h a l f b a k e r yStrap *this* to the back of your cat.
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After a morning run and a shower, I eased myself into the prototypes cushioned chair. Id jogged two kilometers out to its narrowed aluminum end to place some seeds on the small platform before jogging back. I bought the flat, prairie ranch a year ago and then spent ten months erecting the fulcrum,
beams and superstructure of the massive seesaw.
Sitting comfortably a meter from the balance point, I leaned to the right to see past the suspension tower and cables and view the bird feeder through a telescope. Spying no activity, I relaxed a while with a newspaper and cup of coffee before feeling the thrill of suddenly being lifted into the air. After once being thrown out of my chair by a landing Canada goose, Id since then always used a seatbelt.
Eagerly checking the eyepiece, I was pleased to see a tiny snow bunting enjoying the seeds at the other end while holding me suspended above the ground. I later spent an hour in the afternoon enjoying the shudders of levered, falling leaves and the bucking jolts of a magnified, distant hail storm.
beam on a fulcrum
http://www.speakerfactory.net/wind.htm Sure it wasn't this? [mensmaximus, Dec 31 2004]
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You'd need the Hubble space telescope to see a snow bunting 2 km away. I'd rather install a web cam or something. Anyway, when the bird takes off, won't you drop to the ground like a rock? Ouch! |
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You kids stay off the tweeter twatter. |
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[phund] A spring under my cushioned chair is in order. |
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[mens] I'm sure, but it reminds me of the hb props-on-power-cables wind generation scheme. |
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[El D] Its a teeter-totter with uneven sides. I sit on one end one meter from the fulcrum. A 40 gram bird lands on the other end 2 km away and lifts me. |
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While you could be lifted by the 40g bird, it would have to move the its end of the beam through 500m to lift you a mere 25cm (Assuming a 2km beam and my dodgy trigonometry) |
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I know and to think that I started out planning a sparrow 5K out. |
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