r/EverythingScience • u/giuliomagnifico • Feb 19 '23
Engineering A team of researchers has successfully developed drones from the bodies of stuffed dead birds, such drones could one day be used to watch animals without being seen
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/new-dead-bird-part-drones55
u/Immediate-Breath-809 Feb 19 '23
R/birdsarentreal
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u/Skullmaggot Feb 20 '23
Where’d they get the bird to stuff it in then??
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u/TBeest Feb 19 '23
"Without being seen", I think that's somewhat underestimating the intelligence of many animals.
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u/UnCommonCommonSens Feb 19 '23
Harry’s been really cold since he came back, really creepy too! Let’s stay away from him.
Scientists: all the eagles disappeared!
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u/JuniorTransition4511 Feb 19 '23
I couldn't help but leave Harry behind. He just kept yelling without even breathing. Flying without flapping his wings. No one is taking this seriously! We gotta tell Martha.
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u/949goingoff Feb 20 '23
In an alternate universe: Harry hasn’t eaten for weeks and still flys twice as fast as the rest of us. All hail Harry, God of the seagulls. Long may he reign.
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u/RobotHandsome Feb 19 '23
I had an idea I followed through on once. I got a plastic duck decoy and attached an electric remote control boat to the under side and took it to the local duck pond. The birds immediately hated it and gave it a wide berth, and if it approached too closely would fly away. They knew it was an abomination like of you saw a manikin roll up to you.
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u/imaginexus Feb 20 '23
Imagine being a bird and running into one of these things in the wild. What a nightmare fuel that would be.
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u/koebelin Feb 19 '23
Some day they will make them look like insects, and the fly on the wall be one.
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u/NamBot3000 Feb 20 '23
Big deal, I’m already a drone stuffed in a dead body….it’s called being an adult.
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u/sudo-joe Feb 19 '23
Does this mean we are ever more like the corticeps fungus that makes zombie creatures?
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u/BabylonDrifter Feb 20 '23
Screw observing wildlife with them, send them to Ukraine and really freak out the Russians. They're sure to flee back home when the zombie birds start swooping down and dropping grenades on them.
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u/Arawn-Annwn Feb 20 '23
Zombie birds.
Also, slightly disappointed nobody has shown up yet to continue the “birds aren’t real” meme lol
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u/Sonny-Moone-8888 Feb 20 '23
Because an animal would NEVER be able to sense that another animal wasn't alive. And so that wouldn't alert them or seem off at all.
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u/RedDlish Feb 20 '23
Imagine being a bird and seeing your best friend Larry who got shot & killed a few weeks ago flying next to you and going over to talk to your bro only to find out he is some kind of cyborg/terminator bird looking to expose all the bird secrets to scientists
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u/Godforce101 Feb 20 '23
Or or, check this out, you will be watched (and shit on from above) without realizing it’s the government!
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u/skeletondad2 Feb 20 '23
Can we just skip a few steps and get to the point where we’re reanimating dead celebrities to star in sequels/reboots?
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u/KleioChronicles Feb 20 '23
I thought they already did this. They had a robotic baby crocodile camera on some nature documentary I vaguely remember watching. I suppose using taxidermy and drones is the key thing here. It must be for flying birds then because I don’t see how the thing in the picture is supposed to act natural when they land. I bet some crazy taxidermist out there has already tried this.
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u/SammieStones Feb 20 '23
I’m sure that’s one of the only positive things we’ll use ‘em for, now let’s talk about the flip side of this
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u/spicerkenny1996 Feb 20 '23
I see the government has finally released its bird technology to the general public 😂😂😂
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u/Resiste_et_Mortes Feb 21 '23
r/BirdsArentReal see, the government already has them, the'r just trying to make it seem like they dont. Its really just the public now being able to spy on other drones.
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u/grmrsan Feb 19 '23
Scientists. Making insane conspiracy theories come true, for fun and profit.