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Birds safely do VTOL. Humans still haven’t figured that out yet (helicopters are so dangerous). I think that it is necessary we try all things because LLMs as
by bobbyprograms 1y ago
Birds safely do VTOL. Humans still haven’t figured that out yet (helicopters are so dangerous).
I think that it is necessary we try all things because LLMs as we know them take too much energy.
- toxik 1y agoUh, this is a strange thing to ask, but have you seen birds fly? It is most certainly not vertical take off (or landing.)
- deepanwadhwa 1y agoIt doesn't sound strange at all. Good question.
- fragmede 11mo agohummingbirds would seem to be the exception tho
- falcor84 1y agoJust regarding VTOL, we absolutely have figured out how to do it with quadcopter drones safely handling weights comparable to the largest birds, and it seems to me that scaling these up to carry humans will be relatively straightforward [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_drone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_drone
- bobbyprograms 11mo agoAs long as you have rapidly spinning BLADES it’s not safe
- falcor84 11mo agoWhy? Planes also have rapidly spinning blades, but the actual risk from getting hurt by the blades is probably two full orders of magnitude lower than the risk from the whole thing crashing into something at speed, which is an inherent risk when you have massive objects moving quickly, regardless of mechanism.
- moffkalast 1y agoWe can absolutely do VTOL reliably at bird scale, look at acrobatic RC planes and quad drones. Even the smallest helicopters are massive and the square cube rule will always make that dangerous in this gravity. But also like, harrier, F-35, osprey, etc.