Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Vision underwater.

[Coalbunny <coalbunny@vcn.com>]

Uh huh.  Mike, trolling for Jaws with a SSBN "could" be possible, I
suppose.  <grin>
Carl


Michael B Holt wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 17:55:29 -0700 Coalbunny <coalbunny@vcn.com> writes:
> >Hmmmm.  Mike, you didn't ask the Navy if you could borrow an Ohio
> >class SSBN to go deep sea fishing with, did ya?
> 
> Seriously, no.   I'm not much of a fisherman.   I'd have been
> interested in using it for girl-watching.
> 
> Back in about 1977 I called Dr. Andres Rechnitzer, then the Navy's
> head of the hull penetration work.  We had a few talks about ways
> to transmit power or control impulses without poking holes in the
> hull.
> 
> Apparently, most of what I said was top secret.   He never said
> much of anything beyond pure theory, but I was kinda specific
> about some ideas.
> 
> Naturally, somone heard about it, and I got a phone call ...
> I was able to avoid problems by quoting Busby (I'd checked
> out the copy in the Virginia State Library) and by being
> logical.
> 
> Perhaps some times it does not pay to check out one's
> ideas with the experts.  Tom Clancy got the same kind
> of phone calls about some stuff in his books.   Both of
> were working from open sources and had no "inside"
> contacts.
> 
> Mike H.
> 
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