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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Those amazing flightless bees
Message-ID: <669@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 15:08:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: psivax.669
Posted: Wed Aug 21 15:08:40 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 01:36:55 EDT
References: <1600@watdcsu.UUCP> <41500005@ur-univax.UUCP> <647@mit-vax.UUCP>
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA
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Summary: 

In article <647@mit-vax.UUCP> csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) writes:
>
>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!
>
	Actually, this *has* been figured out. It seems that
Bumblebees, and insects in general, fly on different principles than
birds and airplanes.(Well, mostly - Hummingbirds come close to
Bumblebees in flight dynamics).

>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...
>
	Exactly! This is exactly my point. In fact Bumblebees are a
good example of poor analysis producing absurd results. Why *couldn't*
a 250 pound bird fly? After all many ton airplanes fly quite well, and
they use much the same principles as most birds.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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