This is from bizarre News...I like the ferret angle! --------------- Ferret Averts Missile Crisis --------------- PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, CO - The Year 2000 missile warning center is an investment of untold millions in taxpayer dollars. The most powerful computers and the latest electronic gear guarantee the safety of American lives. But when a serious problem stymied the engineers and computer geniuses a ferret had to be called in to save the day. To connect new computers at the center, wires had to be threaded through 40-foot-long conduits that were already in place. Time ticked away while the supercomputers were unable to communicate with each other and the experts searched for a solution. That's when Lt. Col. Randy Blaisdell volunteered his pet fetter for the job. Ferrets had been used to pull wires through tight spaces in World War II-era airplanes. [OS] [Moderator's note: This story has been around enough that I'm going to take a chance and say it's not a copyright issue to post it. Don't sue please. BIG] [Posted in FML issue 4505]