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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