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Project Pigeon: Ingenious use of pigeons to guide bombs during WWII (andrewmallis.com)
4 points by lunchbox on Dec 21, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Does this count as news? It's an interesting curiousity, yes, but it's old.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon

Perhaps YC needs an "olds" section, as well as a "news" section. Still, it was nice to be reminded again of this eccentricity.




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