Card C00269

RBF DEFINITIONS
Air Delivery & Submarine Cities:
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"cargoes. And that gets us inot a solution with the great big
submarines going 70
knots, three times the speed of any surface
freighters. They are very fast as they are down below the
turbilence. Thus it is a very practical matter to transfer
cargo below the turbulence. This brought me into the development
of submarine cities where you can have an enormous caisson going
down through the turbulence. You can make helicopter landings
on it from above and the submarines are going to just nestle
right up to it from below and that's where we'll have the cargo
transferring. The sea surface phase will go with the interface
between water and air and man fighting all that turbulence:
nothing could be more illogical. I hope I've given you a clean
simple insight to the questions you asked. And as for how this
influences the politicos, I'm just never going to try to
influence the politicos. They are just going to get themselves
more and more into trouble and you have the solution waiting
for them. That's called emergence by emergency.
"I don't try to influence. I have standbys ready when they get
into trouble. That's exactly why the geodesic dome came in.
That's why they were used for the DEW Line, for instance.
* Tape #2, transcript p.8; RBF to W. Wolf, 15 Jun '74