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“Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.”
“I was always a lover of soft-winged things.”
“The francolin's voice is the glory of the fields.”
““What is that?” I gasped, nearly blinded by the unexpected vermillion patches on the blackbird’s epaulets. I watched as the bird threw back its head, opened wide its beak and let out a sound so primal it left me marvelling: this was as close as I’d ever stand to dinosaurs. If this bird had been here all along, I thought, what else had I been missing?”
“From nesting, brooding and sex, to metabolism, development and even the diseases that afflicted them, many of the traits found in birds today were inherited from the dinosaurs. The boundary between dinosaurs and birds has become utterly blurred.”
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BIRD es un satélite lanzado por ISRO en 2001 para DLR. Este pequeño sistema (92 kg) en forma de caja, con paneles solares y dos colectores en alas cortas, tiene notables cualidades de detección de incendios. Alberga un sistema de sensores infrarrojos de dos canales en combinación con un Escáner Estéreo Optoelectrónico de Gran Ángulo (WAOSS). También cuenta con un clasificador de red neuronal en órbita para reducir el ancho de banda y el costo de la transmisión de datos.
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