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“cargoes. And that gets us into 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 turbulence. 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
