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What Does it Do?

01/05/2012 10:08 PM
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01/05/2012 10:14 PM

What does what do?

To what part of the photograph do you refer?
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01/05/2012 10:41 PM

The pyramid shaped device with the prop on top....

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01/05/2012 11:25 PM

I thought you were talking about those three shiny metal...

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01/05/2012 10:23 PM

Ah, it floats.

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01/05/2012 11:28 PM

Filtering salt water to fresh?

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01/05/2012 11:40 PM

a bubbler to keep ice from forming around a boat?
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01/06/2012 12:08 AM

Houseboat teepee with 250-watt wind turbine.

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01/06/2012 4:50 AM

Keeps the birds off

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01/06/2012 9:13 AM

Actually it looks like a survivor raft with added floating shipping barrels. (From the draft of the barrels, I think that they're empty.) But right now it's doing nothing but floating at a floating dock. Maybe, just maybe, the wind turbine and solar array is charging some communications battery.

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01/06/2012 10:02 AM

Floating green house.

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01/06/2012 10:52 AM

Duh!!!

It's the latest prototype, wind powered space capsule from the Chinese space program.

Shhhhhh......................Keep it vewy vewy quiet...............it's top secwet.

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01/06/2012 12:15 PM

it charges their ipads

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01/06/2012 1:21 PM

Does it transmit weather or information about the sea from remote places in the ocean?

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01/06/2012 1:46 PM

It chops people into little pieces if they get too close to that whirly thingamajig.

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01/06/2012 4:31 PM

A solar/wind powered marker buoy.

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01/06/2012 4:34 PM

does it contain a bank of batteries?
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01/06/2012 4:38 PM

It's an air raft. A modification of the airboat, designed for short cruises around the harbor.


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01/06/2012 5:10 PM

It's waiting for Aquaman and Aqualad to come back for their camping trip.

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01/06/2012 5:20 PM

A buzzing sound?

If you look closely, you'll see a fat cat with stripes inside (the cat is inside of the teepee, not the stripes inside of the cat) looking to the camera, he might have a better idea.

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01/06/2012 5:28 PM

HAhahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaa

"The first test system sank under the furious assault of a male swan caught up in the heat of mating season rivalries"

(not linked as it upsets Eagles)

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01/06/2012 7:51 PM

Yup Yup,,, ya gotta wonder....It supposedly is a prototype of a semi-autonomous algae farming thingy that wanders around in large herds on the high seas growing algae for biofuel...sort of like cows that go out to graze and then come home to be milked...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45886648/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/#.TweVBjUTF2A

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01/07/2012 9:27 PM

it aerates water in a treatment plant to increase bio reactions and reduce algae growth.

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