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Originally Posted by LoBlo
Good stuff, good stuff. Okiedokie, here's another a couple more...
1)If you had to bring just *one* luxary item (besides pictures of family) onboard the submarine what would it have been? A picture of the sky? Extra sweets? A favorite video game?
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2 pounds of gummy bears. It was so nice to have something sweet and fruity to bring a smile to my face. Also, these were not your 5 pounds for $4.99 kind. No sir, these were the $10+ a pound ones. The GOOD ones you had to go to a sweet shop for.
Later, when I had a key to the supply lockers (the chop trusted me), I cleared a supply locker that was accessable via my rack (yes, the door was in my RACK!) and lined it with foam and stored 6 CASES of various soda's in it. There was NOTHING like sitting at a movie on the backwatch eating my ration of gummy bears and pop the top on a soda. Granted, I only did this AFTER the soda machine ran out of sryup or invariably broke.
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2) Hypothetically, say you could change the design of the boat to include *one more creature comfort* for the submariners onboard without impacting the function of the boat. What would it have been? The inclusion of a exercise gym (about the size of the torpedo room)? A hot tub like the Typhoons supposedly have? A rack for every submariner so no one had to hot bunk? What would it be?
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A room, not very large, were you had a COMFORTABLE chair, non-florecent lighting and soundproof. Someplace where, for maybe 15 minutes, you can not hear the incessant hum of a fan, people chatting. Maybe put in a scent of growing grass, maybe a sea scent. Someplace were you could be alone and AWAY from the boat, even for a few minutes
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Originally Posted by Frame57
You are a molecule of sea water, now explain how you become carbon monoxide once inside the boat...?
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? How can a molecule made of hydrogen and oxygen become a molecule containing carbon? There's no carbon in H20.... I think I would have failed.  
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Short version:
You come in via the aux seawater system bonded with two of you buddies know as hydrogen. You then go to a device that ensure that nothing but you and your twins get through; the rest goes back overboard. You then go to the O2 generator and get divorced from your H2 partners and then you are then stored in a large bottle for a while till they let you out. Then you float through the air till you are inhaled by a carbon based life form. You then are used to facilitate the conversion of matter to energy in said carbon based life form after which you are exhaled with the byproduct known as carbon you have now become bonded to.
And there you go, that is how a oxygen molecule becomes carbon dioxide.