Navy Develops a Shark Drone For Surveillance 45
An anonymous reader writes The Navy is testing a new underwater drone called GhostSwimmer, which is designed to a look like a shark and conduct surveillance work. It is being adapted by the chief of naval operations' Rapid Innovation Cell (CRIC) project, Silent NEMO, in Norfolk, Va.. GhostSwimmer is 5 feet long and weighs almost 100 pounds. It can operate in water depths from 10 inches to 300 feet, and is designed to operate autonomously for long periods of time, according to the Navy.
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You made a little mistake there.
Re:HTML (Score:5, Funny)
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Forget any real editing, the editors don't even use the "preview" button.
This is useless (Score:5, Funny)
unless lasers are attached.
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FFS (Score:1)
Can't the editors at least fix blatantly broken HTML in the summary before posting it?
Re:FFS (Score:5, Insightful)
None of us are reading it. (Score:2)
What matters are our reactions, not reasoned responses to facts in the article. What do you think this is, the pre-1996 internet?
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You're assuming that the "editors" are actually reading this stuff before passing it on.
Most often, they modify it and make it worse. j/k (not really)
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samzenpus isn't even fully literate in his native language. So... probably not.
Just like the movies. (Score:2)
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It's supposed to look like a Bluefin Tuna (according to TF video). So, I guess it's designed to make Asian sailors chase it around the harbor thinking they've latched onto a sushi dinner.
I think it looks like a giant, uncoordinated catfish.
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Well It would have been pure genius to fake a shark to conduct surveillance. That must be one of the lowest attention grabbing creatures in the sea?
- Hey Achmed, what's that dark silhouette approaching?
- Bah, nothing, it's a shark. What were you saying about our new cell?
GPS Sharks (Score:2)
So is this the GPS Shark that is searching for MH370 ????
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No. These are near surface drones. They'd be crushed if they tried to go to that depth.
It's built by Boston Dynamics (Score:3)
Boston Dynamics is now owned by Google, so Google is now a direct provider of equipment to the US military. Maybe this means their motto has been modified from "Don't do evil" to "Don't avoid evil."
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It's built by Boston Engineering [boston-engineering.com], not Boston Dynamics.
Also, it was developed as BIOSwimmer for the DHS [dhs.gov] orignially, the GhostSwimmer [virtualacq...owcase.com] (PDF warning) for the navy is just a modified version.
Oh, and it's designed to resemble a tuna, not a shark.
OMG (Score:1)
Sharks, like, totally bite people. They're like totally mean. Like I had this friend once and she, like, went swimming, and she was all like, totally freaked out.
Nearly there! (Score:1)
2. Create robotic shark army
3. Combine 1 & 2
4. ?????????????
5. Profit!!
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Except that lasers don't do so well under water. Which means that they should make a shark that actually bites instead.
Can you imagine a gigantic mecha shark ship biting smaller gunboats in two? Now THAT would be hilarious. :D
Probably won't be done because it's too Japanese though
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We are going to need a bigger boat.
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Jedi shark with lightsabers for teeth?
We are going to need (Score:3)
a bigger boat.
America is not the world. (Score:1)
Dear American Slashdot (and other) reporters,
When you talk about stuff specifically related to America, please do mention that it is American. There are slashdot readers from rest of the world too.
For example: This summary talked about "The Navy" . Nowhere in the summary is it mentioned as "The *US* Navy". I had to go RTFA before I realized that! I have come across this "frog in the well" syndromes in many other summaries problem before too. It makes Americans look bad
Thanks and regards,
Sincerely,
kamathln
Kill decision (Score:1)