It's videos like this that make me realize how much I focus my attention to the damage of superficial social behaviors, when I should marvel at the people studying such things as this, in a way that progresses society. Thanks.
I've seen plenty of high-speed video of hummingbirds, but never quite to this level. Hard to tell, though, because we're only seeing about 3-5 seconds of footage on each bird type in this video.
Hummingbirds, for example, appear to do a very fast, very small shake along their spines, sort of like a wet dog shaking off--except in mid-flight. This has never been seen before, but could give teams attempting to create flying robots new clues as to how nature deals with the challenge of flight. (popsci.com/science/article/2013-07/super-slow-motion-camera-shows-bird-flight-youve-never-seen-it)
There was no groundbreaking discovery here. Birds and planes adhere to the same laws of aerodynamics. I think they're just psyched because they can observe flight dynamics in slow motion, which wasn't possible until recently.
According to the first title bar on the video it's not 'ground breaking,' it's 'groud breaking.' I don't know what a groud is but I guess it's fragile.
When I watched this video I expected it to be something old. Something along the lines of "With high speed video capture having been just developed we can capture these movements.." yadda yadda. So I looked at the date and it was posted this month? I thought Stanford had a leg up on technology and things that most people can't really get but honestly, this was just disappointing. The really funny thing is how they talk like they're actually doing something useful and new.
What was new and ground breaking. People have already recorded birds in slowmo. Tell me something i dont know. Now say you can put sensors on these birds to record movement of flight. Then i will be impressed.
Nothing new. There are slow motion hummingbird videos on RU-vid that's 4 years old. I guess these guys don't know how to use RU-vid or watch the discovery channel.
they should ditch videoing birds & film UFO's they can manoeuvre any turn without slowing down @ speeds far beyond what man can do in the public domain. for $200 you can build a cheap night vision camera & film them above anywhere doing all kinds of tricks.
Must be the very expensive Phantom camera then huh? Wayyyy out of my league. I'm married. My wife spends my money so quickly, it catches fire due to friction so unless I join a university, I'll just have to stick to 'normal' Arri digital film cameras. I'm also surprised that being as high speed cameras need so much intense light, the hummingbird didn't catch fire!
