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Sounds awesome -- hopefully there isn't an unintended consequence of encouraging illegal fishers to shoot down albatrosses. When you're already breaking some e
by ISL 6y ago
Sounds awesome -- hopefully there isn't an unintended consequence of encouraging illegal fishers to shoot down albatrosses.
When you're already breaking some ethics/rules, it is much easier to break one more.
- toss1 6y agoSounds like this would be a good job for a indefinite-flight-time solar-powered drone, flying up higher to get a broader view and stay out of range. The albatrosses already told us where to fly, now we need to put up some tech to catch the poachers. If they got reliably caught, fined, boats seized, few would bother.
- jcun4128 6y agoside note: the star link satellites probably don't have cameras right... otherwise there's your constant eye in the sky with high res as opposed to the geosync ones train ML on normal fishing routes/paths to take, deviation, detects unexpected ships ooh
- _underfl0w_ 6y agoSounds fun until it's quietly applied at a nation state level to e.g. cars or foot traffic or similar. Once it's proven to "stop crime on the high seas" it would be easier to get further funding. AFAIUI the images wouldn't be able to be delivered fast enough for anything approaching realtime, but I haven't looked into their specs to know if they even have cameras either (plus isn't transmission speed a differentiating factor for them?). To make it worse, a tinfoil hat would just make you easier to spot on camera haha...
- jcun4128 6y agoI was doubtful they would have cameras just because of payload/purpose "circuitry" but it also seems like a small thing to slap on there/extra sensor to get data. What a cool platform though, I had a fantasy like ssh'ing into a satellite and it's flying through the sky.
- toss1 6y agoWell, you are in luck!! The US Air Force AFWERX [1] Challenge is the combination of the defense, academic, startup, private sector and small business worlds to collaborate through challenges and live events, is running a Hack-A-Sat event [2] -- see if you can join! [1]https://www.afwerx.af.mil https://www.afwerx.af.mil [2] https://www.hackasat.com/?utm_campaign=AFWERX%20Fusion%202020&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=92783532&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--MnXQvAQsBsNvtozX-HbCRbNryMFksDftLj2M00PwzY4t56ATs6pOe2n669ViBficGZAGo5isyyw17e181__pzIHl00PXgv_oZu5SbqB4LYz0U_MY&utm_content=92783532 https://www.hackasat.com/?utm_campaign=AFWERX%20Fusion%20202...
- jcun4128 6y agoYeah I saw that, it's neat. I've never really been into hacking. I'm more interested in the interfacing aspect like what frequency, antenna design, what do you do just blast it... are there "ports"? Etc... but yeah the concept of a space-born computer is neat. Thanks for the links, will check them out
- mc32 6y agoApparently it’s not just “pirates“[1]There are state sponsored illegal fishing in the eastern & South Pacific by the usual suspects. [1] https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/30-03-2016/how-chinas-illegal-fishing-armada-is-plundering-the-south-pacific/ https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/30-03-2016/how-chinas-illeg...
- ngcc_hk 6y agoSuspect it is china after the current Galapagos island operation. It turned out it is. Since ancient time ba ...
- EdwardDiego 6y agoThe Spanish, South Koreans and Taiwanese are masters of illegal fishing also, especially for Patagonian toothfish. But then the illegal fishing in Somali waters (that contributed significantly to the issues of piracy) was a veritable united nations... https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2019.00704/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2019.0070...
- throwaway0a5e 6y ago>Patagonian toothfish. aka "Chilean sea bass" so that upper middle class westerners think it's a striper and don't bother to Google it.
- mc32 6y agoLots of fish get friendlier marketing names (all the Cods and Basses) Chilean sea bass predates googling.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoMost fish are marketed under their own name. Halibut, Cod, Flounder, Albacore, Smelt, Sardines, Anchovies, etc. You don't usually have trade names until you start getting into fish that weren't commonly fished for Western consumption until refrigeration plus depletion of fisheries made it possible and profitable to fish things half way around the world or fishing or fish some secondary species that was formerly considered by-catch. At least that's my observation. I've never done a comprehensive survey.
- jgeada 6y agoIllegal fishing should be treated as an act of war against the human race. Illegal fishing boats should just be sunk.
- 082349872349872 6y agoThe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_Wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_Wars were mostly net cutting and shouldering.
- dTal 6y agoThe verve with which you enforce lethal consequences on people who break the rules to survive, must be equally matched with a verve for helping those in need. Many of these people aren't illegally fishing for pleasure.
- brutt 6y agoWhy you have locked doors in your house? Maybe it better to help those who are looking for shelter or food instead of spending money on doors, locks, security cams, police, courts, jails, borders, army.
- Jabbles 6y agoThe parent said "equally matched", not "instead of".
- rfrey 6y agoYou equate locking my door at night with killing subsistence fishermen who are breaking fishing laws to survive?
- brutt 6y agoYep. If these same fishermen will break into your country and then break into your house, it will be a bit late to enforce law. Dozens of wars we know started this way.
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