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Old 23-04-2010, 08:15 AM
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Originally Posted by sjastro View Post

So how can the biomechanics of a bird or insect be utilized to perform the work for landing instead of gravity?

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Steven
Quite right.

But, to put it in plain English and lets use a simple analogy:
Anyone of you tried to drive in Europe or US?
Or, anyone of you tried to switch from manual to automatic transmission cars (easy) or vice versa (VERY scary experience for some people.. not me, I am manual person :-) )

Now, all those skills mentioned above are learned, acquired... and our intelligence is involved in the process (Nesti's comments about flying)
Now imagine those skills are programmed in your genes and/or hard-wired in your brains... Poor insects and birds.

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