I had this genius idea the other day. I was thinking about how badass The Hunt for Red October was, and how much I wanted to see Blue Submarine No. 6 again, and I had this great idea to write a novel with submarines in it. But not just regular submarines, futuristic submarines! But realistic futuristic submarines, so it'll still feel genuine!

Then I went and Wiki'd submarines, and guess what?

Submarines suck. They're slow, they're unwieldy, and they can only go a measly 600 meters down, which kind of kills my plans for submarine combat eight kilometers below the surface of a post-apocalyptic Earth.

So I spent the last eight hours Wiki'ing everything from submarine crush depths to the average depth of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to how cold it is six kilometers down to even how high you'd have to raise the water level from where it's at now to the point where less than 1% of the Earth's surface is under water. Come to find out, it's like 4-5 kilometers. Problem is, it's going to really murder the credibility of my story if I come to find out that there isn't enough water in every polar ice cap on the planet to raise the water level 4-5 kilometers.

Comets are always an option, but they'd hamper the storytelling as the "villians" wouldn't be able to do anything with them so I'd have to half-ass an explanation of how sentient ocean life dragged a comet into the North Atlantic.

So, if anyone knows where I can find at LEAST 2 kilometers of water to drown our planet in, let me know. It's vitally important to the rapidly approaching apocalypse.

And now for something completely different:

Most people don't realize that the Krogan race's males, from the game Mass Effect, actually have four testicles, making them hands-down the ballsiest characters in the game. Strange but true.