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To: RobRoy
...scientists also used to think that, based on their analysis, there was just NO WAY that a bee could manage to fly...

You have a citation for that? An actual published journal article or something? Or do you just like the sound of wind whistling through your head?

518 posted on 07/05/2006 11:39:26 AM PDT by js1138 (Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!")
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To: js1138; Al Simmons; RobRoy
"You have a citation for that? An actual published journal article or something? Or do you just like the sound of wind whistling through your head?"

He was quoting Al Simmons; I believe Al meant to say bumble bees, not bees in general. I know there was a lot of speculation as to how the bumble bee could take off. It wasn't resolved until slow motion films showed that the bee was twisting its wings a little, thereby giving it enough lift.
519 posted on 07/05/2006 11:45:10 AM PDT by CarolinaGuitarman (Gas up your tanks!!)
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To: js1138

>>You have a citation for that? An actual published journal article or something? Or do you just like the sound of wind whistling through your head?<<

You'll have to ask the person that said it. I didn't. It is the remark I was responding to from post 514.

Clever insult, nonetheless. You would be one of the evolutionists, I suspect.


531 posted on 07/05/2006 1:40:35 PM PDT by RobRoy (The Internet is about to do to Evolution what it did to Dan Rather. Information is power.)
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To: js1138

Ummmm.....I posted that, not Rob Roy, and you darn well know that the technical physics of how bees actually stay aloft was a mystery until fairly recently....


540 posted on 07/05/2006 5:54:47 PM PDT by Al Simmons (Hillary Clinton is Stalin in a Dress)
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