   Forgot your password? Science Technology  Weather Radar Goes
Miniature 167  quackking writes "As reported today in the Boston
Globe, the NSF has committed at least $17M to build out a new
network of miniature (at least in comparison with today's
monsters) weather radars. This is to radar what Beowulf clusters
are to the mainframe; the scientists at U Mass Amherst project
that eventually a weather radar node will be deployable for
under $20K! Now to figure out how to get real-time access to
this mesh of sensors and create a really cool screensaver..."
Weather Radar Goes Miniature  Comments Filter:   • Super!
(Score:1, Troll)      by Deltan (217782)     Maybe now when they
call for sun it won't rain instead?   • Heh... (Score:1, Funny)
by Anonymous Coward     I, for one, welcome our new miniature
weather radar systems.     • I have to wonder (Not being
familiar with radar entirely, will this cause problems with
interference, having this many active radar systems going? Just
asking out of curiousity.