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

>G'day,
>
>> Aw, come on.. I KNOW we don't still use them for messaging on
>> the boat!! I am an IT for crying out load..
>
>I suddenly got an image of a line of pigeons fluttering along behind a
boat
>holding a serious of trailing blue cables up off the ocean so they
don't get
>wet ;)
>
>> And it is a falacy that the meat isn't all chicken
>> on cruise... it is just that you lose your taste
>> buds after the first three months and everything tastes like
>> it COULD be a pigeon!! :-)
>
>It just makes me shiver wondering what space navies will be saying
along
>those lines in centuries to come ;)
>
>> (What the heck is a meat pigeon?)
>
>Very heavy set pigeon bred for meat not its ability to fly... which in
>extreme cases they now can't.
>
>> Actually, I have heard this from another source, so I am
>> pretty sure it is valid, I just didn't give it any thought then.
>
>Well at least my imagination grabbing on to this hasn't made a complete
fool
>of me ;)

There was a similar report in a newspaper over here a couple of weeks
back
- only talking about chickens, not pigeons.Photo of coop crate strapped
to
deck of a Bradley. Termed them KFC- Kuwaiti Field Chickens.....

Jon (GZG)
>
>Thanks
>
>Beth