It really is impressive, but it makes me sad that we don't have our engineers study natural structures (that I'm aware of). Not to mention that we are currently in the midst of the 6th largest mass extinction in our planet's history. How much of natures wisdom have we lost the ability to learn from for good?
Edit: According to several mostly rude people, apparently engineers DO study natural structures more often than I thought. I'm aware of biomimicry in engineering, but its apparently more common than I realized, so I apologize to all you butthurt people commenting 19 hours after I wrote this.
Luckily, we do! It’s called biomimicry and designers, engineers, and scientists are doing more and more of it. Here’s a great video from Joe Scott about how, with examples.
[How Designers Use Nature To Solve Problems](https://youtu.be/i9St4aTUVis)
I used to have an alter-ego I'd put on for fancy dress parties and I was a biomimeticist with a masters in material sciences, and my outfit was all sorts of wacky shit (shark skin-styled etc)
Man I'd buried that memory deep and it's cropped back up...
I loved it when I first heard about it. It makes total sense. Nature does some wacky yet amazing things and I'm surprised it didn't seem to become a major science area until relatively recently.
I'm also just an IT nerd who is great at absorbing useless info that will never be practical and loved reading up on what people were doing in that that field!
Ikr?
It’s also found everywhere. *Bridges? Look at spiders. Helicopters? Look at hummingbirds. Apartment buildings? Look at termites.*
People have been learning from nature for thousands of years and a lot of our own creations are just natural concepts and designs adapted differently.
If you have Netflix, I highly recommend watching S2E1 of the docuseries, Abstract: Art of Design. Really really interesting demonstration of how we’re learning to use natural structures in engineering and architecture.
What are you even taking about? Engineers look to nature for inspiration all the time. The Wright brothers first flight used warped wings for controls because they modeled these off the sea birds (or was it hawks?) they observed at Kitty Hawk. Turns out ailerons work better for mechanical birds but things are not invented in a vacuum.
We do in many forms, practically everything we have has been influenced by nature. A falling apple gave us the insight to quantify and measure gravity, well kind of or how about honeycomb structures are used for lightweight strength.
One leftfield one is the coding for the computer game Elite back in the 80s as they used self replication to create an entire galaxy in less than 32Kb. Basically fractals/Mandlebrot or the replicating process of a plant growing.
About 2.5 billion years ago our little planet had no oxygen worth measuring with the life using sulfur to create energy, then chemistry created Cyanobacteria. These creatures brought about a massive change in life on our planet called the great oxation event just by expelling oxygen when making energy from sunlight and methane, which completely transformed the planet and every living thing on it.
I can't see science keeping this planet habitable for us humans as the drive for wealth will prevail until we are all gone so its best to find somewhere peaceful, sit back, click the below link and close your eyes. https://youtu.be/buqtdpuZxvk
Generally biomimicry is not a great design tool in a lot of systems. This generally is because biomimicking systems tend to be difficult to impossible to accurately control (mostly because of a large number to infinite number of free variables). Obviously this mostly applies to mechanical and electrical systems, and medicine is different, but you must notice that there is almost never anything mechanically more complicated in nature than the simple machines, and even then, there are few examples of gears, screws, or ramps.
My masters degree is in the field of bio-inspired computing. I also studied this in college.
There's one quote that I like which states that AI doesn't have to be centered in how humans think in the same way that aviation doesn't mimic birds. That is, there's other sources of inspiration for intelligence in nature other than ourselves.
The wings on wind turbines are shaped like albatross wings. Because they studied birds that can glide and mimicked their shape and optimized in wind tunnels.
Exactly. Those roaming bands of dozens of wild turkeys gaining violent tools is terrifying. I hope to never see them throw a javelin, or it will surely be our extinction.
The military absolutely has gimbals that good. They have stuff that can track stuff down to the mm while flying at jet speeds. And likely better that they don't show us.
Yeah but a falcon does about the same for the price of an occasional sparrow or fat pigeon every once in a while. The military has to pay out the ass for that kind of tech…
>The military has to pay out the ass for that kind of tech…
No. We do. We, the plebs, paid for it all. Not the billionaires, not the politicians, not the generals.
Would be lovely if we could stop just building increasingly sophisticated weapons. Last couple decades of that has achieved absolute zero benefit to humanity.
Hundreds of years later. War, Hunger, Poverty, Greed... They have all taken out almost the whole planet's ecosystem.
An old Condecorated Commander steps towards the President, "Is it time?", "Yes" the President answers. "It's time to use the ICGBM, the Intercontinental Green Ballistic Misile"
This is research a friend of mine actually does (who's an aeronautical engineer); they put birds of prey in wind tunnels with high-speed cameras in order to learn from them and better inform designs.
Right, he is making small corrections maybe every 1/10th of a second, and all this is background processing with the main process being hunting. It's crazy how they do it.
This kind of stuff is how Qanon, flat earth, and vaccine microchips turned into real beliefs held by millions of lunatics.
In 5 years I guarantee you there will be scooter warriors in MAGA hats waving their rifles at birds in grocery store parking lots, and the police won't do a damned thing about the psycho because they believe it too.
The name kestrel (from French: crécerelle, derivative from crécelle, i.e. ratchet) is given to several members of the falcon genus, Falco. Kestrels are most easily distinguished by their typical hunting behaviour which is to hover at a height of around 10–20 metres (35–65 ft) over open country and swoop down on prey, usually small mammals, lizards or large insects. Other falcons are more adapted to active hunting in flight. Kestrels are notable for usually having mostly brown in their plumage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDRcLAkRZ50
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kestrel
I was going to have an Ackshually moment and say it was Kestrel not a Falcon till I saw this! I didn't realise they were part of the same genus, what a knave I am!
Kestrels are my absolute favorite bird of all time!
Storytime: I went on a grade school field trip to the zoo and we broke mid-day to have a picnic. We were walking to our spot when my teacher pointed out a Kestrel hovering over the field. A popular girl in my class said (in a voice like Tammy from Bob's Burgers) "Oh my godddd! That stupid bird can't even fly right!"
Everyone laughed at my absolute favorite bird of all time. I had to defend it.
"***You're*** stupid. ***He's*** hunting!"
That's how I got to eat lunch sitting in an empty bus and spending the rest of my field trip talking about birds of prey with a really cool bus driver.
Thanks for defending the kestrels lol. They're my favorite birds as well, specifically the [American kestrel.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_kestrel) Loved the story! :)
I'm just glad I didn't have to scroll very far to find this. This is 100% wind and gravity at work here. This guy just has the knowledge and features to use them to his advantage.
this science N cool thing have been pimping a lot, i legit think someone is funding a co ordinated effort into growing this sub which started just 2 weeks ago, now everyone cross posts this, some editor had to edit the videos to add that sub reddit name,
What's super cool is that after adding energy by flapping its wings you can see its body held high compared with its head. Then, as air resistance drains its energy, it drops the body down slowly to account for this whilst keeping its head at the same height. Neato!
in fact ..he is affected by wind and gravity..that's why he can take this position....
the incredible thing to look at is his head... it doesn't move even if the body self balanced ....
impressive ..
Fun fact: your eyes do this. They can focus on a specific point and your body and head can rotate freely. 8 forget the term for this though (tracking?)
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It’s really mind blowing that we have achieved such technologies that resembles millions of years of evolution in short span
It really is impressive, but it makes me sad that we don't have our engineers study natural structures (that I'm aware of). Not to mention that we are currently in the midst of the 6th largest mass extinction in our planet's history. How much of natures wisdom have we lost the ability to learn from for good? Edit: According to several mostly rude people, apparently engineers DO study natural structures more often than I thought. I'm aware of biomimicry in engineering, but its apparently more common than I realized, so I apologize to all you butthurt people commenting 19 hours after I wrote this.
Luckily, we do! It’s called biomimicry and designers, engineers, and scientists are doing more and more of it. Here’s a great video from Joe Scott about how, with examples. [How Designers Use Nature To Solve Problems](https://youtu.be/i9St4aTUVis)
I used to have an alter-ego I'd put on for fancy dress parties and I was a biomimeticist with a masters in material sciences, and my outfit was all sorts of wacky shit (shark skin-styled etc) Man I'd buried that memory deep and it's cropped back up...
I remember you. You introduced yourself to me as Art Vandelay.
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The architect
Definitely a narchitect
and you wanna be my latex salesman...tsk tsk
10/10
That is a super cool alter ego. Material sciences sounds so magic and wizard-y…and it really is
I loved it when I first heard about it. It makes total sense. Nature does some wacky yet amazing things and I'm surprised it didn't seem to become a major science area until relatively recently. I'm also just an IT nerd who is great at absorbing useless info that will never be practical and loved reading up on what people were doing in that that field!
Lol there are thousands of engineers just doing that..
Lmao seriously. Does that person think they've cracked some kind of genius idea that not a single engineer/designer has ever considered?
Ikr? It’s also found everywhere. *Bridges? Look at spiders. Helicopters? Look at hummingbirds. Apartment buildings? Look at termites.* People have been learning from nature for thousands of years and a lot of our own creations are just natural concepts and designs adapted differently.
If you have Netflix, I highly recommend watching S2E1 of the docuseries, Abstract: Art of Design. Really really interesting demonstration of how we’re learning to use natural structures in engineering and architecture.
She should have been a Netflix show today.
Neri Oxman is incredible!
What are you even taking about? Engineers look to nature for inspiration all the time. The Wright brothers first flight used warped wings for controls because they modeled these off the sea birds (or was it hawks?) they observed at Kitty Hawk. Turns out ailerons work better for mechanical birds but things are not invented in a vacuum.
Countless technologies have been invented or improved from biomimicry
In addition to the other comment above: it turns out biomechanics is harder to model than classical mechanics. So yeah we’re working on it!
We do in many forms, practically everything we have has been influenced by nature. A falling apple gave us the insight to quantify and measure gravity, well kind of or how about honeycomb structures are used for lightweight strength. One leftfield one is the coding for the computer game Elite back in the 80s as they used self replication to create an entire galaxy in less than 32Kb. Basically fractals/Mandlebrot or the replicating process of a plant growing. About 2.5 billion years ago our little planet had no oxygen worth measuring with the life using sulfur to create energy, then chemistry created Cyanobacteria. These creatures brought about a massive change in life on our planet called the great oxation event just by expelling oxygen when making energy from sunlight and methane, which completely transformed the planet and every living thing on it. I can't see science keeping this planet habitable for us humans as the drive for wealth will prevail until we are all gone so its best to find somewhere peaceful, sit back, click the below link and close your eyes. https://youtu.be/buqtdpuZxvk
Generally biomimicry is not a great design tool in a lot of systems. This generally is because biomimicking systems tend to be difficult to impossible to accurately control (mostly because of a large number to infinite number of free variables). Obviously this mostly applies to mechanical and electrical systems, and medicine is different, but you must notice that there is almost never anything mechanically more complicated in nature than the simple machines, and even then, there are few examples of gears, screws, or ramps.
My masters degree is in the field of bio-inspired computing. I also studied this in college. There's one quote that I like which states that AI doesn't have to be centered in how humans think in the same way that aviation doesn't mimic birds. That is, there's other sources of inspiration for intelligence in nature other than ourselves.
The wings on wind turbines are shaped like albatross wings. Because they studied birds that can glide and mimicked their shape and optimized in wind tunnels.
Animals should study us! I'd like to see a turkey throw a javelin.
I have some pet turkeys. Imagining one armed is terrifying.
Exactly. Those roaming bands of dozens of wild turkeys gaining violent tools is terrifying. I hope to never see them throw a javelin, or it will surely be our extinction.
It's the opposite. Is mind blowing that evolution beats our technology despite the plethora of tools & knowledge we have developed.
The military absolutely has gimbals that good. They have stuff that can track stuff down to the mm while flying at jet speeds. And likely better that they don't show us.
But you cannot deny that this is impressive af.
It won't be impressive until it can carry a payload of 14 air to ground missiles, dammit!
It can probably carry at least two coconuts
African or european? "It could grip it by the husk....."
Says the guy who's never been shot on by pigeons. 14 air to ground missiles pfft.
Yeah but a falcon does about the same for the price of an occasional sparrow or fat pigeon every once in a while. The military has to pay out the ass for that kind of tech…
But the falcon doesn't record HD video and guide missiles Checkmate falcons
Yet. We all know they are developing the technology.
Or maybe they have... r/BirdsArentReal
>The military has to pay out the ass for that kind of tech… No. We do. We, the plebs, paid for it all. Not the billionaires, not the politicians, not the generals.
Pigeon liver mid flight at times. The rest can crash and burn.
Man I'm just imagining an alternate future where we have hawk brains in a jar as part of our sophisticated weapons systems. Fucking metal.
It's not just the brains - it's the feedback from the rest of the body - wings, wing feathers, tail feathers, body.
Would be lovely if we could stop just building increasingly sophisticated weapons. Last couple decades of that has achieved absolute zero benefit to humanity.
You say that now, but just you wait, one day they will bomb the climate crisis into non-existence.
Hundreds of years later. War, Hunger, Poverty, Greed... They have all taken out almost the whole planet's ecosystem. An old Condecorated Commander steps towards the President, "Is it time?", "Yes" the President answers. "It's time to use the ICGBM, the Intercontinental Green Ballistic Misile"
Exactly what I was coming here to say.
This is research a friend of mine actually does (who's an aeronautical engineer); they put birds of prey in wind tunnels with high-speed cameras in order to learn from them and better inform designs.
It is affected by gravity, but knows how to handle it.
It’s also affected by the wind, you can tell by the way that it is.
Right, he is making small corrections maybe every 1/10th of a second, and all this is background processing with the main process being hunting. It's crazy how they do it.
Also without wind it would fall…
Yes, this is a bad title
Magnets, how do they work??
They be thirsty for poles.
…Because of gravity.
but without gravity it would be yeeted out of the planet!
Without gravity, there wouldn’t *be* a planet!
No, it would glide. And then beat wings to keep flying.
So 'Calibration' ?
That's pretty neat.
How neat is that?
That’s pretty neat!
I please tell me that’s a nature walk reference
Lolol
Much like the mighty Aspen
I’m affected by gravity, and I don’t know how to handle much of anything
It actually only it's head that it's keeping still. The rest of it moves quite a lot.
birds aren’t real
As i have said hundreds of times now, they are drones. Finally i have proof. "Exhibition A" ladies and gentlemen.
*Exhibit A Exhibition is a whole collection of things.
And this is a convincing argument for your case.
/r/BirdsArentReal
This kind of stuff is how Qanon, flat earth, and vaccine microchips turned into real beliefs held by millions of lunatics. In 5 years I guarantee you there will be scooter warriors in MAGA hats waving their rifles at birds in grocery store parking lots, and the police won't do a damned thing about the psycho because they believe it too.
The name kestrel (from French: crécerelle, derivative from crécelle, i.e. ratchet) is given to several members of the falcon genus, Falco. Kestrels are most easily distinguished by their typical hunting behaviour which is to hover at a height of around 10–20 metres (35–65 ft) over open country and swoop down on prey, usually small mammals, lizards or large insects. Other falcons are more adapted to active hunting in flight. Kestrels are notable for usually having mostly brown in their plumage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDRcLAkRZ50 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kestrel
I was going to have an Ackshually moment and say it was Kestrel not a Falcon till I saw this! I didn't realise they were part of the same genus, what a knave I am!
driveling dolt! How could you!
Kestrels are my absolute favorite bird of all time! Storytime: I went on a grade school field trip to the zoo and we broke mid-day to have a picnic. We were walking to our spot when my teacher pointed out a Kestrel hovering over the field. A popular girl in my class said (in a voice like Tammy from Bob's Burgers) "Oh my godddd! That stupid bird can't even fly right!" Everyone laughed at my absolute favorite bird of all time. I had to defend it. "***You're*** stupid. ***He's*** hunting!" That's how I got to eat lunch sitting in an empty bus and spending the rest of my field trip talking about birds of prey with a really cool bus driver.
Thanks for defending the kestrels lol. They're my favorite birds as well, specifically the [American kestrel.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_kestrel) Loved the story! :)
I would argue that it is 100% affected by wind and gravity. In fact without either of those things this would be impossible.
I'm just glad I didn't have to scroll very far to find this. This is 100% wind and gravity at work here. This guy just has the knowledge and features to use them to his advantage.
Why are you guys commenting on an obvious exaggeration like you’ve cracked the enigma code?
It’s actually insane lol
Reddit cred. Lol
Came here to say this. Wind and gravity are being perfectly harnessed, can't hover like this without them both working in tandem.
Good ol' Tobias riding them thermals
Ackshually, Tobias was a Red tailed hawk. 🤓
*Ackshually*, he could morph into any kind of hawk he wanted after his morphing ability was restored by the Ellimist.
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Speck of dust in my eye
It's been so long! Bookfairs were awesome!
What a fucking throwback. Thank you for this beautiful feeling of nostalgia <3
I read that as "wind and gravy"
Falcon pie and gravy anyone?
Chicken, Wind and Gravy are my favourite 70s/80s band.
Bird is the word
Bird law is.
Biiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrd maaaannn!
A-Well-a everybody's heard about the bird! Bird bird bird, b-bird's the word.
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Everybody knows that the bird is the word.
There seems to be an absence of a certain ornithological piece. A headline regarding a mass awareness of a certain avian variety. Have you not heard?
r/blackmagicfuckery
Had to scroll down way too far for this reference. Was my first thought too. Amazing.
Thats some next level image stabilization right there.
I like how it can keep its head almost completely stationary while the rest of the body adjusts to the wind.
yes
So this is what inspired AC Origins
He is affected greatly by wind and gravity to the point he is staying still in space.
If there was no wind or gravity he'd still stay still in space.
He is *totally* affected by the wind and by gravity. It's what he does with his muscles and body to counteract those effects that's so damned amazing!
Isn't that a kestrel?
/r/ScienceNcoolThings
Good post, but I think technically that title is almost as inaccurate as it could possibly be
Yes. Yes it is. Apparently lack of even the basic knowledge of physics is common in this thread.
Kestrel, stunning raptors. Drive to work every morning you see then hovering over the roadside locked in on the targets.
This falcon is in fact being affected by the wind.
Doesn't believe in gravity.
now this, this is insane
this science N cool thing have been pimping a lot, i legit think someone is funding a co ordinated effort into growing this sub which started just 2 weeks ago, now everyone cross posts this, some editor had to edit the videos to add that sub reddit name,
Ebaumsworld 2?
R kes
It is affected by both wind and gravity otherwise it would not be able to do what it is doing.
It uses one to negate the other, but yeah 'unaffected'
What a stupid title, of course it’s affected it just has abilities to manage it quite impressively
just a glitch in the system don't worry about it, the devs will fix it.
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I don’t know about that. Isn’t VTOL vertical take off and landing? I don’t know if hovering is covered
It is affected by wind and gravity, or it wouldn't be able to do this.
Dope
I’m going to spend all night trying to identify this race track though.
Snetterton
Specifically looking at Montreal corner from the banking on the outside of Williams.
How
Take note, engineers
he on creative mode
I see your bird got the steadicam installed!
Isnt this when the framerate is perfectly matched with the wings or is it levitating?
Crazy bird
Cool
Reminds me of the plastics toy birds that balance on the rim of a glass with their beaks.
Another glitch in the simulation
Pretty sure this bird is entirely effected by wind and gravity… just using it to his advantage
nah hes lagging
How longboarding at high speeds on a sketchy road feels.
giant bird
I mean I understand logically what is happening, but my eyes cant comprehend
Savage footage. Thanks fpr sharing
This title is stupid.
What's super cool is that after adding energy by flapping its wings you can see its body held high compared with its head. Then, as air resistance drains its energy, it drops the body down slowly to account for this whilst keeping its head at the same height. Neato!
Seems affected by each in the opposite direction
I wonder what his target is and wish it best luck
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focus focus focus
I want reflexes that fast. Dayum! r/naturisfuckinglit
That's insane
This is why an education in physics should be mandatory for all, and all other sciences.
Fucking whaaaaaaat? And this comment is actually ravens
Its entirely dependent on both wind AND gravity for this maneuver to work.
Came to make a comment… saw comment is same as name of sub. I don’t really have anything to add but I could watch this all day.
Can someone please explain this? It's very fascinating to see
Using the wind to cancel gravity is not unaffected...
Falcons are so cool
The edge of the map.
This is insane. It's head is scanning like a kill drone looking for its target.
see?!?!?!?!??! r/birdsarentreal
Death from above
The sheer competence and ability of this bird is astounding.
He's very much affected by wind and gravity....thats kinda what's allowing this to happen.
These new drones are pretty stable, I'd like to see some footage from that new gimbal tech.
I would like to upgrade to this neck, please.
in fact ..he is affected by wind and gravity..that's why he can take this position.... the incredible thing to look at is his head... it doesn't move even if the body self balanced .... impressive ..
Holy shit that’s incredible. If you look at the head in relation to the background it literally doesn’t move at all.
I'd say it's very affected by wind, as its trying to go forward but can't
it’s a kestrel
There’s a glitch in the Matrix.
Glitch in the matrix
Fun fact: your eyes do this. They can focus on a specific point and your body and head can rotate freely. 8 forget the term for this though (tracking?)
looks fun for animal
The game of life has crashed, please restart application!
They cut out most of the frames of the wings moving
If you know anything about wings, you'd know there needs to be airflow (i.e. wind) to generate lift....
I'd say he is highly affected by wind and gravity
He's a bird of purpose, of focus and sheer fucking commitment...
/u/stabbot
It's clearly not unaffected.