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Not content with ambitious plans to dominate space exploration over the coming decades, China is also looking to master the ocean with the development of a deep-sea station which could be its first step towards large-scale underwater mining. Plans for the nuclear powered mobile deep-sea station were unveiled earlier this year …

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  1. Long John Brass
    Unhappy

    Why aren't we doing cool stuff like this anymore

    Don't get me wrong I'm glad that someone at least is doing cool tech like this

    But It makes me sad to think that in the west we have basically given up

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  2. GitMeMyShootinIrons
    Joke

    It's just like...

    .... a bad plotline from SeaQuest DSV. Welcome to the 90's.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaQuest_DSV

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  3. mhenriday
    Headmaster

    «Chinese boffins build nuclear-powered deep-sea station»

    Note to the Reg sub-editor who sets headlines : you may have noticed from the article that the «Chinese boffins» haven't built anything (yet), but rather have revealed plans to do so. Adding the simple infinitival particle «to» to that headline would give «Chinese boffins to build nuclear-powered deep-sea station», which corresponds far more closely to the situation described - after all, even Phil deserves a chance to get it right, for once....

    Henri

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  4. 2cent

    BP gets a break

    The Chinese are bound to make a mistake that will make BP in the Gulf look like puddle action.

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