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Stanford students capture the flight of birds on very high-speed video

by arepb on 7/2/13, 2:06 PM with 8 comments

• by Moral_ on 7/2/13, 6:19 PM

  It's interesting how much we can learn from the way natural selection has designed things.

  This reminds me of the kid who built a solar tree which produced much more energy than normal 'linear' solar panels[0].

  [0] http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/08/boy-genius-13-year-ol...

• by sporro on 7/2/13, 6:01 PM

  Awesome. I love parrotlets. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgPRp0VaQ0s

• by VladRussian2 on 7/2/13, 9:09 PM

  now, if they add some kind of smoke [non-damaging to birds of course] to visualize airflow or some modernized version using some safe laser of something like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlieren_photography

• by jerryhuang100 on 7/2/13, 6:10 PM

  Similar flight studies have been done in flies:

  Visually mediated motor planning in the escape response of Drosophila. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982208...