Arizona State University (ASU) engineer Wolfgang Fink recently constructed a prototype robotic explorer that is shaped like a boat. The machine was designed to work autonomously, and its creator hopes to one day use it to gather data from the surface of lakes on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
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22 March 2012
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Activists from the anti-whaling activist group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) announce that one of their boats patrolling the Antarctic Ocean has been rammed by a Japanese whaling ship. The group was using the Ady Gil, an alternative fuel-powered, wave-piercing, high-tech trimaran, when a whaling ship, from... |
6 January 2010
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What originally sounded like a crazy proposition is now beginning to make more and more sense as each day passes. Experts at the American space agency, NASA, are currently drawing up plans for a future mission on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, which will use a boat, rather than a lander, for the first time. The a... |
22 December 2009
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As any person who has ever been on a rowboat can tell you, the most fierce opponent a crew can have is itself. Well, not exactly itself, but rather the algorithms it uses when it pulls on the paddles. At the University of Cambridge, rowing is taken very seriously, as evidenced by the fact that Professor John Barrow, ... |
20 November 2009
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In the darkest day of World War II, when German submarines were patrolling the waters alongside the Eastern seaboards of the United States, many a trawling and fishing vessels were pressed into active duty, outfitted with small cannons and machine guns, and sent out on patrol. Large numbers of these vessels fell prey... |
11 September 2009
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A number of scientists, academics and private sector investors in the United Kingdom are at this point testing their newly-developed anti-terrorism weapon, a shoulder-level gun that can immobilize speeding boats. The system it uses is quite ingenious, albeit fairly high-tech. It essentially shoots a net at an incomin... |
14 August 2009
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Researchers in China have once again proven their creativity, when they have announced the creation of a new class of materials, one that is so buoyant, that a regular, fit-for-human life preserver made from it could easily sustain a large horse without sinking. The find, published in the monthly journal ACS Applied ... |
12 March 2009
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