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Let's give the technology 60 million years to be perfected and then compare. P.S. This aircraft flew from Japan to Hawaii in 118 hours solely powered by solar
by dataflow 5y ago
Let's give the technology 60 million years to be perfected and then compare.
P.S. This aircraft flew from Japan to Hawaii in 118 hours solely powered by solar energy https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/solar-impulse-2-breaks-records-flying-around-world-without-fuel https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/solar-impulse-2-br...
(n.b. this isn't to dispute the awesomeness of birds.)
- barney54 5y agoYes, and then they had to replace the batteries that suffered “irreversible damage” and that took several months to fix. These birds just keep on going.
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- Kye 5y agoUnless they hit one of our earlier attempts to survive long enough to be as good as birds. I hope new wind farms are built with awareness of bird migration in mind. https://www.fws.gov/birds/bird-enthusiasts/threats-to-birds/collisions/wind-turbines.php https://www.fws.gov/birds/bird-enthusiasts/threats-to-birds/...
- kijin 5y agoSelf-replication helps a lot. Birds suffer irreversible damage all the time. They just spam the world with more birds to replace the dead ones.
- hammock 5y agoI'm sure the bird started the trip with a full stomach, so that it had the fuel not only to power itself but also to repair itself in flight.
- rpastuszak 5y ago> Let's give the technology 60 million years to be perfected and then compare. Your point being?
- rpastuszak 5y agoI really don’t get the point of that comment, that was a genuine question.
- mynameisvlad 5y agoI mean, it’s pretty clear what the point is. That we are comparing a few decades of work with what is essentially millenias worth of evolutions. Of course our technology is going to lose, it’s nowhere near as mature as nature’s.