devolute.net » Environment http://www.devolute.net That which should be neither uttered nor expressed Sun, 20 Nov 2011 13:43:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Owl squadron http://www.devolute.net/2008/07/01/owl-squadron/ http://www.devolute.net/2008/07/01/owl-squadron/#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:00:11 +0000 Ian http://www.devolute.net/?p=129 Finally I can write about two of my favourite things. This owl was found making a home in a carrier-borne fighter aircraft. Anyway, the sailors who found him named him FOD (or Foreign Object Damage to non-propeller-heads) and nursed him back to health before releasing him into the wild. Awwww. Choice quote from the original article:

If this owl was hiding in a cockpit while a jet was on the catapult. It could possibly bring a jet down if the pilot freaks out because an owl is flying around in his cockpit

Your scope of influence has a lot to answer for, Mr. Cruise.

FOD the Owl

Link – via neatorama

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God help us if our idea of helping climate change is listening to Keane tell us about keeping a low carbon foot-print at a concert that “will produce about 74,500 tons of the gas“. I’m not sure if that includes the carbon produced by the movement of everyone driving and flying to and from the concerts. All I know is that someone, somewhere, has completely missed the point.

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