Arleigh Burke Wisdom in the Age of AI

http://nextnavy.com/arleigh-burke-wisdom-in-the-ai-age/

Philippine Warship Aground

http://globalnation.inquirer.net/169392/ph-navy-flagship-runs-aground-in-west-ph-sea/amp?__twitter_impression=true

A New Trick to Keep Barnacles From Sticking to Ships - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/science/barnacles-ships-coating.html

H/T CS

The Panama Buoy

http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2018/08/the-panama-buoy/

What a Crippling Cyber Attack Looks Like

The entire Wired article is well worth the read here.  This sequence may seem somewhat familiar to any of us who have had to coordinate repair part deliveries to those deployed...

"After a frantic search that entailed calling hundreds of IT admins in data centers around the world, Maersk’s desperate administrators finally found one lone surviving domain controller in a remote office—in Ghana. At some point before NotPetya struck, a blackout had knocked the Ghanaian machine offline, and the computer remained disconnected from the network. It thus contained the singular known copy of the company’s domain controller data left untouched by the malware—all thanks to a power outage. “There were a lot of joyous whoops in the office when we found it,” a Maersk administrator says.

When the tense engineers in Maidenhead set up a connection to the Ghana office, however, they found its bandwidth was so thin that it would take days to transmit the several-hundred-gigabyte domain controller backup to the UK. Their next idea: put a Ghanaian staffer on the next plane to London. But none of the West African office’s employees had a British visa.

So the Maidenhead operation arranged for a kind of relay race: One staffer from the Ghana office flew to Nigeria to meet another Maersk employee in the airport to hand off the very precious hard drive. That staffer then boarded the six-and-a-half-hour flight to Heathrow, carrying the keystone of Maersk’s entire recovery process."

The fascinating story of DC’s aqueducts and reservoirs

https://ggwash.org/view/68579/the-fascinating-story-of-dcs-aqueducts-and-reservoirs

You Can Now Be Connected at High Speeds From The South Pacific

https://thepointsguy.com/news/you-can-now-be-connected-at-high-speeds-from-the-south-pacific/

Australia's China Reset

https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2018/august/1533045600/john-garnaut/australia-s-china-reset

South China Sea's Constructors

http://gcaptain.com/chinas-state-firms-cementing-lucrative-role-in-south-china-sea-new-research-shows/

Coastal Cutter Voyages to Marshall Islands

https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/coastal-cutter-voyages-to-marshall-islands

Roman Roads, Modern Prosperity

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/08/06/how-year-old-roads-predict-modern-day-prosperity/?utm_term=.51fd7a999498

How the Washington Branch Railway and the Camden Line shaped the region

https://ggwash.org/view/68598/how-the-washington-branch-railway-and-the-camden-line-shaped-the-regions-suburbs

Beijing's Maritime Gifts

https://maritime-executive.com/article/beijing-s-maritime-gifts

Fossils in the Architecture of Washington, DC

http://www.dcfossils.org/

Unalaska in Spanish

https://www.bbc.com/mundo/vert-tra-45061351

U.S. Marine Highways

http://gcaptain.com/conference-hopes-to-respark-us-marine-highways/

City Street Orientation

https://geoffboeing.com/2018/07/comparing-city-street-orientations/