Friday, February 26, 2010

One step forward.....

Have you ever heard the term one foot forward, two steps back? Well in our case we are taking those two steps back and making the proverbial giant step forward. Let me tell you the story of just what happened.

The lion had to run out real early the other morning to give something of a demonstration of what environmental technicians do to a foundation member that gave her a grant. So they trudged through waist high snow drifts and took a water sample from the pond we were going to dive on.

As far as the demonstration is concerned, everything went fine. What wasn't fine was the results of the water test.

You see the water now has a high level of phosphorous in it, making it most likely to have a huge algae bloom and making it dangerous for us to dive the pond this year. That's our two steps back.

So we got brain storming and we came up with a feasible idea. Rather than dive, lets build a ROV. Yep you heard me right, an underwater remote operated vehicle. We are already researching various ROV designs and have several “build you own ROV” sites bookmarked.

The giant step forward is that we have not only the thumbs up from our academic adviser, but he seems even more gun ho on this idea. That's our giant step forward.

Anyway, it's late and I have to study for Psychology tomorrow and design yet another speech...

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