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Comments: 107 +- Hardware: Where's Waldo (the Submarine)? on Saturday September 05, @10:03PM
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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."
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For Future Reference... (Score:5, Funny)
...quit naming stuff "Waldo". You won't have this problem.
Re:For Future Reference... (Score:5, Funny)
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Ha ha. Old timer. Played with Fortran or COBOL lately?
Re:For Future Reference... (Score:5, Funny)
Waldo is one of a treo of subs.
The others are named Nemo and Carmen.
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Or.... the daughter of Waldo AND Carmen Sandiego?
http://www.tailsteak.com/archive.php?num=433 [tailsteak.com]
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I think you sig should read "For all intents and purposes".
However I will concede the possibility I missed the point of your little joke. This is why was not so bold as to "fix that for you".
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I think his sig is grammar bait.
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Even scientists need pet names for things. Anyway Waldo is supposed to detect red tides. So Waldo is probably wherever there is a red tide (or somewhere one is likely to be). Look for te red tide, find Waldo!
Mind you Waldo might be out finding the red and white striped tide in order to hide better. :P
Hrmm (Score:5, Funny)
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It's all about the cane
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Don't forget the shoes!
Fish Story (Score:5, Funny)
Lost (Score:3, Funny)
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!
Short leash (Score:5, Funny)
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Hmmm, they should have been more careful with their remote access permissions...
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Before you know it Waldo could be humping a Chinese trawler off the coast of Taiwan called the Red Bloom
What if it was humping with an organic? Baby shark/robots?
Better links (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2009/9/5/where39s_waldo_the_answer_could_net_you_500.html [cfnews13.com]
and
http://www.mote.org/index.php?src=news&submenu=NEWS&srctype=detail&category=Newsroom&refno=295 [mote.org]
$500 reward for finding it....
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$500 only, it's worth 130 000 bucks and only $500 reward.
Tight gits.
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From the above link:
"The robot was last seen near Venice Beach about 12 miles offshore and 100 feet underwater."
WTF?
Some passerby happened upon it "100 feet underwater"?
stolen (Score:2)
Tether? (Score:2)
Don't robotic submersibles usually have tethers of some sort for power and communications?
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1962 Called. They want their technology back.
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1962 Called. They want their technology back.
1998 called. They want their annoying memes back.
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I have no doubt you are in a position to return them both, spanky.
Re:Tether? (Score:4, Funny)
2009 called. They want the time they lost reading your posts back.
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Re:Tether? (Score:4, Insightful)
2009 called. They want THEIR SUBMARINE back :)
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Since you don't seem to have had a serious answer yet, I'm guessing from the photo and the duty cycle that it's a Slocum glider. These have no tether, and are (pretty much) fully autonomous. Google is your friend - they're a really neat design.
What did they expect? (Score:5, Insightful)
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$100,000 isn't really that much money?
Hmm...
Got a couple dozens of thousands you could give me? I, uh, need the to, uh... get a coffee. Don't worry, it's not really expensive.
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Waldo the Submarine (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Locate using GPS ? (Score:2)
Re:Locate using GPS ? (Score:4, Informative)
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.
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Re:Locate using GPS ? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
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Why don't they... (Score:2)
Squid (Score:2)
mysteriously vanished? (Score:2)
It was a private little ceremony... (Score:2)
Nomen est Omen (Score:2)
FARNSWORTH
I've booked us all on the maiden voyage
of the largest, most luxurious space
I for one... (Score:2)
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But I thought that the submarine was impervious to shark attacks and that only lasers could do any dam...
Oh shit.
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http://www.goatworthy.net/waldo%20wanted.jpg [goatworthy.net]