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The record-breaking, ocean-crossing science robot (images)

... if it weren't for the huge array of communications stuff cluttering the top.

Oh, and those detours the scientist made it take -- you know, wasting time to do science and stuff.

When is some enterprising person wanting to make a fortune going to invent something that repells barnacles? Aren't there things in seawater that don't seem to attract this growth as a place to explore. It just seems this is not impossible. Maybe something in nanotechnology.