Re: Bomb information ban

In article <Pine.3.89.9410032327.A10386-0100000@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu>, cjl <cjl@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu> wrote:

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All. What part of Engineering doesn't have some impact or use in bombmaking/usage?

Genetic Engineering, of course, my silico-centric friend :-)

Actually, (a bird psych friend tells me) there was a variety of smart- bomb developed in WWII that used a pigeon as its brain. The pigeon would be trained to peck at a building on a map, and then in the falling bomb it would guide the bomb by pecking at a clear panel. I don't think they were actually used, though. -- L. Todd Masco | Ingredients: red, blue, and green quarks, six varieties of cactus@bb.com | gluons, electrons. Some settling may occur in shipping.