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Re: The ACTUAL flying Microraptor paper in PNAS
Why not, barring something like nano-materials that boost available
weight/strength ratios? The thing has functional parameters so close together
that it isn't competitive in winds of less than 10 knots, and blows up around
25 (or less). Or so I read.
That is one reason it is interesting. It is so locomotively specialized it
almost doesn't a workable environment available. I maintain that can (and has)
happen(ed) to vertebrates...
--- On Wed, 2/17/10, jrc <jrccea@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> From: jrc <jrccea@bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: The ACTUAL flying Microraptor paper in PNAS
> To: d_ohmes@yahoo.com
> Cc: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 2:28 PM
> Off the top of my head, probably
> not.
> JimC
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "don ohmes" <d_ohmes@yahoo.com>
> To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 7:40 AM
> Subject: Re: The ACTUAL flying Microraptor paper in PNAS
>
>
> > And to go completely OT, I wonder if this year's
> America Cup represents a peak in go-fast design (3x wind
> speed).
>
>
>