Butterfly Takeoff at 2,000 Frames per Second - Smarter Every Day 79

less than 1m read

·Nov 3, 2024

[Music] Hey, it's me, DTin. Welcome back to Smarter Every Day! The cat is disturbing homework time, so we're going to take a break and make an intro.

Every time I've observed a butterfly flying across a field, he looks like he's a very poor flyer. He looks like he's bouncing along, and because of the really large surface area on the wing and low mass, it looks like the wind's just making him flutter back and forth. He doesn't really have control over what he's doing.

But it wasn't until I recorded this next video with a Miro at 2,000 frames per second in the Amazon that I realized that I've probably been wrong this entire time.

All right, see if we can high-speed—what is this called? This butterfly? Uh, I believe it is [Music] Metha. Yep, I got it. Is it gone? [Music] Oh, oh, oh! [Music] It stayed in focus! Oh my [Music] God, dude, that was amazing!

All right, let's take this opportunity to change the battery since this one's low. Sure, that nuts J. You want some water? Fine, fine, of course you are. You don't need water, do you?

Killer Snowballs | Science of Stupid

The Sixth Amendment | National Constitution Center | Khan Academy

View All

I Sold Out

What’s up, guys? It’s Graham here. So, in the span of less than a year, I started a coffee company. I was immediately threatened with a lawsuit that forced us to start over just days before we planned to launch. I then got confronted by that person who sh…

Can Stoics Be Activists? | Q&A #5 | July 2019

Hello everyone! Welcome to the fifth Einzelgänger Q&A. Before the weekend, I reached the 50,000 subscriber mark on this channel. When I started back in January, I’d never had expected that this channel would reach this magic number so quickly or, at a…

Affect and effect | Frequently confused words | Usage | Grammar

Hello Garian, today we’re going to talk about two of my, well, I don’t know if I’d call them favorite, but two of my most frequently confused words. I make this mistake all the time, you know, and I think it’s important to keep it straight. So, affect and…

Welcome to Twinsburg: Home of the World’s Largest Twin Festival | Short Film Showcase

A mirror image, so I was like, “Here, he a million,” and I have in the equity at the exact time and freckles. But he’s right-handed or left-handed, so mirror image. And was Millersville originally, and then Aaron and Moses were twins, and they donated fou…

Musical Fire Table!

Just press play, you mean? [Voiceover] Yeah, go for it. Whoa! [Music] Now, you may have seen a Ruben’s tube before. That’s basically a pipe with a bunch of holes in it, and you pump in a flammable gas and light it on fire, so you basically create a row …

The Fascinating Lives of Bleeding Heart Monkeys (Part 3) | Nat Geo Live

Geladas aren’t afraid of all predators. You’re looking at the Ethiopian wolf. This occurs on the Guassa, and it’s the rarest canid in the world. There’s only about 400 remaining in Ethiopia, and 40 of them are at Guassa. They’re social, but during the day…

Butterfly Takeoff at 2,000 Frames per Second - Smarter Every Day 79

More Articles