What´s that?

Started by Panzer-Kalle, 06 July 2017, 07:19:26 AM

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Panzer-Kalle

Found in the Swiss Army Regulations ( valid until 1995):

"Selfreproducing small flying object on organic base with tight programmed automatic return from any direction and distance."

What is that? :-

Cheers Kalle

Panzer-Kalle

06 July 2017, 07:21:01 AM #1 Last Edit: 06 July 2017, 07:26:19 AM by Panzer-Kalle
 ;D

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My first thought was a boomarang ... no, my second though was a boomarang, my first thought was "I wonder if Milday can do that thing my ex-wife used to do?", but let's not go into that - Milady's capacity with a skillet is not something fit for the lower forms of life like myself to contemplate - anyway my third thought was some kind of flying insect.

Unless it's those organic homing bullets the Swiss army tested in 1989.
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It's a pigeon you utter OIK, course there's no bird life in Runcorn !

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Quote from: ianrs54 on 06 July 2017, 08:10:23 AM
It's a pigeon you utter OIK, course there's no bird life in Runcorn !

IanS  ;)

The insects ate them all.  :(
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Aksu

Didn't the Swiss army have carrier pigeons that could uniquely fly between two stations? One where they slept and one where they were fed?
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04 August 2017, 10:30:55 AM #7 Last Edit: 04 August 2017, 10:34:35 AM by FierceKitty
Maybe they attached a very ductile rubber band to the pigeon's leg, fastening the other end to an alphorn, St Bernard, or perhaps a gnome: bird drops message, and no longer has the body mass to resist being elastically zipped back from Uri to Zuerich.
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