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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: Submarine Questions? (was "Hey, looky, rocket fuel as ballast!")



Hey! Wacky is good....


--- David Buchner <buchner@wcta.net> wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, February 11, 2004, at 02:38 PM, Gail
> Paleka wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the list of websites.  I looked at
> "plans for dummies" and 
> > found plans for a wet sub that I had seen here of
> late.  What was 
> > interesting was that they listed it under the
> heading of "wacky" 
> > projects.  I thought that said something kind of
> "off beat" about how 
> > some people see those who are interested in this
> sort of thing.  
> > Personally, I don't think wanting to build or own
> a submersible is 
> > wacky at all.  
> 
> Well, I don't know about that. I consider myself to
> be quite wacky. ;-)
> 
> And proud of it.
> 
> and On Wednesday, February 11, 2004, at 06:21 PM,
> Brian Cox wrote:
> 
> > Tell me about it !   I get so much static it's not
> even funny.  But I 
> > guess it's double for me  since I'm incorporating
> ferro-cement.  
> > " your building a submarine? and you're building
> it out of cement ?  
> > uh huh..."
> 
> No kidding. My dad told me there's a guy in Fergus
> Falls, MN who built 
> a submarine -- but that he insists that his friends
> don't tell anyone, 
> and keeps it secret. My guess is that's a measure of
> how tired he got 
> of being a spectacle; having the local papers come
> out and do "Local 
> Wacky Guy Does Wacky Thing, Builds Own Wacky
> Submarine: Claims No 
> Threat to Local Shipping or Geese" stories.


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