Thank you for the kind message!:) I have had ideas for mini games perhaps like dodging game where you need to feed the pigeon to avoid obstacles. Also had this idea where you could send the pigeon on mini adventures and it'd find loot that it can wear. Note that messages will not be sent to inactive objects (ie, those that have been deactivated in the editor or with the SetActive function). Using UnityEngine; public class Example: MonoBehaviour void Start // Calls the function ApplyDamage with a value of 5 // Every script attached to the game object // that has an ApplyDamage function.

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Before you squawk at a DataLab post about a World War II-era method of communication, hang on. What will you do when the apocalypse hits, phone lines and the Internet go down, and you need to ask Brenda to collate those TPS reports from that last quality-assurance brain-storming session? And what will poor Brenda do when she doesn’t know what to do with those TPS reports? Poor you. Poor bloody Brenda.

That brings us to pigeons. According to the tech research group Radicati, email users send an average of 39 messages each day. Radicati also says that worldwide, there are about 4,116,000,000 email users (24 percent business, 76 percent consumer). Assigning one bird to each outgoing message means we’re going to need nearly 161 billion pigeons for one day’s worth of email.

But wait. We’ve assumed that emails never have more than one recipient. That’s wrong. And we’ve assumed emails are never sent across distances of more than 1,100 miles, which is about the most a pigeon can manage. That’s wrong, too. Pigeons would probably have to tag each other in and take breaks for some bread crumbs. You would also have to be pretty patient (Brenda, too), because pigeons fly at an average speed of 45 to 60 mph.

Our next question was, how much would an email weigh? That message from Paul to say that he brought doughnuts for the team (God bless Paul) might not weigh much, but what about that instruction manual Priya sent last week? We took an email attachment of 25 MB — Google’s maximum attachment size — and saw how it translated to pages printed and weight in grams. The results are below.

Now, a drug-smuggling pigeon in Colombia found a 45-gram package (40 grams of marijuana and 5 grams of cocaine paste) just a bit too heavy. So, let’s say a pigeon can manage 40 grams. That would mean that for every email with a 25-MB attachment, you’d probably need about 480 pigeons. If just one in 50 emails sent has a such an attachment, we’d need to revise up our carrier-pigeon contingent from 161 billion to 1.698 trillion.

Either we’d need to start sending fewer emails, or else the Earth would need to be inhabited by 243 times more pigeons than humans to cope with an Internet failure. Of course, if the apocalypse does come, our emailing needs might change. Those TPS reports might not be a top priority.

Pigeons in numbers:

• You can apparently send a message via carrier pigeons for the low, low price of $9.95.
• A pigeon named G.I. Joe flew 20 miles in 20 minutes, and in doing so communicated a message that saved the lives of more than 1,000 soldiers.
• According to the U.K.’s Pigeon Control Resource Centre, pigeons are the only nonmammal that can recognize themselves in the mirror, as well as recognize all 26 letters of our alphabet. (That last claim sounds particularly outlandish to me, but you can decide for yourself.)

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Find iMessage apps in the app drawer

The app drawer gives you quick access to apps that you can use in your messages. To see your app drawer:

1. Open Messages.
2. Tap the Compose button to start a new message. Or go to an existing conversation.
3. Swipe left or right over the app drawer to find the app that you want to use.

Here are some apps that are automatically in your app drawer:

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Music: Share recently played songs from Apple Music.

Digital Touch: Use Digital Touch to send sketches, taps, kisses, heartbeats, and more.

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Download iMessage apps

You can find and download apps to use with iMessage in the App Store for iMessage. Here's how:

1. To go to the App Store for iMessage, tap the Store icon .
2. Tap the icon or the price icon next to the app, then tap Install. You might need to enter your Apple ID password to complete the purchase.
3. Tap the gray line to return to your message.

After the app downloads, you can find it in your app drawer.

Some apps let you make additional purchases within the app. If you set up Family Sharing, you can use Ask to Buy to help control app downloads and in-app purchases. Learn more about in-app purchases.

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You can add apps to your Favorites so you have quick access to them in the app drawer. You can also reorder apps in the app drawer, remove the ones you don’t want, and more. Here’s how:

1. From the app drawer, swipe left and tap the More button .
2. Tap Edit in the upper-right corner to do the following:
   • To add an app to your Favorites, tap the Add button .
   • To remove an app from Favorites, tap the Remove button , then tap Remove from Favorites.
   • To reorder apps in the app drawer, touch and hold the gray lines , then move the apps in the order that you want.
   • To hide an app, turn it off.
3. Tap Done.

Delete iMessage apps

1. Open Messages.
2. Tap the Compose button to start a new message. Or go to an existing conversation.
3. Swipe left over the app drawer and tap the More button .
4. Swipe left over the app, then tap Delete.

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