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NASA search-and-rescue technology has been sent to Mexico following the series of earthquakes that shook the country last week. The suitcase-size device, dubbed FINDER, uses radar to detect human heartbeats under rubble.
The device was developed through a collaboration between NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Department of Homeland Security. Two private companies have licensed the technology. As of Thursday, Sept. 21, one of the companies, called SpecOps Group, was in Mexico City participating in rescue operations, NASA officials said in a statement.
The other company, R4, sold FINDER units to Quito, Ecuador's, fire department following an earthquake there last year. That fire department has dispatched these units to Mexico City, according to the NASA statement.
FINDER, which stands for Finding Individuals for Disaster and Emergency Response, uses low-power microwave radar to detect small movements, like breathing or heartbeat, beneath rubble. In tests, it can detect a heartbeat through 30 feet of rubble or 20 feet of solid concrete, NASA officials said. The technology was developed from JPL's efforts to design low-cost, small-spacecraft radios, using signal-processing techniques created to measure small changes in spacecraft motion.
Source: https://www.space.com/38290-nasa-rescue-tech-sent-mexico-earthquake.html
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 30 2017, @12:11AM (5 children)
This has nothing to do with aeronautics or space.
Government is a money pit. Resources go in, and something sometimes crawls out.
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Anyway. I'm tired of using this crap website; it was written by morons—or maybe just spun of Slashdot's code (but I repeat myself). It's awful.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by stretch611 on Saturday September 30 2017, @12:30AM
Keep posting AC you idiot...
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday September 30 2017, @12:44PM (3 children)
You have a reason you feel that way? And who does it better?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 30 2017, @03:15PM (2 children)
Reddit's commenting system is far superior; besides a more expressive markup, the ability to edit a comment is essential to creating high-quality content.
The moderation system sucks balls. It does virtually nothing to curate the comments into something worthwhile, and it probably actually damages the quality of the discussion; it's just as bad on Slashdot.
One thing that Slashdot/SoylentNews has going for it is the ability to post anonymously, but that is fraught with problems, too.
For one, it's rate-limited, which is just annoying. Surely, there are better ways these days to ensure that comments are being made by real people who are providing worthwhile content—the problems here are probably related to the terrible moderating system, too.
Even worse is the fact that the commenting system seems to be fundamentally broken. It times out or gets confused (especially when connecting through the Tor network): "Invalid form key: JEoUKug9ip" after writing this comment and trying to submit it; to get around this problem requires cyberacrobatics to coax the commenting system into actually posting a comment.
It's all just a very painful experience. The only reason I keep coming back here is because I'm a masochist who likes to point out how stupid the rest of you are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 30 2017, @06:30PM
It works just fine for logged-in users posting as anonymous, which is still better than Plebbit.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday October 01 2017, @09:00AM
I can see the point of editing, though not the point of the more expressive markup [reddit.com]. The latter basically boils down to tables and images. I like the site image-free though tables would be interesting to add.
We're not Reddit. We don't have moderators or want that sort of curation.
Ok, what's supposed to be the problem? There's no good way to determine that real people are behind the keyboard (nor is that necessarily desirable), and that will get worse.
Sounds like a timeout issue from letting the comment sit around for a few hours (even if it isn't that, it may have a similar cause). I'd suggest at first copying the comment, reload the original post, and hit reply to the post and paste the old comment.
Compared to Reddit, huh? I'll note that they just do flat threading and most of the posting is just images with junk writing.
Or maybe paid to steer traffic. There's all sorts of conspiratorial possibilities when someone is as unproductive a contributor as you appear to be - hidden rewards to explain the superficial masochism.