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World's fastest bird
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 11:50 am
by l0g1c
Okay, so I knew that the Peregrine Falcon was the fastest bird in the world and that it did some crazy fast diving, but I've never actually seen their stoop. I came across
this video and it just blew me away.
Apparently these little fuckers pull up to 25 G's when they're diving at 200+ mph.
Oh, and I also learned that Hayabusa is their Japanese name. I never made the connection between the bike and the bird.
And for some carnage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcehHyKy ... ed&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt50-Dnq ... ed&search=
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 11:55 am
by plained
wow neat ey
:icon28:
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 11:56 am
by SOAPboy
Damn those a brutal.
I want one.
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 1:51 pm
by Massive Quasars
The duck twitching at the end only added to this bird's awesomeness.
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 2:03 pm
by Magnus
Heh. I remember learning when I was a kid that the Spine Tailed Swift was the fastest flying bid in the world able to maintain a flight speed of 106 mph and I also remember learning that the Peregrine Falcon could get above 200 mph durring a dive, but I never stopped to put the two together to realise that the Peregrine Falcon gets WAY more speed durring a dive. Cool :icon14:
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 2:28 pm
by seremtan
what language is that in the second one? it sounds like either some native american language or moonspeak
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 2:29 pm
by Massive Quasars
Turkish?
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 2:58 pm
by menkent
seremtan wrote:what language is that in the second one? it sounds like either some native american language or moonspeak
nm, sounds like turkish.
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 4:20 pm
by R00k
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 4:25 pm
by scared?
25 g's? how is that possible?...hoax?...really a ufo?...
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 4:32 pm
by Magnus
scared? wrote:25 g's? how is that possible?...hoax?...really a ufo?...
Well honestly when you are only about 1 lbs. and have a strong bone structure you can take 25 lbs. of pressure.
Alot like an ant being able to be unharmed by a 200 ft. fall.
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 4:52 pm
by H.Reaper
Amazing bird, damn, we still have a lot of things to learn from nature.
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 5:46 pm
by Transient
Magnus wrote:scared? wrote:25 g's? how is that possible?...hoax?...really a ufo?...
Alot like an ant being able to be unharmed by a 200 ft. fall.
Once an ant gets above several feet, I suppose heigh stops being a factor. WTF is the terminal velocity of an ant, anyway? :icon26:
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 6:24 pm
by Fender
It looks like terminal velocity for small, lightweight objects approaches about 30 ft/sec.
http://exploration.grc.nasa.gov/educati ... ermvr.html
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 7:22 pm
by Transient
Ok, then maybe a little more than several feet.
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 7:47 pm
by AmIdYfReAk
i could have swarn that the topic would have been about somthing else...
Hint:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 52,00.html
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 9:26 pm
by Big Kahuna Burger
yeah all the hep cats call the dames 'birds'
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 11:43 pm
by S@M
H.Reaper wrote:Amazing bird, damn, we still have a lot of things to learn from nature.
:icon14:
Re: World's fastest bird
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 2:45 pm
by MaCaBr3
Re: World's fastest bird
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 12:10 pm
by plained
maybe i can mount two falcon onto my feet !
Re: World's fastest bird
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 12:14 pm
by Ryoki
Speaking of birds, in euroland there are reports of starved vultures attacking people and cattle... it's all very unsetteling. Not the vultures, more the fact that i never expected to read a headline like that.
Re: World's fastest bird
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 2:24 pm
by Magnus
Heh. Forget using the RL against that rabbit.