Muzzle brake pull off , what is it and is it real ?

[reynolds357]

Join Date: June 25, 2008
Location: Austin, CO
Posts: 19,399
That’s an urban legend that never was rooted in reality.

That's odd. He did the equations showing that the bumble bee dis not have enough wing surface area to generate enough lift for its mass, given the amount of power it could produce. You can always count on Snopes to be full of Bravo Sierra. August Magnan published story of the physics defying bumble bee in 1913. High speed photography solved the problem in 2005. A bumble bee does not move its wings up and down, it moves them forward and backwards. The equation of impossibility proves true for up and down motion.

 

[Brian Pfleuger]

In other words, except for one quote in a book by one dude 85 years ago... no one ever thought it "impossible" for bees to fly and references to it never really more than an insolent response to claims of knowledge.

It's even called The Bumblebee Argument... "Unfortunately (for the pseudoscientists), the laws of physics do not in any way forbid bumblebee flight; there are no papers that deny bumblebee flight, and no scientist has done so in a lecture, except, perhaps, ironically. To put it simply, it is possible to "prove" that a bumblebee cannot fly if you perform an extremely crude calculation (like forgetting to take into account things like the rate of flapping, the rotation of the wing, or the action of vortices), but a full aerodynamic calculation (to say nothing of getting all empirical and watching a bumblebee fly) will show that the bumblebee's flight works perfectly well."

Not that it ever had anything to do with the OP, except as an occasion for snark.