one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog
March 17 2008
A light vessel is a ship which acts as a lighthouse, usually anchored permanently and having no means of propulsion
August 22 2007
Fascinating live video broadcast straight from a robot submarine that’s exploring the bottom of the Black Sea.
April 28 2007
The Sea Organ on the coast of Croatia is the world’s first pipe organ that is played by the sea.
February 20 2007
We’re still plundering the seas. At the current rate, there will be nothing left to fish by the middle of the century.
December 25 2006
Goodbye Lohachara island [update]“Rising seas, caused by global warming, have for the first time washed an inhabited island off the face of the Earth”
August 08 2006
Our shit kills halfway around the world“Klavitter has calculated that albatross feed their chicks about 5 tons of plastic a year at Midway”
June 16 2006
Straight out of a cyberpunk novel: Russia is to build floating nuclear power stations. That seems like a bad idea in so many ways.