3000 Ocean-Going Weather Robots from Oz 8
texchanchan writes: "From a Yahoo! science article, 'SYDNEY (Reuters) - Scientists met in Australia on Wednesday to launch the next wave in a global climate-alert system by seeding the southern seas with thousands of floating hi-tech robots.' There are already '347 5-feet-tall robotic profilers' mostly in the northern hemisphere. Future releases will 'fully cover the world's oceans by 2006'."
Can you saw propeller fodder? (Score:1)
Aren't there going to be a lot of fatalities of these things in the major shipping lanes, though?
Re:Can you saw propeller fodder? (Score:1)
Re:Can you say propeller fodder? (Score:1)
What about "Geeks on Ships" (Score:2)
Captain: "All stop! Send a crew down to check it out"
Later....
Sailor: "Looks like some kind of robot sir!"
Captain: "Wonder how it works.....hey...open that hatch...."
Later still....
Sailor: "Ummmm....how do we get all this...back into that?"
Captain: "Beats me...huck it back overboard. Kinda cool to look at it all though!"
Re:What about "Geeks on Ships" (Score:2)
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Evan "Or divert the plasma flow so Riker and Picard can beam out"
Quick question.. (Score:1)
I have to imagine that the ocean's a bit too deep to be tying them all down to the bottom everywhere.
Either way, I'm wondering if the data will be publically available at some point in time, or if it will just be used by this one group.
Re:Quick question.. (Score:1)