Could a bird propel a skateboard by flapping its wings?

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• LanternEverywhere@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨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

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  • Worx@lemmynsfw.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨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?)

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    • neidu2@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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    • mPony@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      getting old

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    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Five bees for a nickel.

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    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do ya like jazz?

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• AlolanYoda@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Someone has been playing Skatebird!

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  • TheBananaKing@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    First I’ve heard of it, but now I kinda want to.

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• Octospider@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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  • TheBananaKing@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yea, but I was talking about taxiing like a plane on the runway.

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    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨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?

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• Blizzard@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A sparrow or a condor?

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    African or European swallow?

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    • Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t know that! AAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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  • TheBananaKing@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Let’s assume we size the board to fit the bird :)

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    • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To fit by size or by mass?

      That’s likely irrelevant, as rolling friction may be made quite low anyway

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• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Any but the smallest off birds should do it easily.

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have no doubt a bin chicken could.

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  • NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is that a seagull or a pigeon?

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    • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      An ibis

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    • Skua@kbin.earth ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      An ibis

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• tunetardis@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t see why not, though I bet it can’t go as fast as a turtle on a skateboard?

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  • synae@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I AM SPEED 🐢

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    • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You were going so fast you dropped this: 🛹

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• AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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