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While flying an insect
           beats its wings several
            hundred times a sec-
            ond. The way that so
           many movements take
            place under a second
          makes it impossible for
           this feat to be replicat-
              ed technologically.




























                The micro-mechanical flying insect  A flying insect robot prototype still
                prototype being developed at the  under development at the
                University of California at Berkley.  Vanderbilt School of Engineering.




             Say: “Who is the Lord of the heavens and the Earth?” Say: “Allah.”
             Say: “So why have you taken protectors apart from Him who possess
             no power to help or harm themselves?” Say: “Are the blind and see-
             ing equal? Or are darkness and light the same? Or have they assigned
             partners to Allah Who create as He creates, so that all creating seems
             the same to them?” Say: “Allah is the Creator of everything. He is the
             One, the All-Conquering.” (Surat ar-Ra‘d, 16)
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