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Scientist: Angels can't fly
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| Dec. 22, 2009
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."
TOPICS: Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: angels; fairies; jpb; religion
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To: paulycy
81
posted on
12/23/2009 6:32:47 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: amihow
"The wings in art are representative of a spirits ability to be operative as they will." Actually, the wings in art are merely the early Christian adaptation of images of Nike, the Greek goddess of Victory...
It still finds its way into modern heraldry, i.e. the HHC 1st ID unit crest...
82
posted on
12/23/2009 6:34:09 AM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Dutch Boy
83
posted on
12/23/2009 6:34:45 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: mad_as_he$$
According to me helicopters cant fly. They don't.
There are two theories that I'm aware of:
1) They don't fly, they just beat the air into submission.
2) They don't fly, they're so ugly that the earth repels them.
84
posted on
12/23/2009 6:38:32 AM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: JoeProBono
Some people have tooo much time on their hands.
85
posted on
12/23/2009 6:38:43 AM PST
by
Waco
(Stay as bootiful as ya are Karvile.)
To: Joe 6-pack
86
posted on
12/23/2009 6:39:13 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Waco
87
posted on
12/23/2009 6:41:02 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Guess who paid for Tiger's reconstructive surgery...
88
posted on
12/23/2009 6:41:35 AM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: JoeProBono
Why is there poop all over that hand?
89
posted on
12/23/2009 6:43:35 AM PST
by
CholeraJoe
(My baloney has a first name, it's B-A-R-A-K. My baloney has a second name, it's O-B-A-M-A)
To: Joe 6-pack
His guardian angel?
90
posted on
12/23/2009 6:54:10 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: ArrogantBustard
lol. I like them both!!! That many parts trying to fling themselves apart is just plain against logic.
To: ottbmare
That picture of a pig is clearly Photoshopped. Its ridiculous. Everyone knows that pigs are mammals and dont have feathers, so pig wings have the same fur as the rest of their bodies. Didnt you ever study biology?You don't say! Really? You're pulling my leg, aren't ya?
To: Nea Wood
I’ve been in some old cemeteries and been struck by the obvious evidence of high infant mortality, at least up into the early 19th cent. Sometimes there are 5 little gravestones representing a whole family’s children wiped out in a few days by a single disease.
To: mad_as_he$$
Helicopters DON’T fly: They beat the air into submission, allowing the earth to repel the abhorrent things.
94
posted on
12/25/2009 9:59:53 PM PST
by
Don W
(I keep some people's numbers in my phone so I know not to answer when they call)
To: JoeProBono
95
posted on
12/25/2009 10:05:37 PM PST
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the occupation media.)
To: PA Engineer
96
posted on
12/25/2009 10:13:51 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: ArrogantBustard
Great minds think alike. See my #94. LOL
97
posted on
12/26/2009 8:44:37 AM PST
by
Don W
(I keep some people's numbers in my phone so I know not to answer when they call)
To: Revolting cat!
98
posted on
12/26/2009 8:52:58 AM PST
by
verity
(Obama Lies)
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