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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] a Backyard Project ? : )
>From: Pierre Poulin <pipo305@hotmail.com>
>
> Right Carl,
>
> I'm soooo eager to try to cross that border in august with my psub... I
> think I will video tape that "special" moment to show at the convention!
>
> Pierre
I'd like to see that video, too. However, if you do this, be careful.
There was a case here where a person video-taped an incident
with a cop [ I don't recall whether it was a routine traffic stop ] not
living up to the standards of being a *civil* servant. It was used as
evidence in court. The officer claimed "invasion of privacy" despite
the fact; he is a *public servant", "on duty", "in a public place", and
and confronting "John Q. Public" prior to the I.D. The camera and
video tape were confiscated and the judge ruled in favor of the
police officer!
You might want to be inconspicuous and discrete while taping any
incidents at the Canadian-US border and thereafter. Start taping
at home at the point of departure and say you're doing a Docu-Journal
for your trip to the pSub convention and not just a specific incident.
--Steve
>
>
>
> >From: Coalbunny <coalbunny@vcn.com>
> >Reply-To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
> >To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
> >Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] a Backyard Project ? : )
> >Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 08:29:07 -0600
> >
> >Now you guys hold on there! Don't need to be telling this stuff. It's
> >been that easy for over 20-30 years. This should have been common
> >knowledge long ago. Now with this, it's gonna be far easier for the
> >government to regulate psubs a lot more. Launch one of them homemade
> >cruise missiles from a psub and you're gone. They can't find you, but
> >you can hit them. Good bye psub. They'll make them illegal "just
> >because" of the potential.
> >
> >I best shut up before I tell of other easy ways terrorists could hit the
> >USA with, but are too chicken to do it.
> >Carl
> >
> >
> >
> >Steven Mills wrote:
> > >
> > > Someone on this list from New Zealand? Have you heard of this?
> > >
> > > I was doing a search on thrusters and propulsion and came across
> > > this little tidbit !
> > >
> > > --Steve
> > >
> > >
> >http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=8&u=/nm/20030605/od_nm/newzealand_missile_dc
> > >
> > > Building a Cruise Missile in His Backyard
> > > Thu Jun 5, 9:26 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!
> > >
> > >
> > > WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A New Zealand handyman with a passion for jet
> >engines says he is building a cruise missile in his backyard using parts
> >and technology freely available over the Internet.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Bruce Simpson, a 49-year-old Internet site developer, has a site
> >entitled "A DIY Cruise Missile" on which he says he was prompted to build
> >the missile because so many people had told him it could not easily be
> >done.
> > >
> > > "I decided to put my money where my mouth is and build a cruise missile
> >in my garage, on a budget of just US$5,000," he said on his Web site
> >(www.interestingprojects.com).
> > >
> > > "I like to think of this project as a military version of 'Junkyard
> >Wars'," he says referring to a television program about teams building big
> >machines from scrapyard materials.
> > >
> > > He said he would publish step-by-step instructions on his Web site about
> >how to make the jet-powered missile, which would be able to fly 100 km (60
> >miles) from his home, north of the main city of Auckland, in less than 15
> >minutes.
> > >
> > > The missile could carry a small warhead weighing 10 kg (22 lb), would be
> >hard to detect on radar, and would be impossible for the New Zealand Air
> >Force to stop, Simpson said.
> > >
> > > "Obviously the goal is not to provide terrorists or other nefarious
> >types with plans for a working cruise missile but to prove the point that
> >nations need to be prepared for this type of sophisticated attack from
> >within their own borders."
> > >
> > > The New Zealand Herald newspaper reported Simpson had imported a radio
> >control transmitter, global positioning equipment, and a flight control
> >system, among other things, without encountering problems from New Zealand
> >customs.
> > >
> > > "We are aware of the initiative," a Defense Force spokesman told
> >Reuters, but declined any further comment.
> >
> >--
> >"Indeed, desire is the seed of thought, the prime force that activates
> >the mechanism of the mind." -- Kama Sutra
>
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