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Put in "gps transponder" and you'll get several links on the first page to actual GPS transponders:
Like this
And this
And this
Sorry, seems to be an actual thing! And it fits the definition of a transponder. I get that you want to redefine what a transponder is to make me wrong, but you can't do that - a transponder responds to a ping with data - and in this case, it's responding with GPS data. Hence, GPS transponder.

Look, as somebody who actually works in this industry

... And whose identity is "Anonymous"

, multibeam sounders operate on very high frequencies, way over what whales can perceive.

And yet, I can take away your hearing by emitting ultrasound if it's powerful enough. You won't hear yourself going deaf, you'll just go deaf. Actually, I can even kill you with exposure of 180dB of ultrasound. But, working (anonymously) in the industry, you'd know that frequency is only part of the equation.

What's hilarious here is that the Slashdot circle-jerkers are already screaming EXXON...BAAAAD!

Statements like these definately add to your credibility. By making juvenile sexual jokes, it's immediately obvious to everyone that this is a man who makes six figures in the field of Oceanography.

But do you know what kind of sonar does make whales' ears bleed?

Yes: The very loud kind. Just like any other animal's ears. In fact, whale's ears are more suseptible to damage due to high decibel emissions than humans because in the human ear, air waves hit a membrane behind which there is a liquid-filled area, thus the energy of the wave can be dissipated; Pressure waves travelling through air are much less powerful than underwater, because of the density of the medium. Whales, unfortunately, have inner ears filled with the same liquid is its surrounding environment, and at the same pressure... meaning there is no transitive barrier to protect them.

The big fucking' spherical and cylindrical arrays you find in the tips of the bulbous dicks of ships and submarines.

Well, without knowing which ship was involved in a 6 year old incident, it's impossible to know whether any phallic-shaped devices were mounted to the ship. However, while lacking your literary ability in the many uses of the word 'fuck', an independent science team, perhaps with less impressive credentials than yours, found the ships' activities were the likely cause of the sudden displacement and eventual death of the whales. Oh, and the names of the members of that scientific team were the International Whaling Commission, the US Marine Mammal Commission, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, ExxonMobil Exploration and Production (Northern Madagascar) Ltd, the International Fund for Animal Welfare, the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Government of Madagascar. They all think you're full of crap, but what would over a hundred scientists know compared to someone who swears like a sailor anonymously on slashdot?

Have you even seen a fucking multibeam? The transducer array is roughly the size of a shoebox.

You must have very big feet then. That's a picture of the NOAA's multibeam echosounder, an ER60. It is a low-power model, and in this case is being used to track the migratory movements of fish, and is of limited range. The kind that several sources have indicated were used by ExxonMobile inject high pressure air into the water; These are considerably larger, and more powerful, than these systems, which modulate a diaphram. It's the difference between your laptop's speakers, and a pneumatically-driven organ like those seen at older churches. Needless to say, the organ is much louder.

Idiots. I'm surrounded by goddamn idiots!

Yeah... I know this feeling well. Look at how often I get downmodded for providing factual and relevant commentary, instead of simp

No need to anchor. We use dynamic positioning along with HiPAP and APOS to track our ROV's position.

This Penguin does: http://www.kongsberg.com/eng/kda/products/missiles _space/missiles/mk3/

I believe this project is somewhat akin to the new norwegian military "multi role radio" (multi because it's capable of acting as: plain radio, packet radio and as networked data device (aka cell phone or mobile data point)).

Although the norwegian model, which has been in the coming since mid-1980s, is not based on *nix-OS or anything close to open source software, it HAS already been deployed, at least on a small scale, for testing all the capabilites and configurations. There have for the last year (since I left the army) been a few problems, but it seems to do what it is supposed to...

The Kongsberg Group that makes these radios had a pretty decent coverage of it on their website, but have recently redesigned them, and the only information I am able to find is this one.

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I believe this project is somewhat akin to the new norwegian military "multi role radio" (multi because it's capable of acting as: plain radio, packet radio and as networked data device (aka cell phone or mobile data point)).

Although the norwegian model, which has been in the coming since mid-1980s, is not based on *nix-OS or anything close to open source software, it HAS already been deployed, at least on a small scale, for testing all the capabilites and configurations. There have for the last year (since I left the army) been a few problems, but it seems to do what it is supposed to...

The Kongsberg Group that makes these radios had a pretty decent coverage of it on their website, but have recently redesigned them, and the only information I am able to find is this one.

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Both Kongsberg and Horten in Norway are small towns, ~20k inhabitants, that has a (comparably) large hi-tech industry base.

You get the disadvantages of small-town life (not much is happening) and the advantages (peace and quiet and low crime rate). In addition, Kongsberg is sort of a winter sport capital, and Horten is a seaside town with opportunities for boating. Both towns are about an hours drive from Oslo, the capital.

A few examples of companies in Kongsberg:

• Sysdeco Group (GIS and tools)
• Kongsberg Group (Defence, aerospace, maritime (lame homepage))
• FMC Kongsberg Subsea (Offshore tech)

Kongsberg Group has several companies in Horten, too. These are the big companies, there are a lot of small ones.

Most Norwegians speak English quite well. My girlfriend came here as an exchange student and got along just fine without any Norwegian at all. I would assume that it's no big problem getting a job without speaking Norwegian.

Norway is a peaceful and quiet country. There is little crime and good social security, but also high taxes and often cold weather. Check it out if you like this kind of life...