[Charles Henrickson]

What was the previous record for sparrow-downed dominoes?

What do you mean? An African or European sparrow?

[grjr21]

some people with too much time on their  hands set up millions of dominoes in order to knock down .

This guy decided to try to answer one of the fundamental questions of science: just what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow

Hashing out the classic question with Strouhal numbers and simplified flight waveforms.

[Watery Tart]

Oh yes! An African swallow maybe ... but not a European swallow. that's my point.

Oh yes, I agree there ...

But then of course African swallows are non-migratory.

So they wouldn't be able to bring a coconut back anyway.

Wait a minute! Suppose two swallows carried it together?