*Gothic High-Tech. Rather than enforcing civil order on the high seas, invent the robot naval water-cannon. Market forces will then re-devote the attention of pirates to weaker prey, who lack your digitized fortress.
via @vanderbeeken
http://www.samsungvillage.com/blog/2011/01/samsung-fighting-pirates-the-21st-century-way.html
The 'Samsung Anti-Piracy Solution', which was announced this week, integrates three state-of-the-art technologies into a vessel with an important emphasis on safety:
A surveillance radar system which analyzes the distance, speed and moving direction of ships within 10 kilometers to automatically detect and track any suspicious activity. Previous radars on ships could only detect and identify boats that were very close to the vessel.
A night-vision technology that tracks and displays the movement of suspected vessels in real-time, generating high-quality infrared images.
A high-pressure, remotely controlled water cannon that shoots a powerful stream of water as far as 70 meters to thwart the pirates’ approach. The cannon – which has a maximum pressure of 10 bars, or equal to the force of 10 kilograms applied to an area of 1 square centimeter – can be controlled remotely from the bridge, (((
