# Why is the US Navy supporting these woo patent applications?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 9, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-us-navy-supporting-these-woo-patent-applications/841558 "2019-10-09T23:06:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2019, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-us-navy-supporting-these-woo-patent-applications/841558/21 "2019-10-24T01:44:39Z")

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> [@DorkVader](#):
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> Also, NatGeo seems to have misplaced the article you were trying to link to **mixdenny**

Well, yeah, they lost the backups for their website during the crash in '46.

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