Re: [semi-ot, SG] cutting edge technology and 25mm pigeons

Ok... I am gonna take a whack at this... Barring all "unladen swallow" 
allusions, how many pigeons are actually acclimated to the desert.... so
how 
do they tell if they pass out from heat exhaustion or succumb to gas? I 
really need an explanation for how this is implemented...
Joe

>From: Beth.Fulton@csiro.au
>Reply-To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>Subject: [semi-ot, SG] cutting edge technology and 25mm pigeons
>Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 09:57:39 +1100
>
>G'day guys,
>
>By now you know how inclined I am to use "interesting" figures to liven
up
>the game board. Well while reading the report on chemical warfare and
>sensitivity at
>
>http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993546
>
>I was particularly taken by the line
>
>"The troops have practised the drills, and are carrying the best
high-tech
>chemical detectors an army can buy. The US marines even have a brand
new
>piece of kit: pigeons..."
>
>I know you can get 25mm pigeons from irregular, so I was wondering if 
>anyone
>knew how these birds were caged so I could whip some 25mm scale
versions up
>and equip some of my Haxaya with some good chem defence detectors ;)
>
>(I'm resisting the urge to give them to the space pirates, who would
>naturally have them perched on their shoulders.....)
>
>Thanks
>
>Beth

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