¶ Omnimedium Transport Sequence (1)
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There are two kinds of flying:
(a) soaring-- like a gull
(b) running on water-- like a duck. You’ve seen a duck taking off the water or landing: it’s like a hammerthrower or a pole vaulter: jet stilting.
Fruits and seeds are also streamlined, not just birds. Seeds are tubes designed to withstand the frost, to work down into the Earth, and also to come up at the right time…
A naked man jumps his own height in the high jump. With a pole vault he can jump about three times his own height, even though he is weighted down by the pole, by running he can build up momentum into the situation. If he could grab another pole each time he could keep up the momentum and vaulting indefinitely.
A duck keeps falling but builds it up into more altitude. Like a plane launched from a carrier, the first thing it does is to nose down for increased speed. Jet stilts. A duck has two jet stilts; it then builds up the lift like a blimp flier.
¶ Citations
- RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 29 Jan’75
