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Can dead birds still fly? The answer is yes, not only can fly, but also fly well, in the hands of humans can not see a "corpse":

What kind of necromancy was this? The Lich King was alive, but the birds were dead and they still had to fly to work for humans, right?

This flying specimen was naturally not black magic, but technological transformation and mechanical ascension. It comes from a research team at the New Mexico Polytechnic University, which is trying to transform bird specimens into drones that can be sent from the ground to the sky.

This sounded more like a cyber-cultivator, and a demon cultivator.

According to reports, the purpose of making this drone is to better understand flight. Of course, the modified drones can also engage in aerial surveillance activities more stealthily, or blend in with birds and observe wildlife more naturally.

But I always feel that other birds see the same kind of "zombie" into the sky, not scared to death by it is not bad.

Humans always learn from nature, and so do these researchers. They thought birds would always fly more efficiently than human-imitated machines. So I want to study deeply, improve the technical efficiency of aviation industry and save more energy.

However, the simple artificial bird aircraft did not bring them the desired results, so they calculated the weight of normal birds, the frequency and angle of wing flapping, combined with bird specimens to engage in a "reverse engineering" to create a similar machine to birds, and then compared them.

Of course, I feel that this drone itself is still dominated by machines, but it also has the heads and feathers of real birds. If it hovers in the air, it's hard to tell with the naked eye.

Dr. Mostafa Hassanalian, who led the study, said that making such drones provided them with a lot of optimization inspiration. For example, they found that adjusting joints can make drones more flexible, or consider improving the leg design so that drones can stay somewhere to save power.

Next, researchers will try to lengthen their flight time and reduce the noise to make them look more natural.

After all, they looked like birds from a distance, but the mechanical sounds they made when they waved their wings told people that they were not alive. This conflict was extremely strange.

However, the more natural it was, the bigger the groove would be.

Not to mention the horror brought by the gimmick of using animal "corpses", many people feel that it is not realistic to observe birds with this kind of drone, and they are afraid that they will disturb animals.

After all, this was just a normal drone disguised with bird skin. There was no big improvement in technology.

But if it was used to spy on people, then no one would be surprised.

Supporters of the well-known conspiracy theory that birds are fake, for example, have begun to accuse the research of confirming that humans are being monitored.

We have talked about this conspiracy theory before. Some people in the United States believe that birds have become extinct. Now all flying in the sky are drones officially used to monitor humans.

Most people used to think that this kind of statement and activity was just a kind of performance art, but with the development of drones, it seems that it is becoming more and more unclear. This brain hole is several versions ahead.

There is also an ethical issue. The birds probably did not expect that they would not only be stuffed when they died, but also experience another kind of flying torture.

But what's more outrageous is that this isn't the first time humans have tried to transform animal carcasses into drones. It's been done 10 years ago, and it's even crazier.

This brother crazy pill has also been introduced, named Bart Jansen, he is very obsessed with turning animal corpses into remote control devices, the most famous of which should be its cat Orville, a flying cat:

He spread out his limbs in the air and kept drifting, looking like a "cat cake":

But Orville was already a specimen.

According to reports, the kitten died in a car accident in 2012, and my brother thought it was too boring to bury it. So he first modified the kitten into a specimen, and then contacted an engineer friend to further modify its specimen.

The last of the most outrageous cat aircraft was born.

The kitten that was hit by the car was finally modified into a flying form. What kind of hell joke was this?

The impact of the "cat drone" was sensational, death and rebirth, technology and nature, and various conflicts and oppositions brought a lot of attention to Bart Jansen, and he was out of control ever since.

In 2013, he found a new target for modification, an ostrich:

It could not fly before death, but after being transformed into a drone, it flew very stably.

In 2014, he performed modification surgery on a child's pet mouse, and now both flying cats and flying mice have:

That same year he also modified a flying shark:

Sharks originally lived in aquariums and died of bacterial infections. He did not expect that it, trapped in a square inch during its lifetime, would have the ability of heaven after its death.

However, over the past 10 years, some netizens have been anxious about this kind of transformation. If these DIY ghosts have enough animal corpses, won't they want to torture people in the future?

References:

https://www.businessinsider.com/artist-bart-jansen-is-building-a-badger-submarine-and-cow-copter-2015-9

https://www.dw.com/en/the-dead-cat-drone-with-an-eco-message/a-37634822

https://www.creativebloq.com/news/dead-birds-drone

https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=cm4k9voE1EM&t=2s

https://futurism.com/the-byte/dead-birds-drones-that-fly

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2359062-stuffed-dead-birds-made-into-drones-could-spy-on-animals-or-humans/

https://www.galaxus.de/en/page/dead-birds-as-drones-sounds-macabre-but-could-be-useful-26558

https://www.the-sun.com/news/7890871/dead-birds-crows-robots-drones-science/

https://www.businessinsider.com/american-scientists-turning-dead-birds-into-drones-study-flight-techniques-2023-4

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/04/16/researchers-in-the-us-are-resurrecting-dead-birds-and-returning-them-to-the-skies-as-hi-te

https://hackaday.com/2023/04/19/that-drone-up-in-the-sky-it-might-be-built-out-of-a-dead-bird/

This article comes from Weixin Official Accounts: Kuangwan Research Institute (ID: kuangwanplay), author: Kuangwan

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