Is It True That Bumblebees Shouldn't Be Able to Fly?

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There’s an oft repeated “fact” that the humble bumblebee defies all known laws of physics every time it flaps its tiny little bee wings and ascends to the sky. Now obviously this is false, since, well, bumblebees fly all the time and if every time a bee took off it was tearing physics apart, we’d probably realize that was the case when two thirds of our population disappeared after being pulled into tiny, bee-shaped black holes.

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[Ryarios]

Bees don’t fly so much as beat the air into submission...

[Fenriralias]

2 Minutes after this was posted it had 8 comments, 3 of which being "according to all known laws of aviation"

[jackal]

I love how as this channel goes on Simon just keeps getting more Savage And sarcastic. I love it.

[jacobmortimore]

00:03 my mum once said "if you know you're the smartest person in the room, then get the hell out of there!!"

[sailorbychoice]

5:00 My friend used to say, "Lasers aren't important to make my experiments accurate, but they are important for my experiments to be cool."

[frognik]

Don't be silly, the bees stay where they are, it's the universe that moves away.

[micheal]

If bees were fixed-wing aircraft, there would be problems flying, but since it is not a fixed-winged aircraft, it flies quite nicely by flapping its wings. There are also issues with scale and how things get oddly different on such a small size... like dropping a dead bee off the Empire State Building won't reach same terminal velocity as an elephant.

[kenxclout]

What do you call a Bee that eats other Bees?





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[JustinY.]

Well actually, according to all known laws of

[rosstheboss]

Nobody:
No soul:

The Bee Movie: *”According to all known laws of aviation...”*

[anarchyantz]

Mythbusters did an episode nuking some cockroaches and they croaked. The only thing that will survive a nuclear blast is the Bank of Japan, Hiroshima branch.

[handimanjim]

It is amazing that Simon gets through these scripts without cracking up, ( more than he does)!

[Reynevan]

Turns out Herbert in his Dune was at the forefront of predicting military technology of the future. Ornitopthers for the win!

[tom_something]

"Hey, can you jot down on this napkin how a bee is able to fly?"

"Yes. Wait, no! I can't! We're in a bar and we've been drinking and I'm just going off of my own memory of a bee's mass, wing size, flap frequency and aerodynamic characteristics, but surely I'm doing everything correctly and we've just discovered that bees break physics."

"Wow, this is going to make a great story!"

"Legendary."

[OtakuUnitedStudio]

The moral of the story: you're probably drunk of you think bees are fixed-wing aircraft.

[francoislacombe]

Bees and hummingbirds fly in a remarkably similar fashion. 🤔

[robwallace]

"As long as you don't take into account that it's a bee..." Made me snortle and spit out my drink, good job sir 10/10

[SunflowerSpotlight]

You’re so right about people misconstruing something and passing it on to naive students and it perpetuating itself. I had a really pretty good history professor, one of my favorites, who bought into the idea that being 50 was kind of surprising and a feat in the Middle Ages and Enlightenment, due to a very low average lifespan.

You know, from a staggering rate of infant mortality and childhood deaths and fatal mishandling of childbirth and its effects on mothers (as well as having doctors not wash before reaching inside to feel the cervix, grab breech babies, etc). If you avoid that, you had a good chance of living into old age. Of course cancer was still a deal, and heart disease, and they were more likely to take people down without surgery and modern treatment.

But dang. Talk about having all the right info and just... not realizing you’re applying it incorrectly. The stats don’t lie, you just don’t understand them and are applying your biases! Seeing someone who’s 60 wouldn’t be a once in a lifetime thing, of “Tell me your ways and how to obtain such good health, old and wise one.” It’s not like seeing a 125-year-old today or something.

When people who ought to know better perpetuate things like this, it really makes me wonder.

[SevCaswell]

This is a video on Bees yet the 'bonus facts' are just the video on why cockroaches wouldn't inherit the earth...

[mahuk.]

"and I've got to get to that 10 minute mark people!" bwahahahaha I love this freaking channel. I just can't skip the ad with that level of sincerity.