Designing Wireless Sensors To Be Dropped Into Volcanoes

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Designing Wireless Sensors To Be Dropped Into Volcanoes

Posted by Soulskill on Monday September 20, 2010 @05:31AM from the appeasing-the-spectrum-gods dept.

Thorfinn.au writes with this quote from El Reg: "Topflight engineers based in Newcastle have hit upon a radical plan for warning of volcanic eruptions. They intend to build a heatproof sensor unit which can be dropped into a volcano's caldera and wirelessly transmit data to monitoring stations despite being possibly immersed in molten rock. 'At the moment we have no way of accurately monitoring the situation inside a volcano and in fact most data collection actually goes on post-eruption. With an estimated 500 million people living in the shadow of a volcano this is clearly not ideal,' explains Dr. Alton Horsfall of Newcastle Uni's Centre for Extreme Environment Technology. 'We still have some way to go but using silicon carbide technology we hope to develop a wireless communication system that could accurately collect and transmit chemical data from the very depths of a volcano.'"

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Why? by PPH · 2010-09-20 05:34 · Score: 3, Funny

Have we run out of virgins already?

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1. Re:Why? by MyLongNickName · 2010-09-20 05:41 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  On Slashdot?! Certainly you jest.
  
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2. Re:Why? by TrisexualPuppy · 2010-09-20 06:00 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Forget the virgins. I'm still looking for the unexploded nuclear bombs dropped from the DC-8-like spacecraft.
  
  I'm sooooo close to OT7, just one more!
3. Re:Why? by PPH · 2010-09-20 06:12 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  The ugly ones go to the martyrs.
  
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Let's call it... by surmak · 2010-09-20 05:46 · Score: 4, Funny

volcano information recorder going into netherworld
Re:Government Conspiracy by Speare · 2010-09-20 05:48 · Score: 3, Funny

This is just the government trying to "pre-bug" those granite slabs right from the quarry.
Are you saying the government is taking us for granite? I've been saying that for years.

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Re:I don't think so by countSudoku() · 2010-09-20 05:51 · Score: 2, Funny

Not with advanced oven-mitt technologies! The precious, and every so finicky, electronic components will be as cool as cucumbers in a summer salad!

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