SMD Ultra Trencher 1 starts its new job: laying pipes and cables in the briny deep
By Ryan Block 
posted Mar 22nd 2008 5:52AM
posted Mar 22nd 2008 5:52AM
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The CIA really ought to be more careful when it lowers its anchors
I'd really like this new "Gadget". Where can I buy it?
Ugh, 10 million big ones... if your serious, which I doubt. XD.
EMZ=]
"Filed under: Storage"
..uhhh really?
if only the real sea floors were that flat and smooth lol
I map the sea floor for a living often for such things before the lay pipelines and cables ... and there places down there that are incredibly flat and boring....
This is really nothing special to those familiar with the technology. Engadget should focus on the technologies that it knows something about unless it aims to be "Popular Mechanix" online.
HEY, this piece is important because without equipment like this all of us would be using two cans and a string!
Aw man, you suck, big time. Let them write about everything, it's not like you're forced to read this and loose your precious time. It's not like all the news are for everyone, I happen to like this one, though.
Trencher, ha!
The spooks must be mining methane hydrate from the ocean floor.
Critically pressurized volumes of methane gas exist beneath hydrate deposits on the sea bottom.
Any change in temp. or pressure @ these critically pressurized sites can cause hydrate to convert into methane gas. The highly pressurized gas can cause faults in the ocean floor to break apart, allowing the gas to escape.
The relics of massive underwater landslides that sprawl across continental margins, are most likely the result of ocean floor failures caused by overpressured methane gas. Tsunami?
Could this be a BlackProject that is coupled w/ HAARP?
The USAF released a white paper entitled, "Owning The Weather By 2025, A Force Multiplier."
Or not. http://weatherwars.info http://www.eastlundscience.com
http://www.chenier.org http://www.carnicom.com
Just kidding.
you guys do realize the time that he posted this... give him a break, what other news did you expect then?!?
I'd buy that for a dollar!
Sorry, this is not made by Omni Consumer Products.
is that actually a robocop reference?
"Laying pipe" under the sea? Welcome to the Mile Down Club, SMD!
*insert 70's porn music here*
"Somebody call a plumber? I'm here to lay some pipe..."
jaja LOL! 70's porn music rocks! chicka, chicka, wah, wah!!
The CIA Breaking those internet lines! lol
"jet swords" officially wins the award for coolest word-pairing I've heard in my lifetime.
Hennnnh heh uhhh heh henh heh.... He said "laying pipe."
This is the best onomatopoeic representation of laughter I've read in a very long time.
Dude, you so get modded up.
Thangyuh. thangyuvurrahmuch.
...been "laying pipe in the briny deep" since i was 16. am i out of work?
Of course if some 3 letter acronym organisation with a decent budget would but one of those it could work in reverse and it could dig up and un-lay the line/pipes smoothly and quickly :o
Ryan, your continued usage of strikethrough text is < del >painfully cliche< /del > pure comic genius!
it's nub.
Oh wtf the comments strip html completely, I was saying it's STRIKE not DEL nub (teasingly)
<sigh>
and I'm wrong I see, <strike> (and <s>is depreciated and replaced by <del> which to me makes no sense at all.
Sorry for the triple post but I don't want to leave people with false information.
Ouch.
What, now $19.8 milion is only worth 10 BPS? Wow, that dollar is dropping like a brick...
I hope they don't use that picture above to market its "trenching ability." Looks to me to just be playing with its jet swords and not doing any actual work.
Blahblahblah... underwater robotic overlords.
My Uncle runs SMD, I had a look at it while it was being built, never thought it would make Engadget :)