Space Forum / Shuttle / May 2008

Let us discuss the patent for the Submarine, which is now in the
public domain, not that any foreign governments ever cared since they
have been building them for years. Since my Grandfather built the
first Ring Gyro at Stanford Research years back, I think it wise to
discuss these things in a modern context. The device he built is now
called a Laser Ring Gyro Inertia Guidance system which is not nearly
the size of the original the first one ever built by my Grandfather
was six feet in diameter and six feet high and was used in a submarine
after it was perfected. Today you can make one in a small box with a
computer chip about 3 inches by three inches. Proving Moore's Law in
more ways than one. So if you were going to build a submarine right
now how would you build it? What would power it? What would be its
limitations on performance? Could it also fly? Go on land? Who would
you pay to build it? How fast could it go? Well we could use a
Hydrogen fuel Cell, actually that has already been done and by the way
it works fine. No more, Red Octobers, here is some history leading up
to this discussion you may find rather interesting....

http://groups.google.com/group/waterforfueld