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Anyone who has ever been on a submarine will have been struck by how cramped the accomodation is.
Pipes and plumbing seem to be everywhere.
The solution is simple - employ Richard Rogers Partnership, architects of the Centre Beaubourg in Paris and the Lloyds Building in the City of London to design
future submarines.
The Lloyd's Building
http://newsimg.bbc....41380249_lloyds.jpg
The point is, it has all the services on the outside [hippo, Aug 21 2007]
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Yeah, Richard Rogers. Cool. |
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Who's Richard Rogers? What's a Beaubourg? Does it go underwater? |
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(Oh, you want _me_ to google it? Pshhh). |
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You mean "Inside Out Design"? Um, wouldn't that make your submarine rather slow and noisy? |
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Sonar Operator: "Captain! I hear something! It sounds like someone dragging an oil refinery through the ocean!" |
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Captain: "Ah, must be one of those poncy new Richard Rogers Submarines, launch torpedos." |
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//Who's Richard Rogers//
Hint: He didn't help Oscar Hammerstein write "South Pacific".
(I think) |
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Sight-seeing tour of Standing Up Submarines in large city centres has become quite a tourist attraction. |
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Please refrain from posting obvious ideas here. |
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Hunt for Big Red October. |
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The borg did this in StarTrek. They had forcefeilds though. |
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Taking 'put it all outside' to the extreme, couldn't they just keep all the powerplant and stuff on dry land and feed power, air and whatever to the sub via a very long cable? |
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That ought to save a load of interior space, although I guess the pilots would have to be careful not to get all tangled up. |
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You could build a sub with 2 skins. A thin one on the outside to make it aquadynamic, then all the crap that doesn't mind being exposed to pressure, then a thick inner skin, then the people. |
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"Argh captain, this water pipe that for some reason runs through the ship has just broken, we're filling up with water". "Don't panic, there should be a large red valve about a metre from the leak. Just shut it off, it's obviously not important". |
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I'd rather be on the Gene Simmons submarine. |
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Read the title with the structure 'person does thing to object'. |
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