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Post by nikeajax on Mar 22, 2023 9:10:53 GMT -8
I was wondering why these divers were all going one-way on the "roads" when a diver could just swim up and over everyone. Does this say something about our perceived 2-demensional world? John John, very true, but, think about where the cartoon is from: the Soviets absolutely adore a bureaucracy.  JB |
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on Mar 22, 2023 9:29:57 GMT -8
Humour from a 1979 issue of the Soviet diving magazine "Sportsmen-podvodnik". Caption: "Underwater sport - in the future". DRW I was wondering why these divers were all going one-way on the "roads" when a diver could just swim up and over everyone. Does this say something about our perceived 2-demensional world? John Excellent point, John. I'm guesssing that the Soviet divers pictured in the cartoon had the prospect of a future where regulation and conformity enjoyed a high priority for the sake of the perceived common good. The traffic light with its frowny and smiley faces has something of Orwell's "Big Brother is watching you" about it and the right to by-pass the busy traffic by flying over it might only have been granted to the USSR's "Scuba Police". DRW |
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Post by SeaRat on Mar 22, 2023 10:11:58 GMT -8
I was wondering why these divers were all going one-way on the "roads" when a diver could just swim up and over everyone. Does this say something about our perceived 2-demensional world? John Excellent point, John. I'm guesssing that the Soviet divers pictured in the cartoon had the prospect of a future where regulation and conformity enjoyed a high priority for the sake of the perceived common good. The traffic light with its frowny and smiley faces has something of Orwell's "Big Brother is watching you" about it and the right to by-pass the busy traffic by flying over it might only have been granted to the USSR's "Scuba Police". DRW DRW, This reminds me of the time we (USAF flight crews) were in Global Survival School at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington State, USA. We were out in the Cascade mountains of Washington, and doing compass course work. Our leader was an Air Force navigator, and he had it in his mind that we needed to go on a "bee line,' from one point to another, following the magnetic compass. Well, we came to a bog, probably a left-over beaver pond, and he was leading us directly across the pond/bog to a point on the other side. Several of us pararescue trainees, instead of following the Captain across the bog/pond, simply walked around the pond to the point the navigator had selected as on the compass course. We sat there and waited for probably ten minutes for the rest of the group to slog through the bog and come out the other side, water up to their elbows in points. It was quite funny to see the navigator's face when he saw us on the other side. John |
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Post by nikeajax on Mar 22, 2023 11:29:17 GMT -8
John, this is reminding me of a game that Teddy Roosevelt would play with his guests: I think it was called "Up and Over". The rules of the game were that they had to head in one direction that was pointed out to them: one simply couldn't go around anything on the path, but instead, they had to go up, over, and through any obstacle in the way, ponds, streams, trees, boulders, etc.. This sound like an excellent recipe for getting hurt  JB |
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Post by vance on Mar 22, 2023 15:25:56 GMT -8
Ah. I see podwodnik is how it is spelled in the reference materials I was looking for yesterday.
John's comment reminds me that I really want that flying car I was promised would be in everyone's garage by the year 2000.
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Post by artc on Mar 22, 2023 20:14:41 GMT -8
Today I watched the 1959 horror movie Attack of the Giant Leeches. It’s pretty hokey, but there is a scene where the game warden and his sidekick have a underwater knife fight against the giant leeches. They are using Healthways “Scuba” regulators with Hope-Page mouthpieces and 72 steel tanks. True vintage diving.They can’t kill the leeches with hand to suction cup fighting, so they end up using dynamite to blow up the entire lagoon. Only in the 50’s. 😂
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Post by mackintoshman on Mar 23, 2023 4:42:13 GMT -8
I have to admit I love 50's movies.
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Post by vance on Mar 23, 2023 6:58:29 GMT -8
I just noticed mackintoshman is a new member, who joined in December. Sorry for the lateness, but welcome to the forum! Maybe you could stop by the Welcome Center and tell us about yourself. We now know you and JB will get along famously...
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Post by nikeajax on Mar 23, 2023 9:05:29 GMT -8
Today I watched the 1959 horror movie Attack of the Giant Leeches. It’s pretty hokey, but there is a scene where the game warden and his sidekick have a underwater knife fight against the giant leeches. They are using Healthways “Scuba” regulators with Hope-Page mouthpieces and 72 steel tanks. True vintage diving.They can’t kill the leeches with hand to suction cup fighting, so they end up using dynamite to blow up the entire lagoon. Only in the 50’s. 😂 Art, we disgust, er-ah, discussed it a bit here: vintagescuba.proboards.com/thread/4692/attack-giant-leechesJB |
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Post by nikeajax on Mar 23, 2023 9:07:57 GMT -8
Speaking of 1950's: we watched this last night--HE-YIKES!
JB
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Post by artc on Mar 23, 2023 13:12:24 GMT -8
Ahhh JB, it’s good to see you’re an aficionado of the classics. 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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Post by nikeajax on Mar 23, 2023 14:10:58 GMT -8
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Post by SeaRat on Mar 23, 2023 14:44:06 GMT -8
Speaking of 1950's: we watched this last night-- HE-YIKES!JB JB, What a great short video. Stan Dibben was quite a guy. Thanks, John |
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Post by artc on Mar 23, 2023 15:02:22 GMT -8
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Post by nikeajax on Mar 30, 2023 19:46:15 GMT -8
This just tickled me!  JB |
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