{"id":40086,"date":"2022-09-22T22:49:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T20:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=40086"},"modified":"2024-07-04T14:27:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T12:27:01","slug":"butterflies-flight-magicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/butterflies-flight-magicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterflies&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;&nbsp;Flight Magicians?"},"content":{"rendered":"Airplanes, which humanity dreamed of for so long, have become omnipresent - their traces shape the blue sky every day. Butterflies provide a glimpse into the next step - aviation technologies of the future. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPassengers flying over the clouds crisscrossed by the sun's rays can find this experience magical. But aviation is one of the most polluting technologies - it is energy-intensive, and it is still hard to imagine how it could change to be less intensive for the Earth's atmosphere. Will butterflies help to bring the solution?\n\n\n\nObserving butterflies, beetles, and other insects has helped revolutionize our understanding of flying. Air vortices are essential: prospective aircraft pilots are still learning that their arch-enemy is the vortex: as long as the airflow follows the curve<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airplanes, which humanity dreamed of for so long, have become omnipresent &#8211; their traces shape the blue sky every day. Butterflies provide a glimpse into the next step &#8211; aviation technologies of the future. Passengers flying over the clouds crisscrossed by the sun&#8217;s rays can find this experience magical. But aviation is one of the most polluting technologies &#8211; it is energy-intensive, and it is still hard to imagine how it could change to be less intensive for the Earth&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9194,"featured_media":39888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816,8791],"tags":[10749,8814],"class_list":["post-40086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature","category-technology","tag-2022-31-32-en","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}