That bee myth is bogus.<a class="user" href="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080521042550AAmrspn">http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=200805 ...</a>No, that old myth mis-states the issue.The equations governing aerodynamics describe the behavior of air, and interactions with bodies like airplanes or bees.One of the things that govern this is called the 'Reynolds Number (Re).' It is the ratio of inertial to viscous forces.High Re means that viscosity (resistance to flow, like syrup), is low relative to inertial effects. This is true for large bodies and/or high speeds.Low Re means viscosity is dominant. Small and/or slow flying things are at low Re.So, the truth is that (of course) the aerodynamic properties determined for airplanes don't describe bees well. No surprise! However, over the last decades (esp. as interest in tiny drones has grown), aerodynamicists have learned how low Re flight works and can explain the flight dynamics of the bee (and the fly, and the mosquito...)
And logic states that the chance that 1 of those civilizations has developed interstellar space travel and wants to go to earth and wants the earth to know that they visited earth and did all of this within the 200 years that we are interested in aliens...is really really low.
ha okay so you assume aliens are real, yet you base their capabilities on ours? Thats pretty ignorant. If someone were able to reach us, they would be using something far more advanced than rockets or trying to reach light speed, which is physically impossible in 3 dimensional space. But there is alot more to this universe that what we know or even understand at this point, and a race that has been around for say 5 million years longer than us would have some pretty incredible technology.
imapluralistJul 25, 2008
Thanks for making my point.
britocaJul 26, 2008
JESUS LIVES!!!
thebaron2Jul 26, 2008
Since when are the theories of evolution and the Big Bang conpiracy theories?
thebaron2Jul 26, 2008
That bee myth is bogus.<a class="user" href="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080521042550AAmrspn">http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=200805 ...</a>No, that old myth mis-states the issue.The equations governing aerodynamics describe the behavior of air, and interactions with bodies like airplanes or bees.One of the things that govern this is called the 'Reynolds Number (Re).' It is the ratio of inertial to viscous forces.High Re means that viscosity (resistance to flow, like syrup), is low relative to inertial effects. This is true for large bodies and/or high speeds.Low Re means viscosity is dominant. Small and/or slow flying things are at low Re.So, the truth is that (of course) the aerodynamic properties determined for airplanes don't describe bees well. No surprise! However, over the last decades (esp. as interest in tiny drones has grown), aerodynamicists have learned how low Re flight works and can explain the flight dynamics of the bee (and the fly, and the mosquito...)
bravo1995Jul 26, 2008
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fergyJul 26, 2008
And logic states that the chance that 1 of those civilizations has developed interstellar space travel and wants to go to earth and wants the earth to know that they visited earth and did all of this within the 200 years that we are interested in aliens...is really really low.
Closed AccountJul 27, 2008
ha okay so you assume aliens are real, yet you base their capabilities on ours? Thats pretty ignorant. If someone were able to reach us, they would be using something far more advanced than rockets or trying to reach light speed, which is physically impossible in 3 dimensional space. But there is alot more to this universe that what we know or even understand at this point, and a race that has been around for say 5 million years longer than us would have some pretty incredible technology.