• That Annoying Vegan
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    1 month ago

    Except bees. Engineers reckon they shouldn’t be able to fly, but bees told them to get fucked and do it anyway

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      1 month ago

      Engineers never really claimed that. Motivational speakers did.
      Scientists admitted that their models don’t show how bumblebees can generate enough lift to fly. By now, they’ve improved their models, taking into account that at an insect’s scale, air behaves much more like water. It “appears” to be thicker because the air molecules are larger in relation to an insect than to a human.
      Also, complicated turbulence stuff.