• buttfarts@lemy.lol
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    18 hours ago

    Or tiny birds that can expertly navigate wind currents with an almond sized brain using real-time force feedback. The computational power at their disposal is very well optimized for what they do.

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      6 hours ago

      And they can even do that in sync with thousands (and even millions) of other small birds.

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      17 hours ago

      Hummingbirds are fucking incredible. They can literally hover, fly backwards, fly inverted, fly silently, or flap their wings loud enough to generate sound waves as a mating ritual. They’re like miniature f-18s dog fighting constantly.