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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: Is it cold in here? on 06 Jul 2010, 00:58

Title: DARPA flying submarine is fixed wing. Is Submacopter next?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 06 Jul 2010, 00:58

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727671.000-from-sea-to-sky-submarines-that-fly.html

Apparently DARPA made some changes to Raven's idea after they stole it.

Title: Re: DARPA flying submarine is fixed wing. Is Submacopter next?
Post by: Carl-E on 06 Jul 2010, 09:27

This thing has more roadblocks than the PA turnpike on the 4th of July...

I'd say it'll never get off the ground, but that would be trite. 

Title: Re: DARPA flying submarine is fixed wing. Is Submacopter next?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 06 Jul 2010, 10:16

So you think the designers are all wet?

Title: Re: DARPA flying submarine is fixed wing. Is Submacopter next?
Post by: raoullefere on 06 Jul 2010, 11:37

Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 06 Jul 2010, 00:58

Apparently DARPA made some changes to Raven's idea after they stole it.

Of course, 1933 might pre-date Raven just a tad.

I do wonder if it's worth the money to try to become Robur (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_the_World_%28novel%29). I mean, that can hardly be said to have ended well.

Title: Re: DARPA flying submarine is fixed wing. Is Submacopter next?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 06 Jul 2010, 15:49

Maybe Raven is really a hundred years old and just keeps re-submitting the same idea. The strip never mentioned her age, after all.

An eternal youth serum would explain why everyone in Northampton looks young.

Title: Re: DARPA flying submarine is fixed wing. Is Submacopter next?
Post by: pwhodges on 07 Jul 2010, 00:52

Raven is Freia, the goddess of love, whose golden apples give the gods their eternal youth.

Title: Re: DARPA flying submarine is fixed wing. Is Submacopter next?
Post by: Binary on 07 Jul 2010, 02:13

That's some kind of euphemism, right?  :laugh:

Title: Re: DARPA flying submarine is fixed wing. Is Submacopter next?
Post by: Carl-E on 08 Jul 2010, 17:39

Looks like Raven might have been right (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1301) after all!