i was talking to a friend of mine about his 22 years as a submariner and I asked him if it ever occurred to him that to sail a sub underwater, it had to be in a dive the entire time since the earth is not flat.
he thought about it for a while and said, 'that's deep, lets have an other beer'
what are your thoughts on traveling underwater at a constant depth
2007-10-24 06:12:25 · 5 answers · asked by magnetic_azimuth 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
Dan, what happens with you? I read your post and think perhaps you are on everclear, IV bolus!
2007-10-24 07:29:41 · update #1
Loren, d is equal to speed times time right? if a sub is running in a straight line, how long before the sub runs out of curved earth and is on the surface. depth is consistant with the curve, so the sub is diving although very very slight the exact opposite of a satellite in perpetual fall, suspended by inertia
2007-10-24 08:56:22 · update #2
Sapient, it is for mental exercise and fun, think of the concept
2007-10-24 10:51:26 · update #3
Sorry, by friend, but it doesn't do it for me. You obviously know the logic behind why it wouldn't work. I'd have to assume your were both a bit inebriated to have to ponder this further.
2007-10-24 09:54:33 · answer #1 · answered by I, Sapient 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
since the instruments that "con" the sub are set to maintain a certain depth and since the water curves at the surface and not at, say 100 fathoms, i find your thesis faulty.
2007-10-24 15:49:16 · answer #2 · answered by Loren S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Flat Earth was invented in 1848 by a British novelist. Nobody before that time belived was flat.
2007-10-24 13:19:47 · answer #3 · answered by giulio 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the length of the sub in comparison to the circumference of the world is SO small that the angle of upward motion would be negligible. but at the same time.. you are kinda right.
2007-10-24 15:03:35 · answer #4 · answered by gills 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The circle is stillness and movement producing form and substance in time and space. Substance and movement is eventually sound and light. Sound and light in a circle is always a pair of pairs (we cannot visualize or articulate or understand anything without its relationship to its opposite - there is no thunder without lightning).
Time and space, or dimension, comes from one circle observing, or experiencing another. All entities are circles of circles. Many circles reduce, always, to one circle. An entity lives in many dimensions (time, space, form, substance, stillness, movement). In one dimension, all circles are the same.
Size and speed, sound and light, substance and movement, are eventually the same, equal, and not-perfectly-equal, opposite pair (always eventually a one-dimensional-circle).
--- http://www.popularphilosophy.com/conservations/
Lets switch to vodka.
2007-10-24 14:22:32 · answer #5 · answered by DanE 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋