reynolds357
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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.
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