DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoTIL about this device for resuscitating canaries in coal minesmuseumcrush.orgexternal-linkmessage-square16linkfedilinkarrow-up1269arrow-down12cross-posted to: til@lemmy.ca
arrow-up1267arrow-down1external-linkTIL about this device for resuscitating canaries in coal minesmuseumcrush.orgDeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square16linkfedilinkcross-posted to: til@lemmy.ca
minus-squarePyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 month agoWhat strikes me is the use of canaries into the 1950’s. Surely we could have had some other means of detecting toxic gasses besides small animals.
minus-squareanomnom@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoIt said they were upset about losing their birds when electrical sensors arrived in the 1980s! I kinda thought that many of the coal mines were closing by then at least in Britain.
minus-squarejagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down13·1 month agoAre birds animals?
minus-squareRusty@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 month agoOf course not, they are the government drones.
minus-squareTedesche@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoInstitute drones. So, underground MIT shadow government.
What strikes me is the use of canaries into the 1950’s. Surely we could have had some other means of detecting toxic gasses besides small animals.
It said they were upset about losing their birds when electrical sensors arrived in the 1980s!
I kinda thought that many of the coal mines were closing by then at least in Britain.
Are birds animals?
Of course not, they are the government drones.
Institute drones. So, underground MIT shadow government.
What a wild question
yes.