RE: pigeons, etc.

At 9:30 AM +1000 3/31/03, Robertson, Brendan wrote:
>
>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.

Maybe for the ESU, but I'd expect that since we don't see the US Army 
(or any of the allies) with anything but electronic CAMs, the 
biological gear just doesn't have the feature set (lout alarms when 
things are wrong for example) for a modern or futuristic warning 
system.
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