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Maine Students to Send Unmanned Sailboat to Europe - MainePublic.org

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Maine Students to Send Unmanned Sailboat to Europe
MainePublic.org
BELFAST, Maine - Students in Maine are planning to send a small unmanned sailboat equipped with a GPS to Europe. Members of the University of Maine's Marine Sciences Club are partnering with local schoolchildren on the project. The sailboat will be a ...

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What is it about young people today that they must send a sailboat to cross the Atlantic while they sit behind their computers and watch?
Are they all afraid to go outside into the real world and actually DO something? I've even heard of internet romances where they say they are deeply in love with someone they've never met and have no intention of doing so, for fear that it might be ruined by the personal contact. Why even bother with another person in that case? Can't they just get a virtual lover and there would be zero chance that it wasn't perfect?
What is this world coming too?
Oops, I sound like my grandpa 60 years ago. Oh, oh.....
 
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