Just heard a story on NPR's "All Things Considered" tonight, about
retrofitting schools with wiring for the Internet.  The technical consultant
came up with the idea of using a rat to run the conduit through the walls
and dropped ceilings.  They trained the rat in a maze.
 
Now, as many of you know from your voluminous reading about your pets, that
ferrets have been used for similar purpose as long as there have been
electricians--and most notably in the aerospace industry, with the
prototypes for the Stealth fighter and the space shuttle.
 
Okay, so these schools are in California.  Wouldn't it have been nice if
they had discovered that ferrets could have done the job?
 
To learn more about the rat project, visit http://www.judyrat.com
 
Ferret clubs: do you think this could be project for you?  Why not contact
your local school boards about retrofit projects and see whether ferrets can
do the job?  Why not hold contests as part of your frolics to see if your
ferrets can run wiring through a mock-up of a retrofit project?
 
-- Lee
-- Lee
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[Posted in FML issue 2086]