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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!
Bill Gates should buy it so he can torpedo Larry Ellison's yacht.
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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)
I want to be the founding member of the "Mile-low club"....
S.t.e.v.e.
how come its not called the nautulis (sp)?
phoenix is a fiery bird... this is a _sub_
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.
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
internet like monkeys'
-J
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.
hotbox the mini-sub!
This is just what they're looking for!
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.
Apple iSub. Sink different.
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.
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I gotta quit hanging out here and/or get more sleep. The first time around, I read that headline as:
Your Own Linux Submarine!
how much is the Captain Nemo pipe organ option ?