Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Anyone still out there?

[Coalbunny <coalbunny@vcn.com>]

Don't sweat it Mike.  The Iraqi's are there for the fishing.  Guess
they're tired of eating camel soup, day after day.
Carl


Michael B Holt wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:56:30 -0500 David Buchner <buchner@wcta.net>
> writes:
> >
> >For myself, submarines are one of the last things on my mind these
> >days. Here in central Minnesota, we've just gotten our first sticking
> >snow of the season. There's a skin of ice on my goldfish pond. I've
> >gone to catch-up reading of this list once or twice a week.
> 
> I saw the front of a tabloid, in the supermarket this morning, and I
> see that an Iraqi submarine is in Lake Michigan.   The photo looks
> like  Kilo.
> 
> >Nifty coincidence -- Mike (I think it was Mike) mentioned somebody
> >working out the size of Verne's Nautilus.
> 
> That was me.   I wrote a program to experiment with the sizes
> and shapes of the hull.  I stumbled across one set of dimensions
> that gives exactly the correct displacement for one translation
> of the book.   I'm working on the other translations now.
> 
> >I just happened to be
> >reading this morning a review of this Miller/Walter translation (
> >http://www.troynovant.com/Stoddard/Verne/20000-Leagues-Under-Sea.html)
> 
> Yes!    I need to get that one.
> 
> >>previous versions omitted over 20% of the French text, including
> >>important passages of technical detail, such as Captain Nemo's
> >>account of the batteries used on the Nautilus (Bunsen batteries, a
> >>type of wet primary cell actually used at the time, but operating at
> >>higher voltage due to the replacement of zinc with sodium in one
> >>electrode) and Professor Arronax's questions to Nemo about the
> >>thermodynamics of his power source.
> 
> Miller wrote an annotated "20,000 Leagues" a few years ago.   I have
> that.   It's very good, and it fills in the blanks left by the age of the
> book
> and social changes since then in addition to restoring the numbers so
> it all makes sense.
> 
> >...and I sure didn't remember about the retractable conning towers,
> >but maybe that's just because I haven't read it recently.
> 
> Those retractable conning towers are a fascinating addition.    From
> the book, it seems like only the forward one retracts, but it's been
> a while since I read that.
> 
> Mike H.
> 
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