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In yet another example of how getting good at video games may one day help us save the universe, remote controlled drone planes will be used to fly into the eye of hurricanes this season, helping to monitor and predict storms before they hit land.
It's part of an ongoing project funded by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The project is set to monitor the Earth's atmosphere: The planes send back a steady stream of information, which will allow the researchers to predict hurricanes' intensity. The planes can fly into the eye of a storm at just 300 feet above sea level, monitoring the energy transfer from the sea's surface to the storm. Previous methods used manned aircraft, and flew at roughly 10,000 feet.
Weirdly, the planes will have to take off from the Barbados, because the FAA has not approved the organization to operate the planes from US territory for safety reasons. [Source: BBC]
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Subscribe to commentsRICH is IGNORANTMay 28th 2008 1:14PM
What took so long for ideas like this to materialize? This was a simple solution! Hurry up and approve this operation to take off and land right here in the United States!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
computer.dude.28May 28th 2008 9:47PM
I'm pretty sure this has been going on for several years..