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Robert Ballard, an Uncommon card
Robert Duane Ballard is an American retired Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is noted for his work in underwater archaeology and marine geology.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 63
- Power
- 139
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 160,000
Power 139 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Robert Ballard quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Robert Ballard card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He ______ the wreck of John F. Kennedy's PT-109 in 2002 and visited Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana, who saved its crew.
Answer
discovered. He discovered the wreck of John F. Kennedy's PT-109 in 2002 and visited Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana, who saved its crew. From the Robert Ballard article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Galliformes. Galliformes 80 · Robert Ballard 76 · Mandate of Heaven 73 · Battle of Saragarhi 70 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is best known by the general public for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989, and the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in 1998.
- He discovered the wreck of John F. Kennedy's PT-109 in 2002 and visited Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana, who saved its crew.
- Ballard discovered hydrothermal vents, undersea volcanic features that emit plumes of hot, nutrient-laden water which support the only ecosystems on Earth entirely independent of the Sun.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Robert Ballard article was read about 160,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 76 and blocks with 63: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
How to get Robert Ballard
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Robert Ballard (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Titanic Belfast, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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