ClichéGuevara
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Pigeon post died out due to the invention of the postage stamp, which users found difficult to get to stick on the birds and this kept resulting in excess charges.
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ClichéGuevara
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The law that says that all vehicles must use snow tyres when the temperature in Sweden falls below 4 degrees C.
Arthur Pendlleton has designed an app to help drivers in the rest of the world comply, even when they're out of direct sight of Sweden.
Arthur Pendlleton has designed an app to help drivers in the rest of the world comply, even when they're out of direct sight of Sweden.
Drago
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Carrier pigeons were an early form of fast food. The restaurant would dispatch the raw ingredients, ie, the pigeon, and upon arrival you would bosh it on the head and make a pie.
NorthernDave
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This practice was banned after an unfortunate incident involving the well known Army carrier pigeon "Speckled Jim"
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Internet communications are based on the IP protocol suite, and network engineers will no doubt be familiar with the OSI 7 layer model. Fundamentally, this model has the communications medium (wires, wifi, fibre optic) at the lowest layers, and the applications (web, mail etc) up at layer 7, and all the internet gubbins in the middle. The clever thing is that each layer only needs to know about what is immediately above and below. So, for example when browsing this website, the web browser doesn’t need to know how you’re actually connected - wire, wireless, fibre, or hundreds of other obsolete and current technologies.
While the lower layer technologies are typically based on copper, radio or optical communications these days, a number of other technologies have been demonstrated, including using carrier pigeons as the underlying communication. In practice this has never been commercially implented, due to the high latency.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149 “A Standard for the transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers”, published 01/04/1990
While the lower layer technologies are typically based on copper, radio or optical communications these days, a number of other technologies have been demonstrated, including using carrier pigeons as the underlying communication. In practice this has never been commercially implented, due to the high latency.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149 “A Standard for the transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers”, published 01/04/1990
The great great great great grandfather of the writer....John Le Carre kept pigeons. He was the first person in the world to use them to send messages.
One day, one of his pigeons was flying along with a note pad tied to his leg (it was a big message) when someone noticed it and said to his partially deaf freind "oh...there is Le Carre's pigeon".
Being partially deaf.....when he got home he told his family "I saw a carrier pigeon today.....it had a message tied to its leg".
Ever since then they were known as carrier pigeons.
One day, one of his pigeons was flying along with a note pad tied to his leg (it was a big message) when someone noticed it and said to his partially deaf freind "oh...there is Le Carre's pigeon".
Being partially deaf.....when he got home he told his family "I saw a carrier pigeon today.....it had a message tied to its leg".
Ever since then they were known as carrier pigeons.
NorthernDave
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Supermarkets are no longer allowed to give away carrier pigeons, but must now charge 5p for a single use one, or 10p for a carrier pigeon for life.
Drago
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In the early days, bicycle racks and baskets were fashioned from the skeletons of dead pigeons. The is the origin of the term, "carrier" pigeon.
david k
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Experts predict the use of pigeons will diminish due to GDPR requirements of active consent of their data use
To date no carrier pigeon has opted in
To date no carrier pigeon has opted in
Over one million years ago pigeons were the same size as Ostriches. As they were used to carry messages they needed to arrive and get into smaller and smaller openings.
So they quickly evolved into the compact version we see today.
In deepest Borneo there are still some of the Ostrich sized ones living there. David Attenborough has filmed them and it will be shown on TV late summer.
They are also planning an "Autumn Watch" later in the year.
So they quickly evolved into the compact version we see today.
In deepest Borneo there are still some of the Ostrich sized ones living there. David Attenborough has filmed them and it will be shown on TV late summer.
They are also planning an "Autumn Watch" later in the year.
Threevok
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Morse Code was invented by John Thaw - while tapping his fingers - waiting for Lewis to return from the bar with his pint
Drago
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In Plymouth it is acceptable to drive a car when entering a marathon.
