New2view's Blog   Life on The Blue Marble

I was enjoying an afternoon in October sunshine on the promenade at White Rock B.C. today. Some misguided person was serving up food for throngs of seagulls and they screamed as they competed for each one.

Watching those seagulls reminded me of the new Boeing ‘787 dream liner’, how?

If you take a close look, the wings of that modern airliner bear a close resemblance to the wings of those gulls! Indeed the wings of the 787 are not only able to flex 25 feet under test conditions, but their design appears to mimic seagulls, at least visually.

Most commercial jets today have employed (Burt Rutan designed) winglets at the end of their wings to reduce turbulant drag and improve performance. But if you look closely the new Boeing dream liner has a design similar to gulls, a sophisticated tapered shape that accomplishes the same thing without winglets!

My point in writing about this is to compliment those who have learned from so-called ‘nature’, by that I mean the ‘Creator of nature’, our Father in heaven. Yes he is in fact the master designer of all life on this blue marble, a planet with beauty and complexity we may only be just beginning to appreciate as this video well illustrates… copy and paste it to view, I guarantee you will not be dissapointed:

https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/LatestVideos/pub-jwbcov_201905_11_VIDEO