Trump Says He May Rename Hormuz Strait the ‘Trump Strait’ as Iran Says Two Tankers Hit Mines

Robot Dives 1.5 Miles, Maps French Shipwreck With 86,000 Images And Recovers Artifacts Authored by Neetika Walter via Interesting Engineering, A remotely operated robot has retrieved artifacts from a 16th-century shipwreck more than 1.5 miles beneath the Mediterranean, offering a glimpse into how precision deep-sea robotics is transforming underwater exploration. Guided from a support vessel above, the system used camera-fed navigation and robotic pincers to maneuver across fragile debris fields, capture high-resolution imagery, and recover centuries-old objects without disturbing the surrounding site. ROV C 4000 remotely operated vehicle designed for deep-sea missions...

"Not Seen Since World War II": New Texas Shipyard To Hire 10,000 Workers And Mass-Produce Drone Boats Building on our coverage of autonomous maritime warfare this week, Saronic Technologies is preparing to build a massive shipyard on the Texas coast capable of producing autonomous surface vessels at scale, a project expected to create more than 10,000 jobs. Bloomberg reports that the Austin-based technology company, which specializes in maritime drones, is building a $3.2 billion shipyard at the Port of Brownsville on the Texas coast. The facility will manufacture medium- and large-class...

Kunstler: Suburban Sprawl Is A 'Death Trap' For America's National Spirit Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Clusterfuck Nation, The Late, Great Debate About Suburbia, An Apologia "It is difficult to design a place that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished." - William H Whyte Greenland, yes, yes, okay ! Smooth move. . . ! But. . . today we put aside the vagaries of national and geo-politics to return to a longstanding affliction in American life that is evermore absent from the public discourse and deserves...