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Military Drones Are Lame. Marine Drones Are HOT.

While military drones havebeen used to aimlessly kill people for years, the technology behind them can be used forgood. If a Roomba can clean a room, why not get a robot to clean the ocean?

We've mucked up our environment pretty damn badly. Time we figure out a way to clean it up.

Enter several intrepid French industrial designers, who propose using drone technology to send out unmanned marine vehicles for two weeks at a time, scooping out the garbage from our oceans.

Here's hoping this leaps off the design page sooner than later. Our mother (earth) desperately needs it.

Military Drones Are Lame. Marine Drones Are HOT.

While military drones havebeen used to aimlessly kill people for years, the technology behind them can be used forgood. If a Roomba can clean a room, why not get a robot to clean the ocean?

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Military Drones Are Lame. Marine Drones Are HOT.

While military drones havebeen used to aimlessly kill people for years, the technology behind them can be used forgood. If a Roomba can clean a room, why not get a robot to clean the ocean?

Philosophy expert shares the 300-year-old rule to tell if someone is a good or bad person

8 Depression-era Thanksgiving meal ideas that still hold up today

Woman explains what dry cleaning actually is and people are legitimately shocked

Rescue Chihuahua has cutest reaction when foster mom speaks Spanish to him for the first time

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