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Wednesday, October 29, 2003 |
i said be careful, his bowtie is really a camera
A google search on goldfish and Miles Vorkosigan also turned up The Government Warehouse List, which is an attempt to inventory all those things that movies and TV shows depict as hidden in government warehouses. The Ark of the Covenant. The Martian war machines from War of the Worlds. The dead alien from Alien Autopsy. And so on.
she said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
Via Gizmodo: CIA developed robotic dragonfly and catfishMiles Vorkosigan would feel so vindicated:
The agency also tested a 600mm-long rubber robot catfish named Charlie capable of swimming inconspicuously among other fish and whose mission remains secret.
"Charlie's mission is still classified, we can't talk about it," Toni Hiley, curator of the CIA museum, told Reuters on a tour of the exhibit. "All we can say is he's our work on aquatic robotic technologies."
(For those who do not read Lois McMaster Bujold, one of her Miles Vorkosigan stories features young Miles worrying that someone has put robotic goldfish into the fountain to eavesdrop on him.)
