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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Re: infinitesimal bees
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Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 05:27:32 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  1 05:27:32 1985
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> On any planet where bees can turn around in infinitesimal
> time, cars are frictionless and not allowed on the equator
> (John von Neumann told me this personally).  Therefore,
> the bee is still flying.  They did teach you about the
> Coriolis force in high school, didn't they?

Does it matter whether the bees turn left or right?
Oh, oops, wrong problem..

Really, this bee business is equivalent to the fly and
the bicycles and several other standard statements of
this puzzle and was beaten to death (I thought) in this
newsgroup not very long ago.  Could we please not keep
posting puzzles out of the stock puzzle books?  Thanks..