Inside P-GN/4

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There is no bird inside the pigeon.

There is no bird inside the pigeon. P-GN/4 is an appliance with an exterior designed to stop you asking about the appliance. Artificial plumage. A motion cage. An optical cradle. A bounded scene spool. Depot-serviced power. Even the apparent appetite is a performance. But the most useful part is not the camera. It is the disguise's tolerance for failure. A machine that hesitates looks broken. A pigeon that hesitates looks like a pigeon. The engineers call that the stupidity allowance. It is not omniscient. Its view can be blocked and its observations can become stale. Those limitations are in the service record. The sales presentation has a much cleaner version.