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Remote-Controlled Robots Explore 'Lost City'
Roland Piquepaille writes "A large team of oceanographers is again exploring 'Lost City,' an hydrothermal vent field located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, which was discovered in 2000 and named like this because of the myth of Atlantis. But this time, the oceanographers are not on a ship. Most of them are in a room at the University of Washington in Seattle. And according to this article from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, they're using high-speed Internet connections to control robotic vehicles exploring the deep Atlantic Ocean thousands of miles away. Thanks to satellites, the remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) Argus and Hercules can transmit videos back to Seattle in real time. After analysis, the scientists can move the ROVs to specific areas of interest without having their feet wet. Read more for other details, references and pictures about this project."
How do you know it's broke? I guess slasdhot is becoming just a bit too much of a nuisance to the powers that be.
Come to think of it, me neither. I used to get points too, all I can do is metamoderate these days, and the items seem just a bit too 'hand picked', damned if you do, damned if you don't, it's neither right, nor wrong, but both true insightful sentences and completey wrong sentences in a blender, where I simply have to leave it unmodded. If there was a way to highlight portions of a post, mod it up, into a different color, then highlight other portions and mod it down. But then to those reading it would read like nothing coherent, and someone's words could be taken way out of context. There are still people with mod points, However I saw 'spicy' stories that had no moderation at all, then stupid ones full of mods, so something is up. I wonder who dishes out the mod points, and who comes up with the metamod stuff. To just let it randomly generate instead of using it to test somebody, well, there is too much temptation. Market surveys where you pay someone on the phone to dial up someone else, and harass them into expressing an honest opinion, those don't come anywhere close in honesty thus value, compared to what you can do on slashdot, by simply submitting a person something to metamoderate for you. Too much money or marketing survey effort at stake not to abuse such stuff.