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This could only have come from Neil deGrasse Tyson... (Original Post) Playinghardball Jun 2015 OP
That guy rolled 18 on charisma. And on intelligence. R&K nt longship Jun 2015 #1
Love Dr Tyson, but they said the same thing about bumblebees Hekate Jun 2015 #2
True HassleCat Jun 2015 #6
And hummingbirds IIRC. nt Stardust Jun 2015 #7
Not True drm604 Jun 2015 #11
Maybe cherubs are filled with helium. drm604 Jun 2015 #3
yeah, maybe they were like these guys: unblock Jun 2015 #5
Best video I've seen in a long time, thank you. nt Stardust Jun 2015 #9
LOL. hifiguy Jun 2015 #4
i did see a painting w/cherubs w/ were just heads w/ wings. those might fly. pansypoo53219 Jun 2015 #8
Kinda like bees. AwakeAtLast Jun 2015 #10
 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
6. True
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 07:05 PM
Jun 2015

Any aeronautical engineering student can prove it's impossible for bumblebees to fly. Fortunately for the bumblebees, they can't follow the math.

drm604

(16,230 posts)
11. Not True
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 11:14 AM
Jun 2015

This is a common urban legend but it's not true.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Bumblebee_argument

Unfortunately (for the pseudoscientists), the laws of physics do not in any way forbid bumblebee flight; there are no papers that deny bumblebee flight, and no scientist has done so in a lecture, except, perhaps, ironically. To put it simply, it is possible to "prove" that a bumblebee cannot fly if you perform an extremely crude calculation (like forgetting to take into account things like the rate of flapping, the rotation of the wing, or the action of vortices), but a full aerodynamic calculation (to say nothing of getting all empirical and watching a bumblebee fly) will show that the bumblebee's flight works perfectly fine.


Snopes also says it's false.
http://www.snopes.com/science/bumblebees.asp
 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
4. LOL.
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 06:32 PM
Jun 2015

They also said ponies can't fly. Rainbow Dash begs to differ.



Seriously, I love Dr. Tyson. He's 20% cooler, no doubt about it.

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