<html><head><linkrel="stylesheet"type="text/css"href="reader.css"><linkrel="stylesheet"type="text/css"href="storyDetailView.css"><metaname="viewport"id="viewport"content="width=320, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no"/></head><bodyid="story_pane"class="NB-iphone"><divclass="NB-header"><divclass="NB-header-inner"><divclass="NB-story-date">30 Jul 2012, 8:05pm</div><divclass="NB-story-title">Ocean gliders are becoming one of the Navy’s main tools...</div><divclass="NB-story-author"></div></div></div><divid="NB-share-bar-wrapper"><divclass="NB-story-shares"><divclass="NB-story-comments-shares-teaser-wrapper"><divclass="NB-story-comments-shares-teaser"><divclass="NB-story-comments-label"><b>1 comment</b></div><divclass="NB-story-share-profiles NB-story-share-profiles-comments"><divclass="NB-story-share-profile"><divclass="NB-user-avatar"><aid="NB-user-share-bar-3"class="NB-show-profile"href="http://ios.newsblur.com/show-profile/3"><imgsrc="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/8cef1a0df909c0290fdc1d87c6c30a55"/></a></div></div></div><divclass="NB-right"><divclass="NB-story-share-profiles NB-story-share-profiles-shares"></div><divclass="NB-story-share-label"><b>1 share</b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><divclass="NB-san-serif"id="NB-font-style"><divclass="NB-medium"id="NB-font-size"><divclass="NB-story"><imgsrc="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7s4e2SeX31qz4vmto1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><em>Ocean gliders are becoming one of the Navy’s main tools for collecting data on the internal structure of the ocean for assimilation into ocean models. A glider is a long-endurance autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) used to collect ocean data; it surfaces periodically to transmit data via satellite. Gliders are capable of collecting numerous types of data, including currents, temperature, salinity, pressure, and optics.</em></blockquote>
<p>I wonder how long these would run for if the world were to suddenly end. I imagine them surfacing every few weeks and transmitting vainly to satellites that’ve fallen out of the sky; sitting on the surface and basking in the sun for a while, perhaps, to recharge their solar cells. Like brittle yellow turtles.</p>
<p>They wouldn’t know that everything had died - taken by some disease or disaster. They’d wander around the now-quiet oceans, taking their measure of the world, until, one by one, they’d succumb to salinity or erosion and suddenly stop, mid-journey, before sinking quiet and still to the ocean floor.</p>
<p>(via <ahref="http://www.nrl.navy.mil/media/news-releases/2012/navy-researchers-sail-down-under-to-study-internal-tides-with-auvs"target="_blank">U.S. Naval Research Laboratory</a>)</p></div></div></div><divclass='NB-share-header'></div><divclass='NB-share-wrapper'><divclass='NB-share-inner-wrapper'><divid="NB-share-button-id"class='NB-share-button NB-button'><ahref="http://ios.newsblur.com/share"><div>Post to Blurblog <spanclass="NB-share-icon"></span></div></a></div></div></div><divid="NB-comments-wrapper"><divclass="NB-feed-story-comments"><divclass="NB-story-comment"id="NB-user-comment-3"><divclass="NB-user-avatar NB-story-comment-reshare"><aclass="NB-show-profile"href="http://ios.newsblur.com/show-profile/3"><imgsrc="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/8cef1a0df909c0290fdc1d87c6c30a55"/></a></div><divclass="NB-story-comment-author-container"><divclass="NB-story-comment-reshares"><divclass="NB-story-share-profile"><divclass="NB-user-avatar"><imgsrc="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e"></div></div></div><divclass="NB-story-comment-username">Roy</div><divclass="NB-story-comment-location">asd </div><divclass="NB-story-comment-date">6 days ago</div></div><divclass="NB-story-comment-content">Sad fsda fsda f</div><divclass="NB-button-wrapper"style="clear:both"><divclass="NB-story-comment-edit-button NB-story-comment-share-edit-button NB-button"><ahref="http://ios.newsblur.com/edit-share/3"><divclass="NB-story-comment-edit-button-wrapper">Edit</div></a></div><divclass="NB-story-comment-reply-button NB-button"><ahref="http://ios.newsblur.com/reply/3/Roy"><divclass="NB-story-comment-reply-button-wrapper"> Reply </div></a></div></div></div></div></div><scriptsrc="zepto.js"></script><scriptsrc="storyDetailView.js"></script></body></html>
