"Richard B. Gilbert" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]: 

> unruh wrote:
...
>> Once you have proven it works, you can then spend the 3 years and
>> countless memos trying to get official space on the hull to mount the
>> receiver. 
 
> Errr. . . .  I don't thing you want to mount it on the hull.  The hull
> is the part that keeps the water out, provides a place to put engines 
> and other necessary machinery, etc.  I think you want to put the
> antenna somewhere on the superstructure and the rest of the
> electronics somewhere on the bridge.

While I may have misread Unruh, I believe that his use of "hull" above is a 
case of metonymy - or, rather more specifically, its subclass synecdoche -  
and refers to the ship generally.

Regards,

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