Bird wings can help keep birds down, not up (BREAKING)

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[scouse]

How do you get an animal with little dinky wings to fly?"

It's easy; getting it past the screeners at the airport is the hard thing. :^))

[StriperSniper]

suggest primeval birds actually started flapping to stay closer to the ground.

Why? Was the air full of helium at the time?;-)

[grobdriver]

"There's a problem in explaining how the intermediate forms leading up to flight are selected for. How do you get an animal with little dinky wings to fly?"

They have to run very fast. Aerodynamics 101
This from a scientist?

[AndrewC]

I get it! Two legs and two flapping arms are better for climbing surfaces than are four grasping appendages. Sounds logical!

[Phaedrus]

... flapping to stay closer to the ground.

This is a HOOT! Utter speculation yet taken seriously (by some in the media). The UPI will next, I suppose, begin reporting wings as "gravity helpers".

[Darth Dan]

Bird wings can help keep birds down, not up (BREAKING)

"Whitey" keeping them down.

(For the "humorly" challenged here, it's just a joke, please no flames)

[Monti Cello]

This is crap. What is the aerodynamic effect of a short stumpy wing? Do squatty birds with claws really have room to gain traction in this ridiculous way? Enough to justify invest in new appendages to do so? It's all ludicrous.

I think if someone plucked all my feathers out I might not run up hills as fast either.

[AdA$tra]

It works for Indy cars.

[Dementon]

Crevo ping

[LiteKeeper]

Here's a novel thought: maybe they were designed that way by an intelligent being that designed everything else around us. Genesis 1:20-21

[fish hawk]

must be another of thoes 28 million dollar studies?? I cant wait for April 15 to help out!!!

[PatrickHenry]

This is the first of two threads on this topic today.

[This ping list for the evolution -- not creationism -- side of evolution threads, and sometimes for other science topics. To be added (or dropped), let me know via freepmail.]

[Physicist]

Why? Was the air full of helium at the time?

No, the pull of the planet Saturn looming overhead kept lifting them off the ground.

[general_re]

I thought it looked familiar...

[StriperSniper]

No, the pull of the planet Saturn looming overhead kept lifting them off the ground.

Shhhh! (Don't let everybody else in on the secret of how they filmed 'the Astronauts' bounding across 'the Moon' when it was really in that hanger sound stage in the desert!)

[PatrickHenry]

I had forgotten that post. Until I just now re-read it, I would have sworn that I never posted in libertarian threads.

[Physicist]

I started to read that thread, but didn't make it as far as your post. My eyes started to bleed when the LP called Neal Peart a guitarist.

[general_re]

I either never saw it in the first place, or didn't assign much importance to it - that was more or less before I started in on the crevo threads. I just happened on it last night when I was looking over my own older posts. I've half a mind to ping some libertarians and sic 'em on you ;)