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Anti piracy net keeps seafaring baddies. These days, Piracy has become a major issue. I’m not talking about the type of piracy that involves illegally downloading movies and music, although that’s a pretty big issue as well. No, I’m referring to the original pirates: people on boats with guns who take over other boats for profit. Pirates of Somali have been taking over all sorts of boats lately, and people have had about enough of it.

On the Littoral Combat Ship, one deterrent to piracy developed by the Coast Guard is equipped. It’s a long, floating net that’s designed to tangle up the prop of any boat that’s unlucky enough to cross it. They get stranded rather than taking you hostage if pirates approach. To me, it seems like a pretty good alternative.

This is absolutely terrifying. You probably can sleep easy for a bit longer if you’re kept up at night in fear of a robotic uprising destroying humanity. Robots are still relatively stupid after all, not able to do much more than take instruction and move around slowly from human masters.

Bu, I sure hope they don’t look like the NTUST humanoid robot, if robots are going to rise up and kill us. Featuring a human face that looks like it was peeled off a corpse by a twisted serial killer, it’s a freaky looking specimen that I certainly wouldn’t want to be chased down by. Luckily, it can just walk in a straight line, so for now, I’ll stick to my robot escape plan: turn right.