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Default Speaking of engineering ...

On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 12:43:46 -0400, "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.


The extra money is just for how many log ins you have at one time. I
am not sure there is any limit to profiles.