This is why mathematics makes my head hurt... - by catbarf
Vernon on 1/10/2007 at 01:42
Quote Posted by Peanuckle
If you want something else that makes your head hurt, think of this:
According to prevailing theories of aerodynamics, it is physically impossible for a bumblebee to fly. Same for a helicopter. Should not work, but it does!
Not only is that mythical and old hat, but even within that premise, it was put that it was suppositionally impossible, not physically.
If you want to read up on this, go to your library and find the John H. McMasters article in American Scientist of March 1989, called "The Flight of the Bumblebee and Related Myths of Entomological Engineering"
hf
Shug on 1/10/2007 at 01:59
hey guys did you know that we'll all swallow AT LEAST 8 spiders in our sleep over the course of our lives
mind-boggling :eek:
Vernon on 1/10/2007 at 04:07
Quote Posted by Shug
hey guys did you know that we'll all swallow AT LEAST 8 spiders in our sleep over the course of our lives
:wot:
dj_ivocha on 1/10/2007 at 11:57
guyz i heard shug eats spiders for breakfast plz confirm/deny :confused:
belboz on 1/10/2007 at 17:43
Its been discovered that bumblebees are fitted with an organ that produces an anti-gravity effect, that allows them to fly.
Actually due to there size, the air resembles water and they are actually swimming through it, not flying.
Talking of fly's and aliens, would you talk to a fly, cos thats probably what we look like to aliens that have managed to come here, they wouldn't talk to us, just like we wouldn't talk to a fly.
There's also the problem with what you would call life, there's probably life in the universe that you wouldn't consider as being life, therefore the equation for how much life is in the universe is faulty.:thumb:
RocketMan on 1/10/2007 at 18:54
Quote Posted by belboz
Actually due to there size, the air resembles water and they are actually swimming through it, not flying.
Air is a fluid no matter what's flying through it. Even we are swimming in air. What you're talking about is the fact that because a bee is small, it is flying in fluid at a low Reynold's number regime as is the case with all insects.
Spaztick on 1/10/2007 at 19:02
Quote Posted by catbarf
But... a helicopter uses the equal and opposite reaction from the air pushed downwards to lift it off the ground, IIRC. How does it violate the theories of aerodynamics?
It also uses the pressure differential generated by the speed over the top of the blades for it to be lifted up. Besides, you spin something fast enough and it'll go somewhere!
*Zaccheus* on 1/10/2007 at 19:19
Quote Posted by belboz
Its been discovered that bumblebees are fitted with an organ
That explains why they can make such cool sounds!
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http://www.iajo.org/iajo06/pipeorg1.jpgVernon on 2/10/2007 at 02:49
I files figured out interstellar travel how would they get out of their computars? :confused:
*Zaccheus* on 2/10/2007 at 12:27
Via the information high way of course! :thumb: :laff:
