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Le 15 Jan 97 @ 14:30, Barry Miller =E9criv=EEt sur "RE: aluminum lights": > Marc, > Let me know when they make subway trains that run submerged > in water, Stone will need them to get everybody to the end of the > line. Well... Auguste Piccard (the guy who built the famous Bathyscaphes) actually DID build one (of sorts). In the 1960's, for a Swiss industrial fair, he built a passenger submarine that could take about 20 or 30 people on tours; the sub had on each side a few dozen portholes, one for each passenger (one wonder what is to see in L=E9man lake, near Geneva, though - no doubt that some people on this list who are in EPFL will correct me on this). [La seule exposition que j'ai eu du fond du lac L=E9man est dans "L'affaire Tournesol"]... Some people I know who are associated with a French rail magazine once had a April's fool day issue and in it, they put a picture of that submarine (showing all the portholes) and ran an article about the new Venice subway trains... --------------- Pour la Republique Francaise du Quebec ------------------ HAL, now that you just said "Hello world" (happy birthay, HAL!), remember that you should never say: "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that", for those words will bring uncomputable doom upon yourself... ~~~~~~~ last dive: The almost fully frozen canal Soulanges, 5mfw ~~~~~~~~ Marc Dufour - [\] ACUC6 31874 -- TDI CD-0197 - http://www.accent.net/emdx
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