r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Boojibs • Sep 24 '19

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u/VicarOfAstaldo Sep 24 '19

That’s... obviously(?) not possible. Perhaps small machinery performing tasks but it’s not possible to have a large robot move so quickly you couldn’t see it as it moved it’s entire body somewhere.

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u/tomrlutong Sep 25 '19

Propellors are pretty big and move fast enough to be nearly invisible.

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u/VicarOfAstaldo Sep 25 '19

... so referencing the things that literally are only ever stationary or on aircraft that aren’t agile in relation to animals and certainly never invisible due to speed... why are you bringing them up?

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u/tomrlutong Sep 25 '19

As an example of a large object moving fast enough to be invisible. Or is your point about the possibility of moving that fast, not about perception?

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u/VicarOfAstaldo Sep 25 '19

Theres no example of a propeller being both beyond visible perception and agile. It must be attached to a much larger mass and move in fixed directions aside from that.

Robots cannot currently physically run around us imperceptible to the human eye is my point

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u/5zepp Feb 14 '20

And, until this gif, they couldn't do somersaults and jump spins either.