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Seafaring boffin bots in record-breaking bid to chart Pacific

James Gosling's wave-powered robot company has launched four bots on a record-breaking epic across the Pacific. Liquid Robotics unleashed the Wave Gliders from San Francisco Bay on November 17, on what it claimed will be the longest journey ever attempted by an unmanned ocean vehicle. Liquid Robotics is shooting for a Guinness …

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Monday 21st November 2011 16:44 GMT Flocke Kroes

Ducks have a 20 year head start

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12168-uk-on-alert-for-plastic-duck-invasion.html

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Monday 21st November 2011 22:18 GMT s. pam

OMFG, they've forgotten to measure

Fish Flatulence!

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