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Saw the video yesterday on YouTube. I wonder what happens if they get into very strong winds or very strong swell - if they tip over, do they get up by themselves? What happens if they submerge? Apparently they figured out how to do it, but my question is, how exactly are they doing it?
Isn't that what a keel does?
> “It’s fuel, consumables, and I don’t even want to tell you what our satellite bill is for data,” Interesting - the circumference of the earth is roughly 40 thousand km. If these could manage to lift an antenna either 140m (or equivalently 70m for all participants) - distance to Horizon should be roughly 40 km. So a thousand boats could form a theoretical relay net around a theoretical line in the ocean reaching aro…
> “It’s fuel, consumables, and I don’t even want to tell you what our satellite bill is for data,” Interesting - the circumference of the earth is roughly 40 thousand km. If these could manage to lift an antenna either 140m (or equivalently 70m for all participants) - distance to Horizon should be roughly 40 km. So a thousand boats could form a theoretical relay net around a theoretical line in the ocean reaching aro…
If high endurance air drones are advanced enough, you can coordinate sea and air nodes to make a mesh that avoids clouds and line of sight all-together so you don't have to string the network over the sea level horizon. Maybe have autonomous platforms that allow both to refuel too if they use hybrid systems.
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There is a system of AIS to broadcast position, course and speed of marine vessels. Perhaps one could combine this with a mesh relay network to forward packets to boats in the direction of land. An AIS and long range WiFi-like system running on top of sailor’s masts would be a fun community to bring together. Software defined radios could come in handy to handle multiple frequencies and protocols. https://www.marinet…
something like http://aprs.org
It's good for brief beacon based things but most of the RF tech around it is still stuck in the 80s.
"Revolutionize fishing" seems to mean selling data to fisheries so they can pull even more fish out of the ocean.
"Revolutionize fishing" seems to mean selling data to fisheries so they can pull even more fish out of the ocean.
Yeah this was my first thought as well. :( Like we need more effective methods of raping the oceans. Hopefully the scientific research will cover the potential drawbacks.
Younger researchers no longer want to spend that much time at sea, cut off from most of the internet. “It’s really hard to get the younger generation excited about going to sea,” says NOAA’s Meinig. “People think it’s romantic and then find they can’t text their friends and don’t have access to hundreds of channels of TV. It’s just a different style of life.” Fascinating. I guess the Saildrone is the ideal solution.
I wonder if this is really a generational thing vs a different type of person winning NOAA grants than in the past. Ie, people more interested in hype, advocacy, networking, etc than science.
Totally off topic aside: I’m seeing a lot of Bloomberg links these days and I’m constantly “over the free limit.” Sometimes the “web” strategy works, and sometimes it doesn’t (like this article for me). If I add up all the sources that are typical for HN it’s quite a lot. Bloomberg alone is $40/Mo now long term, plus nytimes, Washington Post, economist, FT, etc. I already pay for two of these — I don’t feel the need…
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Minus a couple of years, that is already a thing. Not sail drones though, as far as I know.
I know about drones smuggling small time packages in prisons and such. I was talking about a drone shipping tonns of drugs from South America to USA or Europe.