Comments on: Bird Zen http://jonathanturley.org/2009/11/10/bird-zen/ Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks") Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:37:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Starlings « FNQhome.com http://jonathanturley.org/2009/11/10/bird-zen/#comment-89847 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:59:03 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=17102#comment-89847 [...] Jonathan Turley’s [...]

]]> By: Mike http://jonathanturley.org/2009/11/10/bird-zen/#comment-89842 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:19:25 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=17102#comment-89842 For those interested in how this happens or in watching a simulator of it, check out:

http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~paul/publications/boids/index.html or
http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/

]]> By: puzzling http://jonathanturley.org/2009/11/10/bird-zen/#comment-89831 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:31:09 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=17102#comment-89831 How do starling flocks stay so beautifully organized without a government to tell them what to do?

]]> By: Gyges http://jonathanturley.org/2009/11/10/bird-zen/#comment-89760 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:09:43 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=17102#comment-89760 FFLEO,

And all descended from a mating pair introduced to New York so that all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare would live in Central Park.

]]> By: Former Federal LEO http://jonathanturley.org/2009/11/10/bird-zen/#comment-89704 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:32:05 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=17102#comment-89704 Starlings are an exotic/introduced, devastating ornithological pest in the USA; however, those flights are exceptional examples of natural aerobatics that anthropogenic constructs could never equal.

]]> By: Byron http://jonathanturley.org/2009/11/10/bird-zen/#comment-89675 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:09:58 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=17102#comment-89675 if you can write an alogrithm for flocking you can make millions in the stock market.

]]> By: Anonymously Yours http://jonathanturley.org/2009/11/10/bird-zen/#comment-89660 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:24:22 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=17102#comment-89660 And a Nasty Man to Boot. I hear he wanted in Marilyn’s Boot too.

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