RE: Underwater questions [ot]

I thought I was the only one to remember Atragon!
Michael Brown

-----Original Message-----
From:	Nyrath the nearly wise 
Sent:	Wednesday, November 03, 1999 2:52 AM
To:	gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
Subject:	Re: Underwater questions [ot]

Donald Hosford wrote:
> I was thinking, maybe the ducted fans could be built into the body.
> With these hatchs that would slide over the various openings when it
> landed on the water.	Either they would compleatly seal the ducts, or
> just "streamline" them.  So that way it would have it's air
engines/lift
> ducts nice and dry.  I think the ducts would have to be tall enough
for
> the fans/engines to be above the water line while it was floating.

	Now we are describing ATRAGON.	This was an ancient
	Japanese monster movie.  The Atragon was a super sub
	built by the Captain Nemo-esque main character.
	It was a sub, it could slowly fly on belly rockets,
	and it had a giant drill on the nose so it could
	travel through the ground like a giant mole.