Re: [OT] Navy releases photos of U.S.S. San Francisco

From: Reed Snellenberger (rsnellenberger_at_houston.rr.com)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:55:29 GMT

OM wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 03:00:40 GMT, henry@spsystems.net (Henry Spencer)
> wrote:
>
>
>>Trouble is, all that technology doesn't change the fact that it's pretty
>>damn dark 500 feet down. There basically isn't any way you can detect
>>what's right in front without illuminating it yourself -- with light,
>>sound, or whatever -- and it's hard to do that and still remain stealthy.
>>So subs emit only when they have urgent reason to.
>
>
> ...Well, guess that *really* makes the Seaview a technical
> impossibility :-(
>
> OM
>

Well... at least until the Navy quits slacking off on their
implementation of "virtual backlot technology"...

On the other hand, do we really want to be able to see all of the
ball-eyed kelp monsters that Irwin Allen predicted? Bad enough to see
them during the initial run... 

-- 
Reed Snellenberger
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rsnellenberger-at-houston.rr.com

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