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IP Replaces Avian Carriers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the one-flew-over-the-pigeon's-nest dept.

m0rningstar writes: "In the spirit of the IP over Avian Carriers RFC, India is considering replacing a carrier pigeon network with e-mail according to this story at the BBC."

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  1. Heh. by Order · · Score: 2, Interesting

    this is so weird, it might actually NOT be an April Fools' joke...

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  2. tech? by memfree · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Please don't tell me this story is meant to show the powers of the information age. Given that most the world's communications ceased being pigeon-based (for those that ever were), I don't think it's a particular triumph to take over this niche. I'd also bet that the price of maintaing the birds is significantly less than was the cost to get and maintain email.

    redundant pigeons will be given to the state's wildlife

    And what would they do with them? How would they keep them from _not_ returning?

    Perhaps they'll take the stance my father encountered as a psych. grad student. When finshed experimenting, they just threw their test pigeons out the window. Being accustomed to life in a cage, the liberated pigeons hung out on the windows of the psych. lab trying to get back in.

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