DARPA Wants Distributed Network of Deep Sea Storage Units 81
Zothecula writes "DARPA has seen the future of naval warfare and it's falling upward. As part of an effort to reduce the logistics of sending equipment into trouble areas, the agency's Upward Falling Payloads project is aimed at developing storage capsules capable of remaining on the deep seabed for years. These would contain non-lethal military assets that could be deployed on the spot years in advance and rise to the surface as needed."
Possible side benefit: they need to research communications systems reliable enough to command the deep sea capsules when needed.
Let me get this straight (Score:4, Funny)
DARPA wants to invent robots that are designed to "rise up"? Sounds like a pretty dangerous precedent to me.
Meanwhile, 25 years from now... (Score:5, Funny)
When the current cryotograghic algorithms which secure these cracker-jack prizes become easily crackable by script-kiddies, and with future long-range private drones weilding live HD cams, I see a new form of geocaching game on the horizon.
I'll look forward to watching the reruns on Youtube.
Thanks US Military!
Slashdot leads the way (Score:2, Funny)
I recommend they look into Slashdot's Upward Falling Stories [slashdot.org], which tend to drop off the front page and then float back up again as a repost.
Re:Let me get this straight (Score:5, Funny)
RELEASE THE KRAKEN!
Really? (Score:4, Funny)
Just how long can a Marine Division wait on the ocean floor and still be effective?
Re:my first thought was underwater raid (Score:2, Funny)
well, instead of storing all your data in the cloud, you can now store it in the drink too.
Re:Use Concrete .... (Score:2, Funny)
That was my first thought too, but wp [wikipedia.org] says otherwise
Not anymore it doesn't.
Throw in some time-capsule stuff (Score:4, Funny)
Like buying presents for children, there's really no way of knowing whether the DoD will in the future be able to make use of whatever they stash away, or whether it will still be edible, nonobsolete, or even free of rust and bilgewater.
So along with the Great Northern beans and networking nodes with 10,000-day vulnerabilities, let's add some historical memorabilia. Copies of current Navy regulations and 12 year old scotch for example.
Another possibility is that DARPA could plant stuff designed to be found by the enemy. Trick black soap. Bogus ciphers that will cause the enemy to spend years or decades fruitlessly attempting to decode. Bogus mine-defusing instructions that will make them go boom.