Alt-BEAM Archive

Message #03140



To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: "w1" wyzyrd@cais.net
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 12:41:06 -0400
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Flying bots


Instead of phototropic, how about some version of "filtered" IR
thermotropism?

The evolutionary survival trait for a glider would seem to be the ability to
find
upwellings of warmer air - "thermals" - to gain lift, simultaneously not
being
attracted toward fires or the rear-ens of jets.

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