Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mit-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!amd!vecpyr!lll-crg!seismo!harvard!think!mit-eddie!mit-vax!csdf From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: Those amazing flightless bees Message-ID: <647@mit-vax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 12:14:12 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-vax.647 Posted: Fri Aug 16 12:14:12 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 07:04:38 EDT References: <1600@watdcsu.UUCP> <41500005@ur-univax.UUCP> Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 27 In article <41500005@ur-univax.UUCP> stro@ur-univax.UUCP writes: >I do not know much about these 250 birds, so perhaps someone can enlighten >me: How do we know these birds flew, anyway. Just because they had wings? A better question is: how do bumble-bees fly? (You know, the big fat ones!) Last I heard, nobody could "scientifically" explain their aerodynamics. This is living proof of "catastrophic" evolution! You see, bumble-bees are piloted by small elves. The elves are magic and can make them fly at will. The problem is that the elves live off the fumes of burning leaded gasoline. Here's the clincher: in a few years, all the cars that burn leaded gas will stop running - so there will BE NO MORE LEADED GAS! This will, of course, spell death for the elves. The bumble-bees, without their elven pilots, will drop like flies! The funny thing is, that a few years after that, some stupid evolutionist is going to pick one up and say "these bugs died because they were too big to fly." Just goes to show you... -- Charles Forsythe CSDF@MIT-VAX "We pray to Fred for the Hopelessly Normal Have they not suffered enough?" from _The_Nth_Psalm_ in _The_Book_of_Fred_