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		adrianN on Aug 31, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Maersk installed 100-foot-tall rotating sails on o... I wonder how long a magnetic cleaning robot could survive on the hull of such a ship.

superkuh on Aug 31, 2018 [–]

After manned narco subs and towed sub capsules were mitigated by new police efforts drug traffickers experimented with magnetically attached parasite containers on the side of large shipping boats. But they didn't have to move.

Timmah on Sept 1, 2018 | [–]

How do they mitigate narco subs? Sonar patrols I presume?

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