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Flying Rods

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Never trust a web site that doesn't know the difference between "to" and "too."

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They're just insects. Because they're moving so much faster than the frame-rate of the camera, you get those images. Each of the "wings" is a wingbeat of the insect. In fact, if you note that most have 4 "wings", and most home video cameras have a rate of 30 frames/second. This gives us 120 wingbeats/sec, which is about average for most fast-flying insects.

Mokele is right, I watched a documentary that proved they were just ordinary flying insects stretched out by the camera's rate of frame.

So it turned out to be biology after all, and everyone was really happy.

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