Amazon describes it as a “human-centered, technology-powered U.S. It’s so futuristic you can even text with your provider.
It also offers same-day or next day appointments, which can be booked with an app. Its website boasts of 24/7 virtual care through your phone or computer. One Medical was likely a tempting acquisition for Amazon due to its heavy use of technology currently. “Alexa, schedule my colonoscopy” could be coming in the near future. “Booking an appointment, waiting weeks or even months to be seen, taking time off work, driving to a clinic, finding a parking spot, waiting in the waiting room then the exam room for what is too often a rushed few minutes with a doctor, then making another trip to a pharmacy – we see lots of opportunity to both improve the quality of the experience and give people back valuable time in their days.” “We think health care is high on the list of experiences that need reinvention,” said Neil Lindsay, SVP of Amazon Health Services. The deal is worth $3.9 billion, and is Amazon’s initial foray into into the massive US health care market.Īmazon announced the news on its website, and its reasoning was simple: the health care system could use a fresh, technology-based approach.
Last week, the company announced it was acquiring One Medical, which is a primary care provider in various US markets. The e-commerce behemoth is now entering the field of health care, which is one of the last places we thought we’d find Bezos’ footprint. These are areas that are of interest for one reason or another: for navigation into major ports, for scientific interest where there are strong currents, for engineering purposes prior to offshore construction projects, and so forth.If you thought it was weird when Amazon bought Whole Foods, then you’re probably going to be scratching your head over its latest acquisition. Very small areas of the seafloor (relative to the total area) have been mapped recently to modern standards. These surveys were conducted by a man dropping a lead weight over the side of a ship and measuring how far it fell neither their accuracy nor their resolution is up to modern standards and, even if the measurements were accurate when taken, sediments may have moved in the time since. A lot of modern Admiralty charts have sections for which the last survey was conducted in (say) 1882. Much, but not all, of the planet's coastal waters have been surveyed at one time or another, often by colonial navies. Most of the planet is known to a very coarse level. How much detail must we know for an area to gain this status? As others have said, we have a low-resolution idea of all of the non-ice-covered seabed from satellite altimetry and gravity measurements - but there is a big difference between this, with a resolution measured in miles, and a high-resolution multibeam sonar survey in coastal waters that might resolve down to less than a metre.
“These features can only be detected by using radar altimetry from space.Ī lot depends on the definition of "charted". Deep ocean trenches have the reverse effect,” ESA wrote in a statement. The effect of the slight increase in gravity caused by the mass of rock in an undersea mountain is to attract a mound of water several meters high over the seamount. Müller said the conclusions the researchers made about seabed topography may be less accurate than acoustic beam methods employed by ships.Īnd the article Gravity’s Magic: New Seafloor Map Shows Earth’s Uncharted Depths says: University of Sydney geophysicist Dietmar Müller said about 71% of the Earth's surface is covered by water and roughly 90% of the seafloor is uncharted by survey ships that employ acoustic beams to map the depths. CryoSat2) as discussed here: Global seafloor map reveals uncharted sea mountains, stunning details of Earth's oceans which discusses recent measurements of the seafloor from space. You can even learn about underwater depths using satellite instrumentation that detects gravity (e.g. Thus a nautical chart is important in these types of regions. so boats of different sizes may or may not be able to take certain routes depending on tides etc. You can see here what might be included in a nautical chart: U.S. Nautical charts have information about water depths, dangers to navigation, aids to navigation, anchorages, and other features.