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Flying machines seem unsafe because the pilot has limited control. Birds can quickly change the shape of their wing more drastically than planes or hang gliders
by shpx 4y ago
Flying machines seem unsafe because the pilot has limited control. Birds can quickly change the shape of their wing more drastically than planes or hang gliders, so there are less unrecoverable situations.
- csours 4y agoBirds are also (generally) smaller. > “You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes.” J B S Haldane https://www.phys.ufl.edu/courses/phy3221/spring10/HaldaneRightSize.pdf https://www.phys.ufl.edu/courses/phy3221/spring10/HaldaneRig... Also, of course, many birds do die.