Any truth to this?

[AVGWarhawk]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...cle2240543.ece

[Digital_Trucker]

Not sure about that one, but I bet this one was true

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...cle2196043.ece

[A Very Super Market]

...That isn't Das Boot. It's black and white.

[Fincuan]

True or not, gotta love Sun's style: "The potential consequences are unthinkable. It’s very unlikely there would have been a nuclear explosion"

edit: Nevermind, and note to self: Learn to read. I read that "unlikely" as "likely", which changed the meaning of that sentence a little

[baggygreen]

Don't worry Fin, it still doesnt make much sense

[Aramike]

Originally Posted by Fincuan

True or not, gotta love Sun's style: "The potential consequences are unthinkable. It’s very unlikely there would have been a nuclear explosion"

edit: Nevermind, and note to self: Learn to read. I read that "unlikely" as "likely", which changed the meaning of that sentence a little

It is kind of an odd paragraph structure.

[Fincuan]

You're right about that Aramike, and that's probably what got me at first. After the first part one would expect it to continue just as I read it at first.

As far as the collision itself is concerned, I remember the Finnish press reporting just a short while ago that the French "Le Triomphant" has collided with an unidentified object somewhere in the Atlantic. No word on British subs, and I haven't seen anything on that elsewhere either. Maybe we'll need to wait a few more days for the story to spread, should it be true.

Looks like it's at least partially true.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/eu...ent/index.html

Very strange, wonder if there is more to this.

[Tchocky]

Both lead boats, too.

Hmph.

If this is human error, I'd hate to be the culprit, or any of the culprits if there are more then one. As a kind of a blunder, this is kinda in a class of it's own. A nuclear submarine crashes into ANOTHER nuclear submarine? Whoo there...

[lesrae]

I love the Sun's comment 'She was last night towed into Faslane...' boats are always towed in there by tugs.

[Letum]

Any truth to the story? Yes.
Any truth to the Sun newspaper? No.

[Tchocky]

Originally Posted by OneToughHerring

If this is human error, I'd hate to be the culprit, or any of the culprits if there are more then one. As a kind of a blunder, this is kinda in a class of it's own. A nuclear submarine crashes into ANOTHER nuclear submarine? Whoo there...

I'd say it's an excellent advertisement for the low radiated-noise leves of the Vanguard and Le Triomphant classes.

Boo for their respective passive sonars, though.

Originally Posted by Letum

To war with the French!

+1
It's been ages

[Letum]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

+1
It's been ages

Not so long as you might think.

I met my Great Grandfather before he died. He talked about his farther who
remembered the "Black ships" sailing up the Thames with the soldiers returning from the
Crimean War.
One of those returning on the troop ships was his uncle*; an officer who had fought
the French at Waterloo.

*i.e. My Great, Great, Grandfather's Uncle.

History is short.

[XabbaRus]

The paragraph style isn't strange it is by the Sun and every second sentence highlighted or the important word highlighted due to the fact that the main demographic for the sun are either ill-educated or thick or a combination of both.