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Ocean-Crossing Dragonflies Discovered
grrlscientist writes "While living and working as a marine biologist in Maldives, Charles Anderson noticed sudden explosions of dragonflies at certain times of year. He explains how he carefully tracked the path of a plain, little dragonfly called the Globe Skimmer, Pantala flavescens, only to discover that it had the longest migratory journey of any insect in the world."
How many would it take to carry a coconut?
I don't think it was called anything before it was discovered, actually.
...or ability to harness solar energy ;)
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Table-ized A.I.
400 miles is about 640,000 meters
640k should be enough for anyone.
Just wondering - how many dragonflies it would take to carry a one pound coconut?
...It's a PITA for me to watch videos...
Leave the toys put away when watching p0rn! That will help.
...but up until now the scientific tracking tools were too heavy and the dragonflies all fell into the ocean and drowned. Why, it was only 10 years ago that advances in tracking devices caused scientists to discover that dragonflies could actually fly.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
It can be explained, consider a spherical dragonfly in a vacuum...