Images of Ocean Floor Show Effects of Tsunami

Iphtashu Fitz writes "This week the UK's Royal Navy presented images taken by the survey ship HMS Scott of the damage to the floor of the Indian Ocean that triggered the tsunami two months ago. The Scott has a high-resolution multi-beam sonar that let it generate highly detailed images of the sea floor, some 200m to 5000m below sea level. An image showing the scale of the damage, and the full presentation made by the Commanding Officer of HMS Scott (38MB PowerPoint) are available. The presentation contains a number of images that have more detail than those available on the websites."

Down already?

[mg2]

The tsunami evidently took out the royal-navy's servers as well =\

Not very nice

[MuckSavage]

Linking to a 40meg powerpoint file. I can smell the server burning from here.

Great Scott

[Anonymous Coward]

Why in the world would some sadistic person put up a 37 MB power point presentation on slashdot. Damn you must hate the home office. Well it still downloading strong for me at about 87KBs

Timothy

Oh, they'll like that!

[Otter]

...the full presentation made by the Commanding Officer of HMS Scott (38MB PowerPoint) are available.

I hope the British readers here didn't have any urgent business with the UK Hydrographic Office site!

Does this mean...

[Undefined Parameter]

Fitz just linked a 38 megabyte file from the front page... does this mean that slashdot just declared war on the U.K.?

~UP

In other news...

[HTL2001]

the UK Royal Navy website was completly destroyed by the Slashdot Tsunami

Re:Not very nice

[Anonymous Coward]

There needs to be a t-shirt:

"The Slashdot effect -- comming to a webserver near you"

38 Mb File Brings Limey Navy to a Stop

[CygnusXII]

NEWS FLASH
British Royal Naval Communications brought to a halt today. Somehow a Naval Report on the latest Tsunami damage was linked to Popular IT Community Web Site SlashDot.org. The resulting Bandwith usage rates shot to am alarming rate, and crippled Data Communications to Royal Naval Forces, and forced the Royal Navy to respond, by issuing the following Statement. "Koh! Blimey! We've been knackered by the BOFHs'!"

Re:***ERROR! Ignorance tolerance overload!

[yotto]

Just because it's damaged doesn't mean it's bad. I damage a golf ball every time I strike it with a club. Eventually that ball must be replaced. It's perfectly normal, but it's damage. I didn't see anywhere in the article (And not just because it was slashdotted before I got there) where they were talking about banning earthquakes.

Earthquakes cause damage. That's all there is to it.

Re:2 Comments and Kablewie...

[Anonymous Coward]

I do whatever my Rice Crispies Tell Me to DO!

You must be very limber.

Re:Short attention span

[Anonymous Coward]

If you're gonna write "goth's" shouldn't you also write "lemming's", or are apostrophes just added at random these days?

Re:Oh, they'll like that!

[SlayerofGods]

Does anyone ever have urgent business at a hydrographic office?

Re:Sheer unbridled stupidity

[carpe_noctem]

Just read osnews for tech stories that will be published in /. tomorrow (with user comments even more idiotic than those found here, believe it or not), and then hit up boingboing for all the "humor" stories that will be reposted after a 6 hour delay.

Nothin' to it!

We Sank Their Battleship!

[Tackhead]

> Fitz just linked a 38 megabyte file from the front page... does this mean that slashdot just declared war on the U.K.?

Slashdotters' guns were aimed and requests were comin' fast,
The first link hit the website, they knew she couldn't last,
That mighty Naval server room is just a memory,
"Avenge the Bismarck" was the battle cry, sent over TCP.

We found the freakin' powerpoint that's makin' such a fuss!
We slashdotted the website 'cause the world depends on us!
It hit the front page runnin, when we spun our browsers 'round,
Yeah, we found the Royal Navy, and then we shut 'er down!

With apologies to Johnny Horton's Sink the Bismarck, 1960 [allthelyrics.com], and those who served aboard both the Hood and the Bismarck.)

Re:Sheer unbridled stupidity

[ScruffyScrode]

I think it was Jimmy Stewart that said:

"Every time a server burns, a torrent gets its wings."

I could be wrong.

Re:***ERROR! Ignorance tolerance overload!

[That's Unpossible!]

I applaud your pedantry, sir. Let us apply this to different areas.

BZZZT! The surface of your car cannot be damaged. Changed, yes, but not damaged. Unless you're suggesting that we need to get back to car body perfection.

Look, there are accidental collisions that have been going on for as long as cars have existed. Cars and trucks are CONSTANTLY reshaping the surface of other vehicles. THIS IS NOT DAMAGE. This is normal behavior for the ecosystem.

NEWSFLASH!!!

[EmagGeek]

A tsunami has been detected approaching the coasts of Greenland and Iceland from the East. Geologists suspect this tsunami is due to the plunging of the entire uk.gov webserver complex into the atlantic ocean and a very high velocity.

Did anyone happen to get the entire presentation and have a torrent up somewhere?

Follow up story

[MosesJones]

Today the British Navy abandoned the gulf and turned its ships and nuclear submarines onto the Slashdot editing team. An initial force of Special Boat Service (SBS) forces was expected to take out the chain of command before a period of continual bombardment by artillery, missle and aircraft.

A spokesman from the British Navy said "right that's it, we've left the buggers alone since 1812 but that does it."

In related news Slashdot is being re-hosted from Camp Delta, along with any remaining members of the editing team.

In Other News...

[Anonymous Coward]

France Surrenders.

In related news...

[gmuslera]

Recent images of the ocean floor in the tsunami area found traces of an ancient city, temptativelly named "R'lyeh".

Also, a big monster with a head like an squid is walking from there to Tokio. Press there don't know if call it Godzilla, or if they must call Godzilla to save them.

I felt a great disturbance in the Force...

[Gorimek]

...as if millions of slashdotters all posted the same joke about the Royal Navy's web server going down. I fear something terrible has happened.

Re:Down already?

[dr_dank]

This was no natural disaster. It was the work of the deadly Slashdot torpedo.

Re:Down already?

[Jellybob]

I'm feeling pedantic, so I'll point out that soc.soton.ac.uk is the Southampton Oceanography Centre.

And I guess that may explain why my connection is so slow today, since I'm on the same exchange ;)

Re:Down already?

[mshiltonj]

Recycling a joke from an earlier, non-related thread:

British Techie sitting next to server room, sipping a cup of tea: Nigel, what's that sudden buzzing sound?

Re:Short attention span

[magarity]

You are one sick fuck.

Sounds like somebody got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning!