That is to say, could they get enough forward thrust to push themselves along, without taking off? Maybe with like a little perch to hang onto…
Someone has been playing Skatebird!
Could a bird propel a skateboard by flapping its wings?
Submitted 7 months ago by TheBananaKing@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Comments
AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 7 months ago
TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 7 months ago
First I’ve heard of it, but now I kinda want to.
Octospider@kbin.social 7 months ago
I'm sure an eagle could even pick it up and fly away with it. I've seen eagles pick up mountain goats.
TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yea, but I was talking about taxiing like a plane on the runway.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Surely you can see the energy required to pickup and fly with a skateboard is orders of magnitude greater than simply pushing the skateboard?
Blizzard@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
A sparrow or a condor?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
African or European swallow?
Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 7 months ago
I don’t know that! AAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaa
TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Let’s assume we size the board to fit the bird :)
sukhmel@programming.dev 7 months ago
To fit by size or by mass?
That’s likely irrelevant, as rolling friction may be made quite low anyway
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Any but the smallest off birds should do it easily.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I have no doubt a bin chicken could.
NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 7 months ago
Is that a seagull or a pigeon?
Skua@kbin.earth 7 months ago
tunetardis@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I don’t see why not, though I bet it can’t go as fast as a turtle on a skateboard?
synae@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
I AM SPEED 🐢
sukhmel@programming.dev 7 months ago
You were going so fast you dropped this: 🛹
AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I reckon a Pelican would easily be able to get a skateboard rolling. I’m just now sure the best steps to proceed testing it.
I’d try a skateboard at the top of a hill and see about getting a cockatoo to somehow get the board to roll under it’s own propulsion so it can sit back and enjoy a ride down a hill. That’d be the way I’d try if I wanted the bird to do it repeatedly.
LanternEverywhere@kbin.social 7 months ago
There's nothing in the laws of physics that precludes it. Skateboards can be extremely light and have ball bearings with extremely little friction. It's not all that unusual for a strong breeze to make a board start rolling all by itself
Worx@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
Quite right. It’s only bees 🐝 that are prohibited from skateboarding by the laws of physics.
(Is this meme still relevant or am I getting old?)
neidu2@feddit.nl 7 months ago
According to all known laws of skateboarding, there is no way a bee should be able to do a kickflip. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body rolling over the ground.
mPony@lemmy.world 7 months ago
jaybone@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Five bees for a nickel.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Do ya like jazz?