Shout-out to bats, who are apparently super good at recovering smoothly from impacts with other bats.
Same with insects like bumblebees and flies. You sit outside, you see a bug approach at high speed and land perfectly on a leaf. Wow pretty cool. Now with slow mo you see them crash into the leaf, do a summersault, stumble around and sit down. It just happens fast so you don’t notice, but they crash almost every landing.
When you evolve smol and don’t have to worry about mass in physics calculations.
Ha. Same with starlings. Known for the great synchronised murmuration patterns. I’ve seen them collide. It’s not a big issue though, because they don’t crash down to ground. They’ve got wings and just fly back up into the … murmur.
They don’t just hit each other. A few years ago, I was riding my bike (as in bicycle, not motorbike). A bat hit me head-on. Right on the, err, gentleman’s sausage.
I’m still waiting for super powers to appear.
If you were hoping for Batman super powers, I regret to inform you that he doesn’t have any. However, if your billionaire parents were killed in front of you as a child, you may be in luck.
Same thing happened to me. Right at dusk, just riding along on my bike and outta nowhere a bat wrapped its wings around my head. It felt like getting lightly smacked by a warm, moist leather glove.
Kind of puts Bruce Wayne in a spot.
The scene when he crashes into the bridge in The Batman was based on science!
Whoop! That was the lol I needed to move the sofa back in place and finish vacuuming and mopping! Thank you!
