The Homemade Submarine

With some old oil barrels and a budget of $4,385, a Beijing man creates the coolest DIY project I've seen in a long time:

Comments

[Abdul]

I'm thinking about how frigging frightening it would be to test drive that thing and wondering where he puts his giant set of balls while doing it.

[Warren]

I'd rather have my own brewery.

[Xeones]

I've heard of Colombian drug smugglers building submarines to haul cocaine up as far as Mexico, but i think they just tow theirs behind boats. This is completely badass.

Abdul, what do you think he uses as ballast?

[Art-P.O.G.]

I bet you that dude's a real good swimmer. :p

[a]

Goddamnit. The homemade submarine gap is widening.

[Nipplemancer]

i think the ballast is US Debt since the chinese are already swimming in it.

[!]

I blame the overregulation of USA mini-submarine hobbyests for the gap.

[Michael]

He isn't wearing a helmet!

[Troy]

Baby, let me pilot my home made submarine into your love tunnel.

[FrBunny]

I could have just walked across that ditch. USA! USA! USA!

[!]

He better hope some Japanese fishing boat does not carelessly park righ over where he wants to surface or he will b in for some really bad press!

[Hugh Akston]

It won't be so cool in a few months when an armada of these things surfaces off of Monterey's Coast launching homemade thermite rockets powered by Diet Coke and Mentos.

[!]

It won't be so cool in a few months when an armada of these things surfaces off of Monterey's Coast launching homemade thermite rockets powered by Diet Coke and Mentos.

Hamas has them too? We have become so advanced that we are helpless.

[Douglas Fletcher]

Reminds me of the old Russian (soviet era) joke about the Chinese space program: 50 million people and a giant rubber band.

Is it just me or does that thing look like an industrial sized rice cooker?

[Xeones]

Is it just me or does that thing look like an industrial sized rice cooker?

RACIST

[!]

Xeones,

Picking on races that get good SAT scores is not racist. But dropping atomic bombs on them is racist. Racism is a sliding scale.

[@]

If he makes it all the way to the U.S., will he get free health care?

[!]

If he makes it all the way to the U.S., will he get free health care?

He already has the 'best free healthcare in the world,' other than Cuba. Maybe he will go there?

He will get free welfare and Social Security (redundant, sorry) if he comes here. All factors to balance.

[Warren]

It won't be so cool in a few months when an armada of these things surfaces off of Monterey's Coast launching homemade thermite rockets powered by Diet Coke and Mentos.

What are you talking about? That would be like the coolest thing ever. I for one welcome our new Mythbusting Overlords.

[Yak-Chien Smir-Wang]

In China, myth bust you.

[Hugh Akston]

I for one welcome our new Mythbusting Overlords.

If they make Kari Secretary of State, that would be change I can believe in.

[Johnny Longtorso]

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[Jefferson]

Isn't it cool how they have the freedom to do that sort of thing. In the US, you could never get the permit. And even if you could, the DEA would follow you around the whole time.

[kevrob]

Kinda reminds me of Bushnell's Turtle.

Kevin

[Karl Hungus]

Call me anal, but I prefer my submarines have a crush depth greater than ten feet.

[Happy Jack]

a budget of $4,385

If he had a subscription to Popular Science, he could have built one for less.

[MJ]

Given the size of the waterway, I don't think a ten foot crush depth is an issue.

[Hacha Cha]

personal submarines are fucking awesome. my dad took Naval Architecture at the University of New Haven and he also welded on all the trident subs for General Dynamics. still have all his books on naval architecture, interesting stuff.
I'm sure drug smugglers have really stealthy ones. unmanned submarines would be a brilliant way to smuggle drugs. a stealthy submarine can easily go undetected.

[Hacha Cha]

looks like there are some people in the US building their own subs: "http://www.gizmowatch.com/entry/man-builds-21-foot-personal-submarine-for-fun/">http://www.gizmowatch.com/entry/man-builds-21-foot-personal-submarine-for-fun/

[Hacha Cha]

fucked that up
just go here http://www.gizmowatch.com/entry/man-builds-21-foot-personal-submarine-for-fun/

[!]

Karl Hungus,

You are anal.

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