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  2. Origin of avian flight - Wikipedia

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    In order for birds to balance these forces, certain physical characteristics are required. Asymmetrical wing feathers, found on all flying birds with the exception of hummingbirds, help in the production of thrust and lift. Anything that moves through the air produces drag due to friction. The aerodynamic body of a bird can reduce drag, but ...

  3. Time-traveler UFO hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    In his 2019 book Identified Flying Objects and subsequent 2022 volume The Extratempestrial Model, Dr Masters explored more in depth various aspects of the time-traveler hypothesis, including fringe ancient astronauts theories and possible future development scenarios of human anatomy such as brain growth, craniofacial evolution, bipedalism ...

  4. Wing-assisted incline running - Wikipedia

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    Wing-assisted incline running (abbreviated as "WAIR") is a running behavior observed in living birds as well as a model proposed to explain the evolution of avian flight. WAIR allows birds to run up steep or vertical inclines by flapping their wings, scaling greater inclines than possible through running alone.

  5. Zoo hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    In particular, assuming that intelligence is a physical process that acts to maximize the diversity of a system's accessible futures, [7] a fundamental motivation for the zoo hypothesis would be that premature contact would "unintelligently" reduce the overall diversity of paths the universe itself could take.

  6. Bird flight - Wikipedia

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    Lesser flamingos flying in formation. When in gliding flight, the upward aerodynamic force is equal to the weight.In gliding flight, no propulsion is used; the energy to counteract the energy loss due to aerodynamic drag is either taken from the potential energy of the bird, resulting in a descending flight, or is replaced by rising air currents ("thermals"), referred to as soaring flight.

  7. Interdimensional UFO hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The interdimensional hypothesis is a proposal that unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings are the result of experiencing other "dimensions" that coexist separately alongside our own [1] in contrast with either the extraterrestrial hypothesis that suggests UFO sightings are caused by visitations from outside the Earth or the psychosocial hypothesis that argues UFO sightings are best ...

  8. Space animal hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Arnold added: "My theory might sound funny, but just remember that there are a lot of things in nature that we don’t know yet." [ 13 ] In 1962, he argued "the so-called unidentified flying objects that have been seen in our atmosphere are not spaceships from another planet at all, but are groups and masses of living organisms that are as much ...

  9. Codex on the Flight of Birds - Wikipedia

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    The seventh folio contains a very detailed diagram of either the tip of a bird's wing or the wing of a possible flying machine along with five more diagrams of birds in flight. [10] Leonardo starts writing on a flying machine and comparing it with the notes he has already taken on the flight of birds.