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Mechanical Butterflies?

MImeKillEr writes "According to an article on BBC News, two researchers from Oxford took highspeed photographs of an Admiral butterfly in a specially-designed windtunnel to study how butterflies fly. The resulting research brings insight into small-scale flight dynamics. Although the article doesn't give an ETA on this, they expect to be able to build an aircraft with a 10cm wingspan that will be either autonomous or radio controlled. This will allow them to be used in rescue missions, cave exploration and possibly even on Mars."

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  1. hard to fly on mars.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    without an atmosphere..

    reply my ass :P

  2. WSL3 - Anatomy Of An Asshole by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    WILLIAM SCOTT LOCKWOOD III
    ANATOMY OF AN ASSHOLE

    And you thought this was just going to be another
    goats.cx link. Close. During
    this bloody war with Mr. Lockwood, several interested lookers-on have commented,
    "Yeah, Vlad is a fat, disgusting piece of shit, but why do you hate him that
    much?? Do you berate your own feces before you flush it??" This is a question
    which must be answered. Here, I will present to you just a few reasons for despising
    William Scott Lockwood III. Read these with an open mind and an eye toward moral
    clarity and I am certain you will reach the same conclusion that I and others have:
    Lardinator Has To Go.

    This is the face of a
    child-molestor.
    It is no coincidence that Lockwood 3's children live all the
    way on the other side of the country. His wife at the time (just one in a
    continuous stream of buffalo), could not get her brood far enough away from the
    cold clammy probing fingers of Lardinator. And knowing what a low-life piece of
    white-trash her ex-husband is, she knew that Lardo would not spring for so much
    as a ride in a 67 Mercury Comet to "see" his hell-spawn. Child molestors are
    generally sexually abused in their own youth.
    Take a long look at
    the tortured echos of a deprived childhood.

    Crapflooder Extraordinaire (note: I
    know these are some big words, Scottie. Don't worry your little head about it.
    Just rest assured you are being exposed for the worthless fuck you are).

    William Scott Lockwood III used his third-rate troll site
    Geekizoid to encourage the crap-flooding
    and general assault of websites he deemed inappropriate. This included a tech site
    oriented toward females, an animal rights site, child abuse sites (see above
    paragraph for why Scotty found that one inappropriate), a site aimed at giving
    advice to troubled teens and various other sites where people generally minded
    their own business, blissfully unaware of the stinking mound of manure who had
    eyed them for destruction only to sate his own appetite for power. When the
    admin of one of those sites (yeah, it was mine) decided to give little Pecker-head
    a taste of his own shit, it was suddenly a bad thing! Why, he was going to involve
    the law! He was sending his server logs to EVERYONE in order to figure out who
    was spanking his little butt good (he never did).

    Idiot Supreme.
    Yep, you read that right, folks. Fatty can't even read his own server logs!
    And he wants YOU to buy a scoop "server" from him!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! We can see from
    this old post that Fatty
    dropped out of high-school. That would explain quite a bit.

    Hypocrite Extreme.
    Mr. Lardinator has a nasty habit of complaining to those who run message boards. He
    constantly accused Rob Malda of being a hypocrite (a word Mr. Lardinator can't even
    spell properly). He has also complained incessantly about K5's Rusty and others. Of
    course, you now know from the Crapflooding paragraph, that Mr. Lardinator is the
    biggest (in more ways than one) H Y P O C R I T E of them all.

    Well, that's it for now. I can and will post more later, but I will let
    you digest this in pieces. And please, join the crusade. It is the only way.