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> only a few kilometers? That's something like 67 thousand times the length of a honeybee Which is what they do routinely. Bumblebees have been known to fly up
by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
> only a few kilometers? That's something like 67 thousand times the length of a honeybee
Which is what they do routinely. Bumblebees have been known to fly up to 8 miles (13 kilometers) from their nest. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Scientists-Map-the-Flight-of-the-Bumblebee-31005.shtml http://news.softpedia.com/news/Scientists-Map-the-Flight-of-...
> a creature that has to violate physics to fly
Nonsense. http://www.snopes.com/science/bumblebees.asp http://www.snopes.com/science/bumblebees.asp
- mig39 13y agoHe used a :) to indicate sarcasm. I'm sure he knows bees don't violate physics.
- Samuel_Michon 13y agoUsually, in this context, one uses a wink face to indicate sarcasm and a smiley face to indicate you find something amusing. Also, I wasn't under the impression that he thought bumble-bees can’t fly, but that he is of the belief that at one point in time, scientists couldn't explain how it’s physically possible and that that is where this factoid came from.