TIL about B.F. Skinner's pigeon-guided missiles. He trained pigeons to peck at targets on screens inside glide bombs. Pecking turned the screens, steering the bombs. They were never deployed though; "no one would take us seriously", Skinner complained. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon …
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brass: "how is it so reliable? what's in the box?" skinner: "our missile guidance system is proprietary"
11:45 PM - 30 Dec 2019
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