View Full Version : Ratt'n snagg'n, fragg'n...
Asmodeus
10-18-2005, 05:54 AM
Oh for the love of Pete... Marley? Nope. Thats Bob you idiot. DAMMIT!
*crunches up 16 pages of notes, diagrams and schematics*
Just found out another seismic company is starting their R&D run with a new technology. Bad thing is, they are testing a design I had just come up with. Which means they came up with it first, dammit.
Instead of pulling sensor cables behind the boat that read the booms, they are deploying sensor "cans" on the ocean floor to read the data. More effective- much closer to source of data.
Spent the last 2 weeks working on that crap. Oh well. Back to the drawing board... again.
Mudflap
10-18-2005, 02:04 PM
All is not lost. You can patent your design if it is in some way dis-similar to the device the other company is using.
Make yours better.
Escape Artist
10-18-2005, 03:48 PM
Or just make it a little bit different and patent it.
Tis how a lot of people compete in that arena.
morgana
10-18-2005, 04:37 PM
<font color="lime">you could just slaughter their families in their sleep, starting with the outer relations and working your way in until they sign all rights over to you.
*shrugs*</font>
Asmodeus
10-18-2005, 05:18 PM
Hmm, for some reason I like morgana's idear better... as for the others... I'll keep working on it.
Koliedrus
10-20-2005, 08:50 PM
The defeatist in me continually says, "if you can think of it, someone already has".
The paranoid in me says, "if you can think of it, someone already has".
Somewhere in the middle is a "me" that keeps on thinking anyway. If only I could find the "me" willing to stomp the shit out the competition...
Then again, I am my own competition.
Any questions?
Asmodeus
10-20-2005, 11:14 PM
What's for supper?
The problem with changing just a little part of "their" design, I have to have a copy of their schematics to this... and since this is their R&D test run, they are holding those things very close to heart... may be years before I can get a copy. Oh well... I will always have the idear... just may take a while before fruition.
But... I have started working on a different type of air gun for offshore seismic... have 3 options to work with so far... gotta do some brainstorming to figure out which is the most viable. Hard part is that I am designing(trying to anyway) from the gun mechanic's perspective. = lighter, easier to work with, easier to work on, etc etc. THAT'S the hard part. This one may take a while.
Keeps me occupied... what else am I gonna do, sleep?
Escape Artist
10-20-2005, 11:54 PM
Why not attempt to patent your idea, in its entirety, entirely as-is?
Just because the concept is the same, the application may not necessarily be so. If it isn't a direct copy of their plans, I think you'll be able to pull it off.
Assuming you try this wobbly plan, best to do it sooner than later, lest they individually patent components et al to a degree that would instigate conflicts. :)
Failing that, pay me enough and I'll happily burn down their whole fucking complex (you supply legal counsel)
Asmodeus
10-21-2005, 05:24 AM
Ok... you talked me into it.
Now see what you can find about sub-sea mobile hydrophones that utilize ultra-low frequency carrier waves(I'm trying not to infringe on the Navy techs that use similar frequencies). Most of the seismic technology doesn't use low frequency(that I am aware of) but what I know of it, seems to work in high saline and pressure enviornments. Also with something along the lines of bubble memory capable of 60 plus gigabites storage. Each "pass" we make returns over 60 gigs of sub-strata data.
I ask this because I am severly limited on bandwidth and surfing time(I am at sea and technically "at work").
Dude watch out for the wales! Don't kill them!
SimpleSimon
10-21-2005, 07:38 PM
Dude watch out for the wales! Don't kill them!
whales
Yu cot a gud mistak their.
Oh my goodness. Thanks. I don't like typing on the laptop. The keys don't always obey.
Do you know what I'm referencing Asmo? The beached and dead whales from the radar training runs? I can't seem to remember where I found that, so I can't tell if I'm making the right connection with the ultra-low frequency carrier waves or not...
Asmodeus
10-21-2005, 09:47 PM
Yeah, some save the whales folks are suing the Navy because of that. Prove it, is allI can say.
My experience: if a whale or dolphin or whatever doesn't like a particular noise they run the hell away.
Let me just say this, if our guns don't kill them then how the hell can the Navy's frequencies kill them? Pfft...
Asmo-! *Sigh*
I no longer have a crush on you.
How sad.
Asmodeus
10-21-2005, 11:50 PM
Potential crushes aside: I was rushed. We just lost our port-side paravane(which seperates all the port side guns and streamers), which keeps them from getting tangled together. We got all the guns and streamers back aboard but that paravane is gone. No one knows where it went or if it sank or what. Jaws methinks. We have 2 other boats out helping us look for the durn thing. Cause we can't shoot without it.
But the point still stands. Most every day out here we see dolphins etc- usually in-between shooting. We also have MMOs- Marine Mammal Obsevers on board. We cannot shoot when dolphins or whales are in sight. So HA!
So we wait until the MMOs are eating(which they do alot of) then we fire our small guns to scare the fishies off. Once the small guns fire a few times- and by the time it takes the MMOs to get back to the bridge- the fishies are long gone. So we can start shooting again. See, we's good peeples.
Mudflap
10-22-2005, 08:16 AM
Zounds! Asmo has a freakin' cool jobbie.
Escape Artist
10-23-2005, 01:35 AM
Ok... you talked me into it.
Now see what you can find about sub-sea mobile hydrophones that utilize ultra-low frequency carrier waves(I'm trying not to infringe on the Navy techs that use similar frequencies). Most of the seismic technology doesn't use low frequency(that I am aware of) but what I know of it, seems to work in high saline and pressure enviornments. Also with something along the lines of bubble memory capable of 60 plus gigabites storage. Each "pass" we make returns over 60 gigs of sub-strata data.
I ask this because I am severly limited on bandwidth and surfing time(I am at sea and technically "at work").
Well, insofar as low frequency carriers, I'm no electronics engineer. Nor would I have any idea how to look that kind of shite up. De boat be sunk there, massa.
As for pulling down 60 GB of data in a pass, I read recently about a filming method (digital video straight to hardware) that feeds around 30 GB to some sort of memory/drive assembly.
Assuming you can find more out about that, you may be able to mimic the array used. Should be fast enough if it can capture and write x amounts of frames per second; it's all binary data.
Given the low cost of some computer parts - I don't see why you couldn't get away with a RAID array of hard drives - maybe 120 GB a piece - utilizing UDMA and 10k rpm speeds. Couple that with enough memory to provide a decent buffer and I think it *might* work. Hard part for that would be the hardware limitations on speed, though I think you could get away with a 100 Mbit ethernet line or two, or three.
vBulletin v3.5.3, Copyright ©2000-2012, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.