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I'm not sure I'm following your point. What percentage of parts of a bird were necessary for the first successful flight? I don't know, less than 1%? Maybe l
by blhack 8y ago
I'm not sure I'm following your point. What percentage of parts of a bird were necessary for the first successful flight? I don't know, less than 1%? Maybe less than 0.1%?
But you do have to understand [generally] how a bird works to [generally] emulate its wings [and fly].
- fermienrico 8y agoFor every biologically inspired invention, there are plenty more that were invented by understanding principles of engineering and science. Evolution has given us some incredible stuff, but there could exist simpler, more elegant solutions. A barn door will give you lift just not as efficient as a NACA airfoil shape. Evolutionary mimicry has its place in engineering, no doubt. But arrogantly stating that we must emulate biological systems is blatantly and demonstrably false. Otherwise, we wouldn't have nuclear power, superconductivity, lightbulb, sewing machines and computers.
- greglindahl 8y agoDid the original source actually arrogantly state that? I suspect it had some nuance to it.
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