Yes – I said FLY-POWERED AIRCRAFT
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only 1 word for this vid….. why?!
This guy is crazy, he nearly weeped!!!!
Deary deary me….
What next? The cod-powered aqualung?
Reminds me of my old science teacher at Primary school who used to put a lasso round the waist of the locusts in our lab and pin the other end of the string to the top of a dowling pole, then he’d let it fly around in circles like one of those tethered toy airplanes with a motor until it got sick. Come to think of it, I can’t remember him ever releasing said locust. Or how this experiment was in any way educational!
Flapjack, did you go to school on that island in the original Wicker Man movie?
A rather odd way to spend your free time. Still i guess it keeps him off the streets where he could be a danger to society.
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SGC – I did get a gold star for my handicraft basketweaving project… make of that what you will
Men – you’ve gotta love ‘em and their pointless obsessions!! Has anyone pointed out to this chap that the fly is so called because it can already, well……………………………..FLY!!!!! Bless.
This guy has too much time on his hands.
Flapjack: that’s a start. It allows you to sacrifice mice or small hamsters, I guess.
does PETA know about this shameless exploitation of flies??
Last time I checked, flys did not need anything to help them fly bar their wings… I have a feeling that unless this guy can find quite enormous flys it might not get any bigger than this.
Harry Blackstone used a similar method for making lightbulbs float…
roz: Probably. Obama killed one on TV therefore probability factors say that at least one person will be pissed of therefore the likelyhood will be it’ll be someone from PETA therefore they will go out of their way to find stuff like this and complain.
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Eeeww.
I just wonder…if that man got to have, say 20 wasp-nests super-glued to him…would he walk, run or fly…?
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asshole…
Naw, he’s alright. I doubt the remnants of the tiny motor mount cause the fly any real issues once he’s done, and it gets free food out of the deal. I kind of like this.
When I was a little kid and was too young to be allowed a pet of my own, I caught flies and tried to keep them.
http://www.flypower.com/
Also, I found this for anyone who wants to follow up.
Good one ReliegiousMarie.
That is crazy. I feel sorry for the flies. And please somebody wash that man’s hands.
SGC – Is that that thing all parents do when priming kids to own pets…
“When you’re responsible enough to look after your fly for 5 years, we’ll get you that parrot you wanted”
I’m thinking fly maintenance is a bit easy compared to other pets… you just have to drop general hygene standards around the house – especially the toilet!
I’m sorry, I’m just bitter… my first (and only) guineapig lasted exactly a week. Well, I was only four years old. After that, I never graduated from stick insects. They look like a stick and that’s about all they do. Dull as hell.
I had stick insects! I loved them. I had around 3 of them two years ago and two of them lived for several months after I got them, the third never ate and died pretty soon, which was sad. They were already a few months old when I took them, so it was a fair lifespan. I never had any luck with the eggs, though.
SGC – those eggs all hatched, but you couldn’t tell because what hatched out of them looked exactly the same as the twigs you put in there to keep them happy.
Out of interest, stick insects look the same as what they eat. Does this ever result in accidental cannibalism?
Reminds me of the kids that blow up frogs and pul out flies’ legs.
I saw a piece once in which they fixed a queen bee on a rotating thing and then they let the male bees chase her .. this way they could see and show how they copulated and that the male died afterwards …
You’d say .. what if they did that with human … well, they already did .. not in a scientific setting … as far as I know .. but has been done many times … that male did not die … the female quite often …
Why would someone have a fly powered plane if they fly itself is already a plane like thing. I can think up a few experiments with this guy … human powered ….
Look’s like Christian Bale has really let himself go…
Flapjack: lol, I would cry if I accidentally trashed my baby stick insects. They do sometimes munch legs off each other if they are overcrowded, I think.
I would like a giant millipede, or a bumblebee millipede.
I have some leg powered shoes, I might put that on YouTube and Twayabout it.
I use a flexible motor mount method to actuallt tie the shoe, to the bottom of some passing legs, then let them loose. They can walk OR run… mental