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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!
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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.
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.