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3000 Ocean-Going Weather Robots from Oz

Posted by timothy on from the perfectly-normal-nothing-to-worry dept.

texchanchan writes: "From a Yahoo! science article, 'SYDNEY (Reuters) - Scientists met in Australia on Wednesday to launch the next wave in a global climate-alert system by seeding the southern seas with thousands of floating hi-tech robots.' There are already '347 5-feet-tall robotic profilers' mostly in the northern hemisphere. Future releases will 'fully cover the world's oceans by 2006'."

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  1. What about "Geeks on Ships" by billmaly · · Score: 2

    Sailor: "Captain, unidentified object off the port bow!"
    Captain: "All stop! Send a crew down to check it out"
    Later....
    Sailor: "Looks like some kind of robot sir!"
    Captain: "Wonder how it works.....hey...open that hatch...."
    Later still....
    Sailor: "Ummmm....how do we get all this...back into that?"
    Captain: "Beats me...huck it back overboard. Kinda cool to look at it all though!"

    1. Re:What about "Geeks on Ships" by JabberWokky · · Score: 2
      Much more sinister is when they all go offline at once, and head to a central point to "disuss their situation".

      --
      Evan "Or divert the plasma flow so Riker and Picard can beam out"

      --
      "$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien