Comment by bethekidyouwant 1 day ago Everything that flies is driven with a loud dangerous spinning thing (propeller) 7 comments bethekidyouwant Reply nandomrumber 19 hours ago Birds. tsimionescu 16 hours ago Bird flight doesn't scale significantly. You can deliver very small objects via bird, and perhaps build a bird-like drone that does the same. But you can't build a human-carrying bird. antipurist 12 hours ago Human-carrying birds have been built.Piloted ornithopter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-qS7oN-3tAHuman-powered ornithopter: https://youtu.be/0E77j1imdhQ?si=Dd5hLla27Pz8gJNe&t=100Also, Quetzalcoatlus northropi could've been powerful enough to carry a human. 1 reply → fc417fc802 13 hours ago We haven't figured out how to scale it _yet_. 1 reply → meindnoch 12 hours ago Could work for delivering high-value low-weight items, like illicit drugs. Not much else.
nandomrumber 19 hours ago Birds. tsimionescu 16 hours ago Bird flight doesn't scale significantly. You can deliver very small objects via bird, and perhaps build a bird-like drone that does the same. But you can't build a human-carrying bird. antipurist 12 hours ago Human-carrying birds have been built.Piloted ornithopter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-qS7oN-3tAHuman-powered ornithopter: https://youtu.be/0E77j1imdhQ?si=Dd5hLla27Pz8gJNe&t=100Also, Quetzalcoatlus northropi could've been powerful enough to carry a human. 1 reply → fc417fc802 13 hours ago We haven't figured out how to scale it _yet_. 1 reply → meindnoch 12 hours ago Could work for delivering high-value low-weight items, like illicit drugs. Not much else.
tsimionescu 16 hours ago Bird flight doesn't scale significantly. You can deliver very small objects via bird, and perhaps build a bird-like drone that does the same. But you can't build a human-carrying bird. antipurist 12 hours ago Human-carrying birds have been built.Piloted ornithopter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-qS7oN-3tAHuman-powered ornithopter: https://youtu.be/0E77j1imdhQ?si=Dd5hLla27Pz8gJNe&t=100Also, Quetzalcoatlus northropi could've been powerful enough to carry a human. 1 reply → fc417fc802 13 hours ago We haven't figured out how to scale it _yet_. 1 reply →
antipurist 12 hours ago Human-carrying birds have been built.Piloted ornithopter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-qS7oN-3tAHuman-powered ornithopter: https://youtu.be/0E77j1imdhQ?si=Dd5hLla27Pz8gJNe&t=100Also, Quetzalcoatlus northropi could've been powerful enough to carry a human. 1 reply →
meindnoch 12 hours ago Could work for delivering high-value low-weight items, like illicit drugs. Not much else.
Birds.
Bird flight doesn't scale significantly. You can deliver very small objects via bird, and perhaps build a bird-like drone that does the same. But you can't build a human-carrying bird.
Human-carrying birds have been built.
Piloted ornithopter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-qS7oN-3tA
Human-powered ornithopter: https://youtu.be/0E77j1imdhQ?si=Dd5hLla27Pz8gJNe&t=100
Also, Quetzalcoatlus northropi could've been powerful enough to carry a human.
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We haven't figured out how to scale it _yet_.
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Could work for delivering high-value low-weight items, like illicit drugs. Not much else.