Re:Danish Submarine Inventor Says He Buried Swedish Journali...
by jacquesm on Monday August 21, 2017 @09:39PM
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You have a very rich imagination.
There are far simpler explanations which do not involve foreign powers, secrets, drugs and so on.
If Peter Madsen turns out to be a drug smuggler on top of a murderer I guess it shouldn't surprise me but I'd put the seduction gone wrong entry a lot higher on the list of likely possibilities.
As for the 99% of the people in China, that's a nice attempt at reverse Chinese math, we're still looking at 10 million people then who know how to build a submarine? I'd be highly surprised if it was even 1% of that. The regular people in China need a submarine about as much as you or I do, which is not at all, which is one of the reasons why Madsens' efforts were notable in the first place.
> Do you honestly believe the Chinese could learn even a single useful thing from Madsen's toy?
I honestly believe that 99% of people in China don't know how to build a submarine or have free access to militar technology so, yes I do.
But lets explore your idea. If the reason is neither the passengers, nor the submarine, must be in the cargo. "Somebody found a shipload of something illegal, thus must be 'silenced'". Is a perfectly valid hypothesis. The problem is that: 1) No drugs where found and 2) would the guy be so dumb as to invite a journalist to enter in a relatively small submarine if there was a shipload of something illegal inside? It seems unlikely to me.