I fell asleep last night half way through this recent video, but I should go back and finish it:
I have to say, it's a tad disappointing to see how cramped even a modern nuclear attack submarine seems to be. Just watching the confined and cluttered spaces (and apparent low ceiling height) of most of the spaces started giving me claustrophobia vibes. (Oddly, I don't get that when watching images from the ISS or spaceships. Maybe its the thought of the crushing pressure outside a sub that helps contribute to it?)
We need to integrate our submarine defence and fisheries policies. We need so many more artificial reefs at various depths to stimulate oceanic ecologies. And also they are good places for our submariners to gain skills as well as hide behind.
ReplyDeleteIf we take this principle to the nth degree we might wind up with very big submarines for one purpose or another. They actually travel more efficiently than surface liners so you would think in the future they may be an even more efficient form of cargo transport than the container ships. But then no-one has really worked out the loading and unloading side of it. And maybe thats only going to work decades after we have saturation dirigibles cargo transport in place.
There has been some thought placed into submarine cargo transport where mid-sections of the submarine detach and are lifted out, leaving you with a far shorter but still aerodynamic submarine. So that means the cargo would always be in the middle of the submarine. Well you know. Nice idea but how to get from here to there? We can get from here to there if our perspective is centuries long. But the first step is to amortise the cost of our submarine fleet with artificial reef duties. So that we can have the best fishing in the world bar none.