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Turtles Go Wireless

Posted by michael on from the shell-prompt dept.

neutron_p writes "Ground-breaking work to investigate the migratory movements of marine turtles in the UK Overseas Territories began on the Caribbean "Emerald Isle" of Montserrat this week. Staff from Government of Montserrat attached a satellite transmitter to 'Montserrat', a 150kg green turtle, which will enable her migratory movements to be logged from space and followed live on the internet at http://seaturtle.org/tracking/ Since leaving Montserrat's shores she has already passed through the waters of St Kitts and Nevis but where will she stop? Picture is here."

16 comments

  1. I smell lucrative cartoon series by captnitro · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wireless Migrating Ninja Turtles
    Wireless Migrating Ninja Turtles
    Wireless Migrating Ninja Turtles
    Science in a half-shell
    Turtle power

    They're the world's most traveled science team (We're really hip!)
    They're scientists in a half-shell and they're green (Hey - get a grip!)
    When your migratory measurement is lax
    This Turtle girl won't cut you no slack

    Wireless Migrating Ninja Turtles
    Wireless Migrating Ninja Turtles

    The Government of Montserrat taught them her to be science teens
    Sara leads, Shellby does machines (That's a fact, Jack!)
    Timber is cool but crude (Gimme a break!)
    Fluffy is a party dude (Party!)

    Wireless Migrating Ninja Turtles
    Wireless Migrating Ninja Turtles
    Wireless Migrating Ninja Turtles
    Science in a half-shell
    Turtle power

    I should be shot.

    1. Re:I smell lucrative cartoon series by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I should be shot.

      Seconded.

    2. Re:I smell lucrative cartoon series by Tyrdium · · Score: 1

      You, sir, have made my day. If I had mod points and you weren't already at +5, I'd give them to you. :P

    3. Re:I smell lucrative cartoon series by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I have always thought I couldn't literally laugh my ass off. You proved me wrong.

  2. Aw man.. by tao_of_biology · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought for sure they had rigged a real turtle to wirelessly accept LOGO commands... Now that would be cool.

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  3. I was just thinking... by pr0c · · Score: 4, Funny

    How can we improve turltes? And I realized exactly how.. there are way too many god damn wires! Someone beat me to the punch and made the first wireless turtle... damnit I should have acted faster :(

  4. oh shit by austad · · Score: 2, Funny

    Warswimming turtles.

    Hopefully they will fight with sharks with friggin' lasers on their heads.

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    1. Re:oh shit by pr0c · · Score: 1

      Didn't this get perfected in WarCraft2? :)

  5. Physorg.com Spam? by bluephone · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I noticed a trend today...
    Deepest Optical Image Of The Universe To Date links to a Physorg.com story
    When Galaxies Collide links to a Physorg.com story
    This story links to a Physorg.com story.
    That's three posts that links to Physorg.com in nine hours. The site apparently was created in March of this year. They're all interesting stories, but it just seems a little odd that there are three in less than half a day...

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    1. Re:Physorg.com Spam? by contagious_d · · Score: 1

      It is the turtles, they can finally surf the web, but they waste all of their time reading and submitting to Slashdot. You can tell because they crapped and peed all over the IT section and washed the colors in the Apple section out with their wet feet. They also post a lot of comments with titles like "Frist Psot" or "Important!" about Grits, Natalie Portman, goat sex, and something called GNAA. Damn turtles... screwing everything up, Linking to nasty pictures, modding me down for stupid comments like this one, eating all the hot grits, eating celebrities... Someone get me a plumber suit, a beaver tale, and a fire flower; I got turtles to kill.

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  6. (lack of) turtle power by tsm_sf · · Score: -1, Troll

    You can actually ping the turtle here. Go nuts.

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    1. Re:(lack of) turtle power by coynedog · · Score: 0, Troll

      Interesting thought. I wrote the code that handles all the satellite tracking data and makes the maps on the website mentioned in the article. You actually can "ping" the satellite tag to update some onboard settings. Might be cool to provide an online interface for that. Unfortunately it wouldn't do anything very interesting, except you could say you pinged a satellite tag...

    2. Re:(lack of) turtle power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      If you ping a turtle, won't it bounce off the shell?

  7. Tomorrow's Story... by corpsiclex · · Score: 1

    ...Wireless turtle may never recover from last night's DDoS attack, launched discreetly by slashdot.org

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  8. Lunch by Alsee · · Score: -1, Troll

    Live satellite tracking? COOL!
    Anyone want to share a pot of turtle soup?

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  9. The article is fine by floydman · · Score: 1

    really, it is, i like it. But where is the Leg funny logo.

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