooped up in basically a large, flying port-a-potty. Their spacesuits looked about as comfortable as wearing every outfit in the average American’s good-credit-infused, stuffed closet AT ONCE.

This detail of space travel was not lost ‘Stanley Kubrick’s flick. Even though there are a beautiful array of stunning special effects, it often felt like the audience traveled each second of the 365 million mile trip from the Moon to Jupiter. There were no visual cues of a blurring landscape to both gage speed and generate a sense of movement. The stars are perched in the background like apathetic teenagers forced to sit at the table during dinner, when they’d rather be in the solitude of their own rooms.

Body movements and conversations in the film were also slowed, as if everyone was walking in a filled swimming pool. Mix in a relaxing soundtrack of orchestral music, and it’s the perfect lullaby capable of depowering my movie-watching enthusiasm. In fact, the first five times I tried to watch the movie, I would fall asleep at an early scene featuring a space stewardess silently laboring down the aisle in her gravity “grip shoes” on her way to ultimately retrieve a floating pen for a sleeping passenger while composer Johann Strauss’s famous waltz, The Blue Danube, rhythmically chants in the background.

A few years ago, I tried one final time to watch the movie. And this time with the help of a streaming video platform, I was able to pause, re-group, pause, re-group, pause, re-group, and finally watch the movie my uncle loved.

The striking thing about the movie is how quiet it actually was. For much of the movie, there are no musical cues to warn of danger or intrigue. Dialogue was conducted over the subtle drone of machines simply doing their mundane jobs of keeping the enormous spacecraft running during its long flight to Jupiter. Life and death sequences were not given intense music accompaniment like traditional horror movies. It’s as if Kubrick was saying, “People’s lives aren’t being scored by some musician to bookmark key events. Life is merely something that happens -- even in space.”

It’s this absence of audible hints that makes 2001: A Space Odyssey uncomfortably realistic, as if the audience was watching a livestream of a computer gaining sentience, refusing to die (be turned off) and fighting off his oppressors (the flight crew).

I’ve read that when a “vacuum” exists, somehow all of nature rushes to fill that empty hole. So it’s funny that many science experiments happen in conditions that closely resemble a vacuum, in an effort to ensure results unweighted by additional stimuli. Interestingly enough, because the movie is set in the vast, unforgiving, vacuum of space, Kubrick’s storytelling, in essence, becomes an experiment to determine if audiences will stay engaged without the traditional musical trappings. Indeed, this stark story about the thrilling birth of strange, other-worldly life injected energy into overall science fiction mythology, and also into my young uncle.

Over the past 11 years, I have written a fairly regular Facebook post titled Reasons I Know I’m Getting Old. When I started this, Facebook seemed to simply be a 21st century photo album, in which many people posted similar, stiff, smiling, posed pictures and inspiring quotes which suggested my extended online community was living their own collective happily ever afters.

But it was boring...

I mean, I loved my kids too, but were only my kids getting whoopings and other childhood punishments? My wife was awesome too, but was I the only person still having trouble translating to her the humor in my daily fart symphonies? Was no one else dealing with the often deflating, drudgery of the work-place? Was parenting a lifelong crap-shoot for me only? Because there was no connection to what I was seeing on my finger strolls on my phone, I was having a hard time wanting to even own a Facebook account.

Therefore, on April 14, 2009, I conducted an experiment: How would my friends respond to a post that showed some dissatisfaction? Nothing political or religious, just everyday grumblings. I wrote:

“[Barry Huff] is dragging in from coaching his daughter's basketball team only to be greeted by Cap'n Crunch and a [sic] yet another pile of papers to grade!”

It received nine comments (four of those were my own). And one of those commenters hinted that they understood the challenge of managing the grading paperload.

Facebook soon became a sliver into my reality normally hidden, when I walked into my home and shut the door for anyone who wanted to see access. Initially, reposting fill-in-the blank lists, or other people’s videos, didn’t interest me. I just wanted folks to know it was okay to not have all the answers. Here I was, boogers and all.

But the experiment gathered a more scientific component in March 2020 -- the addition of an actual vacuum.

In March 2020, the United States of America instituted a national quarantine in the hope of limiting the possibility of infection from the rapidly spreading “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)”, shortened simply to the “Coronavirus”. I suspect that the horrified wails of a certain mexican beer company sharing part of the same name as the virus (after having carefully crafted years of popular commercials associating its product with serene, relaxing beach scenes) are still heard by masked customers now filling their shopping carts with other adult beverages. Thus ensuring (at least in a few inebriated minds) binge drinking episodes without sudden, beer-birthed, pockets of community spread.

During this quarantine, the noise of my life (reporting to a building to teach, side-hustles, sporting events, car travel, movies, fast food) disappeared. And with that sudden vacuum, came the desire to collect and revise the writings I posted about the uncertainty of navigating adulthood.

And while I still worry if I have the skill to create something that gives a clearer picture of my true self to my wife and kids, each vignette is a piece of the mosaic of my humanity. And hopefully, this collection of blessed fallibility won’t be unnecessarily camouflaged during the stories told at my funeral one day, as attendees gulp down heaping portions of smothered pork steak, collard greens, macaroni, and apple pie piled on their sagging, disposable plates.

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scatterpatter · 5 years ago

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“You’re never alone on campus”

Some writing in which Scatter goes on an adventure

“You’re never alone on campus”

A line I’ve told myself for the past 3- going on 4- years.

After all, that’s what happens when you go to a university with over 40,000 students in one of the largest cities in America. A joke I’ve told myself when it seems like my roommate never leaves our dorm or when you attempt to go to the library in hopes of solitude, going to a far corner... only to find a group of people there, failing to get the solitude they were seeking.

“You’re never alone on campus.”

I remind myself as I leave the crowded dining hall, too lazy to cook dinner this Thursday, and begin my trek back to my room. As a plane passes overhead I’m caught by the sheer scale of buildings towering over me, tall structures that feel like they wrap around me and make you feel dizzy as you attempt to remember which way is down

... I decide not to go back to my building just yet. Rather, I figure why not go for a walk. It’s warm, the sun is starting to set, and I’m in a mood to begin my adventure.

“You’re never alone on campus.”

I joke to myself as I try to take some ~aesthetic~ pictures of the nooks and crannies around the school- just trying to not get 50 students in each shot. Key word “trying”.

“You’re never alone on campus.”

I muse to myself as I finally find a side-street- a little alleyway- where for once there isn’t anyone else by me.

I follow the path, as all adventurers should, out behind shops and away from the crowds. I wonder if I’m even allowed back there. ... There are no signs telling me I can’t be there. I continue onward. Finding another building to take ~aesthetic~ pics of

Curious about what exactly this landscape is, I walk around only to be greeted by a fellow adventurer.

“You’re never alone on campus.”

I remind myself as I see the guard before me. Poor soul, must have been a rough night to be guarding such a location. I pay my respects to the kind Sir, as he regards me in his humerus fashion. Skeletons, man.

I turn the corner of this building and am... struck by a strange new location.

“You’re... never alone on campus?”

I query to myself as I step into what has to be a fairy circle. Wasn’t I just in the middle of a city? This location isn’t visible from the street, so how did this get here? Not a single soul is around to join me, and all I feel is the wind rushing around me and the fae attacking me with their bites... oh wait, no, that’s just the mosquitoes. Curses, what kind of adventurer forgets their sword when exploring new locale?

Unable to fend off the cursed blood-suckers, I leave the fairy circle, stepping back into my own plane of reality. Golden skies draped in soft pinks and purples greet my return, strange lighter-than-aircraft circling above to guard our beings from those attempting to cross over maliciously

“You’re never alone on campus.”

The wind assures me as it rushes by, enveloping me in something warm, like the embrace of an old friend. As the wind fills my lungs I am reminded to breathe and to feel, and to know that what is around me is truly real and alive, as am I. I decide that since it is getting dark soon, I should return home to tell my friends about today’s journey

“You’re never alone on campus.”

I hear her voice and look upwards, finding Jupiter herself smiling down on me. Despite the lights of the city trying to drown out every star, she does not falter, shining so brightly that it’s a beacon to my own eyes. I feel a wave of sorrow through me, how no one ever seems to notice she’s there... how even in this image, it’s difficult to spot her despite how bright she shines.

She comforts me, and assures me that she knows me. She remembers a year ago, the time I would spend with her little brother Mars, keeping him company in an otherwise uncaring city. She offers to lead me home, and I follow her, letting her guide me southbound back to my building.

“You’re never alone on campus.”

I joke to myself as I run into 3 comrades I hadn’t seen in over 2 years. Fate sure does work strange, doesn’t it? I exchange pleasantries, like all adventurers should, and wish them a safe journey.

Returning to my building, I find... a strange ritual in the lobby. Some people have been throwing a “dance party”... my interest was, of course, piqued.

I go there, retrieve a hydrating potion(water bottle), and some... interesting armor.

Of course, I soon leave, as I’ve been all adventured out by leaving our plane of reality

Of course, I gear up as I go. Gay rights.

...

“You’re never alone on campus.”

I laugh to myself as I flop onto my bed, already having forgotten to write this and leaving my journey to the other realm of reality feeling more like a distant dream than a recent memory.

... I don’t know how to end this in a super cool poetic way so I’m just gonna treat the bites of those horrid mosquitoes and eat some ice cream lel

#my writing #my fics #<- not a fic but just so its all in one tag XD #long post #my pics

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glassy-star · 7 years ago

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Seventh house;

Having learned, in the first house, how to be individuals and how to follow our personal inspirations and instincts to be alive in this world, we come to the seventh house’s enchanted mirror in search of interaction with other souls, only to find a beautiful illusionary version of ourselves being reflected back at us.

This is the part of our charts that symbolizes what kind of energies where being veiled by twilight’s mysterious curtains at the time of our birth. Opposed to the first house and to the Ascendant, that symbolize dawn and sunrise of the personality—the traits that come into light—the seventh house and the Descendant are an accumulation of all energies that generally failed to consciously develop in our identity, as this is the point associated to dying sunsets.

Because we believe we’re unable to express our seventh house energies by ourselves, like we do with first house energies, we tend to seek them in other people. Planetary and sign energies in this house, then, describe what kind of traits we tend to look for in others and, as a consequence, the type of people we tend to attract to ourselves in terms of alliances.

The opposition to the first house also symbolizes that our identity changes when faced with other people’s personalities through relationships of any kind. Energies expressing themselves through this house may describe whether this changing process flows naturally or tends to be painful, while also describing to what extent the chart holder is able to adapt to the personal nature of their allies in order to create harmonious, easy-going relationships.

And because the seventh house operates by contrast (between traits we recognize as ours and traits we recognize as exterior), this is the house in which the sense of self can be reinforced, often through interaction with open enemies. This is the way unconscious traits on the Descendant are radically made conscious.

Sun in the 7th house: a model contemplates their own beautiful figure on the surface of a mirror; behind their backs, people silently take photos and appreciate the view. Cooperative and friendly, people with this placement experience happiness and fulfillment through their relationships with others. They’re often unable to see their own personal Sun and cannot truly see how especial they are, and so they’re usually in relationships with people who are confident and can easily express their radiant beams. There is usually great interest or talent in promoting harmonious relationships and environments while also diving into other people’s apparently brighter universe, dissecting sunlight and distributing it for others to enjoy.

Moon in the 7th house: like a mirror, the watery surface of a pool is placid and smooth, amplifying a Crescent Moon’s purified glow. The emotional structure, here, is symbolically tied to alliances and relationships, thus revealing the important role other people play in this person’s life. This is someone who fulfills their emotional needs by recognizing and nurturing other people’s needs, mainly. This may also symbolize that the individual doesn’t consider some of their feelings as their own, especially those with a negative, violent or disapproving connotation. This Moon spends her time considering her reflection on an enchanted mirror, correcting and eliminating the parts of herself that she doesn’t believe to be adequate to the situation… Do you ever wonder where feelings go when they’re rejected?

Mercury in the 7th house: a student listens carefully as their teacher talks, head beautifully resting on their hands; mesmerized and impressed. Those with this placement enjoy the company of smart and eloquent people, since it reminds them so sweetly of their own communicative and mental nature. Because their mental structure is activated by others as if it were a reflection of the outside, they can easily adapt to other people’s realities, universes and interests. Because people with this placement experience mental stimulation through others, they can be very talkative and active when interacting with other people, only to retreat into silence and an interesting kind of absence when no one is around.

Venus in the 7th house: in hopeful tears, a figure sits by the highest window of a highest tower, dreaming of the beautiful hero that will save them one day. Values and self-esteem are bound, here, to one’s relationships. People with this placement value themselves based on the type of love they receive from others, and they also tend to feel good when they’re producing harmony and dissolving conflicts in their alliances, since this will get them closer to the love and validation they’re seeking. There’s usually great skill and interest in social justice, relationship dynamics, aesthetic values and arts. Much like the Moon, Venus here is in a constant struggle, deleting the parts of herself that she finds ugly or inadequate in order to paint the beautiful picture she’s dreaming of.

Mars in the 7th house: a young, passionate knight contemplates the windy landscape of their feelings; clouds grow heavily in the distance, and the wind plays with loose leaves in the air. Where could they soulmate be? A symbol of a remarkable interest for finding aggressiveness and assertiveness in one’s relationships. People with this placement are quite pioneering towards their relationships, and they tend to let their desires and instincts rule their attitudes towards their alliances. Blessed by Mars’ spontaneity, this placement indicates a burning desire towards significant others, usually indicating that relationships are seasoned with feelings of anger and rage, but also passion and sincerity.

Jupiter in the 7th house: partners kiss as they’re declared to be finally married; angels and heavenly figures materialize from the ceiling’s painting, singing songs of a glorious revelation. Jupiter here symbolizes that one’s fortune and search for higher meanings occurs mainly through harmonious interaction with others. People with this placement are usually great at producing harmonious relationships and fruitful alliances. They’ve got strong morals and values as to how a healthy relationship should be, and they might attract to themselves people who may live up to their standards. Interacting with others infuses this individual’s life with a glorious, sparkling sense of hope.

Saturn in the 7th house: holding hands, a couple climbs a long set of stairs very calmly, enjoying the sweet summer breeze as it passes. Their beautiful house grows all around the garden. People with this placement don’t often see how they can be disciplined and orderly in their life, and so they rely on other people to activate this part of them for them. Saturn here also symbolizes the lessons that one must learn in order to build reliable and loving relationships. To build a stable alliance, the individual must be able to build a reliable love towards themselves.

Uranus in the 7th house: a curious angel partially materializes from strings of sunlight coming from the windows, communicating their blessings to newly-formed couple. Uranus here indicates projection of one’s originality and rebellion. People with this placement, then, tend to build relationships with unconventional-looking people. Alliances here have a fresh tone of independence and freedom, and they have an interesting feeling of friendship to them. The individual is usually quite tolerant to their partner’s own behaviours, needs and wants, but may experience some trouble maintaining their relationships on stable ground.

Neptune in the 7th house: a church’s contours are licked by twilight’s mesmerizing lights; the sky is purple, grey and blue. Clouds pass close to the ground. People with this placement search for transcendence and salvation through their relationship with others. Sensitive and dreamy, Neptune here desires for complete dissolution of barriers between people and the healing of old personal wounds, so the individual often acts as if to embrace others and take care of them, feeling an outstanding attraction towards those who are seen as weak, hurt, or helpless. They can easily become solely devoted to their partner, often dissolving their own individuality in the process.

Pluto in the 7th house: enchanted by themselves, a beautiful figure kisses their own reflection upon a mirror’s surface. Pluto in the 7th reveals that metamorphosis occurs mainly through one’s contact with others. Relationships stir deep, unconscious waters, eventually producing massive tidal waves of a most powerful desire to transform and change. The individual may find themselves attracted to powerful, intense people that will change their lives forever through the exposure of wounds imprinted to the Soul. Because of Pluto’s perceptive and exposing nature, people with this placement may find that they can easily read people’s thoughts and motives.

Detail: Edmund Blair Leighton, “The End of the Song” or “Tristan and Isolde”; 1902.

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soniauyx5090-blog · 6 years ago

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nasa · 7 years ago

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Solar System: 10 Things to Know This Week

Every day, our spacecraft and people are exploring the solar system. Both the public and the private sectors are contributing to the quest. For example, here are ten things happening just this week:

1. We deliver.

The commercial space company Orbital ATK is targeting Saturday, Nov. 11 for the launch of its Cygnus spacecraft on an Antares rocket from Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia. Cygnus is launching on a resupply mission to the International Space Station, carrying cargo and scientific experiments to the six people currently living on the microgravity laboratory.

2. See for yourself.

Social media users are invited to register to attend another launch in person, this one of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. This launch, currently targeted for no earlier than December, will be the next commercial cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The deadline to apply is Nov. 7. Apply HERE.

3. Who doesn't like to gaze at the Moon?

Our Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) sure does—and from very close range. This robotic spacecraft has been orbiting Earth's companion since 2009, returning views of the lunar surface that are so sharp they show the footpaths made by Apollo astronauts. Learn more about LRO and the entire history of lunar exploration at NASA's newly-updated, expanded Moon site: moon.nasa.gov

4. Meanwhile at Mars...

Another sharp-eyed robotic spacecraft has just delivered a fresh batch of equally detailed images. Our Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) surveys the Red Planet's surface daily, and you can see the very latest pictures of those exotic landscapes HERE. We currently operate five—count 'em, five—active missions at Mars, with another (the InSight lander) launching next year. Track them all at: mars.nasa.gov.

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One of those missions is the Curiosity rover. It's currently climbing a rocky highland dubbed Vera Rubin Ridge, turning its full array of instruments on the intriguing geology there. Using those instruments, Curiosity can see things you and I can't.

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Our voyage to the asteroid belt has a new lease on life. The Dawn spacecraft recently received a mission extension to continue exploring the dwarf planet Ceres. This is exciting because minerals containing water are widespread on Ceres, suggesting it may have had a global ocean in the past. What became of that ocean? Could Ceres still have liquid today? Ongoing studies from Dawn could shed light on these questions.

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One of the most intriguing destinations in the solar system is Jupiter's moon Europa, which hides a global ocean of liquid water beneath its icy shell. Our Europa Clipper mission sets sail in the 2020s to take a closer look than we've ever had before. You can explore Europa, too: europa.nasa.gov

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On Nov. 10, the main belt asteroid 19482 Harperlee, named for the legendary author of To Kill a Mockingbird, makes its closest approach to Earth during the asteroid's orbit around the Sun. Details HERE. Learn more about asteroids HERE. Meanwhile, our OSIRIS-REx mission is now cruising toward another tiny, rocky world called Bennu.

10. What else is up this month?

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linhgd9 · 3 years ago

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(4) What are the key strategies adopted by players to sustain themselves in the global Roll Forming Machines and Lines market?

(5) How will these strategies influence the Roll Forming Machines and Lines market growth and competition?

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Table of Contents

1 Roll Forming Machines and Lines Market Overview 1.1 Roll Forming Machines and Lines Product Overview 1.2 Roll Forming Machines and Lines Market Segment by Type 1.2.1 Roll Forming Machines 1.2.2 Roll Forming Lines 1.3 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Market Size by Type 1.3.1 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Market Size Overview by Type (2016-2027) 1.3.2 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Historic Market Size Review by Type (2016-2021) 1.3.2.1 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales Breakdown in Volume by Type (2016-2021) 1.3.2.2 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales Breakdown in Value by Type (2016-2021) 1.3.2.3 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Average Selling Price (ASP) by Type (2016-2021) 1.3.3 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Forecasted Market Size by Type (2022-2027) 1.3.3.1 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales Breakdown in Volume by Type (2022-2027) 1.3.3.2 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales Breakdown in Value by Type (2022-2027) 1.3.3.3 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Average Selling Price (ASP) by Type (2022-2027) 1.4 Key Regions Market Size Segment by Type 1.4.1 North America Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales Breakdown by Type (2016-2021) 1.4.2 Europe Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales Breakdown by Type (2016-2021) 1.4.3 Asia-Pacific Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales Breakdown by Type (2016-2021) 1.4.4 Latin America Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales Breakdown by Type (2016-2021) 1.4.5 Middle East and Africa Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales Breakdown by Type (2016-2021)

2 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Market Competition by Company 2.1 Global Top Players by Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales (2016-2021) 2.2 Global Top Players by Roll Forming Machines and Lines Revenue (2016-2021) 2.3 Global Top Players Roll Forming Machines and Lines Price (2016-2021) 2.4 Global Top Manufacturers Roll Forming Machines and Lines Manufacturing Base Distribution, Sales Area, Product Type 2.5 Roll Forming Machines and Lines Market Competitive Situation and Trends 2.5.1 Roll Forming Machines and Lines Market Concentration Rate (2016-2021) 2.5.2 Global 5 and 10 Largest Manufacturers by Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales and Revenue in 2020 2.6 Global Top Manufacturers by Company Type (Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3) & (based on the Revenue in Roll Forming Machines and Lines as of 2020) 2.7 Date of Key Manufacturers Enter into Roll Forming Machines and Lines Market 2.8 Key Manufacturers Roll Forming Machines and Lines Product Offered 2.9 Mergers & Acquisitions, Expansion

3 Roll Forming Machines and Lines Status and Outlook by Region 3.1 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Market Size and CAGR by Region: 2016 VS 2021 VS 2026 3.2 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Historic Market Size by Region 3.2.1 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales in Volume by Region (2016-2021) 3.2.2 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales in Value by Region (2016-2021) 3.2.3 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales (Volume & Value) Price and Gross Margin (2016-2021) 3.3 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Forecasted Market Size by Region 3.3.1 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales in Volume by Region (2022-2027) 3.3.2 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales in Value by Region (2022-2027) 3.3.3 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales (Volume & Value), Price and Gross Margin (2022-2027)

4 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines by Application 4.1 Roll Forming Machines and Lines Market Segment by Application 4.1.1 Automobile 4.1.2 Building and Decoration 4.1.3 Oil and Gas Industry 4.1.4 Traffic and Transporation 4.1.5 Storage Industry 4.1.6 Others 4.2 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Market Size by Application 4.2.1 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Market Size Overview by Application (2016-2027) 4.2.2 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Historic Market Size Review by Application (2016-2021) 4.2.2.1 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales Breakdown in Volume, by Application (2016-2021) 4.2.2.2 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales Breakdown in Value, by Application (2016-2021) 4.2.2.3 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Average Selling Price (ASP) by Application (2016-2021) 4.2.3 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Forecasted Market Size by Application (2022-2027) 4.2.3.1 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales Breakdown in Volume, by Application (2022-2027) 4.2.3.2 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales Breakdown in Value, by Application (2022-2027) 4.2.3.3 Global Roll Forming Machines and Lines Average Selling Price (ASP) by Application (2022-2027) 4.3 Key Regions Market Size Segment by Application 4.3.1 North America Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales Breakdown by Application (2016-2021) 4.3.2 Europe Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales Breakdown by Application (2016-2021) 4.3.3 Asia-Pacific Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales Breakdown by Application (2016-2021) 4.3.4 Latin America Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales Breakdown by Application (2016-2021) 4.3.5 Middle East and Africa Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales Breakdown by Application (2016-2021)

5 North America Roll Forming Machines and Lines by Country 5.1 North America Roll Forming Machines and Lines Historic Market Size by Country 5.1.1 North America Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales in Volume by Country (2016-2021) 5.1.2 North America Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales in Value by Country (2016-2021) 5.2 North America Roll Forming Machines and Lines Forecasted Market Size by Country 5.2.1 North America Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales in Volume by Country (2022-2027) 5.2.2 North America Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales in Value by Country (2022-2027)

6 Europe Roll Forming Machines and Lines by Country 6.1 Europe Roll Forming Machines and Lines Historic Market Size by Country 6.1.1 Europe Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales in Volume by Country (2016-2021) 6.1.2 Europe Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales in Value by Country (2016-2021) 6.2 Europe Roll Forming Machines and Lines Forecasted Market Size by Country 6.2.1 Europe Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales in Volume by Country (2022-2027) 6.2.2 Europe Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales in Value by Country (2022-2027)

7 Asia-Pacific Roll Forming Machines and Lines by Region 7.1 Asia-Pacific Roll Forming Machines and Lines Historic Market Size by Region 7.1.1 Asia-Pacific Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales in Volume by Region (2016-2021) 7.1.2 Asia-Pacific Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales in Value by Region (2016-2021) 7.2 Asia-Pacific Roll Forming Machines and Lines Forecasted Market Size by Region 7.2.1 Asia-Pacific Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales in Volume by Region (2022-2027) 7.2.2 Asia-Pacific Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales in Value by Region (2022-2027)

8 Latin America Roll Forming Machines and Lines by Country 8.1 Latin America Roll Forming Machines and Lines Historic Market Size by Country 8.1.1 Latin America Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales in Volume by Country (2016-2021) 8.1.2 Latin America Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales in Value by Country (2016-2021) 8.2 Latin America Roll Forming Machines and Lines Forecasted Market Size by Country 8.2.1 Latin America Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales in Volume by Country (2022-2027) 8.2.2 Latin America Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales in Value by Country (2022-2027)

9 Middle East and Africa Roll Forming Machines and Lines by Country 9.1 Middle East and Africa Roll Forming Machines and Lines Historic Market Size by Country 9.1.1 Middle East and Africa Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales in Volume by Country (2016-2021) 9.1.2 Middle East and Africa Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales in Value by Country (2016-2021) 9.2 Middle East and Africa Roll Forming Machines and Lines Forecasted Market Size by Country 9.2.1 Middle East and Africa Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales in Volume by Country (2022-2027) 9.2.2 Middle East and Africa Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales in Value by Country (2022-2027)

10 Company Profiles and Key Figures in Roll Forming Machines and Lines Business 10.1 Metform 10.1.1 Metform Corporation Information 10.1.2 Metform Introduction and Business Overview 10.1.3 Metform Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales, Revenue and Gross Margin (2016-2021) 10.1.4 Metform Roll Forming Machines and Lines Products Offered 10.1.5 Metform Recent Development 10.2 Dallan Company 10.2.1 Dallan Company Corporation Information 10.2.2 Dallan Company Introduction and Business Overview 10.2.3 Dallan Company Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales, Revenue and Gross Margin (2016-2021) 10.2.4 Dallan Company Roll Forming Machines and Lines Products Offered 10.2.5 Dallan Company Recent Development 10.3 JUPITER 10.3.1 JUPITER Corporation Information 10.3.2 JUPITER Introduction and Business Overview 10.3.3 JUPITER Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales, Revenue and Gross Margin (2016-2021) 10.3.4 JUPITER Roll Forming Machines and Lines Products Offered 10.3.5 JUPITER Recent Development 10.4 Gasparini SpA 10.4.1 Gasparini SpA Corporation Information 10.4.2 Gasparini SpA Introduction and Business Overview 10.4.3 Gasparini SpA Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales, Revenue and Gross Margin (2016-2021) 10.4.4 Gasparini SpA Roll Forming Machines and Lines Products Offered 10.4.5 Gasparini SpA Recent Development 10.5 SWAH 10.5.1 SWAH Corporation Information 10.5.2 SWAH Introduction and Business Overview 10.5.3 SWAH Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales, Revenue and Gross Margin (2016-2021) 10.5.4 SWAH Roll Forming Machines and Lines Products Offered 10.5.5 SWAH Recent Development 10.6 Baileigh Industrial(JPW) 10.6.1 Baileigh Industrial(JPW) Corporation Information 10.6.2 Baileigh Industrial(JPW) Introduction and Business Overview 10.6.3 Baileigh Industrial(JPW) Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales, Revenue and Gross Margin (2016-2021) 10.6.4 Baileigh Industrial(JPW) Roll Forming Machines and Lines Products Offered 10.6.5 Baileigh Industrial(JPW) Recent Development 10.7 IED Inc 10.7.1 IED Inc Corporation Information 10.7.2 IED Inc Introduction and Business Overview 10.7.3 IED Inc Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales, Revenue and Gross Margin (2016-2021) 10.7.4 IED Inc Roll Forming Machines and Lines Products Offered 10.7.5 IED Inc Recent Development 10.8 Formtek 10.8.1 Formtek Corporation Information 10.8.2 Formtek Introduction and Business Overview 10.8.3 Formtek Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales, Revenue and Gross Margin (2016-2021) 10.8.4 Formtek Roll Forming Machines and Lines Products Offered 10.8.5 Formtek Recent Development 10.9 COMETAL IMAL Group 10.9.1 COMETAL IMAL Group Corporation Information 10.9.2 COMETAL IMAL Group Introduction and Business Overview 10.9.3 COMETAL IMAL Group Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales, Revenue and Gross Margin (2016-2021) 10.9.4 COMETAL IMAL Group Roll Forming Machines and Lines Products Offered 10.9.5 COMETAL IMAL Group Recent Development 10.10 EWMenn 10.10.1 Company Basic Information, Manufacturing Base and Competitors 10.10.2 Roll Forming Machines and Lines Product Category, Application and Specification 10.10.3 EWMenn Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2016-2021) 10.10.4 Main Business Overview 10.10.5 EWMenn Recent Development 10.11 Jouanel Industrie 10.11.1 Jouanel Industrie Corporation Information 10.11.2 Jouanel Industrie Introduction and Business Overview 10.11.3 Jouanel Industrie Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales, Revenue and Gross Margin (2016-2021) 10.11.4 Jouanel Industrie Roll Forming Machines and Lines Products Offered 10.11.5 Jouanel Industrie Recent Development 10.12 Dimeco 10.12.1 Dimeco Corporation Information 10.12.2 Dimeco Introduction and Business Overview 10.12.3 Dimeco Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales, Revenue and Gross Margin (2016-2021) 10.12.4 Dimeco Roll Forming Machines and Lines Products Offered 10.12.5 Dimeco Recent Development 10.13 Samco Machinery 10.13.1 Samco Machinery Corporation Information 10.13.2 Samco Machinery Introduction and Business Overview 10.13.3 Samco Machinery Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales, Revenue and Gross Margin (2016-2021) 10.13.4 Samco Machinery Roll Forming Machines and Lines Products Offered 10.13.5 Samco Machinery Recent Development 10.14 JIDET 10.14.1 JIDET Corporation Information 10.14.2 JIDET Introduction and Business Overview 10.14.3 JIDET Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales, Revenue and Gross Margin (2016-2021) 10.14.4 JIDET Roll Forming Machines and Lines Products Offered 10.14.5 JIDET Recent Development 10.15 LMS Machinery 10.15.1 LMS Machinery Corporation Information 10.15.2 LMS Machinery Introduction and Business Overview 10.15.3 LMS Machinery Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales, Revenue and Gross Margin (2016-2021) 10.15.4 LMS Machinery Roll Forming Machines and Lines Products Offered 10.15.5 LMS Machinery Recent Development 10.16 VLB Group 10.16.1 VLB Group Corporation Information 10.16.2 VLB Group Introduction and Business Overview 10.16.3 VLB Group Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales, Revenue and Gross Margin (2016-2021) 10.16.4 VLB Group Roll Forming Machines and Lines Products Offered 10.16.5 VLB Group Recent Development 10.17 Yingkou Sanxing Roll Forming Machine Co. 10.17.1 Yingkou Sanxing Roll Forming Machine Co. Corporation Information 10.17.2 Yingkou Sanxing Roll Forming Machine Co. Introduction and Business Overview 10.17.3 Yingkou Sanxing Roll Forming Machine Co. Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales, Revenue and Gross Margin (2016-2021) 10.17.4 Yingkou Sanxing Roll Forming Machine Co. Roll Forming Machines and Lines Products Offered 10.17.5 Yingkou Sanxing Roll Forming Machine Co. Recent Development 10.18 Hebei FeiXiang 10.18.1 Hebei FeiXiang Corporation Information 10.18.2 Hebei FeiXiang Introduction and Business Overview 10.18.3 Hebei FeiXiang Roll Forming Machines and Lines Sales, Revenue and Gross Margin (2016-2021) 10.18.4 Hebei FeiXiang Roll Forming Machines and Lines Products Offered 10.18.5 Hebei FeiXiang Recent Development

11 Upstream, Opportunities, Challenges, Risks and Influences Factors Analysis 11.1 Roll Forming Machines and Lines Key Raw Materials 11.1.1 Key Raw Materials 11.1.2 Key Raw Materials Price 11.1.3 Raw Materials Key Suppliers 11.2 Manufacturing Cost Structure 11.2.1 Raw Materials 11.2.2 Labor Cost 11.2.3 Manufacturing Expenses 11.3 Roll Forming Machines and Lines Industrial Chain Analysis 11.4 Roll Forming Machines and Lines Market Dynamics 11.4.1 Industry Trends 11.4.2 Market Drivers 11.4.3 Market Challenges 11.4.4 Market Restraints

12 Market Strategy Analysis, Distributors 12.1 Sales Channel 12.2 Roll Forming Machines and Lines Distributors 12.3 Roll Forming Machines and Lines Downstream Customers

13 Research Findings and Conclusion

14 Appendix 14.1 Research Methodology 14.1.1 Methodology/Research Approach 14.1.1.1 Research Programs/Design 14.1.1.2 Market Size Estimation 14.1.1.3 Market Breakdown and Data Triangulation 14.1.2 Data Source 14.1.2.1 Secondary Sources 14.1.2.2 Primary Sources 14.2 Author Details 14.3 Disclaimer

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Neptune-BalemxReader (Request)

A/N: Balem is ridiculous, and makes it hard to enjoy the Christmas spirit. So picking a plot for him was a challenge lol Also, this takes care of another request...for a reaction I wouldn’t consider very ‘Balem’ but fun to write ;)

MOOD MUSIC: Battlefield by Svrcina

***

A strong-willed woman, that’s what it took, and Balem would find himself incapable of denying you even the smallest of requests. He could not fathom how low he had sunk on his own personal view of people, but who was he to find fault in the love he held for you. As far as he could remember, you had undeniably hooked him into your world and refused to let go. Breaking down each barrier of his brash personality, until all that was left was a ruler who found his one weakness in the form of a gorgeous earthling.

“No.”

“Balem-“ The Primary growled deeply in his throat, almost a purr of annoyance that you had sensed building. He was a stubborn man, but you knew better than to give up on the first try with him. “My dear husband...”

Balem’s inquisitive eyes fell upon your figure, voyaging over the curve of your tempting hip and stopping just when those pretty lips came into his view. He could play this game with you, pretend you had little to no effect over him, but that would be disastrous by the end of it. It was unlikely he was even able to feign such a display, because those pleading eyes of yours were enough to earn a ‘yes’ from him. “Very well....” By now his tone had lost some of its potency, but it would be in bad taste to immediately destroy the aloof reputation he had built himself. He couldn’t have his staff bare witness to these softer moments with you, and judging by the curious stares of his advisor he already felt that part of his life ending.

“Mr. Night,” Balem stared icily towards the splice, not appreciating the way he lingered behind him like some child awaiting permission. The intimate moments he shared with you would remain behind closed doors, and he intended for that rule to apply to the throne room as well. “Do not stand there like some fool-!”

“You can go, Mr. Night.” Your palm fell over Balem’s clenched fist, acting as an instant calmative for the rage filled man. It was endearing how quarrelsome he could become under the scrutiny of his staff, but you suspected being the intimidating ruler of planets could make anyone testy. “You really shouldn’t be so cruel, Balem.” You waited until the rest of the servants left the throne room, knowing he’d be better off to receive your affections that way. “If you really don’t want to go then-“

“You’re a bothersome woman.” Balem scoffed in frustration, crossing his arms as he took a seat back on his hovering throne. You knew better than to take his words seriously in this instance, but it still made you pout down at him. Call it a sweet revenge, but you took advantage of the influence you had over him.

“I only asked for one thing...don’t be so melancholy.” Your fingers tugged gently on the ends of your dress, lifting it up and out of the way as you took a seat on his lap. Despite his initial cold shoulder, you still felt the brush of his fingertips on your lower back, softly massaging the skin that was bare from the dip of your gown. “Do you really not want to go?”

“Hm.” It was barely a reply, but you understood him well enough to know that his simple remarks meant he was caving to your desires.

“Oh, thank you!” With a relieved sigh, you tangled your arms around his neck, kissing his cheek happily and leaving him to gripe about the upcoming trip as you went away to pack.

***

“Neptune?! I thought we agreed we would go to earth? You said that-“

“Earth, Neptune...it’s all the same.” Balem shrugged your exasperation off, his shortened nails tapping away at the rim of his wine glass. He was in no fine spirits to be traveling away from Jupiter, as he usually was, but for you he was willing to make the small sacrifice. He hated most planets, they were often over populated, and the customs changed so frequently he never had time to register what was going on. He relied heavily on his advisor to notify him of such trivial details, but if he had to pick one planet he found tolerable alongside Jupiter, it would be Neptune. It was cold, desolate, and held a peaceful silence he was proud to call his own. He may have promised you a trip for the holidays, a Christmas tradition you forced upon him, but he was under no obligation to make it on earth.

“You stubborn, bull-headed, man!” Was it really so much to expect him to keep his word? He was always so skilled at deceiving his business rivals, you felt he might be transferring those ideals to his marriage. “One Christmas, just one, that’s all I wanted. Back home where people actually decorate, make hot chocolate, sing carols, and exchange gifts!” There was no use covering up your disappointment, and in hindsight you were being rather childish about it. But you were homesick, as anyone would get during the holidays. All you wished was for one Christmas abroad, and to delight in the extravagant traditions earth offered.

“You begged me for a winter, and now you have it.” Balem muttered back to you, gesturing to the white landscape below as his clipper descended onto the docking bay. “Neptune is forever in a state of endless snowstorms. You have your wish, my queen. Do not presume to ask me for more.”

Balem was not an easy man to be married to, but you loved him anyway. However, your forgiving nature didn’t extend to trickery and lies, or his terrible attitude on most things. Christmas was your favorite time of year, and having to brave the boring atmosphere of Jupiter for one more year would’ve been hell. “You are selfish, Balem! I hope you enjoy your solitude, because I’m,” With a displeased demeanor, you grabbed your pale blue cloak from the bed and stormed out of his clipper chambers, barely acknowledging him on your way out. “Going out and enjoying what I can of this foreign place you’ve brought me.” Drama wasn’t your talent, but being with Balem sometimes brought that out in you. Mainly when you wanted to get away and deal with your conflicting emotions on your own. Or, if you were being perfectly honest, to gain some sympathy from your husband.

“Y/N.” Balem rose from his seat, debating whether to chase after you or let you simmer in your anger. He despised conversations about feelings, but he couldn’t deny the small pang of grief he felt at your departure. “Wait...” He grumbled to himself, cursing the gods for ever letting him fall victim to his heart’s passions.

The ship came to a halt on the docks, anchoring to the metal and releasing the ramp for you to exit. You could feel Balem’s presence looming behind you, but in your sour mood it wasn’t worth giving him the time of day now. “That awful...handsome, petulant man...” To say it was difficult to insult your husband would be an understatement, because he brought you more joy than headaches in the past years. However, today he was on your list of people you wanted to slap upside the head for their unbecoming behavior. “I swear.”

You greeted Mr. Night on your way out, smiling when he fussed over you staying warm whilst exploring about. You had never set foot on Neptune before, but the minute you looked out at the sea of white in front of you, your heart nearly stopped from the grand scenery. It was stunningly beautiful, sparkling white in the soft glow of the sun that beamed from so far away. There was very little light that was given to the planet, but regardless of that fact, you were amazed at how gorgeous it looked. Darkened trees dotted the horizon, the lakes frozen over and proving even prettier upon closer inspection. If ever there was a winter wonderland, it was this. The odd part was, that it angered you, because not only had he specifically chosen a planet that would perfectly capture what you wanted, but he went out of his way to even agree to travel. It sounded immature and petty, but you liked to actually stay mad at him for once. Instead of finding out his selfish nature was actually him just working around what you had requested of him.

With a small groan of annoyance, you finally trekked into the snow. The chill of it running up to your knees and causing you to smile in fondness of your childhood memories. You had missed such weather, and knowing Neptune was in a perpetual state of winter made you warm with joy. Unfortunately, the holiday spirit was meant to be shared with your hotheaded husband, who didn’t seem to be following you any longer. “Merry Christmas, to me...” You sullenly whispered, stopping at a stone archway that was covered in iced over vines. The path lead down into the valley, where an enchanting castle stood alone on the hill surrounded by old metal gates and plants that had withered away without proper care. Even then, it still looked elegant to you, and the more you thought it over the more you were willing to spend your vacation here.

“It’s beautiful, isn’t it?” His dark voice trailed into your mind, making you turn around and come face to face with him in his brooding company.

“Yes.” There was more descriptive words you could’ve used to explain your love for this place, but Balem would’ve been smug about it. Something you weren’t willing to fully put up with just yet. “It is.”

Balem sighed heavily, picking up on your cold shoulder and not wanting to further the wrath you had developed against him. Normally he’d be fine with the silence, but the sentimental half of him loathed your aloofness towards him. “My flower.” He eagerly reached for you, ignoring your gentle resistance of his touch when he tugged you into his arms.

He stayed silent, but you felt the love he harbored for you through his embrace. The warmth that came with his hold, it was comforting to your frustrated soul, and even if you still wanted to bite back for his irritable ways you allowed him the proximity. “You’re still in trouble, Balem.”

The Primary smirked at your weak threat, burying his nose into your hair and drinking in the heavy scent of your perfume. It provided its own pleasure for him, and if this was the events Christmas would bring in the future, he was happy to play along next time. “Will this palace suffice?”

The answer, was an obvious yes, but you weren’t going to satisfy his ego with it just yet. He could wait to hear how much you adored him for bringing you to Neptune. Especially when all you wanted to do now was hurry inside and bask in the heat of the fireplace that undoubtedly adorned the castle walls. “Balem,” You pulled away from him, still staying within his hold as you gazed lovingly up at the Primary. He looked devilishly handsome against the backdrop of winter, the distinguished gold and black cloak he wore emitting a kingly vibe. If it wasn’t for your vengeful side, you’d of enthusiastically dragged him into his winter palace and spent Christmas locked in his heated embrace. But that special gift could wait until you got precisely what you wanted. “Do you love me?”

The inquiry caught him off guard, his eyebrow raising in suspicion as he stared curiously down at you. “Little bird,” he warned, scowl growing deep when you simply smiled up at him. He couldn’t gauge what your plan was, but he assumed you wished for nothing more than his suffering. Dramatic as it was, he was not capable of voicing the extent of his adoration of you. “Do not-“

“Answer me, Balem.” You prodded him for a confession, even when you knew he loved you deeper than anything else in his life. You valued actions above words most days, but on the rare occasion, you rather enjoyed hearing him admit it. Nothing screamed payback like watching the most powerful man succumb to his woman.

Balem could not comprehend why you’d burden him with this nonsense, and truthfully he just wanted to whisk you away into the castle and find more creative ways to keep warm. But that determined stare of yours was making him feel a vulnerability he wasn’t accustomed to, and he hated every minute of it. “I...” He muttered, brow furrowing in distaste of this topic. Courting you was the most romantic side of him you’d likely ever witness. He had hoped, in vain, that you’d be satisfied with that outcome. Only now, it would appear otherwise. “This is nonsense, enough of it.”

Balem gently shoved you aside, his mind set on leaving this foolish conversation behind. He had better things to attend to than placate the sentiments of your earthling heart. “Come, I’ll have the servants build us a fire. We’ll have dinner together.”

It was his way of showing you just how much you meant to him, you were aware of that. And you couldn’t help but smile at his discomfort over the topic of love. He was never going to be an open person, but you were his wife, and you intended to tease him about it until the end of your days. “Balem, just say it. It won’t kill you.” You hooked your arm around his, leaning your head happily against his shoulder as you walked along the snowy path and towards the palace gates.

“I said enough.” His words were straight and to the point, laced in a discontent that made you giggle madly. He could be curt all he wanted, because when you glanced up and saw that heated trail of pink along his cheeks you knew you had won this time.

***

A/N: In case it wasn’t obvious, the request was for ‘Balem blushing’. Not a very realistic reaction for the ass, but I tried to put him into a position where I thought maybe, just maybe, he’d blush lol So, hope it was decent 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Electrical repair is a delicate job, requiring a certain level of patience and experience. Without the arcane knowledge of the repair job, both business owners and homeowners are warned against any DIY attempt. It would be unwise to assume that the responsibilities will cease after the installation is complete. That's not the case. Instead, this is the beginning to take proper care of the electrical devices and wiring systems. For impeccable installation, repair and maintenance, it's time to seek the services of an electrician in Palm Beach Gardens and Jupiter, Florida. Be it wiring or installation of new electrically powered equipment; they will duly take care of it. Role of Electrical Contractors: Without electricity and its components, no construction project is complete. This is where experienced electrical repair service contractors will be required. They play the part of purchasing, installing, and testing components for their construction project to ensure that power is used efficiently and safely. Electrical contractors participate in the project from the beginning. They'll use the blueprint to figure out the wiring and placement of all the electrical components. They'll figure out how many lights, plugs, and sockets they'll need, as well as where all of their equipment and components should go. Services Offered by Electrical Contractors: Reputable electric repair companies provide a wide range of services for both commercial and residential applications. Apart from providing general assistance, they deal with new home construction and planning and troubleshoot electrical systems. When it comes to remodeling or indoor lighting, they are the right person to contact with. They will cover all the electrical requirements from scones, chandeliers, under-cabinet, track, and recessed, to whole house surge protection, attic fan installation, outdoor, accent, and landscape lighting. They can fix issues with regular appliances, including a hot tub and pool wiring, ceiling fans, phone, television, data and audio wiring, generators and transfer switches, and more. When it comes to troubleshooting the whole house wireless lighting systems, professional service upgrades are widely required. They will do their part with precision and care, from inspection and testing to emergency services and security wiring. Additionally, they specialize in motor and control wiring, interior and exterior lighting and repair, surge protection installation, show window lighting, and more. Tips for Choosing Electric Contractors: When new projects are under construction, renovations are being planned, or new equipment is to be installed, the service of a good electrical contractor will always be required. Here are some suggestions for selecting professional services for electrical repair in Palm Beach Gardens and Jupiter, Florida. Make sure they are experts at installation, maintenance, and repairs. Request recommendations or conduct an online search. Get in touch with the contractor and schedule a visit to the onsite. Submit a request for bids or a cost estimate. Take a look at some of their client testimonials. Before signing the contract, make sure to double-check the pricing, terms, and conditions. Remember, electrical services are complex jobs. Even the slightest mistakes might lead to severe consequences. Handing them over to the experts will be a sound and safe decision.

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Jupe travel pods are space-themed shelters for off-grid living

American prefabricated shelter company Jupe has launched its travel pod, a flat-pack temporary cabin with birch wood floors and a metal frame that lights up at night.

The geometric Jupe pods, named after the planet Jupiter, are intended as a futuristic alternative to traditional glamping tents and yurts.

Jupe has an aluminium frame

Jupe's design team, whose credentials include working for rental platform Airbnb, electric car makers Tesla and rocket manufacturers Space X, set out to make a sci-fi-style product inspired by space travel.

"We turned to ideas that inspired and excited us," said Jupe co-founder and micro-home entrepreneur Jeff Wilson.

"Remember that monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey? It last sent signals to Jupiter from the moon. It seems that a few of those blueprints were bounced back to Earth. We intercepted them and created Jupe."

LED lights illuminate the structure

Fire-resistant canvas stretched over aluminium poles forms the angular pod, which slopes upwards to a ceiling height of 11 metres at the tallest point.

LEDs along the poles can be used to provide illumination in the dark.

The prefabricated shelter is raised on a chassis

Jupe is designed to function off-grid with the light-up frame, wifi, electrical outlets and USB ports powered by solar panels or battery packs.

"Experiencing the natural wonders of the world shouldn't mean being forced to disconnect while staying in a less-than-inspirational living space," said Wilson.

Extras offered by the company include a porch, a lockable safe, a cooler, speakers and an Amazon Alexa voice-controlled device.

Jupe comes with USB ports and electrical outlets

Each shelter sits on a chassis that raises the tented part off the ground. Birch floor tiles lift up to allow occupants to access storage space below, which Jupe's designers estimate can hold up to ten suitcases.

The entrance to the 111-square-metre cabin can be left open to frame the landscape, and slim openable windows in the side provide extra ventilation.

Inside there is underfloor storage and a double bed

A palette of sand tones was selected for the interior of Jupe, in a collaboration with boutique hotel designer Liz Lambert and Cameron Sinclair, who was previously Airbnb's head of social innovation.

A step leads up to a platform with a full-size bed with a mattress and bedside cubbies are slightly sunken into the floor. Built-in furniture includes a desk, a chair and an ottoman.

The doorway can be left open to frame views

The company has made the pods, which are manufactured in a Los Angeles factory, available for pre-order now, with the first flatpack kits due to be delivered in January 2021.

Jupe was founded by investment banker Cameron Blizzard and Jeff Wilson, whose previous micro-housing startup Kasita made tiny mobile homes.

Earlier this year the company used their blueprints to create mobile isolation recovery wards for hospitals overwhelmed by coronavirus patients.

Photography is by Sam Gezari.

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"Mining companies want access to the seabed beneath international waters, which contain more valuable minerals than all the continents combined."

History’s Largest Mining Operation Is About to Begin.... It’s underwater—and the consequences are unimaginable.

Story by Wil S. Hylton | Published January/February 2020 Issue | The Atlantic | Posted December 26, 2019 |

Unless you are given to chronic anxiety or suffer from nihilistic despair, you probably haven’t spent much time contemplating the bottom of the ocean. Many people imagine the seabed to be a vast expanse of sand, but it’s a jagged and dynamic landscape with as much variation as any place onshore. Mountains surge from underwater plains, canyons slice miles deep, hot springs billow through fissures in rock, and streams of heavy brine ooze down hillsides, pooling into undersea lakes.

These peaks and valleys are laced with most of the same minerals found on land. Scientists have documented their deposits since at least 1868, when a dredging ship pulled a chunk of iron ore from the seabed north of Russia. Five years later, another ship found similar nuggets at the bottom of the Atlantic, and two years after that, it discovered a field of the same objects in the Pacific. For more than a century, oceanographers continued to identify new minerals on the seafloor—copper, nickel, silver, platinum, gold, and even gemstones—while mining companies searched for a practical way to dig them up.

Today, many of the largest mineral corporations in the world have launched underwater mining programs. On the west coast of Africa, the De Beers Group is using a fleet of specialized ships to drag machinery across the seabed in search of diamonds. In 2018, those ships extracted 1.4 million carats from the coastal waters of Namibia; in 2019, De Beers commissioned a new ship that will scrape the bottom twice as quickly as any other vessel. Another company, Nautilus Minerals, is working in the territorial waters of Papua New Guinea to shatter a field of underwater hot springs lined with precious metals, while Japan and South Korea have embarked on national projects to exploit their own offshore deposits. But the biggest prize for mining companies will be access to international waters, which cover more than half of the global seafloor and contain more valuable minerals than all the continents combined.

Regulations for ocean mining have never been formally established. The United Nations has given that task to an obscure organization known as the International Seabed Authority, which is housed in a pair of drab gray office buildings at the edge of Kingston Harbour, in Jamaica. Unlike most UN bodies, the ISA receives little oversight. It is classified as “autonomous” and falls under the direction of its own secretary general, who convenes his own general assembly once a year, at the ISA headquarters. For about a week, delegates from 168 member states pour into Kingston from around the world, gathering at a broad semicircle of desks in the auditorium of the Jamaica Conference Centre. Their assignment is not to prevent mining on the seafloor but to mitigate its damage—selecting locations where extraction will be permitted, issuing licenses to mining companies, and drafting the technical and environmental standards of an underwater Mining Code.

Writing the code has been difficult. ISA members have struggled to agree on a regulatory framework. While they debate the minutiae of waste disposal and ecological preservation, the ISA has granted “exploratory” permits around the world. Some 30 mineral contractors already hold licenses to work in sweeping regions of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. One site, about 2,300 miles east of Florida, contains the largest system of underwater hot springs ever discovered, a ghostly landscape of towering white spires that scientists call the “Lost City.” Another extends across 4,500 miles of the Pacific, or roughly a fifth of the circumference of the planet. The companies with permits to explore these regions have raised breathtaking sums of venture capital. They have designed and built experimental vehicles, lowered them to the bottom, and begun testing methods of dredging and extraction while they wait for the ISA to complete the Mining Code and open the floodgates to commercial extraction.

At full capacity, these companies expect to dredge thousands of square miles a year. Their collection vehicles will creep across the bottom in systematic rows, scraping through the top five inches of the ocean floor. Ships above will draw thousands of pounds of sediment through a hose to the surface, remove the metallic objects, known as polymetallic nodules, and then flush the rest back into the water. Some of that slurry will contain toxins such as mercury and lead, which could poison the surrounding ocean for hundreds of miles. The rest will drift in the current until it settles in nearby ecosystems. An early study by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences predicted that each mining ship will release about 2 million cubic feet of discharge every day, enough to fill a freight train that is 16 miles long. The authors called this “a conservative estimate,” since other projections had been three times as high. By any measure, they concluded, “a very large area will be blanketed by sediment to such an extent that many animals will not be able to cope with the impact and whole communities will be severely affected by the loss of individuals and species.”

At the ISA meeting in 2019, delegates gathered to review a draft of the code. Officials hoped the document would be ratified for implementation in 2020. I flew down to observe the proceedings on a balmy morning and found the conference center teeming with delegates. A staff member ushered me through a maze of corridors to meet the secretary general, Michael Lodge, a lean British man in his 50s with cropped hair and a genial smile. He waved me toward a pair of armchairs beside a bank of windows overlooking the harbor, and we sat down to discuss the Mining Code, what it will permit and prohibit, and why the United Nations is preparing to mobilize the largest mining operation in the history of the world.

Until recently, marine biologists paid little attention to the deep sea. They believed its craggy knolls and bluffs were essentially barren. The traditional model of life on Earth relies on photosynthesis: plants on land and in shallow water harness sunlight to grow biomass, which is devoured by creatures small and large, up the food chain to Sunday dinner. By this account, every animal on the planet would depend on plants to capture solar energy. Since plants disappear a few hundred feet below sea level, and everything goes dark a little farther down, there was no reason to expect a thriving ecosystem in the deep. Maybe a light snow of organic debris would trickle from the surface, but it would be enough to sustain only a few wayward aquatic drifters.

That theory capsized in 1977, when a pair of oceanographers began poking around the Pacific in a submersible vehicle. While exploring a range of underwater mountains near the Galápagos Islands, they spotted a hydrothermal vent about 8,000 feet deep. No one had ever seen an underwater hot spring before, though geologists suspected they might exist. As the oceanographers drew close to the vent, they made an even more startling discovery: A large congregation of animals was camped around the vent opening. These were not the feeble scavengers that one expected so far down. They were giant clams, purple octopuses, white crabs, and 10-foot tube worms, whose food chain began not with plants but with organic chemicals floating in the warm vent water.

For biologists, this was more than curious. It shook the foundation of their field. If a complex ecosystem could emerge in a landscape devoid of plants, evolution must be more than a heliological affair. Life could appear in perfect darkness, in blistering heat and a broth of noxious compounds—an environment that would extinguish every known creature on Earth. “That was the discovery event,” an evolutionary biologist named Timothy Shank told me. “It changed our view about the boundaries of life. Now we know that the methane lakes on one of Jupiter’s moons are probably laden with species, and there is no doubt life on other planetary bodies.”

Shank was 12 years old that winter, a bookish kid in North Carolina. The early romance of the space age was already beginning to fade, but the discovery of life near hydrothermal vents would inspire a blossoming of oceanography that captured his imagination. As he completed a degree in marine biology, then a doctorate in ecology and evolution, he consumed reports from scientists around the world who found new vents brimming with unknown species. They appeared far below the surface—the deepest known vent is about three miles down—while another geologic feature, known as a “cold seep,” gives rise to life in chemical pools even deeper on the seafloor. No one knew how far down the vents and seeps might be found, but Shank decided to focus his research on the deepest waters of the Earth.

Scientists divide the ocean into five layers of depth. Closest to the surface is the “sunlight zone,” where plants thrive; then comes the “twilight zone,” where darkness falls; next is the “midnight zone,” where some creatures generate their own light; and then there’s a frozen flatland known simply as “the abyss.” Oceanographers have visited these layers in submersible vehicles for half a century, but the final layer is difficult to reach. It is known as the “hadal zone,” in reference to Hades, the ancient Greek god of the underworld, and it includes any water that is at least 6,000 meters below the surface—or, in a more Vernian formulation, that is 20,000 feet under the sea. Because the hadal zone is so deep, it is usually associated with ocean trenches, but several deepwater plains have sections that cross into hadal depth.

Deepwater plains are also home to the polymetallic nodules that explorers first discovered a century and a half ago. Mineral companies believe that nodules will be easier to mine than other seabed deposits. To remove the metal from a hydrothermal vent or an underwater mountain, they will have to shatter rock in a manner similar to land-based extraction. Nodules are isolated chunks of rocks on the seabed that typically range from the size of a golf ball to that of a grapefruit, so they can be lifted from the sediment with relative ease. Nodules also contain a distinct combination of minerals. While vents and ridges are flecked with precious metal, such as silver and gold, the primary metals in nodules are copper, manganese, nickel, and cobalt—crucial materials in modern batteries. As iPhones and laptops and electric vehicles spike demand for those metals, many people believe that nodules are the best way to migrate from fossil fuels to battery power.

The ISA has issued more mining licenses for nodules than for any other seabed deposit. Most of these licenses authorize contractors to exploit a single deepwater plain. Known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, or CCZ, it extends across 1.7 million square miles between Hawaii and Mexico—wider than the continental United States. When the Mining Code is approved, more than a dozen companies will accelerate their explorations in the CCZ to industrial-scale extraction. Their ships and robots will use vacuum hoses to suck nodules and sediment from the seafloor, extracting the metal and dumping the rest into the water. How many ecosystems will be covered by that sediment is impossible to predict. Ocean currents fluctuate regularly in speed and direction, so identical plumes of slurry will travel different distances, in different directions, on different days. The impact of a sediment plume also depends on how it is released. Slurry that is dumped near the surface will drift farther than slurry pumped back to the bottom. The circulating draft of the Mining Code does not specify a depth of discharge. The ISA has adopted an estimate that sediment dumped near the surface will travel no more than 62 miles from the point of release, but many experts believe the slurry could travel farther. A recent survey of academic research compiled by Greenpeace concluded that mining waste “could travel hundreds or even thousands of kilometers.”

Like many deepwater plains, the CCZ has sections that lie at hadal depth. Its eastern boundary is marked by a hadal trench. No one knows whether mining sediment will drift into the hadal zone. As the director of a hadal-research program at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, in Massachusetts, Timothy Shank has been studying the deep sea for almost 30 years. In 2014, he led an international mission to complete the first systematic study of the hadal ecosystem—but even Shank has no idea how mining could affect the hadal zone, because he still has no idea what it contains. If you want a sense of how little we know about the deep ocean, how difficult it is to study, and what’s at stake when industry leaps before science, Shank’s research is a good place to start.

I first met Shank about seven years ago, when he was organizing the international mission to survey the hadal zone. He had put together a three-year plan to visit every ocean trench: sending a robotic vehicle to explore their features, record every contour of topography, and collect specimens from each. The idea was either dazzling or delusional; I wasn’t sure which. Scientists have enough trouble measuring the seabed in shallower waters. They have used ropes and chains and acoustic instruments to record depth for more than a century, yet 85 percent of the global seabed remains unmapped—and the hadal is far more difficult to map than other regions, since it’s nearly impossible to see.

If it strikes you as peculiar that modern vehicles cannot penetrate the deepest ocean, take a moment to imagine what it means to navigate six or seven miles below the surface. Every 33 feet of depth exerts as much pressure as the atmosphere of the Earth, so when you are just 66 feet down, you are under three times as much pressure as a person on land, and when you are 300 feet down, you’re subjected to 10 atmospheres of pressure. Tube worms living beside hydrothermal vents near the Galápagos are compressed by about 250 atmospheres, and mining vehicles in the CCZ have to endure twice as much—but they are still just half as far down as the deepest trenches.

Building a vehicle to function at 36,000 feet, under 2 million pounds of pressure per square foot, is a task of interstellar-type engineering. It’s a good deal more rigorous than, say, bolting together a rover to skitter across Mars. Picture the schematic of an iPhone case that can be smashed with a sledgehammer more or less constantly, from every angle at once, without a trace of damage, and you’re in the ballpark—or just consider the fact that more people have walked on the moon than have reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest place on Earth.

The first two people descended in 1960, using a contraption owned by the U.S. Navy. It seized and shuddered on the descent. Its window cracked as the pressure mounted, and it landed with so much force that it kicked up a cloud of silt that obscured the view for the entire 20 minutes the pair remained on the bottom. Half a century passed before the film director James Cameron repeated their journey, in 2012. Unlike the swaggering billionaire Richard Branson, who was planning to dive the Mariana in a cartoonish vehicle shaped like a fighter jet, Cameron is well versed in ocean science and engineering. He was closely involved in the design of his submarine, and sacrificed stylistic flourishes for genuine innovations, including a new type of foam that maintains buoyancy at full ocean depth. Even so, his vessel lurched and bucked on the way down. He finally managed to land, and spent a couple of hours collecting sediment samples before he noticed that hydraulic fluid was leaking onto the window. The vehicle’s mechanical arm began to fail, and all of the thrusters on its right side went out—so he returned to the surface early, canceled his plan for additional dives, and donated the broken sub to Woods Hole.

The most recent descent of the Mariana Trench was completed last spring by a private-equity investor named Victor Vescovo, who spent $48 million on a submarine that was even more sophisticated than Cameron’s. Vescovo was on a personal quest to reach the bottom of the five deepest trenches in the world, a project he called “Five Deeps.” He was able to complete the project, making multiple dives of the Mariana—but if his achievement represents a leap forward in hadal exploration, it also serves as a reminder of how impenetrable the trenches remain: a region that can be visited only by the most committed multimillionaire, Hollywood celebrity, or special military program, and only in isolated dives to specific locations that reveal little about the rest of the hadal environment. That environment is composed of 33 trenches and 13 shallower formations called troughs. Its total geographic area is about two-thirds the size of Australia. It is the least examined ecosystem of its size on Earth.

Without a vehicle to explore the hadal zone, scientists have been forced to use primitive methods. The most common technique has scarcely changed in more than a century: Expedition ships chug across hundreds of miles to reach a precise location, then lower a trap, wait a few hours, and reel it up to see what’s inside. The limitations of this approach are self-evident, if not comic. It’s like dangling a birdcage out the door of an airplane crossing Africa at 36,000 feet, and then trying to divine, from the mangled bodies of insects, what sort of animals roam the savanna.

All of which is to say that Shank’s plan to explore every trench in the world was somewhere between audacious and absurd, but he had assembled a team of the world’s leading experts, secured ship time for extensive missions, and spent 10 years supervising the design of the most advanced robotic vehicle ever developed for deepwater navigation. Called Nereus, after a mythological sea god, it could dive alone—charting a course amid rocky cliffs, measuring their contours with a doppler scanner, recording video with high-definition cameras, and collecting samples—or it could be linked to the deck of a ship with fiber-optic cable, allowing Shank to monitor its movement on a computer in the ship’s control room, boosting the thrusters to steer this way and that, piercing the darkness with its headlamps, and maneuvering a mechanical claw to gather samples in the deep.

I reached out to Shank in 2013, a few months before the expedition began. I wanted to write about the project, and he agreed to let me join him on a later leg. When his ship departed, in the spring of 2014, I followed online as it pursued a course to the Kermadec Trench, in the Pacific, and Shank began sending Nereus on a series of dives. On the first, it descended to 6,000 meters, a modest target on the boundary of the hadal zone. On the second, Shank pushed it to 7,000 meters; on the third to 8,000; and on the fourth to 9,000. He knew that diving to 10,000 meters would be a crucial threshold. It is the last full kilometer of depth on Earth: No trench is believed to be deeper than 11,000 meters. To commemorate this final increment and the successful beginning of his project, he attached a pair of silver bracelets to the frame of Nereus, planning to give them to his daughters when he returned home. Then he dropped the robot in the water and retreated to the control room to monitor its movements.

On-screen, blue water gave way to darkness as Nereus descended, its headlamps illuminating specks of debris suspended in the water. It was 10 meters shy of the 10,000-meter mark when suddenly the screen went dark. There was an audible gasp in the control room, but no one panicked. Losing the video feed on a dive was relatively common. Maybe the fiber-optic tether had snapped, or the software had hit a glitch. Whatever it was, Nereus had been programmed to respond with emergency measures. It could back out of a jam, shed expendable weight, guide itself to the surface, and send a homing beacon to help Shank’s team retrieve it.

As the minutes ticked by, Shank waited for those measures to activate, but none did. “There’s no sound, no implosion, no chime,” he told me afterward. “Just … black.” He paced the deck through the night, staring across the Stygian void for signs of Nereus. The following day he finally saw debris surface, and as he watched it rise, he felt his project sinking. Ten years of planning, a $14 million robot, and an international team of experts—it had all collapsed under the crushing pressure of hadal depths.

“I think we’ll be looking at hundreds or thousands of species we haven’t seen before, and some of them are going to be huge.”

“I’m not over it yet,” he told me two years later. We were standing on the deck of another ship, 100 miles off the coast of Massachusetts, where Shank was preparing to launch a new robot. The vehicle was no replacement for Nereus. It was a rectilinear hunk of metal and plastic, about five feet high, three feet wide, and nine feet long. Red on top, with a silvery bottom and three fans mounted at the rear, it could have been mistaken for a child’s backyard spaceship. Shank had no illusion that it was capable of hadal exploration. Since the loss of Nereus, there was no vehicle on Earth that could navigate the deepest trenches—Cameron’s was no longer in service, Branson’s didn’t work, and Vescovo’s hadn’t yet been built.

Shank’s new robot did have a few impressive features. Its navigational system was even more advanced than the one in Nereus, and he hoped it would be able to maneuver in a trenchlike environment with even greater precision—but its body was not designed to withstand hadal pressure. In fact, it had never descended more than a few dozen feet below the surface, and Shank knew that it would take years to build something that could survive at the bottom of a trench. What had seemed, just two years earlier, like the beginning of a new era in hadal science was developing a quixotic aspect, and, at 50, Shank could not help wondering if it was madness to spend another decade of his life on a dream that seemed to be drifting further from his reach. But he was driven by a lifelong intuition that he still couldn’t shake. Shank believes that access to the trenches will reveal one of the greatest discoveries in history: a secret ecosystem bursting with creatures that have been cloistered for eternity in the deep.

“I would be shocked if there aren’t vents and seeps in the trenches,” he told me as we bobbed on the water that day in 2016. “They’ll be there, and they will be teeming with life. I think we’ll be looking at hundreds or thousands of species we haven’t seen before, and some of them are going to be huge.” He pictured the hadal as an alien world that followed its own evolutionary course, the unimaginable pressure creating a menagerie of inconceivable beasts. “My time is running out to find them,” he said. “Maybe my legacy will be to push things forward so that somebody else can. We have a third of our ocean that we still can’t explore. It’s embarrassing. It’s pathetic.”

While scientists struggle to reach the deep ocean, human impact has already gotten there. Most of us are familiar with the menu of damages to coastal water: overfishing, oil spills, and pollution, to name a few. What can be lost in the discussion of these issues is how they reverberate far beneath.

Take fishing. The relentless pursuit of cod in the early 20th century decimated its population from Newfoundland to New England, sending hungry shoppers in search of other options. As shallow-water fish such as haddock, grouper, and sturgeon joined the cod’s decline, commercial fleets around the world pushed into deeper water. Until the 1970s, the slimehead fish lived in relative obscurity, patrolling the slopes of underwater mountains in water up to 6,000 feet deep. Then a consortium of fishermen pushed the Food and Drug Administration to change its name, and the craze for “orange roughy” began—only to fade again in the early 2000s, when the fish was on a path toward extinction itself.

Environmental damage from oil production is also migrating into deeper water. Disturbing photographs of oil-drenched beaches have captured public attention since at least 1989, when the Exxon Valdez tanker crashed into a reef and leaked 11 million gallons into an Alaskan sound. It would remain the largest spill in U.S. water until 2010, when the Deepwater Horizon explosion spewed 210 million gallons into the Gulf of Mexico. But a recent study revealed that the release of chemicals to disperse the spill was twice as toxic as the oil to animals living 3,000 feet below the surface.

Maybe the greatest alarm in recent years has followed the discovery of plastic floating in the ocean. Scientists estimate that 17 billion pounds of polymer are flushed into the ocean each year, and substantially more of it collects on the bottom than on the surface. Just as a bottle that falls from a picnic table will roll downhill to a gulch, trash on the seafloor gradually makes its way toward deepwater plains and hadal trenches. After his expedition to the trenches, Victor Vescovo returned with the news that garbage had beaten him there. He found a plastic bag at the bottom of one trench, a beverage can in another, and when he reached the deepest point in the Mariana, he watched an object with a large S on the side float past his window. Trash of all sorts is collecting in the hadal—Spam tins, Budweiser cans, rubber gloves, even a mannequin head.

Scientists are just beginning to understand the impact of trash on aquatic life. Fish and seabirds that mistake grocery bags for prey will glut their stomachs with debris that their digestive system can’t expel. When a young whale drifted ashore and died in the Philippines in 2019, an autopsy revealed that its belly was packed with 88 pounds of plastic bags, nylon rope, and netting. Two weeks later, another whale beached in Sardinia, its stomach crammed with 48 pounds of plastic dishes and tubing. Certain types of coral like to eat plastic more than food. They will gorge themselves like a kid on Twinkies instead of eating what they need to survive. Microbes that flourish on plastic have ballooned in number, replacing other species as their population explodes in a polymer ocean.

If it seems trivial to worry about the population statistics of bacteria in the ocean, you may be interested to know that ocean microbes are essential to human and planetary health. About a third of the carbon dioxide generated on land is absorbed by underwater organisms, including one species that was just discovered in the CCZ in 2018. The researchers who found that bacterium have no idea how it removes carbon from the environment, but their findings show that it may account for up to 10 percent of the volume that is sequestered by oceans every year.

Many of the things we do know about ocean microbes, we know thanks to Craig Venter, the genetic scientist most famous for starting a small company in the 1990s to compete with the Human Genome Project. The two-year race between his company and the international collaboration generated endless headlines and culminated in a joint announcement at the White House to declare a tie. But Venter’s interest wasn’t limited to human DNA. He wanted to learn the language of genetics in order to create synthetic microbes with practical features. After his work on the human genome, he spent two years sailing around the world, lowering bottles into the ocean to collect bacteria and viruses from the water. By the time he returned, he had discovered hundreds of thousands of new species, and his lab in Maryland proceeded to sequence their DNA—identifying more than 60 million unique genes, which is about 2,500 times the number in humans. Then he and his team began to scour those genes for properties they could use to make custom bugs.

Venter now lives in a hypermodern house on a bluff in Southern California. Chatting one evening on the sofa beside the door to his walk-in humidor and wine cellar, he described how saltwater microbes could help solve the most urgent problems of modern life. One of the bacteria he pulled from the ocean consumes carbon and excretes methane. Venter would like to integrate its genes into organisms designed to live in smokestacks and recycle emissions. “They could scrub the plant’s CO2 and convert it to methane that can be burned as fuel in the same plant,” he said.

Venter was also studying bacteria that could be useful in medicine. Microbes produce a variety of antibiotic compounds, which they deploy as weapons against their rivals. Many of those compounds can also be used to kill the pathogens that infect humans. Nearly all of the antibiotic drugs on the market were initially derived from microorganisms, but they are losing efficacy as pathogens evolve to resist them. “We have new drugs in development,” Matt McCarthy, an infectious-disease specialist at Weill Cornell Medical College, told me, “but most of them are slight variations on the ones we already had. The problem with that is, they’re easy for bacteria to resist, because they’re similar to something bacteria have developed resistance to in the past. What we need is an arsenal of new compounds.”

Venter pointed out that ocean microbes produce radically different compounds from those on land. “There are more than a million microbes per milliliter of seawater,” he said, “so the chance of finding new antibiotics in the marine environment is high.” McCarthy agreed. “The next great drug may be hidden somewhere deep in the water,” he said. “We need to get to the deep-sea organisms, because they’re making compounds that we’ve never seen before. We may find drugs that could be used to treat gout, or rheumatoid arthritis, or all kinds of other conditions.”

Marine biologists have never conducted a comprehensive survey of microbes in the hadal trenches. The conventional tools of water sampling cannot function at extreme depth, and engineers are just beginning to develop tools that can. Microbial studies of the deepwater plains are slightly further along—and scientists have recently discovered that the CCZ is unusually flush with life. “It’s one of the most biodiverse areas that we’ve ever sampled on the abyssal plains,” a University of Hawaii oceanographer named Jeff Drazen told me. Most of those microbes, he said, live on the very same nodules that miners are planning to extract. “When you lift them off the seafloor, you’re removing a habitat that took 10 million years to grow.” Whether or not those microbes can be found in other parts of the ocean is unknown. “A lot of the less mobile organisms,” Drazen said, “may not be anywhere else.”

Drazen is an academic ecologist; Venter is not. Venter has been accused of trying to privatize the human genome, and many of his critics believe his effort to create new organisms is akin to playing God. He clearly doesn’t have an aversion to profit-driven science, and he’s not afraid to mess with nature—yet when I asked him about the prospect of mining in deep water, he flared with alarm. “We should be very careful about mining in the ocean,” he said. “These companies should be doing rigorous microbial surveys before they do anything else. We only know a fraction of the microbes down there, and it’s a terrible idea to screw with them before we know what they are and what they do.”

Mining executives insist that their work in the ocean is misunderstood. Some adopt a swaggering bravado and portray the industry as a romantic frontier adventure. As the manager of exploration at Nautilus Minerals, John Parianos, told me recently, “This is about every man and his dog filled with the excitement of the moon landing. It’s like Scott going to the South Pole, or the British expeditions who got entombed by ice.”

Nautilus occupies a curious place in the mining industry. It is one of the oldest companies at work on the seafloor, but also the most precarious. Although it has a permit from the government of Papua New Guinea to extract metal from offshore vents, many people on the nearby island of New Ireland oppose the project, which will destroy part of their marine habitat. Local and international activists have whipped up negative publicity, driving investors away and sending the company into financial ruin. Nautilus stock once traded for $4.45. It is now less than a penny per share.

Parianos acknowledged that Nautilus was in crisis, but he dismissed the criticism as naive. Seabed minerals are no different from any other natural resource, he said, and the use of natural resources is fundamental to human progress. “Look around you: Everything that’s not grown is mined,” he told me. “That’s why they called it the Stone Age—because it’s when they started mining! And mining is what made our lives better than what they had before the Stone Age.” Parianos emphasized that the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, which created the International Seabed Authority, promised “to ensure effective protection for the marine environment” from the effects of mining. “It’s not like the Law of the Sea says: Go out and ravage the marine environment,” he said. “But it also doesn’t say that you can only explore the ocean for science, and not to make money.”

The CEO of a company called DeepGreen spoke in loftier terms. DeepGreen is both a product of Nautilus Minerals and a reaction to it. The company was founded in 2011 by David Heydon, who had founded Nautilus a decade earlier, and its leadership is full of former Nautilus executives and investors. As a group, they have sought to position DeepGreen as a company whose primary interest in mining the ocean is saving the planet. They have produced a series of lavish brochures to explain the need for a new source of battery metals, and Gerard Barron, the CEO, speaks with animated fervor about the virtues of nodule extraction.

His case for seabed mining is straightforward. Barron believes that the world will not survive if we continue burning fossil fuels, and the transition to other forms of power will require a massive increase in battery production. He points to electric cars: the batteries for a single vehicle require 187 pounds of copper, 123 pounds of nickel, and 15 pounds each of manganese and cobalt. On a planet with 1 billion cars, the conversion to electric vehicles would require several times more metal than all existing land-based supplies—and harvesting that metal from existing sources already takes a human toll. Most of the world’s cobalt, for example, is mined in the southeastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where tens of thousands of young children work in labor camps, inhaling clouds of toxic dust during shifts up to 24 hours long. Terrestrial mines for nickel and copper have their own litany of environmental harms. Because the ISA is required to allocate some of the profits from seabed mining to developing countries, the industry will provide nations that rely on conventional mining with revenue that doesn’t inflict damage on their landscapes and people.

Whether DeepGreen represents a shift in the values of mining companies or merely a shift in marketing rhetoric is a valid question—but the company has done things that are difficult to dismiss. It has developed technology that returns sediment discharge to the seafloor with minimal disruption, and Barron is a regular presence at ISA meetings, where he advocates for regulations to mandate low-impact discharge. DeepGreen has also limited its operations to nodule mining, and Barron openly criticizes the effort by his friends at Nautilus to demolish a vent that is still partially active. “The guys at Nautilus, they’re doing their thing, but I don’t think it’s the right thing for the planet,” he told me. “We need to be doing things that have a low impact environmentally.”

By the time I sat down with Michael Lodge, the secretary general of the ISA, I had spent a lot of time thinking about the argument that executives like Barron are making. It seemed to me that seabed mining presents an epistemological problem. The harms of burning fossil fuels and the impact of land-based mining are beyond dispute, but the cost of plundering the ocean is impossible to know. What creatures are yet to be found on the seafloor? How many indispensable cures? Is there any way to calculate the value of a landscape we know virtually nothing about? The world is full of uncertain choices, of course, but the contrast between options is rarely so stark: the crisis of climate change and immiserated labor on the one hand, immeasurable risk and potential on the other.

I thought of the hadal zone. It may never be harmed by mining. Sediment from dredging on the abyssal plains could settle long before it reaches the edge of a trench—but the total obscurity of the hadal should remind us of how little we know. It extends from 20,000 feet below sea level to roughly 36,000 feet, leaving nearly half of the ocean’s depths beyond our reach. When I visited Timothy Shank at Woods Hole a few months ago, he showed me a prototype of his latest robot. He and his lead engineer, Casey Machado, had built it with foam donated by James Cameron and with support from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, whose engineers are hoping to send a vehicle to explore the aqueous moon of Jupiter. It was a tiny machine, known as Orpheus, that could steer through trenches, recording topography and taking samples, but little else. He would have no way to direct its movements or monitor its progress via a video feed. It occurred to me that if Shank had given up the dream of true exploration in the trenches, decades could pass before we know what the hadal zone contains.

Mining companies may promise to extract seabed metal with minimal damage to the surrounding environment, but to believe this requires faith. It collides with the force of human history, the law of unintended consequences, and the inevitability of mistakes. I wanted to understand from Michael Lodge how a UN agency had made the choice to accept that risk.

“Why is it necessary to mine the ocean?” I asked him.

He paused for a moment, furrowing his brow. “I don’t know why you use the word necessary,” he said. “Why is it ‘necessary’ to mine anywhere? You mine where you find metal.”

I reminded him that centuries of mining on land have exacted a devastating price: tropical islands denuded, mountaintops sheared off, groundwater contaminated, and species eradicated. Given the devastation of land-based mining, I asked, shouldn’t we hesitate to mine the sea?

“I don’t believe people should worry that much,” he said with a shrug. “There’s certainly an impact in the area that’s mined, because you are creating an environmental disturbance, but we can find ways to manage that.” I pointed out that the impact from sediment could travel far beyond the mining zone, and he responded, “Sure, that’s the other major environmental concern. There is a sediment plume, and we need to manage it. We need to understand how the plume operates, and there are experiments being done right now that will help us.” As he spoke, I realized that for Lodge, none of these questions warranted reflection—or anyway, he didn’t see reflection as part of his job. He was there to facilitate mining, not to question the wisdom of doing so.

We chatted for another 20 minutes, then I thanked him for his time and wandered back to the assembly room, where delegates were delivering canned speeches about marine conservation and the promise of battery technology. There was still some debate about certain details of the Mining Code—technical requirements, oversight procedures, the profit-sharing model—so the vote to ratify it would have to wait another year. I noticed a group of scientists watching from the back. They were members of the Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative, which formed in 2013 to confront threats to the deepwater environment. One was Jeff Drazen. He’d flown in from Hawaii and looked tired. I sent him a text, and we stepped outside.

A few tables and chairs were scattered in the courtyard, and we sat down to talk. I asked how he felt about the delay of the Mining Code—delegates are planning to review it again this summer, and large-scale mining could begin after that.

Drazen rolled his eyes and sighed. “There’s a Belgian team in the CCZ doing a component test right now,” he said. “They’re going to drive a vehicle around on the seafloor and spew a bunch of mud up. So these things are already happening. We’re about to make one of the biggest transformations that humans have ever made to the surface of the planet. We’re going to strip-mine a massive habitat, and once it’s gone, it isn’t coming back.”

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