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> The lesson is that whatever flying machine we are able to design, it will always pale in comparison to Nature's flying machines.

Perhaps for aesthetics or mechanical and aerodynamic elegance, but never for practicality for human means.



Quoting Wilbur Wright:

"I confess that, in 1901, I said to my brother Orville that men would not fly for 50 years. Two years later, we ourselves were making flights. This demonstration of my inability as a prophet gave me such a shock that I have ever since distrusted myself and have refrained from all prediction."

No one has ever been able to predict where technology is going. This one is for you to tame your forecasting proclivities and for the moron who's downvoting my comments without explaining where my argument is weak. Cheers.


Oh, so it's perfectly fine for you to make a universal statement about aeronautics:

> The lesson is that whatever flying machine we are able to design, it will always pale in comparison to Nature's flying machines.

But when I make one, it's wrong?

Fuck you.


You need to get laid, buddy. Chill. Chill...


Will you two please stop it?


I have stopped, and I am sorry that things became un-civil. However, do note that I did not throw the first stone. Cheers.


Say that to da Vinci. His flying machines were inspired by birds. He studied Nature and tried to build machines based on the same principles as those that allowed birds to fly. Of course, that led his astray, because it's hard to design machines that fly by flapping their wings. However, the structural part remains. Take a look at how airplanes are designed these days, and you will see that their structure somewhat resembles the bone structure of actual birds.

Last but not least: never say never, and never predict more than 10 years into the future. In 20 years your predictions might be ridiculed.


Same for Otto Lilienthal.

We design rigid body and rigid wing aircraft because of mechanical constraints.




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