On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 13:56:20 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/17/2018 1:35 PM, Keyser Soze wrote:
Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 3/17/2018 11:24 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 08:17:44 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 3/17/2018 7:54 AM, John H. wrote:
On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 17:21:27 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:


I recently watched "Azorian" via Amazon Prime streaming. It's about
the CIA's program to raise the Soviet sub K-129 that sank off of Iceland
in 1974.

Talk about some serious engineering! Howard Hughes was recruited to
provide a cover story by "financing" the design and building
of the Huges Glomar Explorer as a sea bed mining ship. In reality the
CIA financed it all of course.

The bottom of the ship had two huge doors that slid open
allowing the deployment of a giant lift device with claws that would
submerge, held in place by pipes, to a depth of 16,500 feet where the
sub lay on the bottom.

The technical challenges of designing the systems involved were mind
boggling. Makes the challenge of going to the moon look like duck soup.

Great documentary for those with this kind of interest.

Thanks. Spielberg's 'World War II in Color' from Netflix is next on my list.



I can access Netflix but I never opened an account with them. My
daughter was over the other day and put her Netflix account information
into the PS4 that I use to stream Amazon Prime videos. Worked just fine
so now I can also access Netflix.

Yup, you can have 2 people logged on to one account on Netflix and
when you exceed that they prompt you to add on more users at an
additional cost

Like you and Greg, I enjoy some of the documentaries. Not much of a
regular movie watcher though.




She already had three "profiles" on her account. Her, her husband and
another for her boys. Mine was the forth profile and it went through
fine. Maybe the extra charge is if more than two people are logged on
at the same time?

She said she only pays something like $10/mo for the Netflix account.




$10 a month is the charge here. My wife finds a lot to watch when she has
the time to do so. She likes series and Brit shows. I don’t find that much
I like and I’m not a fan of series.



I watched another that was the story of Hyman Rickover and his
management of the Navy's nuclear power program. He was a odd ball for
sure and despised everything to do with Navy and Washington DC
bureaucracy. Interesting story and I think you would have appreciation
some of it. He demanded safety above all, even if it risked busting his
allocated budget. The Navy tried to get rid of him by passing him over
for promotion three times. (He was a Captain at the time). He bypassed
the Navy, went to Congress and got his promotion to Rear Admiral.

He personally interviewed all candidates for the newly formed nuclear
program. Jimmy Carter was interviewed and Rickover asked him what his
class standing was at Annapolis. Carter told him he was 59th out of a
class over over 800. Rickover sat and thought for a while and then
asked Carter, "Did you do the best you could?" Carter looked at the
floor and finally answered, "no". Rickover abruptly told him to "get
out", but Carter was accepted for the program because he had answered
honestly.

Best part was when, at 80 years old, he was forced to retire. President
Reagan called him to the White House to honor him along with a bunch of
Reagan's cabinet and other dignitaries. Rickover basically told them
all to go to hell and then pointed at all the people in the room and
asked why they were there to begin with. He told Reagan that he thought
the meeting was supposed to be just himself and the President. Reagan
kicked everyone else out, talked privately with the ornery Rickover for
about 15 minutes and Rickover left happy.

When my youngest brother, Tom, graduated with his Civil Engineer degree he applied for the Navy's
nuclear sub program. He was flown from Seattle to the east coast, went through a series of tests and
boards, and finally came to the Rickover interview. After a few questions and answers Rickover asked
Tom if he'd smoked marijuana in college. Tom answered in the affirmative, and Rickover told him
'that'll be all'. And it was. There was no acceptance for answering honestly. So he joined the Navy,
got in the SeaBees, got out, and made a bunch of money as an engineer. He'll be retiring from the
Navy Reserves as a Commander or maybe Captain in one of these years.