RE: pigeons, etc.

On Friday, March 28, 2003 6:51 PM, Thomas Barclay
[SMTP:kaladorn@magma.ca]
wrote:
> 4. Following Beth's comment: Imagine the 
> pigeon as a cheap and effective air pressure 
> leak detector for the space navy. (Or toxic fume 
> detector... either work... when the pigeon keels 
> over, get the heck into a vacc suit on canned 
> air). 

Not so farfetched.  When I watched the movie "K-19", one of the
engineering
crew had a rodent in a cage which was seen to keel over dead after the
reactor started leaking.

Brendan
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