PixelOfLife

My dad gave me a cheap radio receiver that plugs into the USB port on a computer, and I built an antenna for receiving images from weather satellites.

Here's the antenna (it's just a plastic pipe, a couple pieces of perforated steel strap and some threaded rods, nuts and washers):

And here are some of the images I received yesterday from the NOAA-19 and NOAA-15 satellites respectively (with a map overlay):

Unpossible!

Stargate Universe or Dark Matter.

Unlimited power!

It's never not the time to pray to Lord Gaben.

Basically they then need to be found on the water surface.

That's assuming all of them are still alive at this point. But what if they're not? Because if they know they're going to die without outside help, and that they have X hours of breathable air remaining for 5 people, I wouldn't be surprised if one or all of them did the math and realized that there's a way to make the reserves last up to 5 times as long...

Nothing wrong with using off-the-shelf gamepads for an application like this. They're cheap, surprisingly reliable, compact, and use the same communication protocol so you can easily bring multiple controllers made by different manufacturers for redundancy. And it doesn't matter if your primary control interface is a $50 gamepad or a $10k custom setup, you should still have a completely separate backup system.

Get a weather forecasting stone, it's 100% accurate.

Meatball sauce.