[TowerTalk] Divining rods

jimlux jimlux at earthlink.net
Tue Aug 31 17:10:07 PDT 2010


Alan NV8A wrote:
> I remember reading decades ago that, according to the laws of 
> aerodynamics, bees cannot fly because their wings are not large enough 
> for their body size. The bees, however, being unfamiliar with the laws 
> of aerodynamics, just keep flying anyway.
> 
> 73


That's a canard..

it was originally intended to demonstrate that simple models do not 
always work (e.g. flapping wings are not steady state flow, no you can't 
neglect thermodynamics, etc.)


Sort of like modeling an antenna as a lumped RLC.  Works for small 
frequency ranges, but not for large ones.


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