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Build Your Own Submarine
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."
they don't build their own coffins too.
This is more dangerous than home built aircraft.
It's Christmas everyday with BitTorrent.
The back of Popular Science has had Advertisments for plans for your own submarine,helicopter,airplane,etc... for decades. My neighbor growing up made the mini-sub in his garage.
No not a wear a wetsuit and you get an air-bubble type a full dry submarine capable of diving I believe he took it down to 60 feet... didn't have the guts to go lower than what you can safely escape from..
Nothing new here.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
..as long as it's yellow
so they can say what's long, hard, and full of nerd seamen? our submarine.
I dream of making a miniature remote controlled submarine. I have dreamed of putting torpedoes on it, too. It's a whole new way of fishing! Torpedo-Fried Algae/Fish/Dirt/Water/etc!
Surface, surface!
Sorry, Captain, the trim panel is trying to lend me money and the buoyancy controls are telling me where to buy a firewall.....thunk
Panurge has posted for the last time. Thanks for the positive moderations.
Peter Madsen successfully operated his homegrown 1-man submarine in the harbour of Copenhagen last fall. It has been submerged for 1½ hour, and gone to a depth of 10 m.
That came on the heels of an accident where his submarine was heavily damaged by crashing into a bridge. Don't blame Peter though - it was carried on a truck! (danish)
During the test this fall the only problem was paranoid police boarding the sub (danish) to assure that Peter was not an activist intending to disrupt the EU summit.
Any sufficiently advanced libertarian utopia is indistinguishable from government.
The most interesting is Cartsen Standfuss's CSSX-1.
Translation from Babelfish:
Hello of people, we look forward much you to our homepage to welcome to be allowed. Since, as can see it, our project takes slowly forms, we did not want to withhold it from anybody and you here on these sides from now on up to date will hold. Much fun... the Euronauten
The small cruiser is awake sank 1901 due to a Kollison during a fleet maneuver. Those is awake on request national office for soil care of monuments of the Mecklenburg Vorpommern only once with the data base was theoretically determined. Then regained by that private Wracksuchkutter Viney Peglar 1996 by means of Sidescan sonar before ruegen in the Baltic Sea only few hundred meters apart from the calculated position. The trunk of the Wrackes is not still very well received - superstructures. (source of photo: Kroschel Evers the German fleet 1848-1945)
Yes, hello of people. We also try to keep our data base theoretically determined. And we really appreciate that you look forward to welcome to allow us to your homepage. Much fun!
"I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy"
The jocks will be building ASDIC and depth charges. Prepare to experience the true meaning of "ping".
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
Looks like the next round of Darwin Awards should be intetresting.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
We are *hic*....sailing *hic*, We are saaaaiillling!!La la laaaa la...something...ner ner.. *BLEEEEUUUGH
Theres a niche, but probably lucrative market for these things if they know where to look.
I.O.U One Sig.
This has to be stopped !
terrorists could capture one and...and...
think of the children !
Should we nominate them as a group or each individual independently?
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb572CCB9AE9DB03273snlbxq' |dc
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.
DNA is the ultimate spaghetti code.
Impressive as the linked submarine is, it's just like a military boat: a steel cylinder. As useful as such a thing may be as a weapons platform, I can't imagine anybody riding in the thing for pleasure.
My own fantasy of a personal submarine comes from the Nautilus in 20000 Leagues Under the Sea. The most important feature: a glassed in drawing room, furnished with overstuffed chairs and oriental rugs, from which I can survey the unfolding panorama of the sea as I smoke seaweed cigars and sup on lobster tails whilst I plot my revenge on humanity.
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In other news today, Microsoft has already announced an ultra realistic sim version of building your own submarine, which allows you to actually take your craft into the water and suffocate OR drown to death.
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If the Germans figure out how to attach their potato bazookas to their home made subs we're all screwed.
Trolling is a art,
Structural failure leading to implosion!
Even at just 100 meters depth, you don't get much warning of a hull failure. One buckled plate becomes a total breach in about 1 second.
Deeper than 100 meters, I'm told that the water entering a breached hull hits you rather like a steam-hammer with most unpleasant results.
These things are great so long as you keep positive pressure (the difference between tin-can and crushed tin-can). However, keeping that pressure is probably defined as a 'blood-difficult' thing.
An automatic buyancy system is a great thing to have in an emergency unless the only thing it drags back to the surface is submariner soup
Fair play to this guy for having a go; he's definately got guts. I seem to remember that Germans used to be rather good at building these things.
As for homebuilt aircraft, barring structural failure, in an emergency you tend to have one major thing on your side: Time
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
I spent 6 years on or working on fast attack subs. We had controls called Subsafe. This meant every part contributing to water tight integrity was tracked from the start of manufacture to installation.
Subsafe parts were quite expensive...but you were 100% pretty confident you weren't getting some cheap Taiwanese knockoff parts.
Where are these guys getting their stuff, the hardware store down the street? Enough said. Would I even think of going down in one of these boats? No...not ever.
Look at the lessons the Navy learned, Scorpion, Thresher. How are these things powered...batteries? Have you ever heard of the Bonefish
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Das unterseeboat ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumpkopfen. Das rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten.
If your bitterest enemies are people who hack the heads off civilians, then I would say you're doing something right.