Video: Flight Patterns
And now, time lapse video of bugs in flight.
And now, time lapse video of bugs in flight.
5 | Gang of One Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:26:38pm |
I dated a blonde whose hair looked exactly like that.
9 | _RememberTonyC Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:30:11pm |
i thought that was michele bachmann's brain scan
11 | pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:31:17pm |
That's not a power pole, that's a triffid !
12 | Truck Monkey Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:32:00pm |
re: #11 pre-Boomer Marine brat
That's not a power pole, that's a triffid !
I still call mine "The Power Pole". ;-)
13 | _RememberTonyC Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:33:33pm |
re: #12 Truck Monkey
I still call mine "The Power Pole". ;-)
Q: What's the worst possible screen name for a male porno actor?
A: Microsoft.
14 | wrenchwench Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:33:56pm |
This is a lot like the last thread, The Party of Ron Pole.
15 | lawhawk Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:34:55pm |
That is the GOP circling the flame formerly known as Luap Nor.
18 | Shug Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:37:02pm |
That bug turned left
The Zapper flashes
One wrong turn
He's turned to ashes
Burma Shave
19 | pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:37:14pm |
re: #17 buzzsawmonkey
"Men cluster to me like moths around a flame
And if their wings burn, I know I'm not to blame"
*rimshot* for Dietrich !
20 | Sharmuta Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:37:24pm |
re: #14 wrenchwench
This is a lot like the last thread, The Party of Ron Pole.
It all makes sense now. The film is a metaphor- pests attracted to the spot light spiraling out of control.
21 | karmic_inquisitor Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:38:01pm |
re: #16 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Must have been a Friday - check out all of the flights going to Hawaii and the very few leaving.
22 | Gus Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:38:57pm |
You should see the video during the Bug Traffic Controllers strike.
//
23 | Shug Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:40:52pm |
These flashing lights are probably what Mark Sanchez sees as he looks at the Ravens Defense
Mark, meet windshield
Jets fans should be very nervous
24 | pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:42:17pm |
re: #17 buzzsawmonkey
Just for you, Buzz.
Dietrich, Lili Marlene, German version.
(video sucks, but the audio's very good)
25 | Racer X Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:42:32pm |
0:14 seconds in - there is a subliminal message ad that says vote for Ron Paul. No Lie.
26 | Pvt Bin Jammin Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:42:33pm |
Dudes, that was "far out"...pass the bong./
27 | karmic_inquisitor Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:42:43pm |
Here is a document done in 2002 showing some minor aspect of our live spiraling out of control.
[Link: www.cbo.gov...]
28 | itellu3times Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:43:21pm |
that's actually sort of interesting, shows the coverage of space by bugs in the environment at night, in response to artificial light, which has been pretty common on the planet for about a hundred years now, somewhat common on a lesser scale for the past several thousand, plenty of time for bugs to evolve new behaviors.
I guess a moth circling a flame is still a bad behavior for the moth, but I'll bet moths in general behave rather differently now then even a hundred years ago.
but not all, I guess - when I go to a night game at Dodger Stadium, there are swifts galore gobbling bugs in front of the stadium lights! I guess the swifts have learned, if the bugs haven't!
30 | Racer X Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:44:38pm |
31 | Truck Monkey Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:45:30pm |
32 | itellu3times Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:46:00pm |
33 | jcm Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:46:14pm |
re: #27 karmic_inquisitor
Here is a document done in 2002 showing some minor aspect of our live spiraling out of control.
[Link: www.cbo.gov...]
We're ahead of the curve, federal spending now wis 45% of GDP, it will be close to 60% if health care is added.
34 | jaunte Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:46:48pm |
re: #25 Racer X
0:14 seconds in - there is a subliminal message ad that says vote for Ron Paul. No Lie.
I don't think it's working.
35 | Truck Monkey Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:47:24pm |
re: #33 jcm
We're ahead of the curve, federal spending now wis 45% of GDP, it will be close to 60% if health care is added.
What could go wrong?
/
36 | Gus Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:48:04pm |
re: #34 jaunte
I don't think it's working.
You have to turn your head sideways. It's in bug sky writing.
//
38 | Pvt Bin Jammin Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:48:40pm |
39 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:48:45pm |
41 | Gus Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:49:53pm |
43 | jcm Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:50:05pm |
Honeybees perform optimal scale-free searching flights when attempting to locate a food sourceThe foraging strategies used by animals are key to their success in spatially and temporally heterogeneous environments. We hypothesise that when a food source at a known location ceases to be available, flying insects will exhibit search patterns that optimise the rediscovery of such resources. In order to study these searching patterns, foraging honeybees were trained to an artificial feeder that was then removed, and the subsequent flight patterns of the bees were recorded using harmonic radar. We show that the flight patterns have a scale-free (Lévy-flight) characteristic that constitutes an optimal searching strategy for the location of the feeder. It is shown that this searching strategy would remain optimal even if the implementation of the Lévy-flights was imprecise due, for example, to errors in the bees' path integration system or difficulties in responding to variable wind conditions. The implications of these findings for animal foraging in general are discussed.
How many of you can perform optimal free scale searching?
Careful who ya'll call stupid!
;-P
44 | itellu3times Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:50:25pm |
46 | jcm Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:51:36pm |
re: #45 jcm
Trying to fix link... honey bee smarter...
Honeybees perform optimal scale-free searching flights when attempting to locate a food source
47 | itellu3times Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:51:50pm |
re: #43 jcm
How many of you can perform optimal free scale searching?
That's easy, you just follow the bees!
49 | SasquatchOnSteroids Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:52:38pm |
re: #48 buzzsawmonkey
So, let's go for the symbolism, shall we?
The light is Health Care Reform, and the bugs are legislators?
The light is the Nirth Certifikit, and the bugs are Nirthers?
The light is Ron Paul, and the bugs are disaffected voters?
...add your own!
The light is Obama, and the bugs are how we got here today.
50 | jcm Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:52:41pm |
re: #48 buzzsawmonkey
So, let's go for the symbolism, shall we?
The light is Health Care Reform, and the bugs are legislators?
The light is the Nirth Certifikit, and the bugs are Nirthers?
The light is Ron Paul, and the bugs are disaffected voters?
...add your own!
KILL THE LIGHT!
51 | Racer X Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:53:02pm |
re: #48 buzzsawmonkey
So, let's go for the symbolism, shall we?
The light is Health Care Reform, and the bugs are legislators?
The light is the Nirth Certifikit, and the bugs are Nirthers?
The light is Ron Paul, and the bugs are disaffected voters?
...add your own!
The bug zapper is the people.
52 | SasquatchOnSteroids Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:54:19pm |
The light is me, calling forth my hordes.
53 | solomonpanting Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:55:03pm |
The flight patterns are citizens (and maybe illegals) trying to navigate their way through another government bureaucracy.
54 | sattv4u2 Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:55:26pm |
re: #5 Gang of One
I dated a blonde whose hair looked exactly like that.
Was she as tall and skinny as that pole also?
55 | pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:55:56pm |
re: #42 buzzsawmonkey
Excellent--and heartrending.
I tried to find a German version of Dietrich doing "Falling in Love Again," but they are all the studio versions, not the clip from the movie--and the studio versions are bloodless by comparison.
You are a connoisseur.
My parents had 78s of Dietrich. I became hooked at a young age, but I don't know near that much about her and her music. For me, it all boils down to the simple fact that there is only one "Dietrich".
56 | sattv4u2 Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:56:29pm |
re: #53 solomonpanting
The flight patterns are citizens (and maybe illegals) trying to navigate their way through another government bureaucracy.
Actually, it's the map guiding Car Dealers thru the maze of Cash For Clunkers paperwork
57 | ArmyWife Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:56:49pm |
The light is all the non-issues and the bugs are the people in a tizzy about them - all the while ignoring the big issue represented by the windshield in the next screen.
59 | Gus Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:57:20pm |
re: #48 buzzsawmonkey
So, let's go for the symbolism, shall we?
The light is Health Care Reform, and the bugs are legislators?
The light is the Nirth Certifikit, and the bugs are Nirthers?
The light is Ron Paul, and the bugs are disaffected voters?
...add your own!
In the night, insects swarm towards the artificial lights as humans swarm towards their televisions.
60 | calcajun Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:57:32pm |
Looks like the hairs on the end of my daughter's hair brush.
61 | sattv4u2 Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:58:28pm |
re: #60 calcajun
Looks like the hairs on the end of my daughter's hair brush.
NOTE TO SELF
Never ask to borrow calcajun's daughters hairbrush
63 | Gus Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:59:14pm |
What's with the helical flight patterns? Is that like an old bug with a bad wing?
//
64 | sattv4u2 Mon, Aug 24, 2009 5:59:20pm |
66 | sattv4u2 Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:00:05pm |
67 | quickjustice Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:00:07pm |
Do I see helical flight paths? Are the bugs literally "loopy"?
68 | pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:00:13pm |
re: #59 Gus 802
In the night, insects swarm towards the artificial lights as humans swarm towards their televisions.
So what's the difference?
:D
72 | Silvergirl Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:00:59pm |
re: #25 Racer X
0:14 seconds in - there is a subliminal message ad that says vote for Ron Paul. No Lie.
I saw one that said "Surrender Dorothy"
I posted this same vimeo on August 5. I got an upding from KT. It's the old "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia" again. :-)
73 | Gus Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:01:19pm |
74 | albusteve Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:01:30pm |
re: #60 calcajun
posts on previous thread noted and thanks...had to cut out for a few
75 | karmic_inquisitor Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:01:42pm |
re: #30 Racer X
Carpet or drapes?
Prepare to either be offended or laugh -
An American businessman is on a trip to Morocco. He has been there for a week and is feeling a bit "randy" and decides to seek out the services of a local brothel.
The brothel is run by a small gentleman in a fez named Hakim. Hakim tells the businessman that he is lucky because he has chosen the BEST brothel in all of Morocco - there is nothing that Hakim can not provide his guests. No request has ever been refused.
"Well I have a modest request, actually" says the businessman after the pitch. "I would like a blonde. A ... um ... complete blonde."
Hakim's face looked a little confused. The businessman motioned and said "I want the top and the grill to match."
"Oh - I see! I have just what you want!" responded Hakim enthusiastically.
"Go up the stairs, go to your right and she is in the 3rd room on the left!"
So the businessman goes upstairs, goes right and opens the third door. He walks in to see a naked woman sprawled out on the bed. Blonde on top. Black on the grill.
The businessman returned to Hakim to tell him of the problem.
"No. This cannot be. Perhaps it was the wrong room - let me take you!"
So Hakim and the businessman go upstairs, then right and walk into the 3rd room on the left.
"See?" asks the businessman.
Hakim smiles and says "I see the problem - let me fix it."
Hakim then runs toward the bed waving his arms shouting "Shooo fly! Shooo!"
76 | quickjustice Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:02:02pm |
re: #65 buzzsawmonkey
I inherited a pile of old 78s and a Victrola from my great-grandfather. They were all political speeches by presidential candidates like William Jennings Bryan's "cross of gold" speech.
77 | livefreeor die Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:02:03pm |
It kind of symbolizes what I imagine goes on inside Barbara Boxer's head whenever she chairs a hearing.
78 | karmic_inquisitor Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:02:05pm |
re: #33 jcm
We're ahead of the curve, federal spending now wis 45% of GDP, it will be close to 60% if health care is added.
Change!
79 | SasquatchOnSteroids Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:02:30pm |
The light is indeed not light at all. It is only darkness disguised.
Abandon hope all ye who enter here.
82 | quickjustice Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:04:47pm |
If you run the film in reverse, it spells "Run Away, Dead Man! Run Away, Dead Man!" over and over.
83 | Gus Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:04:57pm |
84 | pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:04:59pm |
re: #65 buzzsawmonkey
Question, because from your response to the German Lili Marlene, I suspect that you speak it ...
In Judgement at Nuremburg, Dietrich tells Tracy that the German words are far more sad. Is that accurate?
85 | livefreeor die Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:06:00pm |
re: #83 Gus 802
Loose change...
No... wait...
//
Now you've done it...
Prepare for the influx of rabbit cage experiments.
86 | sattv4u2 Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:06:14pm |
RE-POST from earlier/ UPDATE
ANNOUNCEMENT
I have now been at work for 35 of the last 59 hours, with another 1 hour to go
I am getting punchy and silly
Anything I type for here on out should be taken with that in mind
That Is All!
OH ,, and throw in 5 one hour trips to and back from work
88 | Noam Sayin' Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:06:31pm |
91 | pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:08:28pm |
re: #73 Gus 802
Not much according to Kafka? ;)
'Tis better to turn off the TV and spend an evening with franz.
/OMG, are we gonna Sartre another one?
93 | Vicious Babushka Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:09:20pm |
re: #75 karmic_inquisitor
You racist! I keel you!
94 | sattv4u2 Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:09:57pm |
re: #91 pre-Boomer Marine brat
'Tis better to turn off the TV and spend an evening with franz.
/OMG, are we gonna Sartre another one?
How do you turn ON a TV?
Dress sexier and talk dirty! !
97 | LGoPs Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:11:00pm |
98 | ~Fianna Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:11:08pm |
Nirtherism got another boost from Limbaugh today. Apparantly he thinks Obama wants to give us all the same healthcare he had in Kenya. Link to the clip:
(warning: it's a link to MediaMatters)Seriously, with all the important things to talk about, can the nirthers go away? We've got Bachman and Paul getting cozy and now this.
100 | sattv4u2 Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:11:15pm |
102 | pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:12:50pm |
re: #87 buzzsawmonkey
I don't speak German. But my understanding is that it is clear from the song that Lili Marlene is anybody's girl--i.e., a whore--and that the soldier knows that he is going to be killed and that she will forget him quickly in the arms of another.
Or if not a prostitute, a girl whose affection ... uh ... is not eternal.
Yes, heartrending. A soldier's nightmare.
104 | pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:15:19pm |
re: #94 sattv4u2
How do you turn ON a TV?
Dress sexier and talk dirty! !
I don't know how you turn one on, but I danced around naked in front of mine and the filiament burned out in the picture tube.
/ < --- ego demands that I pretend that is a sarc tag
105 | WindHorse Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:16:25pm |
107 | sattv4u2 Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:18:00pm |
re: #105 WindHorse
Another 12-hours or so and you'll be qualified to be self-employed!
:)
I was for years. I thought these types of hours were done and gone with once I started working for "THe Man"
108 | solomonpanting Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:18:14pm |
re: #104 pre-Boomer Marine brat
I don't know how you turn one on, but I danced around naked in front of mine and the filiament burned out in the picture tube.
/ < --- ego demands that I pretend that is a sarc tag
You'd a been better off saying your action turned your flat screen into a BIG screen.
110 | calcajun Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:20:00pm |
re: #103 buzzsawmonkey
You have far too much time on your hands.//
112 | pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:21:23pm |
re: #108 solomonpanting
You'd a been better off saying your action turned your flat screen into a BIG screen.
Or that the television found the performance de-gauss-ting
/hmm, not one of my better ones
113 | solomonpanting Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:21:23pm |
re: #110 calcajun
You have far too much time on your hands.//
Or, some folks just use their time very efficiently.
;P
114 | solomonpanting Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:23:51pm |
re: #112 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Or that the television found the performance de-gauss-ting
/hmm, not one of my better ones
They can't all be weiners.
115 | razorbacker Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:59:47pm |
The unimaginative study things like flight patterns of insects.
Insects. I mean, really. Insects?
You waste your time studying the flight pattern of insects when there is the awesome awesomeness of the R/C Helicopter with .45 Caliber Handgun
Be able to kick your insect flight pattern right square in the ass, I'll betcha.