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> "their flight wasn't as controlled as I had thought of" I had the same reaction, and it reminded me of other slo-mo videos of insects crawling -- it looked l
by fhe 5y ago
> "their flight wasn't as controlled as I had thought of"
I had the same reaction, and it reminded me of other slo-mo videos of insects crawling -- it looked like they are falling all over themselves, with none of the gracefulness that I see in mammals (cheetah running, for example). I wonder if it has to do with insects having much smaller mass, hence they are more easily jerked around by things like airflow.
- mc32 5y agoIt’s probably due to slowing it down by 4000x. When the slow the windup of a baseball pitcher it also looks ungraceful.
- mattnewton 5y agoIt could also be due to the way some insect musculature works, they typically don't have the same extension/contraction methods we have by pulling on either side of a bone, which doesn't work in an exoskeleton. My understanding is that they instead rely on a combination of flexors and vascular pressure to extend which is a jerkier-looking process. See the muscle section here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect_physiology https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect_physiology