ya know, its been forever since i seen a FS1 episode, just how did they get down there? thru the hatch in the observation room floor?:confused:

you are correct.alexander

Then thru a tubular crawl space to get into the airlock. Not the most efficiant of designs. :confused::p

I thought an egress was a female egret.

http://www.amazilia.net/images/Birds/Herons/IntermediateEgret_01.JPG

Then thru a tubular crawl space to get into the airlock. Not the most efficiant of designs. :confused::pThat's only if you try to reconcile the interior set with the exterior. On the studio set, the FS access hatch was only about four feet behind the windows. To be practical, the hatch would have to be directly over the FS access trunk, in a separate compartment between the observation lounge and the control room. That compartment could be a Flying Sub ready room, containing gear and equipment for various specialized FS missions, as well as maintenance tools for servicing the Flying Sub.

It never made sense for the control room to adjoin the observation lounge anyway, because of the Great Periscope Paradox.

These ships were all built in Irwinian space.

As we all know, Irwinian space is really messed up and things are bigger on the inside than on the outside. Don't stress your brain trying to figure it out or it will enter said Irwinian space, become bigger than your head - and explode!!


Huzz

All my pants must of been made in "Irwinian space" then. :thumbsup:

I am so not gonna go there.

Huzz:lol:

It never made sense for the control room to adjoin the observation lounge anyway, because of the Great Periscope Paradox.

In the novel of the movie, the periscope was actually a camera. Much like in many modern submarines, the periscope was not connected to the viewer so that there are fewer holes in the pressure hull. So it would not be necessary for the periscope viewer to be below the periscope shaft. An emergency conventional periscope is located it the sail.

David.

Of course, that doesn't explain why there still needs to be a traditional periscope tube in the control room. Unless it's because (here we go again!) a sub captain just doesn't feel like a sub captain unless he can order, "Up periscope!" and grab those pull-down handgrips and turn around 360 degrees to have a good look at whatever's on the surface. Any schmuck can look at a video monitor!

I am not repeating myself. I am not repeating myself. I am not repeating myself. I am not repeating myself . . .

Unless it's because (here we go again!) a sub captain just doesn't feel like a sub captain unless he can order, "Up periscope!" and grab those pull-down handgrips and turn around 360 degrees to have a good look at whatever's on the surface.

hahaha! Maybe he has to feel special! and doesn't want the crew seeing the girls on the beach!:woohoo: