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Re:Can an Autonomous Sailboat Cross the Atlantic? by CamperBob2 on Friday November 24, 2017 @08:18PM (#15773907)
So this basically represents a closed-form solution to the whole "How to smuggle drugs" problem, right?
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Re:Can an Autonomous Sailboat Cross the Atlantic? by Animats on Friday November 24, 2017 @10:02PM (#15774198)
No. Payloads are tiny. Travel time is very slow.
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Re:Can an Autonomous Sailboat Cross the Atlantic? by jffry on Friday November 24, 2017 @11:30PM (#15774446)
> Tow Capability: Up to 500kg mass

from https://www.liquid-robotics.com/platform/how-it-works/

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Re:Can an Autonomous Sailboat Cross the Atlantic? by CamperBob2 on Saturday November 25, 2017 @01:10AM (#15774674)
Not sure the cartels care about latency versus throughput. All they'll want to know is, will it scale?
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