Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

NASA's Sensor Web

Posted by michael on from the finding-the-martians dept.

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."

1 of 89 comments (clear)

  1. Why sensors and cpus when we have a free market? by jerryasher · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    NASA is a bunch of idiots and going about this all wrong. Sensors? Distributed Computing? Modeling? Algorithms? Fooey.

    As everyone knows, a free efficient market will factor in all knowledge and forecase everything within seconds.

    This is a terrible waste of taxpayer money so long as we can trade Orange Juice, Pork Belly, and Osama Bin Laden Futures.