abarbarian Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 Some call them marine disrupters. Others see plunder. Quote For years a shipwreck hunter has battled governments and rivals over the ocean floor’s riches. He’s kept his identity a secret, until now. Quote Clake’s innovation was to put all the AUVs on one ship and deploy them in formation like a bomber squadron, carpeting vast areas of seabed with sonar. Multiple AUVs could search more ground and get better-quality scans while reducing time spent at sea and the costs of fuel and labor. Clake and the other investors in his companies also acquired businesses in Louisiana and Texas whose employees had experience operating the robots for the oil and gas industry. Quote Starting in 2020, Ocean Infinity set out on a buying spree, with orders for 23 remote-controlled, full-size vessels from shipbuilders in Italy and Norway. The “Armada,” as Ocean Infinity calls it, stands to be the world’s biggest private fleet of robotic vessels, serving the oil and gas industry, cable companies and deep-sea miners. The ships will have skeleton crews initially, but the plan is to dispense with sailors altogether and steer the vessels from onshore hubs. “The impact and the scale of this robotic fleet will spark the biggest transformation the maritime industry has seen since sail gave way to steam,” Quote It also moved into a refitted warehouse on England’s southern coast. The facility looks more like a tech campus than a shipyard. Access to the control room is by iris scan. Inside, pilots of remote submarines sit in big gaming-style chairs in front of multiple screens. The workspaces were designed by an e-sports company, and the pilots can even use Xbox-style controllers if they wish. Quote For three weeks, helicopters, autonomous undersea vehicles and an electromagnetic sounding system carried out a search and recovery operation, until finally the Endurance emerged from the blackness, perfectly preserved by the frigid water. It was a landmark moment in the history of marine archaeology. Super article and super story. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted November 23, 2023 Share Posted November 23, 2023 The Documentary - Space 1977 Quote Voyager One and Two are still operating after 40 years in the depths of space. Voyager One is currently some 20 billion kilometres from Earth travelling at 15.5 kilometres a second. It takes 19 hours for a signal from the spacecraft's 20 watt transmitter to reach home. Voyager 2 is 17 billion kilometres away and will soon leave the Solar System. By gum they built stuff to last way back when. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted November 24, 2023 Author Share Posted November 24, 2023 (edited) 13 hours ago, abarbarian said: The Documentary - Space 1977 By gum they built stuff to last way back when. By accident. No one things so "simple" and in very freezing temps would survive like this. Edited November 24, 2023 by crp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted November 24, 2023 Author Share Posted November 24, 2023 https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20231029-japans-adrenaline-fuelled-adventure a different way to get high. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted November 24, 2023 Share Posted November 24, 2023 9 hours ago, crp said: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20231029-japans-adrenaline-fuelled-adventure a different way to get high. Book me a ride or two Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted November 29, 2023 Author Share Posted November 29, 2023 Below the water -- https://nicenews.com/environment/ocean-photographer-of-the-year-2023/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted November 29, 2023 Author Share Posted November 29, 2023 Above the water (yes, this is real.) https://dailyprogress.com/news/nation-world/weather/rare-weather-conditions-create-beautiful-see-through-ice-skating-rink-on-alaska-lake/video_ab743c05-f968-5d24-a2bc-77d5ba087267.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted December 3, 2023 Share Posted December 3, 2023 Some beautiful photos in Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2023: People's Choice finalists https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-02/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2023-peoples-choice-shortlist/103180806 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted December 4, 2023 Author Share Posted December 4, 2023 and you were proud of your snow angels ... https://nicenews.com/culture/simon-beck-snow-art/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted December 4, 2023 Author Share Posted December 4, 2023 some history about our calander https://www.interestingfacts.com/dates-never-happened/ZTccjDS8ewAHaf0I Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted December 5, 2023 Author Share Posted December 5, 2023 more than you probably wanted to know about mushrooms - https://priorworld.com/editorial/the-mythology-of-mushrooms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted December 5, 2023 Author Share Posted December 5, 2023 Not all cheese facts might be. https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/dec/06/fromage-fictions-the-14-biggest-cheese-myths-debunked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted December 19, 2023 Author Share Posted December 19, 2023 clothes , not teeth https://www.housedigest.com/1346718/brighten-yellowed-whites-alka-seltzer-hack-laundry/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 Merry Christmas folks. Here are a few trips down memory lane to celebrate the occasion. The Original Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town The Christmas Carol (as told by Vincent Price) 1949 Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer 1964 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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abarbarian Posted December 24, 2023 Share Posted December 24, 2023 British Home Children: Antique box tells heart-breaking history Quote It is now a major aspect of many Canadians' shared history. An estimated 10% of Canada's population - around 4 million people - are descendants of the British Home Children. The vast majority are not aware of their stories, however, as most children did not tell their descendants about the past While Australia and the UK apologised for the forced migration of child labourers more than a decade ago, Ms Oschefski said there is some resentment over a fast-tracked motion in Canada's House of Commons that included an unofficial apology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted January 2 Author Share Posted January 2 Humans glow -- https://www.sciencealert.com/you-can-t-see-it-but-humans-actually-glow-in-visible-light 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted January 7 Author Share Posted January 7 why fuses care about voltage and not just amps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 Unseen images of code breaking computer that helped win WW2 Quote It says they "shed new light" on the "genesis and workings of Colossus", which is considered by many to be the first ever digital computer. Its existence was kept completely secret until the early 2000s. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 I want one. It can fully charge itself in two to three days which gives you a 375 miles of travel. Total freedom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 1 hour ago, abarbarian said: I want one. It can fully charge itself in two to three days which gives you a 375 miles of travel. Total freedom. 375 miles (603km) may be OK for UK but in Australia that wouldn't get you between any 2 major cities. Interestingly I just saw a report of a test a couple of days ago where they drove 2 BMWs between Melbourne and Sydney which is ~878km. The were both basically the same model but one was electric and the other petrol. The shock was it actually cost more for recharging the electric one than the petrol cost for the other! And added several hours for 2 recharge stops on the way. That probably says more about the exorbitant cost of electricity at the recharge stations than about the efficiency of the cars though. Charging at home is reportedly much cheaper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 5 hours ago, sunrat said: 375 miles (603km) may be OK for UK but in Australia that wouldn't get you between any 2 major cities. In Australia with the sun shinning whilst you were travelling you could probably go further that the 375 mile before needing to recharge. However if you had one of those you would not be rushing around anyway. Well I would n't be rushing anyway If you had a solar set up at home with batteries charging a electric car would not cost anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 (edited) New Clue May Be the Key to Cracking CIA Sculpture’s Final Puzzling Passage Quote A puzzle that codebreakers have yet to crack sits just outside of the CIA’s cafeteria in Langley, Virginia. Inscribed on Kryptos, a sculpture erected on the intelligence agency’s grounds in 1991, the code consists of 865 letters and four question marks punched into a curved wall of copper. Though three of its passages were successfully decoded in the 1990s, Kryptos’ fourth and final section has proven harder to solve than originally anticipated. Interestingly the first three parts of the puzzle were solved by a man with a pen and paper. Quote When CIA physicist David Stein solved the puzzle’s first three passages in 1998, he called a meeting to announce his results. As Schwartz reported for the Washington Post in July 1999, some 250 people showed up to hear what the physicist, a traditionalist who at the time didn’t even have an e-mail address, had found using “pencil and paper alone.” Around the same time Stein released his findings, a computer scientist named Jim Gillogly cracked the code by creating programs that performed all of the grunt work. Ha ha that is a tad embarrassing for the secret services. Apparently cracking the code will lead to another puzzle. Also How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity Quote This is the story of the revelation in late 2013 that Bitcoin was, in fact, the opposite of untraceable—that its blockchain would actually allow researchers, tech companies, and law enforcement to trace and identify users with even more transparency than the existing financial system. That discovery would upend the world of cybercrime. Bitcoin tracing would, over the next few years, solve the mystery of the theft of a half-billion dollar stash of bitcoins from the world’s first crypto exchange, help enable the biggest dark-web drug market takedown in history, lead to the arrest of hundreds of pedophiles around the world in the bust of the dark web’s largest child sexual abuse video site, and result in the first-, second-, and third-biggest law enforcement monetary seizures in the history of the US Justice Department. Quote Studying the science of ciphers, Meiklejohn began to recognize the importance of privacy and the need for surveillance-resistant communications. She was not quite a cypherpunk: The intellectual appeal of building and breaking codes drove her more than any ideological drive to defeat surveillance. But like many cryptographers, she nonetheless came to believe in the need for truly unbreakable encryption, technologies that could carve out a space for sensitive communications—whether dissidents organizing against a repressive government or whistleblowers sharing secrets with journalists—where no snoop could reach. A most fascinating story. Edited January 23 by abarbarian 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted January 25 Author Share Posted January 25 quite the work to gather this data from the 50 States, https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/all-of-the-license-plates-in-the-united-states/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted January 25 Author Share Posted January 25 Illinois and Iowa to have quite the noisy Spring , https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cicadas-are-coming-rare-dual-emergence-could-bring-one-trillion-of-the-bugs-this-year-180983635/ 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 The 1st full moon of 2024 rises tonight with January’s Full Wolf Moon | Space The moon will be visible for the whole of tonight, appearing in the east just as the sun sets in the west. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Bad Moon Rising - Invidious 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corrine Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 No way I'll be seeing it here. Although not as dense as it was this morning, we still have lingering fog as well as complete cloud cover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 We actually managed to have some sunshine today. It's been cloudy and gray here for about 4 days straight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 I was watching cricket (Australia v West Indies) from Brisbane on TV last night and during a break in play the cameraman focussed on a full screen closeup of the moon showing incredible detail. Beautiful! TV cameras are excellent these days. It was raining here in Melbourne so no moon for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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