Liquid Robotics' Wave Gliders Begin Historic Swim Across Pacific
49 points by mahipal 13 years ago | 9 comments- SimHacker 13 years agohttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/02/business/wave-glider-a-flo...
"I was told 'find something interesting to do'." -jag
They should have been a wee bit more specific about whose interests they were referring to!
- Matti 13 years agoHere's a 1 hour talk on the Wave Glider: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq4G2ciXjZI&t=13m11s
- steveis99 13 years agoThis is James Gosling's new gig...
- arjn 13 years agoI wonder if these can be considered the next generation of underwater gliders. There was a very interesting program on them recently - either on PBS or Discovery, can't recall exactly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_gliders
One of these made an Atlantic crossing.
http://ocean.si.edu/ocean-news/underwater-robots-explore-oce...
- mooneater 13 years agoI dont understand why James thinks this will save the world.
- cbo 13 years ago"Save the world" is such a broad term. It really depends on what things about the world you find to be most important.
If your primary concerns are safety from hazardous ocean-based weather, security of offshore energy generators and fisheries, and a better understanding of the ocean's effect on climate change, Liquid Robotics' technology would certainly qualify as "saving the world".
- wtvanhest 13 years agoIt is just a different direction toward energy independence which could evolve in to something bigger.
- cbo 13 years ago
- CamperBob 13 years agoDrug cartels seen salivating, writing large checks...
- cellis 13 years agoWow, I ended up reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-submarine because of that comment.
What's amazing is how sophisticated this technology is and how underreported it is. They are using fiberglass hulls to evade radar and transmitting their location using state of the art encryption.
- cellis 13 years ago