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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."
Better than the shit we are sending to Mars now. I have never seen an agency as bad as NASA, and so willing to get it in the ass by the Aerospace industry. Cost+ %, is not the way to pay for a company's work. it promotes waste. So Butterflies? Heck, I'd cheer them on. as long as we send 1,000 of them at once.
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