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well, we're talking about these two submarines not all submarines...and they collided. so for those two submarines, it'd be 1.
at any rate, what puzzled me up front about the collision was cleared up by the article in le monde, which actually says "there were manoevers happening..." so there was a reason for the subs to be around each other. so the big big big ocean thing became less a factor.
speaking for myself, at least some of the goofing about this situation is motivated by the fact that these were nuclear submarines and were fully armed. while i know that the weapons themselves are not set up to detonate without a particular command sequence, the engines seem more problematic to me. and there's something alarming in general about 2 nuclear anythings crashing into each other. just now, i was almost run over by a fedex truck. that alarmed me. but this collision alarmed me more.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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