That is to say, could they get enough forward thrust to push themselves along, without taking off? Maybe with like a little perch to hang onto…
There’s nothing in the laws of physics that precludes it. Skateboards can be extremely light and have ball bearings with extremely little friction. It’s not all that unusual for a strong breeze to make a board start rolling all by itself
Quite right. It’s only bees 🐝 that are prohibited from skateboarding by the laws of physics.
(Is this meme still relevant or am I getting old?)
getting old
Five bees for a nickel.
Do ya like jazz?
As someone who enjoy listening to “weird cover” thanks (Is there a /c/ for that ? )
a) thanks! I’ll take that as a compliment.
b) we have two full albums of these, and a third on the way.
c) If there is a /c/ for people who do covers I’d love to know : I need to find my people :)
You killed a great song. That was horrible. Guess we all have our own opinion
Finally, someone actually said they didn’t like it. Thank you.
Someone has been playing Skatebird!
First I’ve heard of it, but now I kinda want to.
I’m sure an eagle could even pick it up and fly away with it. I’ve seen eagles pick up mountain goats.
Yea, but I was talking about taxiing like a plane on the runway.
Surely you can see the energy required to pickup and fly with a skateboard is orders of magnitude greater than simply pushing the skateboard?
Yes, and that’s not the question I’m asking.
I’m asking whether they could sustain forward thrust in a standing position, and without actually taking off.
Most likely, yes. If anything, a bird may stand in reverse and flap the wings in front of itself.
But I would expect that its maneuver ability would allow it to do so in different ways ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A sparrow or a condor?
African or European swallow?
I don’t know that! AAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Let’s assume we size the board to fit the bird :)
To fit by size or by mass?
That’s likely irrelevant, as rolling friction may be made quite low anyway
Any but the smallest of birds should do it easily.
I have no doubt a bin chicken could.
Is that a seagull or a pigeon?
An ibis
I’ll be damned
I don’t see why not, though I bet it can’t go as fast as a turtle on a skateboard?
I AM SPEED 🐢
You were going so fast you dropped this: 🛹
I reckon a Pelican would easily be able to get a skateboard rolling. I’m just now sure the best steps to proceed testing it.
I’d try a skateboard at the top of a hill and see about getting a cockatoo to somehow get the board to roll under it’s own propulsion so it can sit back and enjoy a ride down a hill. That’d be the way I’d try if I wanted the bird to do it repeatedly.
