News Briefs 21-03-2012
Posted by Rick MG at 10:19, 21 Mar 2012Enjoy.
- CGI fake or the real deal? Flying Dutchman flaps mechanical wings.
- Live pilot recordings of UFO encounters in Chile.
- UFO photo that mysteriously vanished from British MoD office.
- There's a UFO flap high in Arizona's Mojave County.
- Europa's icy oceans may be too acidic to harbour life.
- James Cameron prepares for his rocket plunge into the ocean.
- I bet Jim won't be using the Fluid Breathing System.
- All aboard the 32,000-km-per-hour express elevator to low-orbit!
- Hillary Clinton announces a new search for Amelia Earhart.
- Norway wants Canada to return Roald Amundsen's ship The Maud.
- Norway officially approves Sami shamanism as a religion.
- Parallelism in Sioux & Sami shamanic traditions.
- The Amazon's last uncontacted tribes (Amazon US, Kindle, UK).
- Missing explorers & the Lost City of Z (Amazon US, UK).
- Amazonian plant may be painkiller breakthrough.
- Noise pollution changes the behaviour of plants, not just animals.
- Bird brains: feathered friends that boast incredible memories.
- Death and Return in the myth of Demeter and Persephone.
- The return of Persephone & other Spring transitions.
- The Hero's Journey: a mythological story we all take part in.
- Is our greatest desire to be conscious creators?
- Claims that NDEs are just lucid dreams deserves skepticism.
- More evidence that meditation strengthens the brain.
- The Dog Particle: teaching relativity to dogs (Amazon US, Kindle, UK).
Thanks RPJ.
Quote of the Day:
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir
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12 June 2009
1 week 5 days
Oh I want this to be real. A concern is the strength necessary to flap the wings. The movement is known as a Pec Fly - for pectorals fly. It primarily incorporates the group of muscles and connective tissue in the chest and shoulders known as the pectorals and rotator cuff (among other muscles). All these muscles under this specific movement are relatively weak in humans and prone to strains and terrors in this type of movement. A much stronger movement is the chest press aka bench or dumbbell press - which is a pushing movement, not the flapping or fly movement required here. Sure he uses reducing gears no doubt similar to a multi-speed bicycle, but to me any person's ability to have the strength and endurance necessary to flap these wings under the forces of flight are unlikely, especially without suffering injury to the muscles, tendons and ligaments involved. This comes from my experience as GM and personal trainer of health clubs for 13 years.
Greg H.
12 April 2007
1 hour 25 min
Supposedly these guys are using Wii controllers as a mean to translate the um, pilot's (?) flapping movements to their mechanical contraption. If indeed real, it wouldn't be actually a human-powered craft, but a case of mechanical strength augmentation.
*If* it's true.
Because if it's fake, then these guys have certainly raised the bar in terms of elaboration :-/
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
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30 April 2004
7 weeks 6 days
Seems the CGI Heavy weights clipped birdman's wing
http://gizmodo.com/5895235/cgi-experts-s...
12 April 2007
1 hour 25 min
These are all ILM employees. The same guys who participated in the Han Solo/Greedo conspiracy!
You think I'm gonna trust THEM??!! :P
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
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@red_pill_junkie
30 April 2004
7 weeks 6 days
These are all ILM employees. The same guys who participated in the Han Solo/Greedo conspiracy!
You think I'm gonna trust THEM??!! :P
Haha lol
Yep, Good point bro, however
http://news.yahoo.com/grounded-bird-man-...
12 April 2007
1 hour 25 min
Con-dorman :)
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
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@red_pill_junkie
6 April 2010
16 hours 3 min
and thank you Orzel for reading into the quote under this sentence ;)
...I forgot how I got here but everyone seems to be heading off in that direction. I hope someone brought food. I have a feeling this is going to be a long journey................
6 April 2010
16 hours 3 min
Icarus isn't impressed, but I don't care because I want some :D
...I forgot how I got here but everyone seems to be heading off in that direction. I hope someone brought food. I have a feeling this is going to be a long journey................
2 May 2004
4 hours 17 min
Emphasis on the con.
If the inventors really did achieve flight, the guy must be aiming for a Darwin Award, or spending a year in hospital eating through a straw. This Icarus wouldn't even get close to a streetlight. Melbourne's annual Bird Man Rally was just the other week, but 2013 applications are now open.
I hope Jeb Corliss challenges them to a duel.
~ * ~
@levitatingcat
6 April 2010
16 hours 3 min
and i believe one day you could make a real one and make it available for the populous. i still want things wings over an iPad :P
...I forgot how I got here but everyone seems to be heading off in that direction. I hope someone brought food. I have a feeling this is going to be a long journey................