A Submarine 牛人 24 July 2008 Do you recken what minimum qualification is needed for someone to become a submarine expert? A Master's Degree? A Ph.D? Or a Post Ph.D? Nope. Evidence shows that you only need a very, very and very basic education. This evidence is hard, so hard that it is built on matel, literally. If you have any doubt, you can ask someone who was in Beijing early this month and visited a certain frontyard on the outskirts, and he would tell you that he saw with his own eyes a submarine which was said to be designed and manufactured by a peasant from Fuyang County (阜阳) in Anhui Province (安徽); and this certain submarine expert only received four and half years of basic education at a primary school.
It doesn't mean this peasant has a low IQ - it only means his family was too poor to afford the cost for him to further his schooling. A free education system, in particular for kids in rutual areas, was implemented only quite recently. Anyway, back to some certain years ago, semi-educated young peasent named Tao Xiangli (陶相礼) migrated to Beijing and made a living by doing some unskilled odd jobs. Then one day last year, he suddenly decided he could do better with his life by reinventing himself as a top engineer. And that is how a submarine expert was born from virtual nothingness. Since then, he spent 30,000 yuans (about AUD$5,000) of his saving on the project. A year late a 6.5-metre long underwater transportation made of metal pails has been manifested from, also, a virtual nothingness. The submarine in question can only accommodate one person at a time, but is fully equipped with pressure gauge, radar, television, oxygen tank and lighting facilities, and has an estimated capacity to descend up to 10 metres underwater. （Soursce of info & original photo: 红网） Pre: Forest Arts in
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