Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site baylor.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!neuro1!baylor!peter From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: Re: Those amazing flightless bees Message-ID: <465@baylor.UUCP> Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 23:12:22 EDT Article-I.D.: baylor.465 Posted: Sun Aug 18 23:12:22 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 16:23:51 EDT References: <1600@watdcsu.UUCP> <41500005@ur-univax.UUCP> <647@mit-vax.UUCP> Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 11 > 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 (lest some creationist or Velikovskian jump upon this) the famous study that showed bees can't fly was a static analysis of bee aerodynamics and showed that, yes, if a bee was a glider it couldn't fly. -- Peter da Silva (the mad Australian werewolf) UUCP: ...!shell!neuro1!{hyd-ptd,baylor,datafac}!peter MCI: PDASILVA; CIS: 70216,1076