Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: Welcome to the Personal_Submersibles_Discussion

["Pierre Poulin" <pipo305@hotmail.com>]

Don't forget that weight IS important in the design of a submarine...

I don't think why you would like to make it lighter.

Pierre






>From: BauWauHausDesign@aol.com
>Reply-To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
>To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
>Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: Welcome to the 
>Personal_Submersibles_Discussion
>Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 18:29:02 EST
>
>In a message dated 1/27/03 3:15:47 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>emm03@mirapoint.uow.edu.au writes:
>
>
> > Sounds scary...I suggest you test this hull to a few times
> > operating depth before you get inside it...........just to
> > make sure you have it right..
> > EM.
> >
>
>Hey EM,
>
>Scary because you are operating from a particular design perspective, but 
>not
>the only one.To demonstrate this, here's a question:
>
>When is rubber stronger than metal? Answer:
>
>At the bottom of the ocean. Take a rubber balloon and a soda can to the
>bottom of the sea and the balloon (though smaller) is intact, yet the can 
>is
>flattened. Why? Obviously because the balloon was elastic and was able to
>shrink under the pressure. What I have designed provides mechanical
>elasticity, not that the hull actually changes shape, just how the pressure
>differential is interpreted. In theory, a paper bag could withstand the
>pressures of the deep seas utilizing this process.
>
>anyways, thanks for inquiring,
>
>jeffrey


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