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  • Where did you get this information? I know that there are recent discoveries about the flight abilities of bees (honeybees): http://www.livescience.com/animals/060110_bee_fight.html
  • Aerodynamics. And yet it does anyhow. Go figure. :o)
  • Factoid: the gist of it is a bird flies by doing X. A honey Bee cannot do X, therefore a honey bee cannot fly... But obviously there are more than one way to fly.... And no scientist ever said a honey bee can't fly. Some schlub took what a scientist said and misquoted him.
  • "According to 20th century folklore, the laws of aerodynamics prove that the bumblebee should be incapable of flight, as it does not have the capacity (in terms of wing size or beat per second) to achieve flight with the degree of wing loading necessary. Not being aware of scientists 'proving' it cannot fly, the bumblebee succeeds under "the power of its own arrogance". The origin of this myth has been difficult to pin down with any certainty. John McMasters recounted an anecdote about an unnamed Swiss aerodynamicist at a dinner party who performed some rough calculations and concluded, presumably in jest, that according to the equations, bumblebees cannot fly. In later years McMasters has backed away from this origin, suggesting that there could be multiple sources, and that the earliest he has found was a reference in the 1934 French book Le vol des insectes by M. Magnan. Magnan is reported to have written that he and a Mr. Saint-Lague had applied the equations of air resistance to insects and found that their flight was impossible, but that "One shouldn't be surprised that the results of the calculations don't square with reality". It is believed that the calculations which purported to show that bumblebees cannot fly are based upon a simplified linear treatment of oscillating aerofoils. The method assumes small amplitude oscillations without flow separation. This ignores the effect of dynamic stall, an airflow separation inducing a large vortex above the wing, which briefly produces several times the lift of the aerofoil in regular flight. More sophisticated aerodynamic analysis shows that the bumblebee can fly because its wings encounter dynamic stall in every oscillation cycle." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumblebee#Flight
  • Because they don't know what it is like to be a bee.Also bees do not know science,thus fly regardless of what scientists say.
  • That's a myth.
  • No serious scientist would say such a thing. It runs exatly counter to the scientific method, which is first to observe something happening, then seek understanding of how and why it happens. Real science NEVER begins with a theory, then tries to shoehorn all observations into said theory. For that, look to religion. That's how you get a 6,000 year old earth that was covered in water over 5 miles deep just 4,000 years ago.

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