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

[emm03@mirapoint.uow.edu.au]

Yes. but not a paper bag filled with air..or a person.
EM.



---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 18:29:02 EST
>From: BauWauHausDesign@aol.com  
>Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: Welcome to the 
Personal_Submersibles_Discussion  
>To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
>
>   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