Perhaps the next one can be name, "Titanic".
Posted on 06/16/2021 8:32:42 AM PDT by bgill
Four centuries and one year after the Mayflower departed from Plymouth, England, on a historic sea journey to America, another trailblazing vessel with the same name has set off to retrace the voyage.
This Mayflower, though, is a sleek, modern robotic ship that is carrying no human crew or passengers. It's being piloted by sophisticated artificial intelligence technology for a trans-Atlantic crossing that could take up to three weeks, in a project aimed at revolutionizing marine research.
IBM, which built the ship with nonprofit marine research organization ProMare, confirmed the Mayflower Autonomous Ship began its trip early Tuesday.
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Perhaps the next one can be name, "Titanic".
It will probably be met with a protest.
I hope it doesn’t get stuck in the Suez Canal.
Even when they refurbish the real thing(replica really) on occasion, they pull it with a tug boat. Probably only a handful of people that could captain an old style sailing vessel like that now.
I’ve got a great great great great grandfather that was a captain in the mid 1800s. Merchant ship.
What a BS story
This sounds like a useless exercise. They can’t find people who want to retrace the route of the Mayflower? Or is it too dangerous? It was probably too dangerous for the Pilgrims. But they made it. Now it is news that a robotic boat can follow a specific route across the ocean using a GPSsystem. It would be real news if a crew of people with only a compass and no engine were doing it especially if it was winter. But most people are too lazy.
Is the ship programmed to follow the trail of sharks that would congregate around passing slave ships, as Cong Donald Payne (Rat) claimed?
Mine settled Jamestown.
“They can’t find people who want to retrace the route of the Mayflower?”
That is disappointing. I’ll add onto it with an anecdote.
I was at a craft fair. People carving, weaving, hammering, and there was booth with a guy who had a little robotic thing turning out small wooden parts.
Sink it! Sink the Mayflower en route before it stops the natives from cutting the hearts out of innocents for the Aztec gods, discontinues ritual eating of enemy warriors, and starves out Carib cannibals.
My ancestors came over in the 1630s.
Where do I sign up?
I’d love to do it.
Alas, there are no more iron men in wooden ships. If they wanted to do it right (sans real sailors) they should, at the very least, replicate the Mayflower and add their nautical robots programmed to read the weather, currents, etc... and set sails accordingly. Oh, and they would set sail in September.
Where have you gone Thor Heyerdahl?...
Didn’t they all die or disappear?
Protest from other robots?
That identify themselves with “it” pronouns?
No. You’re thinking of the Roanoke Colony.
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