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US sea-bottom sensor net powered by 'stroking buoys'

Mark

I knew it! 

Paris Hilton

The americans doth protest too much! All that anti-gay was just a smokescreen!

Poor old Paris...

Anonymous Coward

Argh 

A company making buoys recently floated - har har har..

Phil

Nice title 

Paris Hilton

The last paragraph or two are 100% Finbar Saunders.

Paris because, she's displayed that she can move freely up and down and has probably caused a lot of mechanical stroking due to video evidence.

Paul Williams

Thanks.... 

Alert

...now I need a new euphemism detector.

Anonymous Coward

wave power invention 

Big spider-like machine which can float along on ocean currents, converting up/down motion of its arms into electrical power. Dump them in one side of the ocean, then pick them up at the other with full batteries. Course, it wouldn't take much to militarize the idea and have them turn into war-of-the-worlds-esque fighting machines ready to Destroy All Humans when they run aground at the other end ...

Sam

question 

Would these work 'round our coastline?

Nicholas Ettel

Battle of the Bulge 

Coat

"squeezing the tube more and more and causing the bulge... to get bigger and bigger"

*giggle*

Gerhardt

Oh, I say 

Boffin

Ocean currents are a concern when doing stroking buoys. That means thinking about drag, bottom friction, and roughness.

Mark_T

Oh dear 

Happy

Freud would be proud.

Iam Me

You know 

Go

I could comment on the innuendo in the article, but some how I think even Sarah would find the comments to naughty to publish. So I'll just say this, I hear greping the buoy is a favorite pass time of sailors every where. That is all :-).

Anonymous Coward

"Booeee" 

For best results, read this article with an English accent.

Anonymous Coward

@AC "Booeee" 

Paris Hilton

Just read it in English. No accents involved unless you're the one who is not a native English speaker. Or are named after a city in a country that is not known for being populated by native English speakers, such as Paris.

With apologies mes amis, mijn vrienden, mis amigos, i miei amici, 我的朋友