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Birds Inspire Flight Sensor Inventions
Institute for Creation Research ^ | 12-22-14 | Brian Thomas

Posted on 12/22/2014 9:16:46 AM PST by fishtank

Birds Inspire Flight Sensor Inventions

by Brian Thomas, M.S. *

The Wright brothers studied wing structures of seabirds before building their first airplane, and the first helicopter is said to have been inspired by dragonfly flight. Today, inventors continue this tradition, focusing on bio-inspired flight sensors. A series of telling admissions in a recent summary of state-of-the-art research leave no doubt about the origins of flight-ready sensors.

Gusts of wind tend to blow small, man-made flying machines called Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) off course—or knock them out of the sky altogether. But insects and birds fare much better. What keeps them so stable? A team of inventors from Australia, publishing in the journal Progress in Aerospace Sciences, recently summarized their progress in the ongoing search for flight-stabilizing sensor technologies in flying animals.

(Excerpt) Read more at icr.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: birds; creation; sensors

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1 posted on 12/22/2014 9:16:47 AM PST by fishtank
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To: fishtank

If God wasn’t the God of grace, ....

... he would sue for patent infringement.


2 posted on 12/22/2014 9:18:06 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: fishtank

Where’s He going to get a lawyer?


3 posted on 12/22/2014 9:24:49 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring
Do a plead bargain with Satan?
4 posted on 12/22/2014 9:31:23 AM PST by Jonah Hex (Southern and dang proud of it)
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To: Jonah Hex

That might work.


5 posted on 12/22/2014 9:34:39 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: fishtank

This raises the question of why God would let creatures go extinct due to lack of adaptation.


6 posted on 12/22/2014 9:41:29 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Jonah Hex; DuncanWaring

Those are funny jokes....

All funniness aside, I am thankful that Jesus Christ is OUR lawyer, because Satan is always accusing us, trying to destroy and kill us.....


7 posted on 12/22/2014 9:41:43 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Moonman62

The whole creation is groaning to be freed from the curse.....

Soon and very soon, I pray.


8 posted on 12/22/2014 9:42:22 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: fishtank

I thought this was going to be an interesting article. It wasn’t...


9 posted on 12/22/2014 9:53:44 AM PST by babygene
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To: fishtank

http://www.arkive.org/black-skimmer/rynchops-niger/video-08.html


10 posted on 12/22/2014 9:54:23 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: DuncanWaring

Hell is full of them, just pick one.............


11 posted on 12/22/2014 10:16:49 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Moonman62

“This raises the question of why God would let creatures go extinct due to lack of adaptation.”

He just replaced them with newer models.


12 posted on 12/22/2014 10:16:54 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: DuncanWaring
Where’s He going to get a lawyer?

Seriously?

Why, the "other place," of course!

13 posted on 12/22/2014 11:57:06 AM PST by publius911 (Formerly Publius6961)
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