Re: Submarines in space

Jonathan Jarrard wrote:
> 
> In a book called SALVAGE AND DESTROY (can't remember the author), a
> scout for an extremely stable, ancient galactic civilization decides
> that Earth must be destroyed because of our aggressive nature and
(more
> importantly) the fact that the U.S. and Soviet sub forces would
provide
> us with a ready-made war fleet as soon as we discovered FTL and
> anti-grav (apparently these were closely related, easy to build, and
the
> sort of unpredictable theoretical discovery that could come at any
> time.)

	There is another book called Gilpin's Space by Reginald
Brentnor,
	where one simple discovery yields a device that will
	turn any submarine into a starship, especially a 
	small one like Alvin.