Thursday, January 20, 2011

Dive Olaf Dive

You like U-boats.

A sinister thing to like, I suppose, what with u-boats being responsible for the loss of many innocent lives. But then I'm one sinister mofo (I think that's what the kids are saying instead of motherfucker).

If you don't know what a u-boat is, you're probably too stupid to use a computer, but just in case: unterseeboot--U-boat in English--is the generic word for submarine in German, but it's usually used in the context of German subs from WW1 through WW2.

Why like these bad boys? Could be their predatory character, or their distinctive appearance. Or maybe they serve as a reality check for those who like to think people in the first half of the previous century had barely just discovered fire. Dude, people were traveling beneath the oceans in vehicles as technologically advanced as this way back in 1935. Sure, the u-boats were small, but that makes the technology that much more impressive. To think that a vessel barely bigger than an American nickel could travel across the Atlantic and sink dozens of ships...never mind the now-lost device that shrank the crew so they could fit into this toy-sized weapon.

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