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A swarm of submarine drones will scour the depths for MH370

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Re: A swarm of submarine drones will scour the depths for MH370

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Re: A swarm of submarine drones will scour the depths for MH370

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"Every block of sea floor that the HUGINs map will be examined by three sets of human eyes." They could publish the data and crowdsource the review process. Also perhaps some machine learning techniques could be applied to indentify most interesting segments to review.

Agreed. putting it on Tomnod would be nice (and they're already interested in the search for MH370)

Re: A swarm of submarine drones will scour the depths for MH370

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I wonder what other interesting things they'll discover doing the search. Surly they've already stumbled upon lots shipwrecks in the search for MH370?

Here's an article about one: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/malaysia-airlines-... ARCGIS had a fairly detailed visualization of the search and the data. At the bottom of the page, there are some examples of other things that were found: https://geoscience-au.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.htm... (HN comments for the latter link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14802105 )

Maybe one day they will find captain america

Re: A swarm of submarine drones will scour the depths for MH370

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Surely it should be a school?

Yeah actually kidding aside, why not that? Maybe the idea is that robots are more like insects than fish, but that seems a bit exotic imo.

"Drone" comes from worker bees, so "swarm" is at least consistent. But I found drone misleading here - I thought they'd be airborne. What's the scope of "drone"?

Re: A swarm of submarine drones will scour the depths for MH370

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Its crazy the amount of money spent on MH370... does anyone know how much it compares to the payout of the victim's families?

Probably greater than the payout, but if I had a family member on that plane, I'd forgo the payout for search teams in hope of receiving closure

Re: A swarm of submarine drones will scour the depths for MH370

#60

Its crazy the amount of money spent on MH370... does anyone know how much it compares to the payout of the victim's families?

Also there's not really much "mystery of MH370." It was almost certainly suicide/murder by the pilot. Though I guess there's no harm confirming that.
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