{"id":166516,"date":"2023-06-27T14:23:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T19:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/drones-take-to-the-waves-saildrones-are-getting-data-where-people-cant"},"modified":"2023-06-27T14:23:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T19:23:25","slug":"drones-take-to-the-waves-saildrones-are-getting-data-where-people-cant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/drones-take-to-the-waves-saildrones-are-getting-data-where-people-cant","title":{"rendered":"Drones take to the waves: Saildrones are getting data where people can\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/drones-take-to-the-waves-saildrones-are-getting-data-where-people-cant.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Science fiction often paints a terrifying picture of the future\u2014think aliens decimating humanity, \u00e0 la <em>The War of the Worlds<\/em>. But sometimes the future becoming the present can be pretty amazing\u2014who doesn\u2019t love successful space launches majestically catapulting humans skyward?<\/p>\n<p>Or take Earth\u2019s oceans, which are currently in the middle of a technological revolution that, outside of some very nerdy circles, has gone largely unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re at the cusp of a proliferation of lots of autonomous vehicles in the ocean,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fisheries.noaa.gov\/contact\/alex-de-robertis\">Alex De Robertis<\/a>, a biologist at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). \u201cThings that were science fiction not so long ago are kind of routine now.\u201d That includes saildrones, which look like oversized orange surfboards, each with a hard, carbon-fiber sail (called a wing) and a stash of scientific equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science fiction often paints a terrifying picture of the future\u2014think aliens decimating humanity, \u00e0 la The War of the Worlds. But sometimes the future becoming the present can be pretty amazing\u2014who doesn\u2019t love successful space launches majestically catapulting humans skyward? Or take Earth\u2019s oceans, which are currently in the middle of a technological revolution that, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1488,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-drones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}