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The World's Biggest Undersea Robot
Roland Piquepaille writes "According to redOrbit.com, companies installing subsea cables for telecommunications companies and pipelines for the oil industry now have a new tool, the UT-1 Ultra Trencher which is the world's biggest subsea robot. This beauty weighs 60 tons (out of the water) and has a length of 7.8 meters, a width of 7.8 meters and a height of 5.6 meters. In fact, it has the dimensions of a small house but is more expensive, carrying a price tag of about £10 million. It can move at a speed of 2 to 3 knots under the sea. And it can trench pipelines with a 1-meter diameter in deep waters of up to 1,500 meters."
I was really surprised to see that this wasn't developed by blacks. You know, what with them being "just like us", and just as intelligent as white people, it's odd, isn't it, that they didn't have anything to do with it.
I mean, if the entire human race was black, I'm sure we'd all be typing on Slashdot right now, wouldn't we? It's not as if there would be no computers, no cars, no airplanes, no space travel, no telephones, no television, no radio, no sirree...