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Marco Polo turns a pool game into echolocation

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By closing your eyes and shouting a name, you must blindly paddle through the water relying purely on auditory reflections to locate targets. It is a beautiful display of humans pretending they have the sensory capabilities of a bat, usually ending in a head-on collision with the concrete wall.

Marco Polo turns a pool game into echolocation
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