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It looks like a common sulphur butterfly.
It sits pinned in the display case along with all the other butterflies. However, in a couple of important respects, it's different.
It's fake.
And it moves.
The thorax is a cleverly designed exterior hiding a simple ball of silicone rubber, through
which a pin can be harmlessly thrust. The abdomen contains a small capacitor, which collects energy - very slowly - from the under-wing plastic film solar panels, and a tiny amount of circuitry which triggers flexure of the nitinol wire in the wings when there is enough energy to do so. Moving the wings from flat to erect, and back, takes only a second. Then the action will repeat - after a few minutes to perhaps an hour or so.
"dead" sparrow
http://www.london-s.../view.php?ArtID=988
One of my all time favourite pieces of work [xenzag, Feb 03 2006]
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I enjoy these kind of jokes [+] |
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In the Natural History Museum please. |
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It most likely doesn't even need to do a full excursion from flat (as if pinned) to folded, as many species like to sit in the sun with their ray-bans on, just flitting their wings just a little bit up, but still open, then flat out again, then just flit up a bit, then flat out again and relax... |
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Less energy, more style, ciao. |
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This is brilliantly gruesome, especially with wagster's context. |
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nice idea, (giving you a +) but baked (sorry) - have seen in
a different form - "dead" bird trapped in shop window -
will find link and put up when I do. |
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That's nothing. I've seen hundreds of mounted fish, in a market stall. All of them were capable of singing, too. |
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Great idea. Can we do it with Grandma, so we know she's still with us? |
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Sounds like something Banksy would do. Heh. |
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Banksy ? Are you serious ? Banksy has about as much
creativity as a clump of frog spawn stuck to a river bank. |
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[Ian] - re: short stroke wing flitting - that's exactly the spirit that I intended. The idea isn't "aww, looky the poor stabbed critter", but more "did I really see what I think I saw?" |
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Therefore, the goal is to make at least 10 people doubt their own sanity for only a microwatt of power. If I can do that, just think what I can do with a kilowatt. |
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For some reason I thought this would be about a new type of car that has a profound effect on the weather, whenever you drive it. |
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