Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
…a nuclear submarine, which was on a combat mission in the Pacific Ocean
Well, gee whiz. Who were they fighting?
Many strange things went on in Soviet subs – a former grad student who left the USSR, came here and made good told the following story of how a Soviet sub had a blow-up female, uh, how to put this delicately – “mascot” – with which a goodly portion of the crew became overly friendly and from which they acquired what once upon a time were referred to as “social diseases.” (The Captain of said wessle was seen trying to smuggle off said mascot, quite worn for wear, at their first port of call, whether out of tender solicitude for his crew, or for more primal and selfish reasons, the student did not say).
Could it be that whatever aliens might have confronted mighty Soviet navy realized they faced an opponent to strong for their puny sub/interplanetary UFOs and needed to subvert their enemy from “within” as it were? I realize this is speculation but I am trying to piece together the disparate pieces of intel to which I’ve been privy…
David;
Go back to the link and see if you can find the story…similar, but not on a sub, but about Russians (a hairdresser to be more specific) complete with handcuffs and something worse for the wear…I wonder if Lex was afraid to link to that story here…
It was a few pages in as I was watching the 3000 troop joint Russian/Chinses counter-terrorist exercise, so Lex my never have seen it, but a lesson in carefully investigating who you decide to rob.
Lex, you won’t meet the unicorns. They’re flying the UFOs. Didn’t you ever read “Gulliver’s Travels”?
I always suspected that The Abyss was a documentary…
I remember there was this one time I was……
Awww, you thought you’d catch me talking, didn’t you? Nope, nope. Not gonna do it, Capt Lex…… You sly dog, you.
Subsunk
Lex and Mike M … There’s another reason that Lex probably won’t meet a unicorn. You have to be both a virgin and a woman to get along with a unicorn. More than fleetingly, that is. I think Lex fails on both counts.
Marianne
Marianne/
Ah yes, Virgins. I long ago gave up believing in witches, were-wolves, ghosts, goblins, virgins and other fictional things…
Although my wife, Mary, DID once quip at a dinner party that, why yes, yes indeed, SHE herself WAS the very Virgin Mary–once.
230 knots? Underwater?!? Wow… that’s pretty impressive. Wonder how you’d work the physics out on that one…
‘Course, those pesky underwater mountain ranges might get in the way. I just hope it’s not some teenage alien who just got his interplanetary license trying to impress his new girlfriend. That could be tragic.
MajorHarvey/
I once read a while back ( I’m serious, here) that the Russians had supposedly developed a “boundary-layer” control of self-generated microscopic bubbles that enabled torpedoes encased by them to achieve a frictionless 200+ kts speed, along with a rumored attempt to extend the technology to subs. Haven’t heard of much about it for almost a decade…..maybe the Aliens told them to shut up.
The name of that super-cavitating Russian rocket torpedo was the Shkval. The Germans are supposed to have a duplicate called the Barracuda. Bubble-heads help me out here, why does the US seem so unconcerned about these weapons? Maybe I should go over to FastNav’s place and ask him…
I should think that a torpedo going that fast in the water would only be capable of going in a straight line, I would not want to try to turn at that speed in an incompressalble medium. I have no idea how you would turn the thing, if you have a frictionless surface, as control surfaces would get no bite. Gyros, perhaps, like a satellite? I imagine hitting turbulence in the water would be rather exciting, too.
Mildly surprised no one has brought up SkyDiver yet. Hope the link works. Anyone else ever see this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wos5e_WlYs
“I should so love to eat a unicorn.”
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