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Re: 2 New MOCs!
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lugnet.space
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Wed, 6 Mar 2002 05:18:52 GMT
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In lugnet.space, William R. Ward writes:
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> Anyway, Canary is a good name for reconnaisance. In the old coal
> mines they used to use canaries to detect a lack of oxygen. (If the
> canary stopped singing, get the hell out of there.) One could
> generalize the idea of a canary being a way of warning the homeworld
> (or whatever) of danger, thus reconnasiance.
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> --Bill.
I thought of that too (pretty neat that you picked up on that), so I left
the name as is. And your comment about homeworld does beg the question of
the background of these....Looks like i get to do some thinking:)
Joe
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| (...) Anyway, Canary is a good name for reconnaisance. In the old coal mines they used to use canaries to detect a lack of oxygen. (If the canary stopped singing, get the hell out of there.) One could generalize the idea of a canary being a way of (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.space)
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