Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 12/22/2009 6:30:54 PM PST by JoeProBono
LONDON, A London scientist has authored a paper arguing angels as classically depicted, mostly-human forms with wings, would be unable to fly.
Professor Roger Wotton of University College London wrote in his paper, which was published by the school's Opticon magazine, that human-appearing angels with feathered bird-like wings would not be able to use the wings for flight, The Daily Telegraph reported Tuesday.
"Even a cursory examination of the evidence in representational arts shows that angels and cherubs cannot take off and cannot use powered flight," Wotton wrote. "And even if they used gliding flight, they would need to be exposed to very high wind velocities at take off -- such high winds that they would be blown away and have no need for wings."
Wotton's paper also took aim at fantasy depictions of fairies with the wings of butterflies.
"The distortion of the thorax needed for flight in fairies with butterfly wings would be exceedingly uncomfortable," the paper read. "For sure, fairies don't fly."
They would need some unknown kind of metabolism that is more efficient than what we currently understand. Seems like I read somewhere that pronghorn antelope have something unusual going on in their metabolism. This enables them run at top speed for much longer than what they should be capable of.
Joe, your posts are always great. Where in the world do you get all the pics? You’re a legend!! Thanks!
ANGELS do not eat.
They have no need for a large intestine, a small intestine, an appendix, most of the other organs below the diaphragm, or, when you get right down to it, the liver!
This gives them considerable room for the installation of rockets ~ and since they've had billions of years (since the creation of the multiverse) to work things out, those rockets are remarkably efficient, compact, and virtually invisible to human beings.
science, decisions on things not understandable which later are proven or thought to be disaterous for mankind, all to get more money for research to start the circle again, I go with the angels he can have the world..lava says, bubble up?
It’s not possible for a bumblebee to fly either. scientists and engineers can be pretty stupid at times
I thought everyone knew that angels don’t have wings. They have anti-friction shields.
Yeah, but was he able to determine whether they dance, and if so, how many could dance on the head of a pin?
“Scientists” like this one, who want to comment on religious matters, would sound less foolish if they consulted a competent theologian first.
I wonder if he got a sizable government grant to come up with this.
Neither can bumblebees...
Angels are understood to be pure spirit. They have no physical body. The physical laws that afflict us—including gravity—do not apply to them. We substitute a painted or sculpted form to assist us in thinking about an invisible (most of the time) being. As C. S. Lewis remarked on this very subject, Angels have a human form denote rationality, and wings to imply celerity of thought. (He wrote a book, “The Abolition of Man,” that discusses, in part, just these sort of bumbling attempts to reduce the exalted to some advertising formula and rob us of culture and true emotional expression.
They do, however float above their loafers...
I want to know how many can dance on the point of a pin.
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