| Air has 750 times less density as the oceans, yet so | | | | If nature can do these things, so can we and we have |
| many of the same principles apply there as well. We | | | | been constantly re-designing and bettering natures |
| are quite familiar with marine life and the performance | | | | methods. If an eagle has 3-4 better times the eye sight |
| abilities of sharks, dolphins, penguins, fish, alligators, etc. | | | | and can see, react and adapt while in-flight that quickly, |
| Mankind is quite fascinated by marine life and often | | | | yet has less of a brain to coordinate all the data yet |
| tries to use these observations to create devices to | | | | has also developed triple the reflex or response time, |
| serve him. | | | | should we be looking into how this is done? For |
| A Great White Shark can swim 7 times as fast as the | | | | instance does an Eagle use some sort of visual frame |
| Olympic swimmers in Athens taking the gold this year, | | | | bursting, for instance it knows the type of fish it likes to |
| yet it is not even close to being the fastest in the | | | | eat which tastes good and is the right weight and size |
| water. Powerful, yes indeed, but the need for speed | | | | and when it sees this it’s brain fills in the details |
| limits its abilities to catch some of its favorite meals. | | | | and it’s eyes only focus on the slight variations |
| Luckily humans are not one of them, as much as | | | | of motion and detail so it knows where to pick it up at |
| JAWS I, II and III would have you believe. The Great | | | | and how best to snatch it out of the water? We |
| White Shark swims at about 25 mph. Squids can | | | | know that our brains use up about 45% of the brain |
| move through the water at 20 mph. The Blue Shark | | | | capacity in visual cognition. What does the Eagle do |
| has been clocked in short bursts at 43 mph yet its | | | | with all the many flights and all that data for it’s |
| average cruising speed in open water is between 17.7 | | | | memory, it cannot possibly store it all, does it have a |
| and 24.5 mph. The Make Short Fin can travel at 10 | | | | Random Access Memory Data dump like when you |
| times its body length per second, which is quite fast | | | | windows computer crashes? Does it only save the |
| and amounts to over 46 mph at top speed. It can | | | | frames and basic shapes and let the eyes fill in the |
| accelerate at 45 feet per second/ per second, faster | | | | rest of the details each time? We should test this as it |
| than a rock can fall or a human accelerates after he | | | | is important to know. |
| departs a perfectly good airplane in search for an | | | | We know the human brain can be fooled often |
| adrenaline rush to achieve sense of purpose. A human | | | | enough when something appears to be close to |
| can swim at 5.04 mph, but only for short distances and | | | | something we are familiar with. What can we learn |
| you have to be a Mark Spitz or Michael Phelps to it for | | | | from these birds besides their aerodynamics. Is it |
| very long. | | | | possible to play optical tricks on an Eagle? For instance |
| As good as these super star athletes are, they are no | | | | make a small AUV, which mimics a salmon fish? Will |
| match for evolution, without modification. You might be | | | | the Eagle be fooled by this? Old Eagle eyes, or will the |
| happy to know that a barracuda will catch you and | | | | Eagles excellent eye sight trigger another wave in |
| nibble before a great white shark will catch you in | | | | it’s brain, as if to ask itself; “Hey something |
| open water, they can swim at 27 mph, one of the | | | | is fishy about that fish?” Would such a thought |
| fastest, well and hungriest fish in the water. Mammal | | | | from an Eagle significantly activate it’s brain for |
| Sea Life is quite adapted; Sea Lion 25 mph, Common | | | | a second look, before diving upon it’s prey? It |
| Dolphin 24.7, Gentoo Penguin 17, Blue Whale 29.76, | | | | appears in humans this does activate an additional |
| Bottle Nose Dolphin 17 mph. Many of the fish eaten by | | | | brain wave. |
| the marine life of prey are also quite adapted for | | | | Since Eagles do not flock are do they communicate |
| instance the Pacific Salmon can swim at 14 mph. Then | | | | and navigate, migrate using ELF, entangled brains with |
| there are the flying fish, those, which leap out of the | | | | other eagles? Only their immediate families from the |
| water and become airborne, thus proving that there is | | | | same mother or nest? This too would be of value for |
| a similarity between the two realms. The flying fish flies | | | | determining AI for robotic UAVs as part of the net |
| at 35 mph and has been known to fly right into a boat, | | | | centric warfare situation. |
| for an easy catch. The Leaping Albacore Tuna leaps | | | | As we look at Artificial Intelligence models perhaps we |
| at 40 mph great sushi no doubt, the Yellow Fin Tuna | | | | should be looking at other species, which seem to be |
| at 46.35, the Sword Fish 60 mph and the Sail Fish at | | | | able to do more with less. Less brain capacity, yet still |
| 68 mph. Here is a claim from Barbados that a flying | | | | think. Perhaps we ought to dump the ego into thinking |
| fish was clocked at 55 mph? | | | | that mankind is the only animal which can reason and |
| Well maybe, but not if Hurricane Ivan has anything to | | | | adapt on this Planet, we have significant proof of other |
| say about it because if that fish pops out of the water | | | | animals here doing quite fine in the thinking region. If we |
| it is liable to be doing some 135 mph within a few feet | | | | open our minds we may find other species may in |
| of leaving the waters surface and might be airborne | | | | fact supercede our abilities in many aspects. Is the |
| for quite a while too? Now that would certainly be a | | | | future of robotics going to the birds with regards to |
| new record. | | | | UAVs and MAVs as the needs of mankind and the |
| Does this mean we might also wish to look at Fish and | | | | competitiveness of the species looks towards |
| Sea Life Evolution in the aerodynamic designs of | | | | innovation as the ultimate contest and in our speed to |
| aircraft, UAVs, Blimps and Olympic Swim Gear? Yes, | | | | achieve we find ourselves bettering hundreds of |
| this is one of the points of this dialogue. Does this | | | | thousands of years of evolution with breakthrough |
| mean we should look at aviation designs for | | | | after break through? |
| submarine, AUVs, ship hulls and underwater | | | | Robots to really assist us must have some fuzzy logic |
| submersibles? Should we also be designing | | | | capabilities at minimum and to be most effective they |
| underwater bases for aircraft, spacecraft and double | | | | must also have some artificial intelligence capabilities to |
| use vessels? Flying AUVs, which become UAVs? | | | | serve our needs, as mankind has no end in sight to the |
| Designing flying torpedoes, Mechanical Fish and MAVs, | | | | tasks it wishes to assign to robotic apparatuses. |
| which look like the flying fish photo too? Yes, it does. If | | | | Press-on will solve all that mankind desires. There are |
| you made a mechanical fish what good would it be? | | | | clues everywhere and one might ask what is taking us |
| Hunting water mines, data relays, additional net-centric | | | | so long anyway, where would you like to go today? |
| communication unit? | | | | We need to ratchet up the thinking here and move |
| [ | | | | forward in this arena. |