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Just curious, isn't more "sterile" to use robot? I mean, a ferret can poo in the middle, it can leave fur and feet traces inside the tube.

DanBC 12y ago
This is in the links at the top of the page: http://history.fnal.gov/felicia.html#TheTrib http://history.fnal.gov/felicia.html#TheTrib This is on the linked page: > As part of her contribution Thursday, Felicia went through a 300-foot-pipe dragging a string. When she came out the other end, technicians tied a swab dipped in a chemical cleanser to the string. They pulled the tight-fitting swab through and when it came out it was covered with dust and steelspecks.
- yitchelle 12y ago
  Thanks for the insight. When I read the title, for some reason, I thought the fur on the Ferret was used to do the cleaning.
sjtrny 12y ago
> When she came out the other end, technicians tied a swab dipped in a chemical cleanser to the string. They pulled the tight-fitting swab through and when it came out it was covered with dust and steelspecks. Poo would be unfortunate but look at the title. It's from 1971. People barely had colour TV back then, let alone pipe cleaning robots.
- DanBC 12y ago
  http://history.fnal.gov/felicia.html#TheTrib http://history.fnal.gov/felicia.html#TheTrib > This good life may soon end for Felicia. The laboratory scientists have designed and built a mechanical ferret, a device activated by compressed air and controlled by wires. They don't need Felicia anymore. This was always the plan, with Felicia to be used only temporarily, while they built her robot. > Source: The Tribune, December 22, 1971
  - trhway 12y ago
    i wonder what has happened to her. I remember how in childhood it was frequently mentioned about the first dog in space, yet nobody mentioned (and i never even asked about) the ending of the story, nor planned, nor what really happened - the "Layka" dog succumbed pretty torturously to heat due to failed equipment instead of the planned "happy end" - poisoned pill that should have been fed automatically to her. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika
    - DanBC 12y ago
      I had a quick web search. http://imgur.com/POrxEqv http://imgur.com/POrxEqv Google, Duck Duck Go, Bing, Blekko, etc etc: you really need to start delisting the fuckers who pollute search results with made up shit. How is this possibly useful to your users? Companies who want to cram their URL in front of me at every opportunity should pay to place it in ads. (I don't use an ad blocker. I even click relevant ads, although I've never bought anything from one yet.)
      - pja 12y ago
        This is Google themselves IIRC. If you don't turn it off they will show your ads next to terms which they deem "related" to the ones you've chosen supposedly via some deep Googly machine-learning analysis. Said analysis seems to have worked because I don't see any ads at all for that search on either desktop or mobile - presumably everyone carrying out that search knew exactly what they were looking for & it wasn't any of the displayed ads so Google stopped displaying them.
        DanBC 12y ago
        Thanks for the information - I'm about to trawl through the google settings to find it and turn that off. I can understand ebay turning up. I use ebay. I have no idea how a geneology site turns up - I have no interest in it and have no relevant searches and haven't, as far as I can tell, visited any pages or watched any videos that are relevant. Also, just to be really clear: you're saying that Google is inserting paid ads into organic search results with no indication that they are paid ads? Edit: if this is true, and if there is a setting to turn it off, where is that setting?

DanBC 12y ago

This is in the links at the top of the page: http://history.fnal.gov/felicia.html#TheTrib http://history.fnal.gov/felicia.html#TheTrib This is on the linked page: > As part of her contribution Thursday, Felicia went through a 300-foot-pipe dragging a string. When she came out the other end, technicians tied a swab dipped in a chemical cleanser to the string. They pulled the tight-fitting swab through and when it came out it was covered with dust and steelspecks.

yitchelle 12y ago
Thanks for the insight. When I read the title, for some reason, I thought the fur on the Ferret was used to do the cleaning.

sjtrny 12y ago

> When she came out the other end, technicians tied a swab dipped in a chemical cleanser to the string. They pulled the tight-fitting swab through and when it came out it was covered with dust and steelspecks. Poo would be unfortunate but look at the title. It's from 1971. People barely had colour TV back then, let alone pipe cleaning robots.

DanBC 12y ago
http://history.fnal.gov/felicia.html#TheTrib http://history.fnal.gov/felicia.html#TheTrib > This good life may soon end for Felicia. The laboratory scientists have designed and built a mechanical ferret, a device activated by compressed air and controlled by wires. They don't need Felicia anymore. This was always the plan, with Felicia to be used only temporarily, while they built her robot. > Source: The Tribune, December 22, 1971
- trhway 12y ago
  i wonder what has happened to her. I remember how in childhood it was frequently mentioned about the first dog in space, yet nobody mentioned (and i never even asked about) the ending of the story, nor planned, nor what really happened - the "Layka" dog succumbed pretty torturously to heat due to failed equipment instead of the planned "happy end" - poisoned pill that should have been fed automatically to her. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika
  - DanBC 12y ago
    I had a quick web search. http://imgur.com/POrxEqv http://imgur.com/POrxEqv Google, Duck Duck Go, Bing, Blekko, etc etc: you really need to start delisting the fuckers who pollute search results with made up shit. How is this possibly useful to your users? Companies who want to cram their URL in front of me at every opportunity should pay to place it in ads. (I don't use an ad blocker. I even click relevant ads, although I've never bought anything from one yet.)
    - pja 12y ago
      This is Google themselves IIRC. If you don't turn it off they will show your ads next to terms which they deem "related" to the ones you've chosen supposedly via some deep Googly machine-learning analysis. Said analysis seems to have worked because I don't see any ads at all for that search on either desktop or mobile - presumably everyone carrying out that search knew exactly what they were looking for & it wasn't any of the displayed ads so Google stopped displaying them.
      - DanBC 12y ago
        Thanks for the information - I'm about to trawl through the google settings to find it and turn that off. I can understand ebay turning up. I use ebay. I have no idea how a geneology site turns up - I have no interest in it and have no relevant searches and haven't, as far as I can tell, visited any pages or watched any videos that are relevant. Also, just to be really clear: you're saying that Google is inserting paid ads into organic search results with no indication that they are paid ads? Edit: if this is true, and if there is a setting to turn it off, where is that setting?