OK ~
Science Time...
Helen Keller could see that the Insect Drone was a 'fake' Mock-Up. No way dem Wings could lift that Hearing Aid Battery of a Body. 'Tis
way too heavy. Physics 101... Also, emulating Insect/Bird Wing motion and flight at
any Model size remains really daunting.
I love the irony of quoting Professor
Fearing. Hee hee... This rumor is ~3 years old.
'The technical challenges of creating robotic insects are daunting, and most experts doubt that fully working models exist yet. "If you find something, let me know," said Gary Anderson of the Defense Department's Rapid Reaction Technology Office.
Getting from bird size to insect size is not a simple matter of making everything smaller.
"You can't make a conventional robot of metal and ball bearings and just shrink the design down," said Ronald Fearing, a roboticist at the University of California at Berkeley. For one thing, the rules of aerodynamics change at very tiny scales and require wings that flap in precise ways — a huge engineering challenge. Scientists have only recently come to understand how insects fly.
Even if the technical hurdles are overcome, insect-size fliers will always be risky investments. "They can get eaten by a bird, they can get caught in a spider web," Professor Fearing said.' - Snopes.com ~ Insect Drone Debunked -
From 'Adele' comes the Snopes Motto...
- 'Rumour Has It' ~ Adele ~ Live -
Sunrise a bit ago from the upper Balcony of our Guest Cabin...
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