So what, it has been a legit use of the animals for years. For instance, in the recent royal wedding ferrets were used to run cable - it was a non destructive and non invasive way to run the telecom cables. A ferret named Felicia was used to clean the pipes at the National Accelerator Laboratory at Batavia in the 80's. Felicia went through a 300-foot-pipe dragging a string. When she came out the other end, technicians tied a swab dipped in a chemical cleanser to the string. They pulled the tight-fitting swab through and when it came out it was covered with dust and steel specks. A ferret named Misty was used to help pull conduit at Peterson Air Force Base. Additional wires had to be run through 40-foot-long narrow pipes, called conduits, under the floor to connect computers. A piece of yarn was tied around the ferret's midsection. The animal crawled through the conduit, towing the yarn behind her. Then the loose end was tied around the wires and they were pulled through the conduit. Misty made several trips, and her work was done in an hour. Similarly in Colorado Springs 5 years ago ferrets were used to pull new data cables to the wire conduits at the NORAD headquarters in Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs. In the1960's, Boeing Aircraft Corporation used ferrets to lay guidewires that pull heavier cables through conduits.
So from knowing this it was most likely a legitimate article. Another example of dismissing evidence because of one's prejudices. On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 10:28 AM, C. Hatton Humphrey <chumph...@gmail.com>wrote: > > 7:00AM BST 01 Apr 2010 > > Until Later! > C. Hatton Humphrey > http://www.eastcoastconservative.com > > Every cloud does have a silver lining. Sometimes you just have to do some > smelting to find it. > > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > > > August 1. why? > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Will Swain <w...@hothorse.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > Did you notice the date on the article? :) > > > > > > > > > On 30 July 2013 18:24, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Ferrets key to bridging the digital divide between cities and rural > > > areas - > > > > Telegraph > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7541455/Ferrets-key-to-bridging-the-digital-divide-between-cities-and-rural-areas.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:366188 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
