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Artificial Jellyfish

Posted February 01, 2008 10:14 AM

A University of Rhode Island research center is investigating how to create a network of widely-distributed underwater sensors. One possible concept involves putting the sensors on artificial jellyfish. To meet the goals, the jellyfish would need to be made of simple materials and be acoustically transparent. A key challenge: staying in one place, despite strong currents and wave action.

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02/02/2008 10:04 AM

As if real jellyfish werent enough of a problem to bathers. Now someone wants to make artificial ones.

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02/04/2008 2:44 AM

There is an island here in Greece called Rhodes also... It's really nice for summer holidays and not for scientific reasearch though......

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02/12/2008 4:34 PM

Hello,

Sorry to log in anonymously but all the different registrations and passwords are getting to be a big pain.

Already floating plastic garbage, polyethylene bags in particular, are being mistaken for jellyfish by sea turtles. Many are consuming, choking and dying from this pollution. Some floating piece of spy junk that purposely looks like a jellyfish will add to this damage. And don't tell me this isn't spy junk and that you were simply wanting to monitor temperatures and salinity.

If you're inventive enough to come up with something like this then put your University smarts to something more useful. Our government and most ,as in all, of the others are insane and criminal. Don't give them more destructive toys to play God with.

Bill G.

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