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dare I ask.... #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Friday 9th November 2007 13:27 GMT

... what happened to v1.0? Someone spill a glass of water on it?

Sorry #

By Slappy Posted Friday 9th November 2007 13:42 GMT

That went down well!

>Coat>Gone

what goes up #

By C Posted Friday 9th November 2007 14:25 GMT

must come down,

and up, and down,

and up again, and .. err wait did it start out on the bottom of the ocean?

These wouldn't by chance be any of the same 'engineers' that 'over designed' windows

Cuz I've seen that thing sink like a stone many times. <= There's the IT angle for ya

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So? #

By Bad Beaver Posted Friday 9th November 2007 14:25 GMT

It was not designed to resist, and it didn't, yet it did what it was supposed to do. What's the story?

Bilge pump? #

By Paul Silver Posted Friday 9th November 2007 14:40 GMT

I'm not a seafaring engineer or anything, but I'd have thought a design with a floatation area emptied by a bilge pump was always going to be in trouble, especially if there's no one around to fix the pump.

Surely they'd have been better off filling that area with foam so it wouldn't flood at all?

They had a cunning plan #

By Michael H.F. Wilkinson Posted Friday 9th November 2007 14:45 GMT

For the really paranoid, sinking the buoy may have been a way to attract attention the project otherwise lacked

Bouy goes down on Newport - Paris Hilton angry she didn't do it first... #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Sunday 11th November 2007 22:51 GMT

After three...

HAT!! COAT!!! TAXI!!!!

Re: cunning plan #

By Geoff Mackenzie Posted Sunday 11th November 2007 23:23 GMT

Yeah. Ten minutes ago I had never heard of it. Now I'll always think of it as the big yellow piece of shit that sank in the sea. :)

I think... #

By Tim Brown Posted Monday 12th November 2007 02:26 GMT

...it's become self-aware (or received new orders from the Lizard Alliance) and has sunk into the depths in order to train aquatic life and form a new army. For is it not written:

"...and they shall rise up, and they shall crawl out of the slimy depths, and they shall nip our ankles with their claws ... for if thou dost hear the clicking, thou shall know the end has come..."