Scientists Figure Out How Bees Fly

corbettw writes "Researchers at CalTech have discovered how bees fly, putting one more nail in the coffin of Intelligent Design. From the article: 'People in the ID community have said that we don't even know how bees fly ... We were finally able to put this one to rest. We do have the tools to understand bee flight and we can use science to understand the world around us.'"

Pfft! Why do Bees fly?

[ackthpt]

Nails? Coffins? Intelligent Design? [sfgate.com] Pfft! What do these have to do with each other? Why do bees fly?

Because they forgot how to teleport!

man, i thought everyone knew that already .. all you had to do was ask them.

Cal Tech shouldn't be worrying about beating back old riddles posed by the flocks and get back to the business at hand of figuring out how to hack scoreboards [museumofhoaxes.com].

Scientists Figure Out How Bees Fly

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Scientists Figure Out How Bees Fly

Well, doh, by moving their little wings up and down quickly?


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Try what?

[tehshen]

From TFA:

Try this!

In order to understand how bees carry such heavy cargo, the researchers forced the bees to fly in a small chamber filled with a mixture of oxygen and helium that is less dense than regular air.

"Try this!" I should try what? I am not sure about these researchers, but I do not yet have wings and an air tank. Maybe they're overestimating the Try-This-At-Home market a little.

Re:Why this is important

[dc29A]

Hey, God makes bees fly.

- Flying Spaghetti Monster you insensitive clod!

Bizarro-world logic

[Peter Trepan]

Creationists: We don't know how bees fly, therefore Jehovah created them in their present state.

Scientists: Oh yes, we do. Therefore, they evolved from primitive replicators.

Me: (Smacks them both with a copy of The Baloney Detection Kit)

intelligent design...

[portwojc]

"When you do things right, people won't be sure if you did anything at all."

-Futurama

Re:Pfft! Why do Bees fly?

[Philip K Dickhead]

Yeah, well I misread the title at first. I was intrigued at the prospect of discovering how beers fly!

Re:Can't We All Just Get Along?

[Anonymous Coward]

It seems to me that there is no real conflict of interest: is it not possible that God created evolution?

Agreed, and the evolutionists should also be open to the possibility that humans were created by Santa Claus as a mechanism for giving presents to their children. It isn't an either or thing. Yes, we know that presents come from the parents, but did those parents come about by chance or did Santa Claus cause them to evolve? I just think that people should be open minded about it.

Re:OK,

[stud9920]

He uses his noodly appendage to suspend Intelligent Falling.

Re:Pfft! Why do Bees fly?

[StalinsNotDead]

I was intrigued at the prospect of discovering how beers fly!

You've never been to a trailer park, I take it.

Re:We do not!

[GecKo213]

Its just that people are silly and like to argue. We do Not! err, um, nice point. :)

Re:(Not to be outdone)

[hotdiggitydawg]

This just in..."ID Scientists Figure Out How Pigs Fly"

You forgot to link to a relevant article, but I found one on that very topic [police.uk] that even the ID whackjobs could understand...

Re:Pfft! Why do Bees fly?

[Philip K Dickhead]

Nope. I'm adverse to tornados.

Re:intelligent design...

[brit74]

> "When you do things right, people won't be sure if you did anything at all."

Exactly right. BTW, did you know that I secretly prevented you from being in a car accident earlier today? I did it right, and that's why you never even knew I did anything at all.

(Ha! You can't prove I didn't.)

Re:Why this is important

[hackwrench]

There's quite a bit of evidence to suggest that the universe started at the point in time Genesis suggests it did and that time spilled into the "past" and future equally from that point. Consider this, why did we start finding fossils and oil when we did? It's not hard to look at the evidence and reach the conclusion that they first started popping up when the negative time reached a point equidistant from the Genesis center from us now.

Additional findings from related research

[nelomolen]

Through much blood, sweat, and tears, I am now ready to report my scientific findings to the world:

Turns out an Audi works just like other cars, and therefore there is no such thing as a German automobile manufacturer.

Did anyone still want to talk about pseudoscience?

Re:Try what?

[theonetruekeebler]

the researchers forced the bees to fly in a small chamber filled with a mixture of oxygen and helium

...and when they got back to the hive all the other bees made fun of their really high voices.

Re:Pfft! Why do Bees fly?

[Rei]

That explains all the buzz at the Honeynet project, at the very least.

Re: Scientists Figure Out How Bees Fly

[StikyPad]

I thought the earth just kept moving out of the way to avoid being stung.

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