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It's not often that companies talk about the video games that they thought about creating and never got around to completing, but Valve is not the typical developer and its boss has recently mentioned that, at one point before the appearance of Half Life, their main project was a submarine game.
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23 February 2011
10:20 GMT |
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The Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Autosub6000 is one of the latest, deep-sea exploration vehicles to come out of the United Kingdom. Originally designed to have a maximum diving depth of 6,000 meters, it has been recently tested – at a number of rough locations – at a depth of 3.5 miles (5.63 kilome... |
28 October 2009
10:48 GMT |
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The implementation of Windows operating systems in military vessels of the Royal Navy has seen the platform go above and beyond the call of duty, and Bill Gates' initial vision that involved home desks beyond corporate infrastructures, which was nothing short of a stretch at the time. Royal Navy submarines are n... |
6 January 2009
14:11 GMT |
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For a long time during its early years, NR-1 was a classified mission vehicle, the smallest of the Navy's submarine fleet, and the only one that was able and destined to perform search and recovery missions, ocean exploration, as well as underwater installation and maintenance works up to a depth of more than ha... |
1 December 2008
11:19 GMT |
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Well, we've heard about solar-powered cars, and airplanes, and even trains, but a submarine running on solar energy? Why not, ask the scientists who started Project Goldfish, a German initiative that aims at bringing the pleasure of an underwater ride to the top of the Alps. Lake Thun will host the new project, ... |
24 November 2008
10:03 GMT |
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The Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic ANtarctiC Explorer (ENDURANCE) is a submarine device financed by NASA and designed by William Stone, the president of Stone Aerospace Corporation in Austin, Texas. It is conceived in order to explore otherwise unreachable, tremendously cold waters under thick layer... |
13 November 2008
03:07 GMT |
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The worst Russian submarine incident since the 2000 explosion of a torpedo killing 118 persons aboard took place this Saturday. Now, more details of the tragedy have been made public. It seems that the event that led to the death of 20 persons and injuring of another 21 was caused by a false alarm that triggered the ... |
11 November 2008
10:18 GMT |
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Although fish are believed to be entirely covered in scales, some of them, such as the Cave-dwelling Mexican fish, have no eyes to speak of and, therefore, must rely on something to guide them through underwater mazes. As an evolutionary response to this problem, they evolved hair linings on both sides of the body, w... |
5 November 2008
04:01 GMT |
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The father of science-fiction, Jules Verne, was undoubtedly a visionary man, since many of the things he imagined were shifted to reality at some point. Others, though, didn't.The second most translated author in history (after the most prodigious crime-novel author Agatha Christie), Jules Verne is still one of ... |
1 October 2008
03:40 GMT |
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On Tuesday, a Russian mini-submarine set a new world record as it reached the bottom of Lake Baikal, Siberia, the world's deepest lake. "Mir-1 is at 1,680 meters," said one of the members of the crew in a radio link-up to the barge used to lower the Mir-1 and Mir-2 submarines into the water of the lake. Previous... |
29 July 2008
11:16 GMT |
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Chaotic fluid movements in gases and liquids often increase the friction and drag on vehicles such as aircrafts and submarines, but this could easily change by creating a skin imitating that of dolphins, which has the ability to modify its shape and decrease drag coefficient by up to 50 percent. Such a material cover... |
18 April 2008
05:42 GMT |
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The Janus particle name is given to any microscopic sphere which is composed of two halves that are chemically or physically different. North Carolina State University researchers have demonstrated that while being submerged into a liquid excited by an alternating electrical field, Janus particles start to behave lik... |
3 March 2008
06:36 GMT |
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At the bottom of the oceans, the lowest level of the ocean waters, submarine volcanoes are found. They erupt periodically, but also phenomena similar to others that accompany terrestrial volcanoes, such as submarine geysers, can be found and are called hydrothermal vents (hot vents) or black smokers. The submarine v... |
15 February 2008
09:39 GMT |
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The last of the World War titles. You fight on four fronts with three missions in each one. The Tan once again wage war with the Green Army, so the Green retaliate by attacking the Tan capital. When they discover that the Tan have created weapons of mass destruction, they declare a full-scale war against them and de... |
20 December 2007
15:31 GMT |
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We all live in a yellow submarine... since 1620, when a jolly Dutchman built the first one ever. Since then, things have gone wild and beyond. I don't know about you, but when I saw this, I said: "Whoa!". In case you're wondering what I am talking about, you should check on it.This glamorous two seater pers... |
27 September 2007
04:32 GMT |
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There are little secrets left in the world and with Google Earth and Microsoft's Virtual Earth mapping every nook and cranny of the planet's surface, items that might have catalyzed an arms race during the Cold War become more and more everyday commodities. Top secret nuclear submarines for example are no l... |
31 August 2007
09:59 GMT |
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Some say life was brought to Earth by aliens. Beyond theories that seem depicted from a SF movie, it looks like early life indeed appeared in some extraterrestrial conditions. Geologists have encountered 1.43 billion-year-old fossils of deep-sea microbes, enhancing the theory that life may have originated on the bott... |
6 August 2007
06:09 GMT |
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Many aircraft, ships or submarines use fluids, like water or air for propulsion, by using propellers to push the fluid backward, which generates forward motion. The propeller is usually attached to the crankshaft of the engine, either directly or through a gearbox. A new theoretical blueprint aims to replicate this ... |
17 July 2007
04:17 GMT |
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Google Earth is an interesting tool for looking at various places in the world that you haven't visited yet. It's true that some pictures are clearer than others, depending on the country and frankly, nobody would expect to see a picture of a village in Somalia as clear as the one of the Eiffel Tower.But n... |
6 July 2007
03:23 GMT |
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Among the arsenal of the most advanced military superpowers, one weapon is the most feared. It's not the atomic bomb, it's even more powerful, while being almost undetectable and can launch a devastating surprise attack on almost any country in the world.Operating underwater at pressures beyond the range o... |
19 June 2007
10:59 GMT |
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NASA has funded an expedition to search for the submerged bottom of the deepest sinkhole on Earth, El Zacatn, in Mexico. A robotic submarine will try to find out more about the geothermal sinkhole and what lives down there.A sinkhole, also known as a cenote, is a natural depression or hole in the surface topography ca... |
15 May 2007
15:31 GMT |
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A newly developed sensor may be installed on future submarines to allow them to navigate using electric fields just like most marine and freshwater fish do, using the sensor called lateral line.Fish usually have all the senses that humans use, although in various ratios. Most of them have eyes that have color visio... |
5 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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The US Government has announced plans to create the first new nuclear warhead since the end of the Cold War. The official reason is that the military wants to replace the old W76 warheads, made since 1978, that are being stored in what is known as the Enduring Nuclear Stockpile or deployed on nuclear submarines.An ... |
2 May 2007
06:30 GMT |
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There are spectacular geysers on Earth associated with the volcanic activity, but they are rather places of death. In change, their submarine counterparts, the seafloor vents, can harbor one of the most flourishing and odd ecosystems in the sea bed, based on the food provided by sulphuric bacteria.They were first dis... |
17 April 2007
08:42 GMT |
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First there were the German U-boats at your disposal in Silent Hunter III. The WWII inspired simulation games got to a new level at the time with a wonderful story straight from the bottom of the ocean. After a quick skydive from the Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII, Ubisoft promises a new time expensive adventure o... |
13 April 2007
04:02 GMT |
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This week, at the Ocean Business Conference in Southampton, a revolutionary unmanned submarine which can locate and destroy underwater mines is due to be unveiled.Since World War II, 14 U.S. ships have been sunk or damaged by mines, while only two have been sunk by enemy fire and many more commercial ships belonging... |
28 March 2007
06:51 GMT |
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