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the place that stares back, and frankly has nothing better to do
means A bottomless or immeasurably deep chasm — physical, emotional, or metaphorical — into which things fall and don't return.
from From Greek 'abyssos,' meaning 'bottomless,' built from 'a-' (without) plus 'byssos' (bottom or depth). It traveled through Late Latin 'abyssus' into Old French and English, often carrying its early religious freight — the abyss as the primal deep, or the pit of the underworld.
- deepest point
- Challenger Deep sinks nearly 11,000 meters down
- crushing math
- pressure there equals 50 jumbo jets per body
- abyssal zone
- begins at 4,000 meters, sunlight never invited
- glow rules
- most creatures down there make their own light
- word origin
- Greek 'abyssos' means simply bottomless
for instance
mariana trench — deepest ocean trench on earth at 36,070 feet in the western pacific
challenger deep — deepest known point in mariana trench, descended to in 2019 and 1960
baikal lake — deepest freshwater lake at 5,387 feet in siberia, russia