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Boeing engineer John McMasters sought out the source of this story. His search took him back to the 1930s and finally to a Swiss professor famous for work in supersonic gas dynamics. McMaster�s account continues, �The aerodynamicist was engaged one evening in light dinner-table conversation with a biologist, who asked in passing for enlightenment about the aerodynamic capabilities of the wings of bees and wasps. Intrigued by the question, the aerodynamicist did some preliminary calculations based on the assumption that the wings were more-or-less smooth, flat plates. The resulting calculations �proved� the bee to be incapable of flight....
�The assumptions were almost wildly wrong, and the aerodynamicist himself later discovered part of his error by examining a bee�s wing under a microscope � but not, alas, before the myth was born in the hands of overeager journalists.�
Originally posted by earthtone
I think Bees are great. They are like the friendly version of the wasp, also creating a delicious produce. The wasp has no reason to be on the Earth except to sting and irritate people ( and to break down decaying natural waste but I will ignore this for the sake of my argument)
Originally posted by junglejake
Ticks are mad sick and regeneration. you can yank the head off of one, and it'll grow it's body back. You can try to run em over, and they just crawl away from under the steel carridge wheel. They just never seem to want to quit...