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U.S. Will Use Robots to Patrol Water Supply

Posted by michael on from the drink-me dept.

bl8n8r writes "By the summer of 2005, the United States will have an underwater network of robots monitoring the nations fresh water supply. Realtime environmental details will be used to help safeguard the nations drinking water. The robots would take on the painstaking, time consuming, and sometimes dangerous, task of collecting water samples which is currently being done by carbon based lifeforms."

4 of 218 comments (clear)

  1. Re:keep it clean by professor+seagull · · Score: 0, Troll

    hi rtfa kthx

  2. Re:This is awesome A GREAT TROLL by deadlinegrunt · · Score: 0, Troll

    You _ARE_ my trolling hero!

    Nice touch regurgitating the article and getting modded up. Combined with this I say you are unstoppable!

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  3. Re:Not quite... by Eagle5596 · · Score: 0, Troll

    The article was posted by michael, since when has he ever gotten something like this right?

  4. Terrible Secret of Space by ctrl-alt-elite · · Score: 0, Troll

    All the while the US moves closer and closer to the Terrible Secret of Space!