Re: Interesting analogy...IIRC, the last time you used it...

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Rams43
Reminds me of the story about the group of crack aeronautical engineers that got together and came up with the paper that “proved” that the bumblebee could not fly. Lol.

The last time you used this analogy was in my very intense and epic thread closing debate with B&G that the Rams WOULD be interested in signing Suh.

B&G used some high level analysis to say they wouldn't in a million years.

We all know how that turned out.

Your analogy was spot on last time; let's hope it is this time too.

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The fluid dynamics behind bumblebees' flight are different from those that allow a plane to fly. An airplane's wing forces air down, which in turn pushes the wing (and the plane it's attached to) upward. For bugs, it isn't so simple. The wing sweeping is a bit like a partial spin of ahelicopter propeller, Dickinson said, but the angle to the wing also creates vortices in the air like small hurricanes. The eyes of those mini-hurricanes have lower pressure than the surrounding air, so, keeping those eddies of air above its wings helps the bee stay aloft.