Where's Waldo (the Submarine)? 107
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."
For Future Reference... (Score:5, Funny)
...quit naming stuff "Waldo". You won't have this problem.
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Ha ha. Old timer. Played with Fortran or COBOL lately?
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At least with Carmen Sandiego, we get clues about the loot, warrant and crook, and are able to track down the V.I.L.E. henchmen that will lead us to her.
Personally, I blame RoboCrook, but maybe we should ask (the one and only) Plastic Diver Guy.
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Waldo is one of a treo of subs.
The others are named Nemo and Carmen.
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*trio
If serious, [citation needed].
If silly, please get modded +5, Funny. That was a nice one. :)
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No, he's serious.
This link [mote.org] was provided by a previous poster.
Waldo - along with two other AUVs nicknamed Carmen and Nemo - has been "on the job" for Mote since 2005
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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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Partial list of names you should not use:
- Waldo
- Nemo
- Titanic
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And then they stuck it in the middle of a red tide. You'd think they'd know better.
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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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Actually, it should be: "for all intensive porpoises".
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Nomen est omen. (Score:1)
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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)
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A couple of years ago, there was a trawler in the Pacific that got entangled with a sub. That was a Pacific sub. They did not land it.
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Off Florida, the shark jumps you.
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!
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http://www.goatworthy.net/waldo%20wanted.jpg [goatworthy.net]
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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?
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What if it was humping with an organic? Baby shark/robots?
So that's how they get their lasers!
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)
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They'll find it washed up on the beach with the rims and stereo missing.
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.
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2009 called. They want the time they lost reading your posts back.
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well the jerkstore called, and they're running out of you!
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Seriously Funny!
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.
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Its autonomous, as all AUVs (autonomous underwater vehicles) are.
They probably just mis-programmed it to go in the wrong direction (a very common mistake with AUVs).
As all AUVs are positively buoyant, it should be floating somewhere just waiting to be found within a radius of its power supply.
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.
Re:What did they expect? (Score:4, Insightful)
About ten grand a day. (Score:1)
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That's my point. It's not worth spending more than a day or two, at most, looking for the sub. Any longer than that and it would be more cost effective spending the money on a new one.
They forgot (Score:1)
Look for lots of submarines all in one place (Score:1)
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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.
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.
Ok. I Got a Theory (Score:1)
My theory is that some Mexican or Columbian drug cartel needed a safe way to retrieve bundles of dope dropped off the coast of Florida and floating right below the surface of the water. What (who?) would be better suited for the job than Waldo? I'm sure Waldo is sporting a new black coating by now.
Submarine folks should know better than naming their craft any name other than Nemo. Serves them right. Besides, Waldo is probably a code name for a cocaine mule in that part of the country.
It just goes to show ya
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.
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.
Did you look up? (Score:1)
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Squid (Score:2)
mysteriously vanished? (Score:2)
Sorry for the loss (Score:1)
But did they think about having it insured. If they did then they are only bitching about lost DATA.
It was a private little ceremony... (Score:2)
Gulp! (Score:1)
In R'lyeh... (Score:1)
...great Waldthulu lies dreaming. Waiting for the stars to align just so.
Nomen est Omen (Score:2)
FARNSWORTH
I've booked us all on the maiden voyage
of the largest, most luxurious space
Send the -other- Waldo after it (Score:1)
I for one... (Score:2)
Based on movie evidence... (Score:1)
Couldn't they get hit for more than $500 (Score:2)
If somebody finds it and claims salvage?
Florida (Score:2)
Given the sub's proximity to the Bermuda Triangle, it's obvious that it was kidnapped by time traveling aliens living among us in order to probe its lower ports.
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It's obvious . . . (Score:1)
It's obvious... (Score:1)
It was almost certainly captured by Morgan Industries.
No matey, I havn't seen your sub... (Score:1)
But i do have one for sale just like it.
Geeyarr harr harr..