Mother Nature Wins the Flying Contest
#1
http://wimp.com/hawkssee

This is quite simply awesome.

Organic exposition of the correct end of the cube/square problem in flight.

"No aircraft invented comes anywhere close."
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#2
Hi,

Quote:This is quite simply awesome.
Yes. Thanks for that link -- I'd love to see that in a 3D headset (with a barf bag handy, I think).

Quote:"No aircraft invented comes anywhere close."
But consider their developmental cycle. Bet the early prototypes were a bit rougher. :whistling:

Give Lockheed a few more millenia, and . . .

--Pete

How big was the aquarium in Noah's ark?

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#3
That was awesome, thanks for the link.

Take that, Imperial Speeder Bikes!:)

take care
Tarabulus
"I'm a cynical optimistic realist. I have hopes. I suspect they are all in vain. I find a lot of humor in that." -Pete

I'll remember you.
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#4
Quote:This is quite simply awesome.

Agreed. Thank you, Occhi.
And you may call it righteousness
When civility survives,
But I've had dinner with the Devil and
I know nice from right.

From Dinner with the Devil, by Big Rude Jake


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#5
I think I need to spend less time watching pigeons, and more time watching falcons! I'm too used to thinking of birds as none-too-swift, but that's downright remarkable.

-Jester
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#6
Incredible

edit: the hawk at the end was like a speeder bike on Endor, wow
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#7
Quote:edit: the hawk at the end was like a speeder bike on Endor, wow

You don't say:P

take care
Tarabulus
"I'm a cynical optimistic realist. I have hopes. I suspect they are all in vain. I find a lot of humor in that." -Pete

I'll remember you.
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