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@strangetruther @Ferris_vball@qoto.org Woah, that is super cool.
Well I think so! Thanks for saying!
I think it's excellent evidence for palaeontology being completely corrupt!
What I wrote is perfectly fine aerodynamically; the stuff in Nature etc elsewhere is blatant aero. bullshit.
And on the 50th anniversary of the 1953 W&C DNA paper's publication, what did Nature have on its front cover? DNA Helix? Those authors?
No - the 4-winged dinobird Microraptor. Important enough to have found the fossil, but my explanation MUST be ignored!!
@strangetruther Wait, that's your writing? Is the full text available?
Real science and profit motive aren't always the best of friends, unfortunately.
Yes - all mine! I think those screen-grabs of my book capture all my thoughts on the rear wing alignment and flapping, though the book adds a lot of others stuff on the evolution of dromaeosaurs. (They include Velociraptor, and that small flying version in the photo. That line started as fliers.)
I'd be happy to email you my e-book The Secret Dinobird Story, though it can be got from Amazon for $6.66!
A movie of my view of dinobird evolution is in my pinned tweet #2 🙂
@strangetruther Oh it's a book! I would be very interested to read it. I would also feel as though I were imposing if you just sent it over for free, although my account is a little on the thin side atm, so I also would not stop you :P
@gordoooo_z Would be delighted to send it to you!
I'm on gmail, and my moniker all round the net is my masto & Twitter handle:-)
Just email me and I'll send a zipped html version!
@strangetruther Wow, thanks so much! If you see an email from a @gordo.codes, that's me (I know, who would've guessed? Lol)
Great! You have it in a jiffy!😁
That Daniel Ferris chap looks quite interesting! I've just followed him; it seems he's into mechanical modelling of movement. I've been trying to get a project running that will get one of these 4-winged fliers flying using their front and rear wings. Maybe he can help?
(The rear-wingstroke is a bit like the leg stroke in breast-stroke.)
@strangetruther 10 year old me would love to see that, and 32 year old me is no different.
@Ferris_vball
Here's a good project for someone like that:
Develop a powered, perhaps radio-controlled version of a vodrom (i.e. volant dromaeosaur) - like they did with that flying pteranodon 20 years ago!