Sunday, March 23, 2014

The Apollo astronauts didn"t have this much trouble landing on the Moon

NASA needs to get involved with a few oceanographers that specialize in the currents between Antarctica and Australia. Plant a flag on this thing already.

Call URI. I don't why I didn't think about them before. URI has one of the best ocean engineering departments in the world.

It is a matter of mass, buoyancy and movement.

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Data is key to validating accuracy of climate models...

...By analyzing four years (click here) of continuous measurements of the current at Drake Passage, the narrowest point in the Southern Ocean, three University of Rhode Island oceanographers have concluded that the current carries 20 percent more water than previous estimates. They also found that the current remains strong all the way to the seafloor....