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Sent: 30 March 2004 21:00
To: whitewall_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Re: The BatBlat
"Fast forward motion" and "Agile" aren't necessarily related (or unrelated).
"Ponderous" is how most people view the Bat - inexorable as a fully-laden supertanker, with the turning radius to match, but bats are incredibly agile, able to spin, turn on a dime, etc. The wings of the bat are used not only for propulsion and lift, but maneuvering as well (unlike birds, which use their tails a lot more for maneuvering). And hey, the bat can be "slow" and still be stupendously wierd - think of a 10-second barrel-roll, or the Zero-G moment as the bat reaches the top of a climb and heads for the deck!
I tried to find stop-motion photgraphs of bats in flight on the web, but came up dry.
RR
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> Roderick said:
> >
> > It's a God. It doesn't (necessarily) obey the laws of Physics. C'mon
> >- the thing is the size of a small town and it FLIES! It shouldn'
> >even be able to move on its own. (cf all the discussions of movies
> >like "Them" that decry the physics of ants the size of buicks). Why
> >*can't* it be agile as well? If we're going to ignore one physical
> >law, might as well ignore more.
>
> of creepy too. Can you imagine how FAST something that big would be
> if it was as proportionally fast as a real bat? It'd probably fly
> Mach 2 or something!
>
> > > > >
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