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Your Own Luxury Submarine!
cheapo writes "Not exactly computer related, but fun none-the-less. Someone on my boating mailing list turned me onto this website for your own personal luxury submarine. For a mere $78 million, you can make all the other folks at the marina jealous with a 213 foot toy." That 78
million dollar price tag might seem steep until you discover that it comes
with its own docking mini sub. Now thats a bargain!
Does GPS work on board when it is submerged?
The point would be??
Hey let's go cruise the ocean! Alright!
....
Bill Gates should buy it so he can torpedo Larry Ellison's yacht.
You'd think that Fox or CBS or someone might buy this and trick it out with cameras etc. Imagine the coverage you could get of the America's Cup, imagine the new reality TV shows...
$78 million is a pretty penny, though. At the going market price, you could buy over 30,000 acres of prime farm and orchard land in California's central valley.
Huh.
He looked at me and said, "Kid, we don't like your kind, and we're gonna send your fingerprints off to Washington."
A3, F5
You sunk my battleship!!
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I can't express how embarassing it is to be lounging around the marina, get challenged to a submarine drag-race, and lose to some other 100-foot submersible because I didn't hook up enough batteries. Finally, with the Phoenix 1000, I'll never have to endure their laughter again!
(Okay, okay, it's not funny... I'm just bored.)
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
And there I was thinking it was an April Fool's joke. Well just for that, I'm keeping my 78 million.
Of course, the web site didn't say so in so many words, but at the time, not a single one had been built yet :)
ahh, bath times will never be the same again..come to think of it, nor will fishing in a sub.. can u imagine one day, all the rich and famous will go underwater? its not a bad idea really, since underwater provides good privacy against the media.... just set your sonar for STUN Mr Spock... he he he.
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I'm not sure about the rest of you... but I can think of a WHOLE LOT of better things to buy/do with 78 Mil... How long do you suppose this company will stay a float? (no pun intended)
"The scientist describes what is; The engineer creates what never was." - Theodore von Karman
I bet ten bucks the guy who ordered it was a dot-com owner that went down the tubes...
I want to be the founding member of the "Mile-low club"....
S.t.e.v.e.
What OS does it run? Windows Datacenter or Linux?
if (OS == Windows) { bash-it;} elseif (OS == Linux) { praise-it;}
Plus, is it open-source? RMS needs to know whether this submarine should be boycott'd or not.
Natural != (nontoxic || beneficial)
I saw this on the discovery channel. Supposedly they are all custom made. Steve Jobs has one that will dock in his 200ft yacht, and a Japanese customer wanted one with a laser cannon mounted on it so he could shoot fish. Sounds like Dr. Evil!!
As proposed, the submarine would constitute the single largest private undersea vehicle ever built, and arguably, the most significant personal transportation device of the 20th century.
Besides say...oh...THE AIRPLANE?
The problem with this statement is actually 2 fold, there's no way a personal luxury sub is the most signifigant personal trasport device of the 20th century. On top of that fact, the thing hasn't been built yet, so it should be of the 21st century. And considering the 20th century brought us the modern automobile, the airplane, and the space shuttle, I highly doubt that anyone would call anything the most signifigant anything of the century...only 2 years into it.
One of the measures of how dangerous a device
is is the amount of time from the second
you fsck up to the moment it's too late
to save you. By that measure, subs are more
dangerous than the space shuttles.
Thought I'd share.
Err, actually, it comes with a place where you could dock another mini-sub. The mini-sub itself would be an after-market add-on.
Nothing for 6-digit uids?
Its been in the Neiman Marcus catalog for a while.
s +submarine
Check out this google link:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=neiman+marcu
Casca
come in yellow?
how come its not called the nautulis (sp)?
phoenix is a fiery bird... this is a _sub_
Did they even make one yet? I didn't see any real photo of one.
Maybe they are just waiting for the sucker with the 78 million bucks to start building one.
Their customers are probably all Columbian.
I will now ask you to send Mr. Katz's new dog book. After I read it I will shed a tear.
Thank you.
Junis from Afghanistan
From the Additional Instrumentation Section:
"Flammable Gas Monitor" Just what I need, a gas monitor that catches on fire. Will go along nicely with the F16 Style Joystick.
-Vic
Oh man I am just having waves of covetousness washing over me. How can anyone have the money yet NOT buy this thing?
At any rate, I don't think it will gain mass acceptance until teenage poseurs can put phat rims, big chrome tips, clear lights and "Type-R" stickers on it. Not to mention installing the "Trunk of Funk".
-J
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Why does this seem like old news? Because it is!
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I have trouble beleiving that those large portholes (aprox 6' dia) depicted on the interior view can handle the 1000' rated depth. Total pressure is almost about 1.8 million lbs.
Thats a lot for any transparent material, I don't have my engineering texts at work, anyone care to calculate what the stresses involved would be.
I have enough trouble avoiding all the rich folk in their massive SUVs and now we have to watch out for them in submarines too? All those fishermen better keep an eye out for a submarine with a "My child is Citizen of the Month" bumper sticker on it.
Get Roy Scheider to pilot it and yer all set. How much more is the talking dolphin?
Much cooler are the underwate 1-atmosphere habitats... air, power, (and net access) from land, a tunnel to get to your new underwater house.
That's right, for only 78 million you too can pretend to be the leader of the Discordians.
Green apples not included.
- Serge
there's a lot of problems associated with being underwater...
First off, there's a limited range where you could use it.
Second: You'd have to make sure you didn't collide with anything (I'm sure you'd hire a formet sub captain or something).
Third: it's not all that clear underwater. It's only clear in the shallow areas like tropical and what not. But in the deeper areas it's not all that clear and so you wouldn't see much.
Fourth: the upkeep on submarines runs millions a year, so the cost is gigantic.
Now the pros:
First: you can bring illicit drugs into the country and nobody is gonna stop you (how do you stop a submarine without blowing it up?) and if they do stop you, then you just flush the stuff down the drain.
Second: It's the mile deep club.
Finally: If the submarines a rocking don't come a knocking
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But if you read between the lines, you'll find that at least some of these submarines have never been built. I guess they don't want to keep them around the showroom.
I first came across this site several years ago, from a pointer at www.memepool.com
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
Since the CIA keeps having problems that the coast gard keeps messing up their "drugs for guns" program, I wonder how many they will buy just to keep ahead of their competition.
Now they don't have to build their own anymore!
I always wondered where they retired the 20,000 leagues under the sea ride from Disney World.
"It was penguin lust...at its worst." --someone
Can it take out an LNG tanker that's set on destroying New York City?
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
it gracefully handles the slashdot effect. 15 minutes after the story was posted, the site is still responding snappily. If the sub business doesn't work, they can seek work as webmasters. Or maybe they WERE webmasters before the bust?
They expect some very rich fart to shell out 78Meg USD for an untested submarine design? Here's a free clue - submarines are not the most safe mode of tranportation. Lots of energy in those batteries and lots of water looking to get in at 300 meters depth. I'll bet it will stay on the drawering board for awhile.
They stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can't kill the beast.
It would be a great practical joke-boat. You know, get all yer friends on it, don't tell 'em it's a sub, then "oh no! we're sinking!" they'd be laughing about it for months.
I think anyone who buys from these guys has to be nuts. Submarines are precision machines where the tolerances for failure have to be in the space launch range of darn near zero. I would trust Woods Hole contractors or military sub contractors but not cutesy minisub guys.
Even that one aside, the operation of the sub would probably get ruined by the average non-understanding of the filthy rich person who bought it. "Whaddya mean I can't put my baby grand piano here in the lounge and ruin the balance of the ship? It's my sub, put it in!" Bloop.
And once it bloops, who is going to rescue your sad rich ass?
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hotbox the mini-sub!
When I firsted glanced the headline, I swear I saw "Your Own Linux Submarine?"... Shouldn't that be a GNU/Linux submarine anyway?
It made me laugh enough to read the article, even though it's not a Linux submarine... This is a pretty cool toy, it even has an F-16 Style Joystick! But I agree it needs some torpedoes to be a True Submarine(r)...
*Wanders of singing: "We all live in a Linux submarine, a Linux submarine, GNU/Linux submarine..."*
Entrepreneur : (noun), French for "unemployed"
This is just what they're looking for!
That link is sooo 1997.
The mini sub goes to 2000 feet they claim.
They cleverly avoid reference to any figure for submerge depth of the mother ship itself.
I bet it can go 150 feet at most.
If they lose the 6 to 5 foot round plastic view ports (they say acrylic themselves)... then maybe they might get to 300 feet with this baby but they might need to over pressurize it dramatically.
The site is a sham for a fraud company.
April fools I wish.
Some rich guy is gonna lose his money.
Well it's a nice push towards reaching the coveted negative mile high club membership...
to yell "Dive, Dive, Dive" and have something happen.
Well, other than Pam, um, er, never mind....
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I am a programmer. I am paid to produce syntax not grammar. Deal with it.
if you can't afford the luxo-sub, you could get yourself a used sub instead, and put some ikea furniture in it. http://www.ussubs.com/T-subs_folder/t-sub.used.htm l
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
A fool and his money are soon parted. this time it's a cool 78 mil at a time
If you can't see the value in jet powered ants you should turn in your nerd card. - Dunbal (464142)
If it doesn't have a Casino and a Health Club on board, I don't want it.
-me
Love many, trust a few, do harm to none.
"As proposed, the submarine would constitute the single largest private undersea vehicle ever built, and arguably, the most significant personal transportation device of the 20th century."
WTF? What about the car?
Besides, the submarine is sooo
18th century.
Just get 9 of your rich fellow executives together and you can purchase your very own DD(x) Land Attack Destroyer.
Comes complete with 5-inch/62 extended range guided munitions and 155mm Howitzers, land attack missiles and of course, Tactical Tomahawk missiles.
No need to worry about the wife catching you fishing with your buddies either as it use stealth technology to give it almost no radar signature.
By the way, this ship has a fully robotic mini-sub to allow scouting in unfriendly water ways.
With a price tag of $750 million, they are just as affordable as these silly luxury 'subs.' Besides, you know what they say about submarine people don't ya?
int func(int a);
func((b += 3, b));
I keep thinking the Farside with the nightmare of Jaques Cousteau's cat. (cat looking anxious staring out of a porthole in a submarine).
Considering that selection on most subs are burly sailors named Hans...the mile low club is something that I could do without.
Am I the only one who remembers back when you could be the "proud commander of your own POLARIS SUB -- the most powerful weapon in the world!" for only $6.98 ??
It's a scam. There are engineering and metelurgical reasons why subs have he shapes that they have. The large portal windows seals for one thing wouldn't stand the pressure at the depth the sub claims to go.
One clue to the scam is that there is no actual sub just "artist's conceptions". Another is that for someone seling a 78 million dollar product, their website design is amateurish.
Gotta love the internet though...the web of a million lies...
----- In Your Cubicle No One Can Hear You Scream...
Oh well... time for more beer I guess... damn these bar browsers
It's long, hard, and full of seamen.
I want one!
(!)
it would only be cool if i could launch torpedos!
- Someone getting sunk in their personal sub because they were mistaken for a enemy military sub.
- Someone surfacing into the bottom of a surface ship.
- Getting rammed by a surface ship while surfaced becuase they have such a small above water profile that they are not seen by a ship operator.
- etc...
I know I won't be buying my personal sub until I know these issues are resolved!-- Find the Truth...
Smuggling drugs, weapons and even nukes never has been easier.
I've always wondered where those arch-villains get their gear like luxury underwater bases and industrial installations in the middle of volcanoes. Well now I know. And at $78,000,000 I'm just going to have to turn to a life of crime. Maybe I'll become an accountant.
-- SIGFPE
When you can get a personal sub for around $750k.
This place makes all kinds of subs.
Do a google search before posting.
I will have to nix my plans to build a double-decker luxury executive bus to take me to work.
Kentucky Navy!
[o]_O
"The interior space, with the noted absence of structural bulkheads, provides for tremendous versatility in interior layout and space planning."
Why do I imagine a conversation like this in their engineering department:
Who needs those structural bulkheads anyway? Seawater can't be all that heavy.
*shudder*
You'd think if they were trying to hit the hoi-polloi up for 78 extra large, they would try to make their website look like something other than a sixth-grade computer club project.
It's simple: I demand prosecution for torture.
sub, $78 million, web hosting, $15/month, adobe page mill $95.00, getting /.'d , priceless.
thirsty*i^2
"Ya I finished that last week, it just doesn't work"
a knot is a unit of speed not distance.
16 knots, not 16 knots/hour
stipe42
MC Hammer.
I will show you sights you have never dreamed of, and take you to the Mysterious Island. If you try to escape I will kill you.
CowboyNeal has already made his plans for what to do with the subscription money.
There ain't no rules here; we're trying to accomplish something.
Just think, I'll finally be able to do something about those obnoxious, irritating jetskiers... "jetskiing tourist at one o'clock! Battle stations! Man the torpedoes! Fire!... Yay, another one bites the dust!" You don't know what hell is until you've been woken up at 8:00 AM (after being up till 2 AM with insomnia) by some stupid tourist on a jetski buzzing up and down the Intercoastal Waterway. *And* those jetskiers also like riding in the surf; so when I'd walk across the street to the beach to go swimming, I had to be careful I didn't get my head chopped off.
So this is the perfect gift! I want one.
This thing needs a pipe organ. I can just see James Mason playing Bach's "Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor" in the gallery.
Just need Kirk Douglas looking young again, and it'd be perfect.
Potato chips are a by-yourself food.
Some things you can't make up. From the Kentucky Legislature site.. "Encourage the purchase of a submarine to patrol the waters of the Commonwealth and search and destroy all casino riverboats".
You can see it at the Kentucky Legislature site HR 256 Maybe they can take the casino high rollers for rides in it after destroying the casino riverboats.
It's not so bad. Figure 2e6 lbf acting on the thing, and a 6" thick window to take up the strain. That's about 1.5 kpsi overall stress inside the window, plus a bit for imperfections in the construction. Add some safety margin and you can figure on around 5 kpsi of stress.
I'm not sure the strength of their window material but Kevlar can be made clear and has a strength of around 250 kpsi.
For 78 Million I want Sean Connery to present me the keys in the uniform he wore for Hunt for Red October... He IS the captain of a russian submarine right? Or come to think of it... this is something a James Bond villain should own... wonder if I'd get someone named Pussy Galore to hang around me if I owned one. You know what would be almost as cool... a miniature pirate ship that shoots water balloons... I'm in Friday mode now...
Juliette would have been a better deal. As posted here, it was only a cool mission on ebay. Besides, you'll always win the "my sub can kick you sub's ass" contest.
thirsty*i^2
"Ya I finished that last week, it just doesn't work"
They have some Luxury Submarine FAQs that people may find interesting. My favorite:
What type of people buy luxury submarines?
Interested buyers tend to share one trait, they are all wealthy.
My comment: well, yeah, people living paycheck to paycheck generally don't buy $78 million dollar items.
How about a TV reality show with 5 people trapped in a little submarine! No way to get away from those hidden cams. Imagine the ratings! :)
===> An eye for an eye makes everyone blind - MG
Wet Dream Boat?
... Bill Gates' kids whining at Christmas time. Daaaad! No more socks! I waaannnt one of those thingabajinerrrrs...
I'd like to stay under for years at a time, and only come up for food, thanks.
"We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine..."
Thoose crazy Kentucky lawmakers need full armaments to take down any well protected floatin casino, and they certainly cant be expected to compete for naval supremacy of the Ohio River without at least a few ballistic missile tubes!
Apple iSub. Sink different.
Taco's on a boating mailing list?
You mean he actually ventures outside? I can just pictire it now: sans-a-belt short and Sperry top-siders!
With all of the flagrant spelling and proofreading errors, I sure hope he doesn't make any flagrant boating errors.
Ahoy, Matey!
"A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but doesn't have an air force." -William Blum
... they build submarines better than they do websites.
Uh, the person who submitted the story ('cheapo')is on the mailing list, not Taco.
That has to be the funniest bill I've ever read. The Kentucky legislature has quite a sense of humor!
Even if it does who is going to read it?
... ** CRUNCH SPLASH **
** CREAK **
Wife: (Gathers Manual) Dear it says right here not to exceed 10,000 Feet or the...
Captain: That's just what they say, I know this baby can take a few more thousand feet, I paid 75+ Mill for this baby, besides it's pretty down here...
Wife: I can't see a thing...
Captain: Look harder... Anyway not to worry... remember Crimson Tide they went like 13,000
The only Warning labels people listen to is Dry Cleaning Only labels...
"It takes many nails to build a crib, but one screw to fill it."
But where will I park that in my missle silo?
What is music when you despise all sound?
On the bright side, it will rapidly deplete the population of people with WAY more money than sense. Mile deep club indeed!
With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter. -- William Lloyd
...and this is just one more example.
Anyone here whos a survivalist, knows that having a submarine can help you escape pretty much any situation
nuclear war, flood, etc etc
I'd love to have a submarine just so that if there was a situation where we were at war with say, China, I can take me and my family into the submarine.
Think of it like a bomb shelter which can move around, not to mention submarines also allow you to travel, its like your own private jet just under water.
Last, submarines allow you to explore the ocean,
I'd love to have one
If you use Linux, please help development of Autopac
I read a news story a while back that a S. American country had hired Russians to design themselves a primitive submarine to smuggle drugs.
I'd buy a submarine, connect it to my bomb shelter, and connect that to the basement of my mansion
IF its a flood or any kinda bad situation, you have a way to escape.
Thats why a submarine would be cool, a submarine is alot more useful than a yacht and people waste their money on that
i think 70 million is too expensive for a submarine though.
If you use Linux, please help development of Autopac
I do believe you mean golden apples, eh?
Hail Eris, i sinked it!
I first visited this site in 1996. How is this news?
t'nera semordnilap
Are you sure it isn't the other way around Tin Robot?
Ok everyone, buy a copy or two of my software and help me become so rich that I can afford such a thing. OK? Yeah lets do it! Everyone that buys 100 copies or more gets a free ride.
he Phoenix is capable of making trans-Atlantic crossings at 16 knots
That is really slow. Why would anyone buy a bot that goes twice walking speed.
As proposed, the submarine would constitute the single largest private undersea vehicle ever built
Does that include all the submarines built by the drug dealers that people don't know about? I remember there was once an article about a bust of a drug ring building their own submarine, I think it may have been in Russia. Several have also been sold to drug dealers around the world. $78mil could be a worthwhile investment if I can manage to shift enough 'goods' without being picked up by the coast guard.
I.O.U One Sig.
...I'd like that one in gold, please, and where can I change my name to Hagbard?
I have no karma and I must post.
Did anyone else see this and think that it would make a great B-Movie possibly starring Kurt Russel ?
Who hasn't known about this site for years?
I'll bet that they thought there would be one of these in a bubble by the 21st century...
I indeed meant once in orbit.
I wouldn't by the Nautilus submarine until at least version 1.04 - everything earlier never goes above
Well, fuck the lameness filter. You know, I'm getting really tired of Slashdot telling me that I'm 'lame'. Isn't that what moderation is supposed to do? That and it complaining when I take 12 seconds to respond to a post because I type too quickly.
www.timcoleman.com is a total waste of your time. Never go there.
Too big to fail? Does that make me to small to succeed?
Sure it's half as small, but it's 1/4th the cost.
I gotta quit hanging out here and/or get more sleep. The first time around, I read that headline as:
Your Own Linux Submarine!
if you download their pdf file you will see some pics of some of their smaller subs.
As far as the largest one it seem they have not made it yet.
The reason they kind of hide their picuters of submarines, is because the actual boats look kind of ugly.
They are made to look like an yacht when surfaced, but the part thats underwater looks like a tube and breaks the continuity.
When they draw pictures they cheat, so they draw the bottom to look like the bottom of an yacht with large windows.
http://www.ussubs.com/Luxury_folder/
If they were as good of buncha webmasters as Roadmaster said, they probably wouldn't have let this slide.
I GOT to get me one of these!
Submerged, I doubt it would even be noticable.
Tsunamis don't take on their great height until they "climb" onto the continental shelf. So disregard what I just said, if you're not far enough out to sea when one runs across you. What would happen then?
Let's see. If you're submerged, you'd probably feel a noticable current. If surfaced, you'd be bounced around quite a lot. But so long as you have your doors closed, this being a submarine, you're probably as easy to sink as a cork.
--
I don't want to rule the world... I just want to be in charge of mayonnaise.
A turbine-powered helicopter is no longer the ultimate accoutrement to a superyacht.
Damn! I just had it painted to look like Airwolf!!
Edith Keeler Must Die
yeah 16 nautical miles per hour per hour is pretty crappy acceleration.
;-)
Hopefully the brakes are a bit more effective
Does it come in yellow?
"Do I dare disturb the universe?"
> a knot is a unit of speed not distance. 16 knots, not 16 knots/hour
For the uninformed: one knot == one nautical mile per hour. Wouldn't be a very useful unit of speed w/o some implied measure of distance included, would it?
Visibility underwater is such that you'd need to be very close to something to see it at all. Coral reefs with fish and stuff, and you'd want to be within 20 feet, more likely 10. There's simply no way you can manoever a 200 ft vessel to within an irregularly shaped reef. Not a surface ship, and certainly not a submarine.
For deeper stuff, you're going to need some seriously powerful white lights. Water filters out the higher frequency light first, so all your reds start disappearing after about 60 feet. For wrecks and stuff, you'll need a huge bank of lateral spotlights (not shown on artists impression because artist didn't take physics), and still be unable to get close enough to see anything.
With sufficient lighting, you may be able to go to depth and see some really nice mud.
Me - I'd buy 7 trips to orbit instead.
The pressure hull is constructed of cylindrical sections of transparent structural acrylic - Lucite is the tradename, I think - about 8" thick. The portholes are made where the outer hull has porthole-shaped cut-outs to expose the lucite and create a window. The outer hull is shaped to give the cylindrical pressure hull better hydrodynamics.
Edith Keeler Must Die
Now I can commission my own private sub and become my own sovereign nation. Then I'd just have to find that hidden cave that connects Loch Ness to the ocean, and I'd be ready for a life of altered conciousness!
Oh, was that my outside voice?
Honestly, whoever gets this one is a single step away from James Bond villany...
The site has no One-Click-Checkout© ? I'd better put my Mastercard away...
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
Having worked at a Florida Marina for 4 years, I can tell you that yachts require a ridiculous amount of maintenance to keep them in working order. I am rather skeptical of this vessel, here's why.
First, there's the issue of bottom paint. An untreated hull in saltwater will be covered in drag-producing algae in a matter of weeks. Most bottom paints slow this considerably, but they still need to be re-painted at least once a year. More permanent paints are available outside the US, as they contain several environmentally detrimental chemicals. All this leaves me to imagine that those portals are going to be one royal pain in the ass to keep clear and clean.
Next, there's the issue of prolonged saltwater contact. Surface yachts must be sprayed down after every outing, or every week at the dock. Otherwise, the salt spray alone is enough to destroy any metalwork on the boat. As if salt spray wasn't enough, this boat will be saturated from all angles.
Now there's maintenance. Those outside the marine industry have no idea of the amount of work needed to keep boats running smoothly. You can't just leave it tied up at a dock - there is near-daily engine maintenance (markedly higher due to saltwater contact), external cleaning, interior maintenance, etc. Now, if this much effort is required to keep a much simpler surface yacht afloat and in shape, I can't imagine what this thing requires. Furthermore, the idea of a crew of only 3 on any yacht over 200' is absurd. It takes that many just to tie the damn thing up, nevermind who's driving it.
Finally, the price. I'm sure this will make a great novelty for some rich person, but that rich person could have bought over 1000 feet worth of brand new motoryachts or sportfishers with that kind of money.
--- Sigs are dumb.
You do realise that 20000 leagues below sea level would be getting damn close to the center of the Earth, right?
But my watch is only good to 100m. Damn you timex!
Call me a scaredy-cat but the first thing I thought of when I saw this was protection from bad weather. The one time I did some ocean sailing we got stormed on a lot. It scared the hell out of me. If you got caught by a bad storm with one of these you could dive and sit until it passed.
If I read the specs right, it can operate submerged for 360 hours while traveling 240 miles at a max depth of nearly 1000'. It seems to me like that would let you avoid nearly any storm.
Sure it's expensive but if you've got the dough, the safety alone might be worth it (assuming it works reliably when submerged). Of course, the coolness factor makes it even more worth it.
On the other hand, it reminds me of the old movie "Operation Petticoat". I'll never forget the scene where there taking the seriously damaged (then refurbished) sub out for a shake-down cruise. Paraprhasing:
Captain: "Will she dive Chief?"
Cheif: "Like a rock sir!"
SCSG
"I want to be the founding member of the "Mile-low club"
:)
Sorry, no can do.
You need some serious hardware to reach that depth. The pressure is over a ton per square inch at a mile down. The specs on the website state 1000 feet for the main sub and 2000 feet for the mini-sub.
Okay, so it is difficult, but under this argument it is still possible to do. You just need to invent the right equipment.
The REAL reason you can't be the founding member of the mile-low club is I already am
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But does it run on a beowulf cluster?
I wonder what the response would be if I asked my insurance company for a quote to insure a submarine...
As someone who used to work in a shipyard that made submarines (I was a test & commission engineer) the idea that a someone without the in depth training, experience and sense could buy this is just horrendious....
Diving a boat is no walk in the park, to a skilled
submariner its something that has to be done with care and thought, this is one way to end up dead very quickly.
loony...loony...loony, i built the damn things for armed navies....hrrmm might be ideal for cocaine smugglers....
however.....for a boat of this size I'd want to see a crew of 10 odd, something like 3 x 3 man watches, while dived.....
regards,
Thing
There's a cool Russian sub here in Canada, if you live on the west coast and want to check it out.
:O)
Go to the New Westminster Quay, or you can phone: 520-1073 if you need directions.
I seem to recall that the owner bought it for a million (was it one or two million?) from the Russian Navy. Pretty sweet deal.. sparse accomodations, no great window seats, but well worth it
I laughed my ass off.
As proposed, the submarine would constitute the single largest private undersea vehicle ever built, and arguably, the most significant personal transportation device of the 20th century.
Oh, I thought this was the 21st century.
heh, there was nothing primitive about what they were doing. They were building the same kind of state of the art subs the Russian military uses for nukes. Except instaid of warheads, it was going to carry smack. Lots and lots of smack.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
once my dot com business takes off I will have one of these bad boys /.
you just wait and see!!
me and my dot com babes will be subin' in style!
then i will make a beowolf cluster of them and score big karma from
you just wait and see!!
on the whole idea. Not to you but to the makers of this thing.
You need some serious hardware to reach that depth. The pressure is over a ton per square inch at a mile down. The specs on the website state 1000 feet for the main sub and 2000 feet for the mini-sub.
From the article: The significant volume, coupled with very large acrylic viewports...
Stop right there. Any idea what the external pressure on those "large acrylic viewports" is going to be??? At 1000 ft, we are looking at about 30 atmospheres! That's 30 times the normal atmospheric pressure of 14.7 psi! At over 400 psi (that's over 30 tons per square foot!) those "large acrylic viewports" are going to pop like giant bubblewrap!
You're using her as bait, Master!
Italics are from ther person who submitted the story, undecorated text is from the editor who put it on the page. Why is it so fucking hard for people to figure this out???
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
In the 14 year operating history of the industry there has never been a single serious injury or fatality to any passenger.
keyword: serious
matt
this has GOT to be the dumbest thing i have ever seen.. who in thier right mind would believe this after seeing the drawing with the damn holes in the side.. and the only people who would be qualified to actually run the thing wouldnt be caught dead ON it much less stupid enough to actually believe some RICH guy is smart enough to survive in a submarine he bought ... HOLES INSTALLED....
how much is the Captain Nemo pipe organ option ?
Speaking of $27 million ships.. Why does Larry Ellison have a yatch named Izanami? It spells Im a Nazi backwards, and cost him a cool $25M. (Saw it myself on the SF bay... butt ugly too!)
My god, that is freaking totally AWESOME, and it operates at almost 1000feet too boot.
That's how I read it the first, second, and third times, how I read it aloud to a visiting friend and what I thought I was clicking on.
Remember the Navy Smartships running NT? I thought someone was finally smart enough to do a similar thing with a submarine running Linux!
"Software glitches resulted in system failures and crippled ship operations, according to Navy officials."
I can feel my sanity, beyond my reach and slipping...
If you were to be at the bottom of the ocean and cut some cheese, would a bubble eventually come to the surface? I know at the bottom of the ocean you would die from lack of oxygen and a billion pounds of water on you, but I'm just curious.
...buy nearly four trips to space at $20 million a piece.
This sub is boring!
i prefer this one!
Fabio - Sumare/Sao Paulo/Brazil/South America/Earth/Solar System/Milky Way/Universe
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The beauty of a 78$ million price tag? You only have to sell one ... ;)
Submarine races, eh? Is that what you told your folks?
"I'm not impatient. I just hate waiting." - My Dad
"First you get the drugs, then you get the women..."
This was turned in as an interesting site 2.5 YEARS ago. What the fuck makes it so interesting today? Assholes. You rejected it then, trolling for material?
6 x 10 = 60.
Of course, if you're willing to slow down a bit, it'll run 50 hours at 5 kts (250 nauticle miles), or 140 hours at 2.5 kts (350). Still not a bad range, and the surface range (3500 nauticle miles), is plenty for a transatlantic cruise. Nothing in the rules saying you gotta spend all your time underwater.
...are over 8" thick. They're probably more durable than steel.
This would indicate that pre-WW2 submarine evacuation was possible, and part of submariners' training:
This came from here: https://www.denix.osd.mil/denix/Public/ES-Programs / onservation/Legacy/Ref-Guide/refguide.html
I'm not sure how early submarine evacuation procedures were developed, but I seem to remember it was possible from WW1 submarines as well, I'd need to do some further reseach to back that up though.
or attention-deficit sleep?
http://tinyurl.com/3t236
For that amount of money, I could buy around 500 decent houses... how much rent per week could you get? around $100 000...
I recall this being in the Neiman-Marcus christmas catalog a couple of years ago. I think the price was lower at the time though.
...how'd you like to go down in my boat?"
...we attach wings to the boat, then get it to go really fast to decrease the drag of the water on the bottom of the boat. If we get it going fast enough, the boat may rise above the water, thus decreasing the drag further. We could connect a whole bunch of ports in this way, even inland if we made long stretches of water available to land and take off from. We could call them aerowaterports! Hey, can I get a patent on this?
MY KID SELLS DOPE
at Whateverville High School
(although as I learned firsthand outside of a rave a
few days ago, 'dope' in many regions refers to
crack rock and not more innoculous herbal material.
how sad... )
kids kids kids
Check out William Burroughs' Naked Lunch, you'll see that dope has referred to heroin since at least the 50s. It's a generic term like drugs.
"arguably, the most significant personal transportation device of the 20th century"
Yeah right. That would be the same 20th century as the Model T Ford and the Wright brothers' first flight?
rant