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What scientific fact blows your mind the most?
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The fact that planes are kept in the air by the shape of their wings, which forces air to go over at a pace when it can't push down on the wing as hard as it can push up from underneath. It's like discovering an exploitable glitch in a videogame and every time I fly I worry that the universe will get patched while I'm at 10,000 feet.
Tbf, you can make anything fly if you give it enough thrust. Wings just make it easier.
In a sense, everything can fly. Just sometimes not for very long.
Except bees. Engineers reckon they shouldn’t be able to fly, but bees told them to get fucked and do it anyway
Engineers never really claimed that. Motivational speakers did.
Scientists admitted that their models don't show how bumblebees can generate enough lift to fly. By now, they've improved their models, taking into account that at an insect's scale, air behaves much more like water. It "appears" to be thicker because the air molecules are larger in relation to an insect than to a human.
Also, complicated turbulence stuff.