canikickit
22nd November 2002, 21:33
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...and they said it could never fly!Indeed, the venerable line about scientists having proved that a bumblebee can't fly appears regularly in magazine and newspaper stories. Obviously, bumblebees can fly. On the average, a bumblebee travels at a rate of 3 meters per second, beating its wings 130 times per second. Quite respectable for the insect world. So, how did this business of proving that a bumblebee can't fly originate? Who started the story? It apparently first surfaced in Germany in the 1930s, and the story was about a prominent Swiss aerodynamicist,he assumed a rigid, smooth wing, estimated the bee's weight and wing area, and calculated the lift generated by the wing. Not surprisingly, there was insufficient lift.The story spread, told from the biologist's point of view, and it wasn't long before it started to appear in magazine and newspaper articles. Val musically introduces the famous instrumental track written by the Russian composer Nikolaj Rimskij-Korsakov, in a reggae key, with a lazy Rasta Bumblebee !! Enjoy it.
...and they said it could never fly!Indeed, the venerable line about scientists having proved that a bumblebee can't fly appears regularly in magazine and newspaper stories. Obviously, bumblebees can fly. On the average, a bumblebee travels at a rate of 3 meters per second, beating its wings 130 times per second. Quite respectable for the insect world. So, how did this business of proving that a bumblebee can't fly originate? Who started the story? It apparently first surfaced in Germany in the 1930s, and the story was about a prominent Swiss aerodynamicist,he assumed a rigid, smooth wing, estimated the bee's weight and wing area, and calculated the lift generated by the wing. Not surprisingly, there was insufficient lift.The story spread, told from the biologist's point of view, and it wasn't long before it started to appear in magazine and newspaper articles. Val musically introduces the famous instrumental track written by the Russian composer Nikolaj Rimskij-Korsakov, in a reggae key, with a lazy Rasta Bumblebee !! Enjoy it.