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Why Birds Fly In a V Formation
sciencehabit writes "Anyone watching the autumn sky knows that migrating birds fly in a V formation, but scientists have long debated why. A new study of ibises — where researchers took to microlight planes and recorded birds strapped with GPS in-flight — finds that these big-winged birds carefully position their wingtips and sync their flapping, presumably to catch the preceding bird's updraft and save energy during flight."
In the northern hemisphere they actually fly in an A formation. Only in the southern hemisphere do they fly in a V.
Something to do with the Coriolis effect.
about getting funding for *my* study on why dogs lick their balls.
No, it's an anarcho-syndicalist commune. They take it in turns to act as a sort of executive lead-bird of the flight.
You shall see a cow on the roof of a cotton house.
They should also test an unladen swallow.
Better known as 318230.
European or African?
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
Right, because the guy should have remembered being taught it before he was born rather than so late in the game as when he was a child.
Well, whatever we do, by no means should science draw from the past experience and knowledge of the world.
If we ever create a world-wide instantaneous knowledge discovery system, it will be the end of all progress.
In other words: That he does not know it upon birth is a damn design flaw, human.
Would that be Elbert Einstain you speak of?
Right, because the guy should have remembered being taught it before he was born rather than so late in the game as when he was a child.
If only we had places where information could be stored and searched so people who think they've figured out something new can actually look to see if it's new.
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