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James Cameron on Exploration of Deep Sea and Space | StarTalk


so it’s not just you’re interested in
the oceans or space you’ve touched and
been touched by engineering and
technology and there was a lot about the
cameras used for avatar but you go
farther back than that well yeah just I
just love engineering I love I love
solving hard engineering problems and I
love working with really smart engineers
in a room and trying to do something
that hasn’t been done before like you
know make a sub and that can go to
extreme depth you know there were
materials problems electronics batteries
all sorts of things that had to be
developed that were actually hard
problems and you know I just I just like
that so Charles II like solving problems
yeah so he would have made a good sign
he would’ve made a good scientist who
had made a good engineer he would have
been a good just about anything he could
have been somebody but that got me
wondering okay what kind of a
preparation what kind of thinking must
have gone in to motivate him in 2012 to
make the first solo descent to the
deepest place on earth in a submarine
that he piloted and code designed Wow
so you know where he went what’s the
deepest place on earth the Marianas
Trench dad I thought you were gonna say
my fears all most seven miles down seven
almost seven miles down off the coast of
the Philippines and so I asked him about
that record-setting dock let’s check it
out so what motivated you to go to the
bottom of the ocean the bottom of the
earth you know the funny thing is that
I’ve been asked that a lot and it occurs
to me that a kid would never ask that
question because a kid wouldn’t know you
just gotta go why wouldn’t the a kid so
dissed me in that moment right there
culture we start to think like what
about kid again I know exactly so a kid
would say why wouldn’t you go yeah it’s
there and and you haven’t looked yet
so why wouldn’t you build a you know a
sub and get in it and go and look
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