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To: username who wrote (8165)	2/25/1998 3:57:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Yesss. Auguste Piccard made it to the bottom of the Challenger Deep in order to answer the age-old question: "what's lower than whale shit?" And the answer is: mud. Finest creamy silt. The kinda stuff that ends up in one-ounce jars at Macy's for $50 with some Italian princess' name on it. The reason it's so good for your skin, Hon, is it's been through a whole lot of biological processing! Spaceships. We're gonna hafta get a whole lot less fussy about what we eat if we're going to ride Bud cans between the planets. I only hope the genetic engineers come up with a catfish that eats scum and craps M&Ms.

To: username who wrote (8165)	2/25/1998 4:37:00 PM
From: BlueCrab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Pete -- <<I wonder sometimes what it is exactly that actually makes it to the bottom. and what's waitin' on it.>> Very little, and virtually anything. About the only thing that makes it to the "bottom" (various meanings of bottom in the ocean) uneaten is pure silica, courtesy of the diatoms. There ain't anything that can live on pure silica (and I don't care what the Star Trek episode says!), so they eat each other and about 17 recyclings of poop. I'm not including things man-made here, like plastics or refined metals; these things take time, but most of them will eventually be consumed.