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Has Anyone Seen Our Submarine?

by Paul • February 21, 2005 • 08:49 PM • Comments: 1

The Guardian reported today that an unmanned British research submarine was lost under an Antarctic ice shelf last week. I was reading the article, science blah, lost blah, yada yada yada, had almost hit the back button, and then I notice way down at the end of the article, in the second to last paragraph, after they’ve mentioned the little human interest details like that the researcher really likes snow peas, that this 21-foot-long sub, which had successfully completed 382 missions, was powered by 5,160 D-cell batteries. Now that’s science! Forget the ice shelf. I want to know about more stuff that can run on thousands of Duracells, like a car. If you fill the trunk with batteries, can you drive to the moon?


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tuckova[TypeKey Profile Page] on February 26, 2005 2:37 AM

"...seems she ran aground on manoeuveres.." now i'm going to be humming to myself about the winter boys and the baltic moon all day.


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