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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis could only have come from Neil deGrasse Tyson...
Neil deGrasse Tyson ?@neiltyson · Jun 6
Given how chubby cherubs are, it's clear their itty bitty wings are aerodynamically useless to them.
Given how chubby cherubs are, it's clear their itty bitty wings are aerodynamically useless to them.
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This could only have come from Neil deGrasse Tyson... (Original Post)
Playinghardball
Jun 2015
OP
i did see a painting w/cherubs w/ were just heads w/ wings. those might fly.
pansypoo53219
Jun 2015
#8
longship
(40,416 posts)1. That guy rolled 18 on charisma. And on intelligence. R&K nt
Hekate
(90,714 posts)2. Love Dr Tyson, but they said the same thing about bumblebees
Any aeronautical engineering student can prove it's impossible for bumblebees to fly. Fortunately for the bumblebees, they can't follow the math.
Stardust
(3,894 posts)7. And hummingbirds IIRC. nt
This is a common urban legend but it's not true.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Bumblebee_argument
Unfortunately (for the pseudoscientists), the laws of physics do not in any way forbid bumblebee flight; there are no papers that deny bumblebee flight, and no scientist has done so in a lecture, except, perhaps, ironically. To put it simply, it is possible to "prove" that a bumblebee cannot fly if you perform an extremely crude calculation (like forgetting to take into account things like the rate of flapping, the rotation of the wing, or the action of vortices), but a full aerodynamic calculation (to say nothing of getting all empirical and watching a bumblebee fly) will show that the bumblebee's flight works perfectly fine.
Snopes also says it's false.
http://www.snopes.com/science/bumblebees.asp
drm604
(16,230 posts)3. Maybe cherubs are filled with helium.
unblock
(52,245 posts)5. yeah, maybe they were like these guys:
Stardust
(3,894 posts)9. Best video I've seen in a long time, thank you. nt
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)4. LOL.
They also said ponies can't fly. Rainbow Dash begs to differ.
Seriously, I love Dr. Tyson. He's 20% cooler, no doubt about it.
pansypoo53219
(20,978 posts)8. i did see a painting w/cherubs w/ were just heads w/ wings. those might fly.
AwakeAtLast
(14,130 posts)10. Kinda like bees.
Maybe cherubs are fancy bees.