On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, integral.property.serv...@gmail.com wrote:
Found this more suitable for spare time than videos or games:
http://hydride.has.it/
Nice, but arrg, powerpoint. No PDF vers.
For real fun we can go argue about amateur breakthrough hoax videos.
DWFTTW is old, so now it's battery-assist human ornithopter (below.)
Looks borderline-feasible at a few hundred watts drive power. But the
video is full of suspicious stuff. Why make such an elaborate detailed
hoax? Perhaps it's a viral publicity campaign?
WIRED
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/human-bird-wings/#disqus_thread
REDDIT
http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/r5har/is_whats_shown_in_this_video_possible_calling_on/
MYTHBUSTERS (new forum)
http://www.tested.com/articles/43440-thoughts-on-the-mechanics-of-assisted-human-flight/
Or maybe it's the Other Hutchison Effect: "I almost have it working, so
lets make a fake video, since the public is so easy to fool.
PS
Elderly physicist
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2556#comic
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