Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Alien sub

["Michael B. Holt" <mholt@richmond.edu>]

Phil Nuytten wrote:
> 
> Hi, Mike:
>         No, it wasn't a mock-up . . .exactly . .but it wasn't real, either.
> Kind of hard to explain. It was fibreglass and metal and acrylic and paint
> - but in the wrong shapes, sizes, thicknesses, etc.

Makes you wonder who really designed it, doesn't it?

> I talked to the guy in
> the checked suit and pointed at the "windows"  and said " a thousand feet
> ??" He said " Yaass, can be modified for a thousand feet" , "Oh", I said "
> Like,  make the windows round, and much smaller and thicker and mount them
> into a heavier hull??" "Yes . . .something like that, but I'm not the
> technical person" 

Hmph.  At least pharmacutical salesmen can talk about the
stuff.  They probably got the guy in the checked suit (did
he really have a checked suit?) from an agency.

>  I asked,  innocently,  "Oh, is he here? - I'd like to
> talk to him"  The sales guy said " That won't be possible, I'm afraid . . .
> he doesn't talk to anyone" (really). 

Wow.  When I get so I won't talk to anyone, shoot me.

> And that was that. I took a couple of
> pictures, scratched my head over the idea that anyone past the 3rd grade
> would think this anything other than a wet sub with its tubes tied . . .and
> went back to our booth. Then I got to thinking . . . .what if it really was
> designed by an 'Alien' . .Holy cow!! and they know where our booth is . .
> .but, fortunately, no tractor beams, no "go to the lighhht, phhhilll" .  .
> . .Kinda disappointing, actually.

Sorry about the disappointment.  Maybe you should have asked for
a demonstration ride?

I still think the thing was a ploy to get investors.  Or a
CIA front.



Mike