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Re: Chasing Nature
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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
Bio mimicry: copying the engineering principles of biology into man made machines.
Sometimes this is a good thing and sometimes its not. For many years people tried to make flying machines that mimicked birds wings, and it could not be done, for two reasons: 1. Birds alter the shape of their wings in flight by applying pressure to groups of feathers and 2. Birds flap their wings with muscles, and they did not have machines that could duplicate the power and actions of muscles.
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I heard bird and dredged up this: Scientific America Transcript
PS. I think they engineers are having problems with the whole getting something to fly like a bird.
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