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I promised that I was going to invent a jelly-fish eating robotic solar powered sea turtle, and I have not yet done so. I have excuses.

I was disheartened to look in Wikipedia, my faulty default resource for information about everything, to find that there is no reference to a relationship between sea turtle populations and jellfish populations. The key causes of jellyfish population explosions are overfishing of competing species and lowered O2 in seawater due to pollution and climate change.

I think a better business model would be to sell protective suits to tourists. This is already being done. I think they are overpriced.

My child had to receive medical treatment for a serious jellyfish sting last summer. If you are at risk for jellyfish stings, your easiest to obtain first aid tools are a credit card and a bottle of vinegar. The card can be used to scrape the nematocysts from the affected area after first pouring vinegar on the sting to help neutralize the toxin.

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