Cold war bomb warmed by chickens

Submitted by cel4145 on April 1, 2004 - 16:00.

As Slashdot points out, this is just strange enough to be true (even considering today's date). From the BBC:

Plans to fill a nuclear landmine with chickens to regulate its temperature were seriously considered during the Cold War.

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Animal Warmth

Submitted by platypus matt on April 2, 2004 - 09:51.

This reminds me of the movie Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, where a whole village was powered by pig waste (I think it was their methane?) To me, there just something fascinating about the idea of using farm animals (agriculture production) to drive industry. It seems a strange hybridization of the old world economy with the new.

Perhaps the future of industry does not so much consist of robots and computers as it does animals and manual labor, though animals and machines may be linked to machines in Giger like contortions.

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April Fool's Day

Submitted by platypus matt on April 2, 2004 - 15:14.

Well, I guess April Fool's Day is over now. It's time to get back to normal life in which we aren't supposed to question the reliability of the absurd.