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Re:Airfoil by kjkjadksj on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @04:17PM (#39530099)
Give it a strong selective pressure towards speed and a few million years and you will have your supersonic duck.
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Re:Airfoil by solardev on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @04:33PM (#39530298)
Intercontinental ballistic mallards? Just another trillion-dollar boondoggle from the military-ornithological complex.
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Re:Airfoil by LargoLasskhyfv on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @04:33PM (#39530295)
Reverse dragooning by expelling fiery farts made of hypergolics fueled by fantastic fermentation?
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Re:Airfoil by bloopernova on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @07:53PM (#39532484)
Something like that is featured in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of books. (Don't spoil the book it's in!)

GNU Terry Pratchett

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Re:Airfoil by solardev on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @08:02PM (#39532546)
There's also that Harry Potter spinoff movie in which he becomes a supersonic corpse with a farting jet-butt in order to visit some pretty redwood parks: https://www.inverse.com/article/17614-how-swiss-army-man-mad...
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Re:Airfoil by LargoLasskhyfv on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @08:03PM (#39532551)
Something similar already happened in reality in another evolutionary chain:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_beetle

(on a much smaller scale)

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