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...rocked by the gentle motion of the waves. Haji, the 68-year-old, one-eyed captain, was up in the darkened bridge, sitting cross-legged on a stool to the right of the wheel, making constant and almost imperceptible adjustments to the course of the ship. Navigational instruments?radar, sonar and GPS?glowed faintly on the control panel, but Haji paid them no heed. He has been sailing these waters since his youth; subtle changes in the shape of the coast and the position of the stars are all he needs to know exactly where he is. Just before dawn...
...always on time. She never complains. And she's cute too. Meet CoWorker, the office robot. About 3 ft. high, this Pentium-powered bot uses sonar sensors to keep her from bumping into walls and people as she rolls along at a languid one mile an hour. A digital camera perched atop her rotating, cranelike neck can wirelessly transmit pictures of remote assembly lines, construction sites or high-security areas straight to the boss. A home version, tentatively planned for the future, might keep an eye on granny--or the nanny...
Intermission provided an interesting exercise for those of us who wished to experiment with techniques of sonar navigation. Unstymied by repeated requests for audience members to take their seats so that Act II could commence, many of my more adventurous compatriots chose to wait for the houselights to dim and the curtain to rise before groping their way through the darkness to their places. Later, in case the interruptive energy contained within the house was not enough, various public vehicles, anything with a siren really, decided to lead an impromptu combination of drag race and parade outside of the theater...
...Ehime Maru and causing it to sink within minutes. The court, which is to decide what action, if any, is to be taken against Waddle, 41, and two other officers, had heard conflicting accounts of how well Waddle ran his ship. A petty officer in charge of analyzing sonar data had conceded he had been "a little bit" lazy in not telling Waddle that a ship appeared to be just 3,700 m away. Questions had been raised about the extent to which 16 civilians onboard may have interfered with safety procedures...
...Ehime Maru and causing it to sink within minutes. The court, which is to decide what action, if any, is to be taken against Waddle, 41, and two other officers, had heard conflicting accounts of how well Waddle ran his ship. A petty officer in charge of analyzing sonar data had conceded he had been "a little bit" lazy in not telling Waddle that a ship appeared to be just 4,000 yds. away. Questions had been raised about the extent to which 16 civilians onboard may have interfered with safety procedures...