Snail Telegraphy

The ever-dependable Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society has a corker of an entry today: The Snail Telegraph. It was based on the well-known scientific principle that any two snails, once mated, will remain forever in telepathic contact with each other, no matter what the distance between them. Er, right. But just supposing this bizarre hypothesis was true. How different the world would have been following the introduction of the snail telegraph back in 1850…