Friday, October 24, 2008

I'm gonna share something awsome with you,


because I shared with you such an awesome thing, cool videos is what you owe me.

Science 10yrs ago, used to say that it was thermo-dynamically impossible for bumble bees to fly. Bumble Bees were simply too heavy.
Bumble bees live in a sorority colonies with a dominant laying mum,
They have a thick and heavy coat of insulation that allows them to brave the cold, and begin their pollinating work earlier in the spring. Bumble Bees are very important pollinators. Honey bees come out weeks behind them when the weather is warmer, and therefore aren't good for certain early season fruits, like some apples that blossom long before they show their leaves.

And then the sciencists,
they discovered the vortex power of the bumble bee wing stroke.
Fly's and bees and the rest, paddle through the air, like you or I might paddle along the water, if we were being sneaky.

When you are sneaking around in a Canoe, you don't pull your paddle out of the water,
cause they would drip water, and your quarry would hear you. To keep it sneaky, during the back stroke, ie to return the paddle to the beginning of a new power stroke, you turn the paddle to cut the water when you draw it forward, then turn it out for to push the water during the power stroke. You'll see little vortex's come off the paddle stroke into the water wake. With a real solid stroke you can get five to seven little swimming vortii. Vortex Power enhances the force of the bumble Bee wing stroke, an as air is a "liquid", the bee's cut the wing angle to slice through the air on the back stroke. Its pretty cool.

Check the video out again, it takes magic to see it happen, without camera's.
Which is why you owe me.

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