• Birds & planes

    From super70s@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 24 17:43:53 2023
    CNN had an aviation disaster expert on today after the recent bird
    strike on a jet engine that caused it to catch fire.

    She said the remants of a bird in the jet engine actually have a name
    -- "smarg" (or was that "snarg"?) -- and they always send it off to the Smithsonian to identify the bird species.

    Apparently the Smithsonian has some kind of DNA database and testing
    procedure to identify the birds, I can't imagine there would be enough
    of it left intact to identify it the conventional way.

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