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Build Your Own Submarine

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the better-bring-a-snorkel dept.

Nerobro writes "There's a group of geeks out there who are bound and determined to build their own submarines. In fact, there's a large group who have been successful. The most interesting is Cartsen Standfuss's CSSX-1. There is a mailing list, owners group and sizeable archive of information at psubs.org."

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  1. Any colour you like.. by adamofgreyskull · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..as long as it's yellow

  2. the joke... by riotstarter · · Score: 5, Funny

    so they can say what's long, hard, and full of nerd seamen? our submarine.

  3. Yay by Cyno01 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Looks like the next round of Darwin Awards should be intetresting.

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  4. War material ! by eurostar · · Score: 5, Funny

    This has to be stopped !
    terrorists could capture one and...and...

    think of the children !

  5. Re:They better be careful by donscarletti · · Score: 5, Funny
    When I was 8 or so I had this great idea to build a submarine out of oil drums. I obsessed over it and spent Way more time than is healthy drawing up plans in coloured pencils... A cute little stick figure inside two oil-drums welded together and two little drums on the side of it which were ballast tanks. It even had a modified toster underneath it to work as a steam jet (like the one on slashdot a couple of weeks ago but wouldn't have worked, however it was Australian designed).

    I can't help thinking that if I was one of those "active kids" you know the ones... the ones that leave the house more than just to go to primary school, I would have either electrocuted myself with a toaster or drowned....

    Basically I owe my life to my lazyness... sitting around karma whoring and trolling is the least thing I can do to repay my sense of idolness, god bless slashdot!

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  6. Open Source Submarines by oever · · Score: 5, Funny

    Without being disrespectful to the Free Submarines Foundation, I would like to mention the existence of this Open Source Submarines webpage.

    Apparently, the Open Source developmentmodel is very suitable for building submarines. I cheer at this development. However, I still prefer free as in Willy submarines.

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