Big Green Machine

--P. Nicholson, The Australian

So we sailed on to the sun,
Till we found the sea green,
And we lived beneath the waves,
In our yellow submarine
--Yellow Submarine, The Beatles

TV news and camera,
there's choppers in the sky
Marines, police, reporters
ask where, for and why
--How Bizarre, OMC
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The New Hampshire is a $3 Billion top-secret attack submarine, over 375 feet long. The vessel is powered by an ultra-modern, 40,000 horsepower reactor that motors the ship at speeds up to 50 m.p.h. No other sub is as fast, expensive, quiet or deadly (ideasanddiscoveries.com).

Breaking through arctic ice? No problem. It has 12 vertical Cruise missile launching tubes to deter any "potential enemies", and with a lifespan of 30 years and the capacity to maintain its crew underwater for three months, the New Hampshire truly is a super sub.

Now, with the encomiums out of the way, Ranger has two comments:

• The U.S. frets over Iranian efforts to get a nuclear weapon, for what reason?

• The Chevy Volt has been recalled, and all have been bought back by General Motors due to technical problems. So, we can build machines of death and mass destruction, yet we cannot get a handle on a simple people-moving green machine for the streets of America.
  

But, you know, the Office of Naval Research says the killer sub is trying an initiative "to replace noisy fluorescent bunk lights with LEDs" -- yeah, at least that. So that makes you feel a little better, that if the trolling sub must unleash its deadly wrath, it will be led into battle under greener lights.

How bizarre!