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To: Pharmboy

It'd be sweet if she could submerge.

I've always wondered how hard it would be to build an aircraft carrier that could submerge. Imagine the looks on the enemy's face...


8 posted on 11/23/2005 3:17:52 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: RandallFlagg
I've always wondered how hard it would be to build an aircraft carrier that could submerge. Imagine the looks on the enemy's face...

...not to mention the looks on the pilot's face as he tries to land. LOL!

11 posted on 11/23/2005 3:25:39 PM PST by Pharmboy (The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
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Funny you should mention it:

From the March 20, 2005 Honolulu Star-Bulletin:

UH team locates huge Japanese sub

Researchers discover the wreckage of a giant underwater aircraft carrier scuttled after WWII

http://starbulletin.com/2005/03/20/news/story1.html

18 posted on 11/23/2005 3:45:09 PM PST by SmithL (There are a lot of people that hate Bush more than they hate terrorists)
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To: RandallFlagg

Japan did that in WW2. The look on our faces wasn't pretty.


42 posted on 11/23/2005 4:01:06 PM PST by mad_as_he$$ (Never corner anything meaner than you. NSDQ)
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To: RandallFlagg

It'd be sweet if she could submerge.

Like I've always said, Any ship can be a submarine...Once! It's the surfacing that's the tricky part.


72 posted on 05/15/2006 5:17:06 AM PDT by 75thOVI (A walk across the depths of America's economic understanding, wouldn't moisten your toes.)
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