Extinct Animals Thread

[Geekhis Khan]

What would be the effect of several large Passenger Pigeon flocks on Commercial and General Aviation in the Midwest US? Not to mention driving conditions in and around a town where a flock decided to land.

Well, IIRC it was only a problem twice a year along predictable routes so you could plan accordingly. It would only be an issue at takeoff/landing if/when the flocks were clouding over the airports (in flight you'd be well over the flocks). I could see if the flocks swarm the airport you could delay/cancel/divert flights just as you would for a massive thunderstorm. When/if *radar appears the flocks would show up.

 

[Whanztastic]

Well, IIRC it was only a problem twice a year along predictable routes so you could plan accordingly. It would only be an issue at takeoff/landing if/when the flocks were clouding over the airports (in flight you'd be well over the flocks). I could see if the flocks swarm the airport you could delay/cancel/divert flights just as you would for a massive thunderstorm. When/if *radar appears the flocks would show up.

I just imagined a combative *Canada and *US where an invasion force flies in behind a flock of passenger pigeons to hide their *radar signature. Awesome.

 

[DaleCoz]

Some of the pages are not there. June 2004 is down. So is 3 Fewer Crosses on Flanders Field.

June 2004 works for me. I'll fix the 3 Crosses as soon as I figure out why it isn't working.

 

[Emperor-of-New-Zealand]

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I think we got off on the wrong foot here. My apologies, I consider myself to be an animal-buff so I find it hard to let this kind of thing go. On many matters you are correct, and I acknowledge that (I was being considerably narrow-minded).

 

[DaleCoz]

Some of the pages are not there. June 2004 is down. So is 3 Fewer Crosses on Flanders Field.

I got it back up. Thanks for pointing out that it was down. I did a mass move to a new ISP a couple of years ago and apparently screwed this up somehow. I thought I had checked everything at the time, but apparently I missed this one.

The Thylacine thing is the second of the three 'crosses'.

 

[DaleCoz]

I think we got off on the wrong foot here. My apologies, I consider myself to be an animal-buff so I find it hard to let this kind of thing go. On many matters you are correct, and I acknowledge that (I was being considerably narrow-minded).

Don't worry about it. I was a little less laid back than normal too, partly because I was coming down with the flu, though I didn't know it at the time.