Possible Sunken U-Boat Discovered -- 100 km inland. - Polidicks

[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;36935403]I remember reading somewhere that sunken German ships and submarines are the primary source of metal in space equipment, since, by being underwater for a century, they have been protected from radiation released by all those nuclear tests we did in the mid-1900's.[/QUOTE] ...what? I fail to see why anyone would want to utilize old, rusted submarines to build their equipment. First off, it's not even usable since it's all rust now. Second, they're underwater. They would be a huge bitch to pull up out of the ocean where most of them are. Also, I'm pretty sure all the metal we actually use isn't all covered in radiation from a nuclear test we did in the desert far from civilization, and what radiation did drift further than the area around the blast most certainly didn't manage to irradiate all metal on Earth as a part of it's dastardly plan to prevent us from building space equipment.

[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;36935403]I remember reading somewhere that sunken German ships and submarines are the primary source of metal in space equipment, since, by being underwater for a century, they have been protected from radiation released by all those nuclear tests we did in the mid-1900's.[/QUOTE] did you read this from the back of a cereal box

They found one off Nantucket a few days ago also. Those Nazi's were closer to home than most people think. [url]http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/07/27/german-world-war-sub-discovered-off-nantucket/qszn5e0ql74EJs08rzFa5M/story.html[/url]

[QUOTE=Rellow;36997114]...what? I fail to see why anyone would want to utilize old, rusted submarines to build their equipment. First off, it's not even usable since it's all rust now. Second, they're underwater. They would be a huge bitch to pull up out of the ocean where most of them are. Also, I'm pretty sure all the metal we actually use isn't all covered in radiation from a nuclear test we did in the desert far from civilization, and what radiation did drift further than the area around the blast most certainly didn't manage to irradiate all metal on Earth as a part of it's dastardly plan to prevent us from building space equipment.[/QUOTE] After I did a Google search, nothing seemed to come up. It would be nice if A B.A. Survivor could cite his source. Perhaps ocean water and radiation can alter German subs in certain way, but A B.A. Survivor didn't seem to explain his point very well.

I love old sunken shit, gets my imagination going. Some day I want to look at an old wreck first hand.

If anybody else watches the show White Collar, then you're hoping the same thing as me.

[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;36935403]I remember reading somewhere that sunken German ships and submarines are the primary source of metal in space equipment, since, by being underwater for a century, they have been protected from radiation released by all those nuclear tests we did in the mid-1900's.[/QUOTE] no

[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;37000428]no[/QUOTE] As silly as it seems, they do use steel from a scuttled WW1 German fleet off the coast of Scotland as [url=http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel]low background steel'[/url]

[QUOTE=Rellow;36997114]...what? I fail to see why anyone would want to utilize old, rusted submarines to build their equipment. First off, it's not even usable since it's all rust now. Second, they're underwater. They would be a huge bitch to pull up out of the ocean where most of them are. Also, I'm pretty sure all the metal we actually use isn't all covered in radiation from a nuclear test we did in the desert far from civilization, and what radiation did drift further than the area around the blast most certainly didn't manage to irradiate all metal on Earth as a part of it's dastardly plan to prevent us from building space equipment.[/QUOTE] Well it's [i]kinda[/i] true. But it's no longer relevant today, as we can now adjust for background radiation in instruments, etc, and there isn't as much radioactive crap flying around as back then. [url]http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2971/is-steel-from-scuttled-german-warships-valuable-because-it-isn-t-contaminated-with-radioactivity[/url] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel[/url]

[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;36935403]I remember reading somewhere that sunken German ships and submarines are the primary source of metal in space equipment, since, by being underwater for a century, they have been protected from radiation released by all those nuclear tests we did in the mid-1900's.[/QUOTE] Where'd you read that, infowars?

[QUOTE=FunnyBunny;36997019]That's why I said mainland. If we're including Alaska and Hawaii, I'd hardly call pearl harbor 'untouched'.[/QUOTE] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_balloon[/url] Ah-hem.

[QUOTE=Ogopogo;36935419]I wonder if the crew went down with the ship?[/QUOTE] [quote]There is a grisly postscript to the sinking of U-550. According to the Eastern Sea Frontier's War Diary account of the sinking, some of the crew apparently survived the sinking and were trapped in a forward compartment. They tried to leave the U-boat as it lay on the ocean floor using their escape apparatus. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-550]Source[/url] [/quote] a few survived the sinking but were found dead