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Why would this robot find anything that the navy and search teams havent been able to find? first of all, the torpedo shaped vehicle can reach depths up to 6,000 meters or more than 3 1/2 miles below the surface. it can survey wide swaths of the ocean floor. using whats called side scan sonar. >> they send a sound pulse out to the side and it will travel out almost half a mile and it >> they send a sound pulse out to the side and it will travel out almost half a mile and it bounces off the sea f...

Cape cod. its 13 feet long, weighs almost a ton, and costs about $2.5 million. mike purcell is the principal engineer here. >> they can go up and down mountains that are up to 40 degrees in slope. they are very stable so you get really good data almost all the time. >> reporter: why would this underwater robot find something even the u.s. navy and search teams for from more than two dozen different countries have been been able to find? first of all, the torpedo shaped vehicles can reach depths ...

>> with one vehicle, i could map one and a half manhattans a day. thats 11-12 square nautical miles. do the math. >> right. >> if you have 2.24 million square miles, thats 1500 years. if you put ten vehicles on there, thats 150 years. theres only about -- i would say less than 30 vehicles capable of scanning the depth of the indian ocean. the average depth 13,000 feet. deepest 23,000 feet. the indian ocean is 6 million square miles. >> give us an idea of what that looks like in terms of searchin...

Dispose of them. >> that was a torpedo, man! >> the whole floor of the bottom of the boat was covered in fish. everything was covered in slime from where they were flopping around. we were covered in it. >> its a small dent given the vast numbers of asian silver carp spawning in u.s. waters. troy and mac say they got 300 pounds of carp in all. and we know thats no fish tale. >> all my years of being in the outdoors hunting and fishing and boating, ive never seen anything like this. >> whoa! look...

What if one of the two parties goes ballistic heading so far off the spectrum it is no longer competing for the must just of the voters loyalty? what if the republicans get hijacked? if the republican party becomes a torpedo headed for the u.s. capitol and becomes a missile targeted at the government itself. smirks publicly t at the trouble he has created. ted cruz in texas government shutdowns and debt ceiling defaults are all in a days work. for him compromise is a curse word. and republican s...

Kind of amazing all these people came together pretty fast. >> how did it happen? easy. twitter. >> twitter? it was really like that? >> yes. we sent so much information. we get a phone call from tripoli or benghazi or whatever. we get the coordinates from google earth, and we verify that theres a location that needs to be hit. we send in a torpedo and then it is gone. >> really? how does that feel knowing you can call in a tomahawk missile over there? >> its out of the movies. >> did anyone thi...

We said weve got to see nessie. hopefully hell show up for us. >> but sightings are rare. >> since 1991, ive been full-time living on the side of loch ness hunting for whatever the explanation to this mystery is. >> steve felthams father brought him to the loch in 1970 when he was just seven years old. hes been obsessed with the legend ever since. >> since ive been here i found out the loch ness monster is extremely elusive and were no nearer identifying what these are. its such a mystery. >> to...

>> the one time i was really blown away by a sighting of something, i was at the other end of the loch at fort augustus and something shot through the bay, torpedo went through the bay. as it hit each wave, it would splash up white water. and theres no simple explanation in loch ness for what that could have been. >> dinsdales film also inspires marine biologist adrian shine to identify once and for all what lies beneath the surface of lake ness. >> the loch ness monster is an amalgam of many th...

>> it was really like that? >> yes. we sent so much information via twitter. we get a phone call from tripoli or benghazi or whatever. we get the coordinates via google earth, and we verify that theres a location that needs to be hit. we send in a torpedo and then it is gone. >> really? >> yeah. >> how does that feel knowing you can call in a tomahawk missile over there? >> its out of the movies. >> did anyone think it was possible that in their lifetime they were going to see the end of this so...

Does the emperor have no clothes? were all being told to give away the right to have affordable medicine for our people, to mess up internet freedom, to deregulate banks. and if we trade away our public interests, are we even going to get our pieces of silver, because they want to see congress handcuffed. they dont really trust the democratic process. and thats with a we all come in, making sure that congress keeps its constitution authority to stand up for us. >> well, there is a lot of corpora...