Quartz, if you’re thinking what I think you’re thinking, that was my first thought, too, but he’s already said that the doves weren’t carrying a message, and that it wasn’t relevant to computing, and that it could have been done in the 19th century or earlier.
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Is there a RFC about this?
RFC? I may be slow, but I am a bit confused by the term even after reading the link.
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Quartz, if you’re thinking what I think you’re thinking, that was my first thought, too, but he’s already said that the doves weren’t carrying a message, and that it wasn’t relevant to computing, and that it could have been done in the 19th century or earlier.
**This summation is correct **
OK, it just tripped my brain.
Is this the very first photograph?
**No **
Did the doves survive the experiment?
No doves died as a result of this experiment.
See post #2279
Just to be clear, were the doves dead before the experiment started ?
Were they fossils?
Were the doves passenger pigeons?
I know some of this is repetitive/redundant, but:
Does this have to do with doves being a symbol of peace?
Were the doves drawings?
Did this involve science at all?
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Just to be clear, were the doves dead before the experiment started ? **No **
Were they fossils? **No **
**No **
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Does this have to do with doves being a symbol of peace? **No **
Were the doves drawings? **No **
Did this involve science at all? **No **
Did the doves actually physically exist at all?
Were the doves alive at any time before the test?
Were the doves alive during the test?
Were the doves alive after the test?
Were they some sort of artistic representation?
Were they some sort of abstraction?
(for example a computer simulation)
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Did the doves actually physically exist at all? **No **
Were the doves alive at any time before the test? **No **
Were the doves alive during the test? **No **
Were the doves alive after the test? **No **
Were they some sort of artistic representation? **No **
Were they some sort of abstraction?
(for example a computer simulation)**Yes **
Were they a computer simulation?
**No **
OK, so we have doves (which specifically means white pigeonlike birds) which are an abstraction, and therefore neither dead nor alive, but which are not a work of art, nor a computer simulation, being used in an experiment which has nothing to do with science.
Is that accurate? Because if so, I’m pretty much lost.
Were / are the doves on a coin? A medal? A monument? A building?