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Author: Cory Nealon
Source: University of Buffalo News Center
Date: October 16, 2013 (The release date of article.)
Deep-Sea Internet?
The University of Buffalo, all the way in New York, is developing a deep sea wireless network that is to be used to detect future tsunamis and other disastrous events/objects. If the UB is able to develop it correctly and complete it, it will, (and I quote), "Making this information available to anyone with a smartphone or computer, especially when a tsunami or other type of disaster occurs, could help save lives.", (end quote.) The technology could give the UB and "unprecedented ability to collect and analyze data". The article is basically saying that if the tech is successful (and it probably will be), it will help scientists know when future disaster events will happen. AKA it will SAVE LIVES.
I chose this article on the MarineScienceToday website. It had a link and a small caption explaining the article on the UB's website. It caught my eye immediately. And what came through my head at the exact moment when I saw it: Will this harm the environment? Yeah, I just had to think about that. 'Why not be excited like normal people for once?' (I-I can't.... Lol.) It is the most interesting to me because of.. well. Saving lives! There are seven billion something people living on planet Earth. What if a billion die each year (what's the average range of tsunamis happening?) because of our not-so-perfect-yet technology? This could totally save them all!
What now, you say? We just wait. The UB website said they were currently developing it, meaning that they're not quite done yet, correct? Once they have completed that task, they'll deploy it and test it. We'll be able to save many people's lives with this kind of technology and that's a blessing in the near future. Another thing we can do, though, is praise the students and staff at the University of Buffalo in New York for their smart thinking. If many other people are able to think of ideas can help save the planet and the human population, that'd be a great idea. A great thing. It can also give that smart person money for their trouble. (But it's not trouble, is it? :P ) You're saving lives.
Author: Cory Nealon
Source: University of Buffalo News Center
Date: October 16, 2013 (The release date of article.)
Deep-Sea Internet?
The University of Buffalo, all the way in New York, is developing a deep sea wireless network that is to be used to detect future tsunamis and other disastrous events/objects. If the UB is able to develop it correctly and complete it, it will, (and I quote), "Making this information available to anyone with a smartphone or computer, especially when a tsunami or other type of disaster occurs, could help save lives.", (end quote.) The technology could give the UB and "unprecedented ability to collect and analyze data". The article is basically saying that if the tech is successful (and it probably will be), it will help scientists know when future disaster events will happen. AKA it will SAVE LIVES.
I chose this article on the MarineScienceToday website. It had a link and a small caption explaining the article on the UB's website. It caught my eye immediately. And what came through my head at the exact moment when I saw it: Will this harm the environment? Yeah, I just had to think about that. 'Why not be excited like normal people for once?' (I-I can't.... Lol.) It is the most interesting to me because of.. well. Saving lives! There are seven billion something people living on planet Earth. What if a billion die each year (what's the average range of tsunamis happening?) because of our not-so-perfect-yet technology? This could totally save them all!
What now, you say? We just wait. The UB website said they were currently developing it, meaning that they're not quite done yet, correct? Once they have completed that task, they'll deploy it and test it. We'll be able to save many people's lives with this kind of technology and that's a blessing in the near future. Another thing we can do, though, is praise the students and staff at the University of Buffalo in New York for their smart thinking. If many other people are able to think of ideas can help save the planet and the human population, that'd be a great idea. A great thing. It can also give that smart person money for their trouble. (But it's not trouble, is it? :P ) You're saving lives.