The Saturn V carrying Apollo 11. 16 July 1969. Album/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: apaphotos339694
First, earlier this week, we got the otherworldly footage from James Cameron’s dive to the bottom of the ocean. Not to be upstaged, another famous rich guy, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, announced that he too had been exploring the bottom of the ocean and had found the rocket engines belonging to Apollo 11 and the first mission that put men on the moon.
Both are historic events and we don’t want to take away from the significance of either, but it begs the question: what is it with rich guys and the bottom of the ocean this week? Continue reading →