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Did you know that crabs wee through their eyes? That maidenhair moss is so called because Anglo-saxons thought it looked like pubes? That Albanians have 17 different words for moustache? Astound us with your utterly useless and obscure knowledge.

(, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 14:48)
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quack does echo, as someone mentioned. and bees do fly and obey standard laws. some scientist calculated it according to fixed rigid wings and traditional theories of flight, it became entrenched as fact soon after. a bee cannot glide, but it can fly, it just uses different prinicples to fixed rigid wing flight, obviously, creating vorticies that peel off the end of the wing to keep it airborne.
i could check all this to make sure its watertight but im sure someone will come on and pick flaws in my wording or explanation anyway, so, feel free, im busy....
(, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 16:22, Reply)

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