Wind Tunnel for Birds

Posted by Hemos on Saturday November 10, 2001 @07:57PM from the flying-through-the-tunnel dept.

bgood writes "'What, a swallow, carrying a coconut? ...' The Department of Animal Ecology at the University of Lund in Sweden uses a modern low-speed wind tunnel specially crafted for bird experiments. The birds are trained to fly in the 'test-section' and the tunnel can be tilted up or down to simulate ascent and descent. This link contains plenty of detail, complete with bird pictures. For those of you who yearn to build your own (non-bird-compliant) wind tunnel, you can find instructions in this Scientific American article."

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Our tax paying dollars at work. by zendal · 2001-11-10 20:05 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Well, It seems like a bunch of scientists have got drunk and high, and decided a new way to have fun watching birds trying to fly at high speed winds. In the meanwhile making it look like scientific research. Most major science discoveries were caused by scientists being high. The names of the subatomic particles for instance so the may actually be on to something, or they are just having fun.