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Floating lab to monitor oceans

The planned SeaOrbiter, shown here in a computer-generated image, is intended to be a research lab that will observe ocean life and the interaction between ocean and atmosphere. It will be driven by currents and have a life expectancy of 15 years, according to its backers.

Credit: SIPA


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    Ocean-going Piccaso
    by TogetherinParis May 25, 2005 11:12 PM PDT
    It is a beautiful and practical design. But perhaps suggesting
    some military use might get them built faster, and in larger
    numbers. Call it a stealth missle carrier platform with added
    scientists "to fool curious locals."
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    It looks....
    by jamie.p.walsh May 26, 2005 8:05 AM PDT
    kind of like the structures on Kamino from Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones.

    I love space and sea exploration, and I wish that more capital and energy would go toward them.
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    Its French
    by SystemsJunky May 26, 2005 11:06 AM PDT
    So it most likely will
    A) Never Happen
    or
    b) It'll Sink like a brick :)
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    Where do I sign up?
    by Christopher Hall May 26, 2005 11:10 AM PDT
    This is beautiful, efficient, and non-intrusive to the environment.

    I say full steam ahead.
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    Where Do I Sign Up?
    by WyldB May 26, 2005 11:15 AM PDT
    I totally for this little adventure, and wish there was a way I could
    apply for the web department onBoard. - Water has got to be my
    second nature, But like alot of folks these days, we do what we do
    to get by.. But the idea sounds great.
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    Ocean-going Brancusi
    by jlheckman May 26, 2005 11:43 AM PDT
    Beautiful as sculpture, and apparently stable, but will it be any more useful than Woods Hole's "flip-ship" ?
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    not happy
    by May 27, 2005 6:25 AM PDT
    team zissou is not please with this development.
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