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Intelligent satellite spots eruption(Mt. Erebus-Antartica)
The Inquirer ^
| June 28 2004
| Nick Farrell
Posted on 06/27/2004 11:20:16 PM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou
Remote viewing possible A satellite using intelligent software has alerted boffins that a volcano in the Antarctic is erupting.
Normally if Mt Erebus erupts, the only witnesses would be the penguins who don't tend to talk about it and scientists wouldn't be aware of it for months.
However, since they jacked in the software into NASA's Earth Observing-1 spacecraft that can make its own scientific observations without being asked, scientists have snapped the event.
The software was developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it scanned pictures an instrument highly sensitive to heat released from molten lava.
After it detected heat from the lava lake at the summit of the volcano and reprogrammed the satellite’s camera to take more pictures.
According to the boffins in charge of the project, the experiment is a step towards a thinking spacecraft. In fact the software part of the project was named Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment.
You can read more about the Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment here.
TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: antartica; erebus; remoteviewing; satellite; volcano
Normally if Mt Erebus erupts, the only witnesses would be the penguins who don't tend to talk about it and scientists wouldn't be aware of it for months. Oooops.
To: PeaceBeWithYou
A satellite using intelligent software has alerted boffins Boffins:
Oh, wait, those are Puffins. Never mind.
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posted on
06/27/2004 11:24:45 PM PDT
by
Ichneumon
("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
To: PeaceBeWithYou
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posted on
06/27/2004 11:28:40 PM PDT
by
endthematrix
(To enter my lane you must use your turn signal!)
To: PeaceBeWithYou
Normally if Mt Erebus erupts, the only witnesses would be the penguins who don't tend to talk about it and scientists wouldn't be aware of it for months I am pretty sure the Shoggoths would have noticed the eruption too.
To: PeaceBeWithYou; shaggy eel
Intelligent satellite spots eruption(Mt. Erebus-Antartica)
Don't tell me - Air New Zealand's resumed those tourist services and has flown another plane into the side of it...
/tasteless aviation humour
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posted on
06/28/2004 1:00:57 AM PDT
by
KangarooJacqui
("Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look.")
To: KangarooJacqui
Don't tell me-,,, OK, I won't.
To: shaggy eel
Maybe they could crash a planeful of possums into the side of it, this time...
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posted on
06/28/2004 1:25:37 AM PDT
by
KangarooJacqui
("Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look.")
To: PeaceBeWithYou
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posted on
06/28/2004 1:29:13 AM PDT
by
kms61
To: kms61
CASPER
Continuous Activity Scheduling Planning Execution and Replanning software
BOO!
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posted on
06/28/2004 1:41:11 AM PDT
by
PeaceBeWithYou
(De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
To: PeaceBeWithYou
At what point does this become Bush's fault.
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