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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!
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.
Nope. Only ELF (extremely low frequency) signals can penetrate the murky depths.
Subs take a GPS fix when they're surfaced or close enough to the surface to extend an antenna. In between fixes they rely on inertial navigation systems (and the quartermaster's grease pencil) to determine location.
Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.
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.
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I'm impressed. I don't know of anyone capable of walking nine miles in an hour -- they exist, but are pretty rare.
That said, these boats have about the same speed as a dolphin or penguin.
http://www.seaworld.org/Physics/key.html
Rod Taylor