• zerofk@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    Wait how does that work? Do the slots have some effect on the viscosity maybe?

      • Gamma@beehaw.org
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        3 days ago

        They actually figured out bees around the pandemic, busy time so it was easy to miss. They can fly because the beelieve they can, pretty much the same aerodynamic principle as Santa

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        2 days ago

        Bees flying and tides are both well understood now. Tides have been for hundreds of years.

        I don’t know enough aerodynamics to describe how bumblebees fly

        Tides are caused by the sun’s and moon’s gravity attracting the Earth’s land and water.

        If you had just said tides, I would have presumed you were being sarcastic, but bumblebee flight wasn’t explained until fairly recently (within the last 25 years or so)

    • gandalf_der_12te
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      3 days ago

      Liquids tend towards the deepest elevation on the fork, and if that’s a slot, it falls through.