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[@stankfaust814]

As these drones proliferate in their mission, a nice design feature would be a first aid / sos button in case its track traversed someone in distress.

[@janeblogs324]

The drones could film their last days on earth, would make great TV

[@razzlekhan292]

Sure, and put some Oreos on there too! With a pint of milk!

[@moroniafrifa614]

That’s a great suggestion 👌🏼

[@jimj2683]

It would be fantastic to get some nice footage of some giant rogue waves. I would also like if it measured the pressures generated by those waves. It would be useful to build ships that could withstand the forces.

[@freethink]

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[@mistycloud4455]

A.G.I Will be man's last invention

[@bohabdestructo7489]

So when are the maps going to be available? My guess is that we will never be able to get them unedited.

[@nomore-constipation]

...if I wasn't so paralyzed thinking I would die in the middle of the ocean i would absolutely love to explore it visually in person. There is a peace about being in the middle of nowhere and being able to do your own thing. Without anything else dragging you down

[@genesises]

"we can operate these vehicles with less power than a lightbulb uses" - proceeds to show massive solar panels on the sailboat.

[@LordGryllwotth]

I guess it would be with most of it turned off or going on a cycle.

[@DigitalJedi]

1 square meter of land at the equator produces receives a maximum of 1360W of solar energy. The best solar panels on the market are 47% efficient, cutting that available power down to 369W. That solar panel is not anywhere near perfectly perpendicular to the sun, and at 45 degrees to the sun, that would then be cut down to 1/sqrt(2) of the original number, or about 260W. That solar panel is not an entire square meter, so let's say it's 0.75 of that. That brings us down to 195W. If there are other losses, or they are just using what isn't the absolute best solar panel tech I could find, they could easily be in the 100W range. A more average solar panel efficiency of 30%, or a worse average angle to the sun would be pretty close to that mark.

[@genesises]

@@DigitalJedi thanks for that!

[@oldi184]

100s of meters per pixel at 8000 meters. That's a very very very low resolution. The abyssal plain which covers 80% of the ocean floor is 3000 to 6000 meters deep. So they don't see much with this technology. Objects 20 or 30 meters in size will not be visible at these depths. We need technology that can map the deep ocean floor with

[@wickedcabinboy]

I can envision other uses for these drones. With camouflage coloring they'd be difficult to detect visually. They could be used to monitor the ocean for other purposes such as submarine travel or illicit fishing activity. They've already been involved in a couple of international incidents in the Persian Gulf.

[@markeasley6149]

The US Navy needs to invest in these

[@RaffyMaBoi]

They already have their own

[@Travis7919]

I can imagine that fish harvesting companies would/will pay fortune for this data and then ..... fish out everything

[@viarnay]

if fishing companys fish out there won't be more fishing...

[@Hoopaball]

This technology is so cool. A solar powered computer, operating a sail boat, controlled remotely via satellite, through a station, by an operator who working might also be working remotely or from a ship. Weather agencies can cut down on balloon pollution, maritime search and rescue can preposition assets, marine navigation and communication can operate in relative situational awareness, with localized on tap data, and space communications and data service providers can also establish mesh networks with smaller on orbit satellite fleets. All with these boats acting as non-orbital, reusable, relay nodes, observation, communication, and rescue craft.

[@somerandomfella]

Doesn't sonar disrupt whale communications? 🤔

[@zinjanthropus322]

Is that why they beach themselves? Or is that a form of protest

[@LordGryllwotth]

They don't like the high powerfull ones that the navy uses.

[@diegoparedes9101]

Fascinating, but I have to disagree, space and underwater (+1km) are more hostile that the ocean

[@ropro9817]

Freethink: This is pretty cool tech, but what is Saildrone's business model? i.e. How do they make money to keep going?

[@brandonparry2056]

I am sure there are many companies and governments that would love the data.

[@wovasteengova]

sell data most likely

[@peters972]

Probs don’t sail near pirates too

[@janeblogs324]

Finding oil/gas. Selling the coordinates obviously

[@Yuv1]

Finding russian submarines

[@shuaige3360]

How many of these boats are currently sailing on the sea at a time?

[@mauriciogerhardt3209]

Some people just take it too literally: "We must get to the bottom of this!"

[@ajmalshah934]

Is SailDrone hiring? I live near their headquarters and have experience with autonomous vehicle technology.

[@Panakook]

You could google them and then send them an email

[@airsoftwwbde]

DoD be like: nice now give us all your data so we can Pinpoint Russian/Chinese Submarines.

[@waynegnarlie1]

Great narration, personable and not condescending or contrived sounding.

[@LoiteringReaper]

These sail drones can be useful when interstellar travel becomes possible. Such as mapping details of water or even gas based celestial bodies (planets) with the use of probe drones.

[@lukedowneslukedownes5900]

Good thought

[@janeblogs324]

NASA forgot how to land on the moon yet they landed on mars and found plastic coke bottles. We are not mapping anything ever

[@LoiteringReaper]

@@lukedowneslukedownes5900 Maybe drones can be used in nuclear or waste gased areas, if they are not already being used this way.

[@renaldobeaton4632]

This technology can help to gather information on water based catastrophe like tsunami or hurrican. This information can be used in various ways. Another idea would be that is used for sensory purposes to locate ships or persons doing illigal stuff at sea.

[@clintwolf5737]

I like it! These would also be great as life-saving devices for those out at sea - add an emergency button. Imagine someone who's boat went down or whatever. They see one of these and press that Emergency Button. Using the onboard GPS, this craft could communicate the person's location for rescue. Granted the craft would be moving before and after the button was pressed, but maybe the button sits alongside something that could be grabbed by the person to stay with the craft.

[@jimj2683]

That is a great idea! I could imagine billions of these (in a smaller version) just floating around all the oceans, ready to save people.

[@alexdaland]

to be fair, it sort of works already without any added "emergency features", although that is an idea worth exploring. However, if you are stuck on a liferaft for xx days, and you get a hold of one of these.... Dont let go, you will figure out some way to communicate with the sensors/camera/equipment

[@tailund3508]

Very cool and impressive. I am curious as to how they avoid collisions with other vessels, or running aground. Navigation at sea is pretty complex and multidimensional. I should hope there's no risk of being rammed by one of these during an ocean crossing...

[@lukedowneslukedownes5900]

That probability is almost non existent

[@Mateus-vj6fy]

Hmm, this type of technology already exists for on-ground robots, autonomous submarines, etc. take a look at ROS2

[@Mateus-vj6fy]

And I'm not sure, but I think you can create an algorithm to map every obstacle into a 2D map to reduce the computational power needed.

[@CamimalFPV]

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. Similar technologies are enabling robots to safely operate around humans. Basically uses sensors (including visible light cameras you're used to on your phone) to map the environment actively and "localize" themselves in it. It's something us humans and most animals do naturally on autopilot without even thinking about it. :)

[@lincolnrock9158]

In the South Pacific there is something on the sea floor that looks like a huge turtle shell but it's a mile by 3 mile long and has teaks on the sea floor where u can tell it's been moving. The channel secureteam10 did a video on this 3 4 or 5 years ago the picture of the thing is on his thumbnail. What is this. There are also other weird anomalies around this object in sea floor.

[@herzogsbuick]

So does this mean the fake ID I had that said Richard Jenkins on it was real?! I'm so confused

[@TheFPSChannel]

This is incredible.

[@breezywarhead8489]

Rip for drones getting hit by rogue waves

[@timkemmerling9037]

This series keeps blowing my mind!

[@wovasteengova]

4:35 something about this clip to the next scene is funny to me. Hard to explain. The dialog. Nicks walking and facial expression. I can't be the only one that finds this kinda funny😂

[@LordThorez]

How feasible is this? How much time would it take to map all the areas we want? Also, how much time before the data collected is outdated? Is the ocean floor more static or dynamic on a project scale this large?

[@Jimmy_Jones]

I guess we will need this project to find out

[@Dubstequtie]

They said in the video as soon as 2030 we will map the whole ocean.. which is.. wild considering that is only 7 years.. As for it changing.. I am sure they will proceed sending them out and comparing map data for changes as they said in the video that they already are doing.

[@daria_morvedre]

How come waves don't break it, if even wooden ships get broken into pieces?

[@dinoanastasopoulos8511]

This is brilliant!

[@neddyladdy]

And here is another wave, there's one ! Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink.

[@4445doom]

Military applications? I’m sure the military appreciates the data gathered…helps in logistics, finding enemies that are hiding, delivery of weapons…..

[@edshelden7590]

I think our US military may have a version of one of these drones. I think last year the Iranians maybe Iranians captured one of these

[@cheegum6296]

This is amazing!

[@grahamkearnon6682]

Wow, it's if the British navy in the 1880's never did an Ocean survey or named the deepest point on earth the Challenger deep from the ships name.

[@johnborton4522]

Wow, it's as if you think the British navy in the 1800s did an Ocean survey of the entire ocean rather than a tiny portion.

[@grahamkearnon6682]

@@johnborton4522 I'm guessing you mean the 19th century.

[@johnborton4522]

@@grahamkearnon6682 There's no need to guess, I said exactly what I meant - "the 1800s".

[@randomusername509]

How do the drones don't bump into obstacles, eg ships or boats? Some kind of simple "autonomous driving"?

[@russellchampagne3830]

Next story will be how they’re selling the information to billionaires to mine for hundreds of billions of dollars. (They’re all already doing it)

[@vietadvisor6781]

Do the drones run AIS? What collision avoidance system do they use?

[@LordGryllwotth]

The radars could automatically assign moving objects a NMEA string that feeds into the main computer, just the same as the AIS receiver would do.

[@anthonywolf943]

AMAZING!!!

[@tannoyboy5021]

Great video!

[@brycenarcisomercines5036]

beautiful technology!

[@CunaGreenleaf]

Why was the coast guard following the drone. They weren't trying to give it a ticket right?

[@edshelden7590]

My guess the US Coast Guard was following the drone because they did not want to become a hazard to navigation for big ships transiting in and out of San Francisco bay. This leads me to more interesting questions like can there control center actually take remote control over these drones and steer them to different locations are out of harms way?

[@edshelden7590]

My question is how easily and quickly the command center get remote control over these drones? How much actual control do they actually have on these drones . Do these drones have some sort of night lighting system and radar reflectors? Do these drones have an AIS system? How much of the data collected by these drones is readily accessible to the public?.

[@avenuex3731]

I wonder if they know right-of-way. I don’t see a large ship yielding for one of these

[@alexcarter8807]

Nope. But the drone might be able to evade, or be of a design that isn't damaged - much - by a run-in with a ship.

[@johnpaul9606]

If only they could study humans and unlock and remove the treacherous parts.

[@RevJimyJamz]

awesome to see innovative swarm like creations/creatures and such vibrant creators ..

[@huto9606]

Eine großartige Idee - eine gute Lösung - alles funktioniert, aber man braucht eine Menge Kaptial - doch sehe ihr viele - GRATLATION

[@Jimmy_Jones]

Data = money

[@Naturally_curious]

Just a little reminder that you can't call fishs "our fish". Human doesn't own anything.

[@teklife]

the algorythym is spooky, just this morning i was thinking about this project, which i'd heard of years ago. hours later it's a top video on my youtube homepage

[@janeblogs324]

Still looks like a ponzi scheme with half the video being CGI and 1 spec of data shown

[@Jimmy_Jones]

But why were you thinking about it that morning? What other videos or search did you make to subconsciously think of it?

[@teklife]

@@Jimmy_Jones i wasn't previously thinking of anything remotely related to this. i just remembered the story about the drone sailboats and i wondered about what was up with that project, still ongoing? successful? problems? etc. and then this showed up right at the top, so odd.

[@adams7707]

6:17 Not true, already more than 23% of the ocean floor is mapped.

[@krimke881]

Why do we have these? we've been mapping ocean floors and the earth with satellites for decades. every single detail is seen from space.

[@johnpatmos1722]

How does it operate as a business? Clearly, a lot of money is keeping this operational.

[@dongningprc]

Love your sense of humor

[@jozz2248]

Richard Jenkins? I suppose the shortened first name said with a Spanish accent would sound pretty funny. 😳😆

[@kingmasterlord]

they're doing it backwards. humans are supposed to be exploring and robots are supposed to be manufacturing

[@Pencil0fDoom]

Total global sensor saturation facilitating omniscient situational awareness for the monitoring, management & control of all resources & individuals is the technocratic utopian objective. All of the inspiring upsides of these ingenious devices notwithstanding, they constitute yet another big step toward its looming fulfillment. In that context, its just more swarm surveillance for future despots.

[@einfachfritz]

Would like to see these drones after 6 months out on sea! I cannot imagine all the sensors are still in place and running properly

[@JC.LC.]

What will happen with the drones once all the mapping is done?

[@BigOLarry33]

So Freethink really missed the LeRoi Jenkins opportunity. FOR SHAME

[@SuperEmanuel98]

They are pretending they do this for the weather and science. In reality they are just looking for Atlantis

[@jimj2683]

They should use UHMWPE for the bottom of the hull to avoid barnacles.

[@JoshuaDickin]

That uses too much power for the scale of power they produce and can run on

[@jimj2683]

@@JoshuaDickin I was talking about the plastic called ultra high molecular weight polyethylene.

[@SJR_Media_Group]

*_Perfect blend of Vision, Technology, and Affordability..._* Price points to allow this advanced technology has dropped drastically in recent years. Solar has matured, sonar scanning has matured, GPS navigation has matured, remote sensing and mission control has matured. If this was attempted 20 years ago, same concept would be prohibitively expensive. Drones sent into Space or across the Oceans have few physical restrictions. They don't need food, water, sleep, exercise, vacations, or doctor visits. They don't care how long their mission takes. Imagine what next generation drones can do when AI and Learning is programmed into it's Silicone Brain. *_We are on the verge of the next wave of Ocean Exploration on a Global Scale._*

[@arborsamurai]

Absolutely fascinating!

[@user-dr2pg8fk2i]

Gosh, look at all the cool stuff that can be done with family money!

[@JesseSlaughter]

Great until local criminals steal them

[@jetfu400]

Will the data be open to the public? Or will it be top secret again?

[@boathemian7694]

They look like my self steering vane on a kayak

[@viarnay]

This guy is going to get filthy rich..

[@ZalexMusic]

good god, why did you let the intern write the narration? "for realsies"

[@joshuajones634]

Hey Department of Defense wink wink nod nod.

[@zouminlandau6753]

Send these saildrones to Indian ocean to find MH370.

[@DanaLordsonII]

Amazing!

[@rocknrollajohnnyquid876]

Shoutout Lt Dan 😂

[@chrisscullynz]

Its impossible to predict the weather anymore than 30 days as it is a "chaotic system"

[@smartestfactory]

So is the turbulence in water, but that's a huge area of research. Chaos can be tamed with mathematics.

[@chrisscullynz]

@@smartestfactory Maybe in theory

[@smartestfactory]

@@chrisscullynz It's how we currently design pumps, pipelines, mixing, polymer science, stock markets, and more.

[@Mrissecool]

@@chrisscullynz Some aspects of chaotic systems can still have equations with huge practical application, for example turbulent flow in pipes. It's not possible to calculate or predict the path of every individual drop, but from knowing that the flow is turbulent, there are a lot of other behaviours that can be reliably predicted in the system.

[@jimj2683]

Machine learning will eventually be able to predict every single wave and wind gust on the planet.

[@RA-II]

Are they hurting the whale with there sonar

[@johnnyearp52]

We are not rebuilding our world from scratch by any means.

[@jeffgold3091]

collision avoidance electronics ?

[@REV1517]

I don't even want to know the headache they have with government military and intelligence they deal with.

[@Thereallyjonez]

😂 sounds like a name from a fake ID , Robert Jenkins

[@ericswain4177]

Got to map the Oceans so we can exploit them. The last frontier on Earth. Hope we discover similar intelligent life forms that teach us a new and non-Earth destructive way of life. Ocean sentence is next if not already.

[@jameschen2308]

Awesome!!!

[@TomTomLo1]

i have never said the words "incandescent lightbulb"

[@price724]

They are going to find the alien bases

[@svenweihusen57]

Cool drones but predicting weather month in advance is BS. The data from the drones is valuable but that it will massively increase the weath forecast is BS. You can get most of the data by satellite. And the weather system is turbulent aka a prediction past a certain point is impossible because even tiny changes can have huge impacts and this sums up to a point where it it simply impossible to make precise predictions no matter how good your data are.

[@alexeywelgum8093]

Movie scenes are very distractive

[@Ich_hab_Fernweh]

i think we should combine These Technologies with Ocean clean up Tech and make it cheaper to try to Reverse the damage were Doing daily in a pursuit to gather more kapital

[@RASK1904]

Have them gather the plastics.

[@fredychicano654]

Last real frontier??!!! Uhh NO!!! Just because the government doesn't let regular citizens into the Antarctica doesn't mean it doesn't exist

[@theofficialcybermonkeys1271]

I thought deep space was the final frontier? We don’t or maybe never have the technology to explore other galaxies, but I can see us exploring more and more of Antarctica and the oceans this century. Not sure about the mantle or layer of core though…build some underground cities 😆 not sure if that’s realistic.

[@fredychicano654]

The topic on the Antarctica is to deep and vast for me to even begin explaining in a YT comment section. So I'll get to the point the government is known to keep things confidential secretive and hide things from it's citizens even from themselves more then enough evidence is out their to think their is more in the Antarctica then just snow and ice your belief is just an opinion. And you'll get an educated guess by Reading and investigate more and dig deep without losing yourself in the rabbit hole use your logic and you'll realize your belief has nothing to do with actual written testimonies and facts from credible people ...

[@fredychicano654]

@@theofficialcybermonkeys1271 oh as to the last frontier lil comment where we not talking about earth 🌍 or did you get lost in reading my comment

[@javierhillier4252]

you literally can go to Antarctica

[@egondro9157]

This is a joke right?

[@noahhess4955]

This video is so cool

[@TL-fe9si]

0:27 somehow the way she talks reminds me of Elon Musk

[@kabangukabangu2529]

Could they spot submarines?

[@Xsiondu]

Briefly, the sub is powered and on its way somewhere. The drone is going somewhere else. Two ships passing in the night basically.

[@Xsiondu]

For strategy we can identify probable sub locations via satellite then to be sure we send it sub hunting planes out to that location

[@MM-tb8dy]

Then they sail to China or Russia and they reverse engineer them in a more cool way.

[@ThisIsToolman]

Ah! “Truth “. Great technology.

[@bearlemley]

All the great marketing buzzwords were used in this “documentary”

[@user001zyx]

if we really want to save people & appreciate nature, we can do that for a lot less with better diet & more awareness of natural rescource use impact the data gathered with this cool tech certainly sounds as if it will be very valuable to companies & countries looking to enlargen their mineral, oil etc mining activities

[@sbiecoproductions6062]

WAAAAIT A SECOND... at 03.49 you can see a sligltly different pattern color, on the drone right behind the orange one in the front. IS THAT a MILITARY CAMO? duuude, monitoring the oceans and saving the planet, sponsored by the military uh? samo old story, folks

[@guitar81sb]

Thumbs down for movie references

[@mrnobodyhonest4893]

Sonar manipulation of fish herding

[@wovasteengova]

they need an api

[@pacmonkruz9846]

Some humans are just amazing

[@fairwind8222]

Navigational hazard