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Old 02-11-2022, 08:01 PM
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Default Pigeons!

I wonder if low tech communication solutions might have been brought back toward the back end of the Twilight War.

https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/why-the...d-pigeon-unit/
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Old 02-12-2022, 06:41 AM
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I'm sorry -- every time I think of pigeons I think of that scene in High Anxiety where Mel Brooks is running through the park in terror, pursued by dozens of dive-crapping pigeons...
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Old 02-12-2022, 01:05 PM
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"You see rats with wings. I see the internet. It can't be hacked, it can't be shut down."

UNLESS... they fly the wrong way or get hit with a shotgun blast of birdshot.

"You're flying the wrong way! BLOODY TRAITORS!"


bonus points if you identify the two movies these lines come from.

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Old 02-13-2022, 11:20 AM
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Even Morse code from a spark gap generator radio is going to be more effective than pigeons.
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Old 02-13-2022, 12:34 PM
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Even Morse code from a spark gap generator radio is going to be more effective than pigeons.
We actually had a thread in this forum started by Olefin about telegraphs and telephones. I don't think most people realize just how easy it is to restore ANALOG phone systems. Indeed NATO's whole wired communications systems were DESIGNED to easily integrate into or replace the civilian ANALOG phone system.
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Old 02-13-2022, 12:35 PM
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No guesses on my quotes?

The first is from a very recent movie

The second is from a Classic war movie about WWII.

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