Scientists Figure Out How Bees Fly

corbettw writes "Researchers at CalTech have discovered how bees fly, putting one more nail in the coffin of Intelligent Design. From the article: 'People in the ID community have said that we don't even know how bees fly ... We were finally able to put this one to rest. We do have the tools to understand bee flight and we can use science to understand the world around us.'"

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Pfft! Why do Bees fly?

[ackthpt]

Nails? Coffins? Intelligent Design? Pfft! What do these have to do with each other? Why do bees fly?

Because they forgot how to teleport!

man, i thought everyone knew that already .. all you had to do was ask them.

Cal Tech shouldn't be worrying about beating back old riddles posed by the flocks and get back to the business at hand of figuring out how to hack scoreboards.

Scientists Figure Out How Bees Fly

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Scientists Figure Out How Bees Fly

Well, doh, by moving their little wings up and down quickly?


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Re: Scientists Figure Out How Bees Fly

[StikyPad]

I thought the earth just kept moving out of the way to avoid being stung.

Try what?

[tehshen]

From TFA:

Try this!

In order to understand how bees carry such heavy cargo, the researchers forced the bees to fly in a small chamber filled with a mixture of oxygen and helium that is less dense than regular air.

"Try this!" I should try what? I am not sure about these researchers, but I do not yet have wings and an air tank. Maybe they're overestimating the Try-This-At-Home market a little.

Re:Why this is important

[dc29A]

Hey, God makes bees fly.

- Flying Spaghetti Monster you insensitive clod!

Bizarro-world logic

[Peter Trepan]

Creationists: We don't know how bees fly, therefore Jehovah created them in their present state.

Scientists: Oh yes, we do. Therefore, they evolved from primitive replicators.

Me: (Smacks them both with a copy of The Baloney Detection Kit)

intelligent design...

[portwojc]

"When you do things right, people won't be sure if you did anything at all."

-Futurama

Re:Pfft! Why do Bees fly?

[StalinsNotDead]

I was intrigued at the prospect of discovering how beers fly!

You've never been to a trailer park, I take it.

Re:We do not!

[GecKo213]

Its just that people are silly and like to argue. We do Not! err, um, nice point. :)

Re:Pfft! Why do Bees fly?

[Philip K Dickhead]

Nope. I'm adverse to tornados.