Camouflage in Motion

Adrian writes "Remember Jurassic Park, where Goldbloom stood really still and the T-Rex couldn't see him? Well, there might be a better way. Scientists have found that dragonflies can dissappear by keeping their image on your retina in the same place, even if you move. How they manage it still has them puzzled... ;)"

Comments

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[cjpez]

What an incredibly hollow article. "We've used some technical majiggers to look at some stuff and wow! Look what we came up with!" It's a good thing there wasn't any actual details in there, it may have been interesting.

Mwa ha! I will be king of the fpers!

[dasunt]

x <- Moderators, keep staring at this point.
Everone else can look here -> x

Now, if my calculations are correct, I should be able to get away with this:
Imagine a beowulf cluster of F1r5t P05t!

Mwa ha ha!

Oh wait, you mean that I'm too big to be a dragonfly?

Sounds a little like...

[JasonMaggini]

The Picard maneuver. Although I doubt dragonflies can punch it up to warp speed yet.

Re:Breaking news: Scientist reinvent the wheel aga

[isaac]

Well duh. Didn't they ever catch flies when they were young? The way to do it is to take two fingers and follow the fly with them, maintaining the distance between your hand and the fly. after a while the fly will think your fingers are part of the background and will easily let you catch it.

Yet another example of the universal truth: Everything I need to know, I learned from "The Karate Kid."

-Isaac