← Back to context Comment by bethekidyouwant 2 months ago Everything that flies is driven with a loud dangerous spinning thing (propeller) 7 comments bethekidyouwant Reply nandomrumber 2 months ago Birds. tsimionescu 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago We haven't figured out how to scale it _yet_. 1 reply → meindnoch 2 months ago Could work for delivering high-value low-weight items, like illicit drugs. Not much else.
nandomrumber 2 months ago Birds. tsimionescu 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago We haven't figured out how to scale it _yet_. 1 reply → meindnoch 2 months ago Could work for delivering high-value low-weight items, like illicit drugs. Not much else.
tsimionescu 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago We haven't figured out how to scale it _yet_. 1 reply →
antipurist 2 months 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 2 months 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.