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In a message dated 4/22/04 1:38:11 PM Pacific Daylight Time, emuller@naic.edu writes:
Absolutely. If you can build it in your yard, then it is appropriate for Very cool project. Are the specs for the subs in Busby within the scope of your project/analysis? If I'm understanding what kind(s) of correlations you're trying to explore (statistics applications are our friend), it seems as though Busby would be a totally valid source of data ... reference points are reference points ... not to mention that it would just be cool as a referential database. Realistically speaking, in terms of technological levels, some of the psubs built or being built by members or otherwise are implemented as well if not better than some of the arguably technologically dated university-/institution-level submersibles listed in Busby.
Likewise, historical subs with documented specs, including non-nuclear military subs like many of us have discussed building replicas of, would be an equally nice feature. That would also give you the capacity to explore trends also as a function of time. I would have *loved* to have had access to a database like that a year or more ago ... back when I had no real concept of the scope of the project I was undertaking. It would have given me a lot of ballpark perceptions on things like vehicle mass relative to size/passengers, hull thickness vs. depth capacity, batteries/voltages vs. speed, etc.
Damn ... I've almost talked myself into feeding the data into MS-Access myself, maybe with a suitable picture of each. BTW, what format is the website database?
Warm Regards
Shawn *****
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