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Where's Waldo (the Submarine)?
stoolpigeon writes "Scientists on Florida's Gulf Coast are trying to find an underwater robot that has mysteriously vanished. The robot from the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota has been missing since Monday. The robot, which cost about $100,000, was equipped with a detector to find red tide, a toxic algae bloom. The detector was valued at another $30,000. Scientists aren't sure what happened to the robot, which is nicknamed Waldo."
...quit naming stuff "Waldo". You won't have this problem.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
You'd think it would be pretty easy to find a red and white striped submarine; though I guess it's currently surrounded by hundreds of other submarines, some of which are painted red and white.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Catching a submarine ... that would be the ultimate fish story!
Waldo got lost, is all. I've been working all day to unclog the toilet. It was WALDO, trying to get out of the sewer!! I'm gonna sue, I tell you - they should have given him a Debian operating system! Microsoft streets, for God's sake!
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
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http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2009/9/5/where39s_waldo_the_answer_could_net_you_500.html
and
http://www.mote.org/index.php?src=news&submenu=NEWS&srctype=detail&category=Newsroom&refno=295
$500 reward for finding it....
The submarine is self guided, with no tether, and runs on batteries. The sea is a very harsh environment...one has to expect to lose a few. $100,000 isn't really that much money, and I suspect that there recovery efforts will be fairly limited.
Picture it.
The last page of the last book. There, a surprise, instead of the usual page-filling drawing of intricate details, once intriguing and exciting but now just annoying and yawn-inducing, there's only a corner with the usual crowd next to a lake. A deep lake that you can see into; its depths cover most of the page. Where's Waldo?
There he is. At the bottom of the lake. Still, cold, and alone.
Aaaaahhhh. Sweet closure.
The enemies of Democracy are
1962 Called. They want their technology back.
1998 called. They want their annoying memes back.
"Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?"
2009 called. They want the time they lost reading your posts back.
Water absorbs the radio waves you need to use to triangulate your position, so GPS doesn't work underwater. They put GPS tags on whales and things, but they only work when the whale surfaces.
Though even if it did, being batter powered would make it useless if the batteries are drained.
It's a robotic submarine, not a deep-fried fish. Although I can understand the confusion.
... and then they built the supercollider.
2009 called. They want THEIR SUBMARINE back :)