... can throw itself into the air. Then, at once, it takes off like a flash. BUMBLEBEE A bumblebee, if dropped into an open tumbler, will be there until it dies, unless it is taken... completely destroys itself. PEOPLE In many ways, we are like the buzzard, the bat, and the bumblebee. We struggle about with all our problems and frustrations, never realizing that all we have to do...

...> wrote: On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, David Cantrell wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:59:04PM +0100, JJ wrote: And die instantly should you collide with anything more massive than a bumblebee. Says the newly-minted biker. Heh - at least on a bike they make you wear some form of protection! ;-P Make sure you have a full-face helmet. No worries there. There is ...

...co.uk> wrote: On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, David Cantrell wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:59:04PM +0100, JJ wrote: And die instantly should you collide with anything more massive than a bumblebee. Says the newly-minted biker. Heh - at least on a bike they make you wear some form of protection! ;-P Make sure you have a full-face helmet. I had a jet helmet with a wrap-...

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, David Cantrell wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:59:04PM +0100, JJ wrote: And die instantly should you collide with anything more massive than a bumblebee. Says the newly-minted biker. Heh - at least on a bike they make you wear some form of protection! ;-P JJ

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:59:04PM +0100, JJ wrote: And die instantly should you collide with anything more massive than a bumblebee. Says the newly-minted biker. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla.

...>http://tinyurl.com/6r25y9 Two cylinder... 60mpg... 75MPH... and quirky as hell.. Having driven one (my cousin used to have an ex Belgian post office van), I'll agree with quirky (whackygearchangetastic in fact) but... 75mph? You'd need to drive off a cliff! ;) Plus you can haul straw bales.. And die instantly should you collide with anything more massive than a bumblebee. JJ

... hurts ... a *lot*. Never mind stones picked up by other road users. Mate of mine collected a huge bumblebee in the cheek at 90+ (this is about 23 years ago now, thinking about it) ... the doctors were picking bits of manky bumblebee carcass out of his cheek for *months* afterwards, all the while the skin and flesh was hideously infected. Major ...

...its balance on all kinds of terrain, even after slipping on ice or being kicked. All while carrying several hundreds of pounds of supplies on its "back." It sounds like one angry giant bumblebee though. Just this morning a Japanese physicist said on TV that one reason Japan is investing so much money in robotic research is to develop robot nurses to be used in caregiving or domestic ...

...until the mite is completely eliminated from the hive. Even just one bee with mites that survives the product application will reinfest the hive. Shades of "Alien"... remember the movie? Don't know if bumblebees are susceptable, but don't they live in pairs and tend to groom each other? If they groom each other, then they should be able to survive this pest-- keeping the numbers of mites...

... society tried to disprove the Wright Bros Kittyhawk flights for /two years/ after the fact, because "it could not be" and biologists were only able to adequately explain the bumblebee last year. Loads of bullshit. You aren't even following the arguments. How does one make macroscopic quantum effects in an environment which is hot and classical? Penrose offers a conjecture, the ...