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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."
Butterfree, I choose you.
From: cptroll
To: <k22320inchfan@methlab.nothing.org>
Subject: [k22320inchfan] Let's try this one again: gbd et al
Date sent: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 18:22:12 -0400
Send reply to: k22320inchfan@methlab.nothing.org
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cptroll <cptroll@linuxstart.com> wrote:
From ??? Fri Feb 19 09: 25 Date: Thu Oct 26 2
>I've been in touch with gbd via email. (He doesn't want me to share his
>address with anyone, and I'm respecting that.) Apparently, the fellow
>has big plans, but he's aufully vague and evasive about everything, so
>it's hard to say what's what. I do have his physical location nailed
>down to a certain one of the fifty states, and it's an odd one.
>
>I asked him about his scheme of capitalization, and this was the best
>answer I could get from him: "as far as why i capitalize things i do it
>to EMPHASIZE things that should be stressed, i know that you can do this
>with html but i am too lazy, hehe."
>
>Yes, he stays true to his form, even in email. The upshot is, I gave him
>his account, and he's all squared away with that.
>
>What an odd fellow!
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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.
A Good Troll is better than a Bad Human.
From: cptroll
:)/ 30/5377/2018&pid=60#66
To: k22320inchfan@lists.io.com
Subject: Re: [k22320inchfan] Nice on jsm
Date sent: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 15:07:10 -0500
Send reply to: k22320inchfan@lists.io.com
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Hmmm. In this case, is the correct course of action to mod them both up
to 5? Jsm just because, and trhurler in order to make him even more
self-righteous and egg him on? Or would it be more effective just to mod
jsm up and leave trhurler at none and make him cry favoritism?
Trhurler is one bitter fuck. On any given story, you can find him voting
-1. And his diaries, too.
James <spiralx@spazmail.com> wrote:
>Keep us the good work winding trhurler up on k5, immensely amusing
>watching him slowly getting more and more outraged at you
>
>http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=comments&sid=2000/11
>
>Funny as hell.
>
>J
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