Blog Idaho Posts Submarine Stuff
Retired Geezer over at Blog Idaho posts a Photoshopped photo of the "Computer of the Future" that has a distinct submarine edge to it:
Recognize where the "base" photo comes from? It's from the Cold War Submarine exhibit at the Smithsonian; here's what is probably the original photo:
I saw the exhibit in 2002; I remember they had some really cheesy replacement meters for the various classified stuff that is normally on the panels.
Going deep...
posted by Bubblehead at 7:32 PM
6 Comments:
While it may look like a sub oriented system, the truth is that is a mandbased system.
Look closely at the subtitle.
Yes, I'm old enough to recognize these kind of systems.
3/03/2006 9:43 PM
Hey, even *I* know that those Wheel Thingies are to make the submarine dive.
3/03/2006 9:53 PM
The photo on Fark with "The Club" hooked on the wheels, made me laugh.
So did the Lemmings PS.
3/03/2006 9:59 PM
Looks like a control panel for the Cormorant, Lockheed-Martin's new Flying Submarine.
3/04/2006 4:26 AM
That was a neat exhibit, I think the displays were from the USS Trepang.
3/05/2006 10:31 AM
This pic has messed with the heads of many folks. MT1 is on the mark.
Different displays were from many different boats. The maneuvering panels were not from Trepang but Sand Lance. The Naval Submarine League's Submarine Journal had an article at the time about how they went about declassifying the things.
One of my shipmates (now an XO in the fleet) was on the videotape that played in the museum re-enacting a spec op mission that was declassified for the show. I give him grief for being famous.
3/05/2006 11:52 AM
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