How Bumblees Fly

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Uploaded by on Jul 29, 2006

Intelligent Design, Creationist, and other anti science believers often cite Science's inability to know how the bee defies the 'laws of flight". This can no longer be said. Scientists at University of Cambridge's Department of Zoology have now shown exactly how this is done and it violates no laws.

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  • OOOOOooooooohhhhhh!

    They flap their wings! Now it makes sense!

  • Actually as I recall the reall detail is not just the flapping but the way the wings rotate during each flap and the positions of the legs themselves. But anyhow I mostly just was impressed. Sience is soo cool.

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  • LOL! showing a video of a bumblebee flying is supposed to explain how it violates the laws of physics?

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  • In 1934 a Insect scientist proved that the the bumblebee couldn't fly due to that masive body.

    And up til theese days, the scientists havent been able to figure out how the bee did it. So - the proclaim really is true.

    Now it have been disproved - the bumblebee really can fly. And the secret is that it flaps its wings 230 times per second, which is far more than most insects on the planet.

    The secret is offcourse the many flaps - but also quick rotations of the wings and change of direction

  • Hello ! Well, bumble bees, wasps, hornets, honeybees and a few thousands other species belong to the same family of hymenopterae (meaning "linked wings" - each pair for better aerofoil during flight). Honeybees make honey, bumble bees do not and are much larger.

    A French beekeeper

  • Hey man thanks for the correction. So for my education what exactly is a 'bumble' bee. I ignorant as I am consider that term to be sort of a generic term for any bee like thing that buzzes.

  • Beautiful. Except that this is not a bumble bee but a worker honey bee. Sorry. Beautiful nevertheless.

  • Take that, silly Creationists!

  • It was supposed to be a joke... The bumble bee thing is just a myth, anyway.

  • what the F??! was that computer simulated or was that an actual bee? how the hell did you get your shutterspeed so high?

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