Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] new photos

["Jeff Post" <jeffpost@rawbw.com>]

I'm sure one of our more out-side-of-the-box thinkers could use all of our
compressed, high pressure farts to come up with exciting new drive for a
psub! I'm thinking chili cook-off prior to launch. This is more exciting
that Thermite or hydrogen peroxide!

JP



----- Original Message -----
From: Alec Smyth <Asmyth@changepoint.com>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 2:08 PM
Subject: RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] new photos


> Ah yes, the bathroom... I'm envisioning a device that would couple onto
the
> appropriate part of the pilot's anatomy, and dump overboard via high
> pressure pump. As an option for some extra $$$, it would also come with a
> numerically controlled rear probe triggered by the electronic fart
detector
> (see VOCs thread). The gases would be compressed to 3,000 psi for
> volumetrically efficient onboard storage, because dumping such volumes of
> gas overboard could throw the boat out of trim.
>
> Are there any test pilots out there?
>
> :)
>
> Alec
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MerlinSub@t-online.de [mailto:MerlinSub@t-online.de]
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 4:47 PM
> To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] new photos
>
>
> Should I build a Torpedopipe-type hangar for your sub inside CSSX ?
> Solo sounds good - and looks good.. like the stern view.. and the bow..
> .. but were is the toilet room ? - see you Carsten :-)
>
> Alec Smyth schrieb:
> >
> > I just posted some new pictures of the project on
> > http://www.prismnet.com/~moki/subfiles.html
> >
> > Its just a preliminary fit-up, everything needs to come back apart for
> > fixing details that aren't quite right, sandblasting, etc and the inside
> is
> > still a bare pipe with rings in it... so I'm guessing there's still a
year
> > or two to go. As you'll see the viewport telescopes off the hull. Its a
2"
> > thick viewport protected by a lightweight free flooding outer dome, and
> both
> > mounted in an aluminum ring running on four 1.25" rods with 8 Thomson
> linear
> > bearings.
> >
> > Ray, can I bother you to throw these on the website page of the project?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Alec
>