What, no love for the pigeon guided missile Dom? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
edit: took me a sec to find my post
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WWII produced some pretty crazy ideas for new weapons, witness the pigeon-guided missile:
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During World War II, Project Pigeon (or Project Orcon, for "organic control") was American behaviorist B. F. Skinner's attempt to develop a pigeon-guided missile.
The control system involved a lens at the front of the missile projecting an image of the target to a screen inside, while a pigeon trained (by operant conditioning) to recognize the target pecked at it. As long as the pecks remained in the center of the screen, the missile would fly straight, but pecks off-center would cause the screen to tilt, which would then, via a connection to the missile's flight controls, cause the missile to change course. Three pigeons were to control the bomb's direction by majority rule.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
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