NASA's Sensor Web

ddtstudio writes "PC Mag has a story about the Sensor Web: 'a cutting-edge application of networked sensor technology currently on the fast track at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).' Not only a new way to test tech, but also perhaps a pervasive and inexpensive way to explore remote places such as Antarctica -- or Mars."

Comments

NASA's Web Sensoring

[Anonymous Coward]

NASA's sensoring the web!?!?!?

Quick, call the EFF!!! ;-)

Just say no to Sensorship

[CraigoFL]

I don't care whether it's NASA, libraries, Homeland Security, or the Chinese government, media sensorship is wrong; it hurts everyone's freedom when you sensor the web.

Bad spellers of the world untie!

Bad Manners!

[Anonymous Coward]

So NASA is eventually planning to drop pods all over Mars? I think that's extremely bad manners. After all, look at all the havoc it causes in those movies when alien pods come to Earth!

Think of the Martians. Won't somebody think of the Martians?

One good use for these things

[Anonymous Coward]

They could plant them all over the place to monitor cell phone reception and fire that "Can you hear me now" guy!

Go There Yourself

[Brad the Informer]

This would be a misapplication of technology to use it to explore Antarctica. Dammit, I paid over $7K each for myself and my wife to go to there!

If you want to see it, see it the way God intended; from the deck of a ship with very, very strong hull plating.

(By the way, it's all water, rocks, sea lions and penguins.)

Re:traffic applications

[DrMrLordX]

Hell, why not put a sensor web in a major metropolitan sewer system? Who knows what you'd turn up . . .

Pizza time!!!

Sensorship?

[swankypimp]

Geez, I first read the headline as "NASA Censors Web" and figured it was some juicy YRO story.

NOTE TO SELF: Do not drink heavily and browse Slashdot at the same time. When your judgment is so impaired that the grinning Tux icon starts looking sexy, it's time to put the cognac down.

Re:They need to be more outspoken

[mattkime]

Isn't that the way we want it to work? "Today NASA received transmissions from what appears to be intelligent lifeforms! Scientists are working around the clock to decode their communications which appear to be mostly grunts and whistles."

....two weeks later...

"Sorry, it was a hip hop video transmission that bounced off the moon and back to earth."

Rocket Science

[Anonymous Coward]

The article quotes Kevin A. Delin, the leader of the JPL Sensor Webs Project, as saying, "Or the Sensor Web might be able to tell that up the hill the soil gets more dry because water tends to run downhill."

I tend to agree. I learned this about 28 years ago, playing in the backyard with a garden hose.

I'm currently working on a grant regarding my theory that branches tend to grow up and roots tend to grow down.

My next project will be on my theory that lousy engineers tend to flow upwards toward management.

Re:They need to be more outspoken

[Anonymous Coward]

They also had a team of linguists trying to figure out the meaning of "fro shizza my nizza."

Re:Interesting technology

[ruprechtjones]

C' mon, we already learned about this in Jurassic Park. My theory is, kill that butterfly in Tahiti and there will be no tornados in Kansas this year. Problem solved.