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Science education is seriously lacking in the USA. 
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| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 9:30 am Post subject: |
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Wired is crap...
They thought this was real....
and a couple years back they thought DDWFTTW was fake
Many of their employees should be fired, including the one who hired their writers.
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 5:51 am Post subject: |
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| Looking at the video and reading the reponses it seems to me that a lot of people (Wiired readers ?) believe that you can do anything through software and some gadget regardlesss of the physics involved. I guess after a while you may believe that virtual reality is the real thing. |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 8:57 am Post subject: |
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It is a good fake that would fool MOST people in my opinion.
Me and a buddy of mine took a critical look at the video. Were both aerospace engineers. Normally I don't roll that out but I do have scientific training and it is my profession. He and I agree that it's a damn good fake!
Most of the technical problems with the "truth" of the video are pretty nit-picky. 1) No pitch stability mechanism. 2)inadequate power. 3) obvious..no sail loading 4) no pitch control mechanism 4) no obvious roll control mechanism
OK...on the aviation front: 1) No one would fly there...too many trees.
The big tell is the video>>>> Obviously the video to intended to conceal the truth and not expose the accomplishment. Why not better/more video? Why is the production/cutting so shitty? Why not more than once? You guessed it - because it's fake.
The education problem is a lack of training in critical thinking.
Of course it is a fake and has been proven:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/03/bird-man-youtube-video-confirmed-to-be-a-hoax/
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