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How a hummingbird in love can move faster than a fighter jet
- jerf 17y agoCommiting scale errors in the animal world, then boggling at the GIGO results, is lame.
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoTo elaborate slightly: > Scientists calculated that the 50mph speed of > the hummingbird at the fastest point in its > descent is equivalent to it moving 383 times > its body length each second. This does not mean it's travelling faster than a jet - the title is deliberately designed to be misleading. It's true that hummingbirds are amazing, but this is drivel.
- justlearning 17y agoi recently watched the airbus 380 episode on 'engineering connections' [hosted by richard hammond(top gear)]. Lots of comparisons on borrowing technology from nature(insights into flight of an eagle and applying the same into the wings of the 380). I can't help think, there's more to learn from nature.