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Certainly sounds like canaries telling us the rest of the economy is not doing great. (Not warning us that it's going to have problems. Telling us it already
by AnimalMuppet 10mo ago
Certainly sounds like canaries telling us the rest of the economy is not doing great. (Not warning us that it's going to have problems. Telling us it already does.)
- HeyLaughingBoy 10mo agoThe economy canaries can't tell us anything: they're already dead.
- yencabulator 10mo agoThat's literally how the canaries would inform the miners about toxic gases.
- HeyLaughingBoy 10mo ago"Yes, Ted. That was the joke."
- sehansen 10mo agoHappily, this wasn't actually the case. Canaries faint long before they die and miners would carry small resuscitation chambers where the canaries could be reawakened in an oxygen-rich atmosphere. The Science and Industry Museum in Liverpool has one in their collection: https://blog.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/canary-resuscitator/ https://blog.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/canary-resuscit...
- yencabulator 10mo agoInteresting, but I frankly doubt the birds remained utterly unharmed. Birds are really sensitive to many gases, with the common anecdote being to not cook with nonstick pans if you have a parrot.