It would be fantastic to get some nice footage of some giant rogue waves. I would also like if it measured the pressures generated by those waves. It would be useful to build ships that could withstand the forces.
...if I wasn't so paralyzed thinking I would die in the middle of the ocean i would absolutely love to explore it visually in person. There is a peace about being in the middle of nowhere and being able to do your own thing. Without anything else dragging you down
I can envision other uses for these drones. With camouflage coloring they'd be difficult to detect visually. They could be used to monitor the ocean for other purposes such as submarine travel or illicit fishing activity. They've already been involved in a couple of international incidents in the Persian Gulf.
This technology is so cool. A solar powered computer, operating a sail boat, controlled remotely via satellite, through a station, by an operator who working might also be working remotely or from a ship. Weather agencies can cut down on balloon pollution, maritime search and rescue can preposition assets, marine navigation and communication can operate in relative situational awareness, with localized on tap data, and space communications and data service providers can also establish mesh networks with smaller on orbit satellite fleets. All with these boats acting as non-orbital, reusable, relay nodes, observation, communication, and rescue craft.
This technology can help to gather information on water based catastrophe like tsunami or hurrican. This information can be used in various ways. Another idea would be that is used for sensory purposes to locate ships or persons doing illigal stuff at sea.
I like it! These would also be great as life-saving devices for those out at sea - add an emergency button. Imagine someone who's boat went down or whatever. They see one of these and press that Emergency Button. Using the onboard GPS, this craft could communicate the person's location for rescue. Granted the craft would be moving before and after the button was pressed, but maybe the button sits alongside something that could be grabbed by the person to stay with the craft.
to be fair, it sort of works already without any added "emergency features", although that is an idea worth exploring. However, if you are stuck on a liferaft for xx days, and you get a hold of one of these.... Dont let go, you will figure out some way to communicate with the sensors/camera/equipment
100s of meters per pixel at 8000 meters. That's a very very very low resolution. The abyssal plain which covers 80% of the ocean floor is 3000 to 6000 meters deep. So they don't see much with this technology. Objects 20 or 30 meters in size will not be visible at these depths. We need technology that can map the deep ocean floor with
1 square meter of land at the equator produces receives a maximum of 1360W of solar energy. The best solar panels on the market are 47% efficient, cutting that available power down to 369W. That solar panel is not anywhere near perfectly perpendicular to the sun, and at 45 degrees to the sun, that would then be cut down to 1/sqrt(2) of the original number, or about 260W. That solar panel is not an entire square meter, so let's say it's 0.75 of that. That brings us down to 195W. If there are other losses, or they are just using what isn't the absolute best solar panel tech I could find, they could easily be in the 100W range. A more average solar panel efficiency of 30%, or a worse average angle to the sun would be pretty close to that mark.
These sail drones can be useful when interstellar travel becomes possible. Such as mapping details of water or even gas based celestial bodies (planets) with the use of probe drones.
Very cool and impressive. I am curious as to how they avoid collisions with other vessels, or running aground. Navigation at sea is pretty complex and multidimensional. I should hope there's no risk of being rammed by one of these during an ocean crossing...
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. Similar technologies are enabling robots to safely operate around humans. Basically uses sensors (including visible light cameras you're used to on your phone) to map the environment actively and "localize" themselves in it. It's something us humans and most animals do naturally on autopilot without even thinking about it. :)
How feasible is this? How much time would it take to map all the areas we want? Also, how much time before the data collected is outdated? Is the ocean floor more static or dynamic on a project scale this large?
They said in the video as soon as 2030 we will map the whole ocean.. which is.. wild considering that is only 7 years.. As for it changing.. I am sure they will proceed sending them out and comparing map data for changes as they said in the video that they already are doing.
In the South Pacific there is something on the sea floor that looks like a huge turtle shell but it's a mile by 3 mile long and has teaks on the sea floor where u can tell it's been moving. The channel secureteam10 did a video on this 3 4 or 5 years ago the picture of the thing is on his thumbnail. What is this. There are also other weird anomalies around this object in sea floor.
4:35 something about this clip to the next scene is funny to me. Hard to explain. The dialog. Nicks walking and facial expression. I can't be the only one that finds this kinda funny😂
Total global sensor saturation facilitating omniscient situational awareness for the monitoring, management & control of all resources & individuals is the technocratic utopian objective. All of the inspiring upsides of these ingenious devices notwithstanding, they constitute yet another big step toward its looming fulfillment. In that context, its just more swarm surveillance for future despots.
the algorythym is spooky, just this morning i was thinking about this project, which i'd heard of years ago. hours later it's a top video on my youtube homepage
@@Jimmy_Jones i wasn't previously thinking of anything remotely related to this. i just remembered the story about the drone sailboats and i wondered about what was up with that project, still ongoing? successful? problems? etc. and then this showed up right at the top, so odd.
My guess the US Coast Guard was following the drone because they did not want to become a hazard to navigation for big ships transiting in and out of San Francisco bay. This leads me to more interesting questions like can there control center actually take remote control over these drones and steer them to different locations are out of harms way?
My question is how easily and quickly the command center get remote control over these drones? How much actual control do they actually have on these drones . Do these drones have some sort of night lighting system and radar reflectors? Do these drones have an AIS system? How much of the data collected by these drones is readily accessible to the public?.
*_Perfect blend of Vision, Technology, and Affordability..._* Price points to allow this advanced technology has dropped drastically in recent years. Solar has matured, sonar scanning has matured, GPS navigation has matured, remote sensing and mission control has matured. If this was attempted 20 years ago, same concept would be prohibitively expensive. Drones sent into Space or across the Oceans have few physical restrictions. They don't need food, water, sleep, exercise, vacations, or doctor visits. They don't care how long their mission takes. Imagine what next generation drones can do when AI and Learning is programmed into it's Silicone Brain. *_We are on the verge of the next wave of Ocean Exploration on a Global Scale._*
Got to map the Oceans so we can exploit them. The last frontier on Earth. Hope we discover similar intelligent life forms that teach us a new and non-Earth destructive way of life. Ocean sentence is next if not already.
I thought deep space was the final frontier? We don’t or maybe never have the technology to explore other galaxies, but I can see us exploring more and more of Antarctica and the oceans this century. Not sure about the mantle or layer of core though…build some underground cities 😆 not sure if that’s realistic.
The topic on the Antarctica is to deep and vast for me to even begin explaining in a YT comment section. So I'll get to the point the government is known to keep things confidential secretive and hide things from it's citizens even from themselves more then enough evidence is out their to think their is more in the Antarctica then just snow and ice your belief is just an opinion. And you'll get an educated guess by Reading and investigate more and dig deep without losing yourself in the rabbit hole use your logic and you'll realize your belief has nothing to do with actual written testimonies and facts from credible people ...
Cool drones but predicting weather month in advance is BS. The data from the drones is valuable but that it will massively increase the weath forecast is BS. You can get most of the data by satellite. And the weather system is turbulent aka a prediction past a certain point is impossible because even tiny changes can have huge impacts and this sums up to a point where it it simply impossible to make precise predictions no matter how good your data are.
i think we should combine These Technologies with Ocean clean up Tech and make it cheaper to try to Reverse the damage were Doing daily in a pursuit to gather more kapital
if we really want to save people & appreciate nature, we can do that for a lot less with better diet & more awareness of natural rescource use impact the data gathered with this cool tech certainly sounds as if it will be very valuable to companies & countries looking to enlargen their mineral, oil etc mining activities
@@chrisscullynz Some aspects of chaotic systems can still have equations with huge practical application, for example turbulent flow in pipes. It's not possible to calculate or predict the path of every individual drop, but from knowing that the flow is turbulent, there are a lot of other behaviours that can be reliably predicted in the system.
WAAAAIT A SECOND... at 03.49 you can see a sligltly different pattern color, on the drone right behind the orange one in the front. IS THAT a MILITARY CAMO? duuude, monitoring the oceans and saving the planet, sponsored by the military uh? samo old story, folks