It's really amazing that still in the 21st century we fail to duplicate nature in areas such as these. You'd think we would be able to make an efficient ornithopter by now. Wouldn't mind a lasgun to go with one either...
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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It's really amazing that still in the 21st century we fail to duplicate nature in areas such as these. You'd think we would be able to make an efficient ornithopter by now. Wouldn't mind a lasgun to go with one either...
You can buy a pretty decent ornithopter from Radio Shack for $50, so I don't think an efficient one is that far off.
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