Scientifically Impossible for The Bumble Bee to Fly – Mike Huckabee US Presidential Aspirant 2008 – The bumble Bee Explained Why Huckabee got stung to be President

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Nov 1, 2025

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The kangaroo argument

There is a similar concept to the idea that a kangaroo can’t exist because jumping would consume more energy than it could possibly get from eating. Like the bumblebee argument, it is possible to “prove” that a kangaroo can’t jump if you leave out a few key variables. If you assume that a kangaroo is simply an 80 kg weight that is lifted up and dropped repeatedly, then your calculation will show that the “kangaroo” can’t jump. The missing variable is that a kangaroo’s leg muscles and tendons act as springs, transferring the energy from landing into the next jump.

Mike Huckabee and the bumblebee

While campaigning for the 2008 presidential nomination Mike Huckabee used the Bumblebee argument during a campaign speech when he said:^[2]

“”It’s scientifically impossible for the bumblebee to fly; but the bumblebee, being unaware of these scientific facts, flies anyway.

Huck was wrong about Bees and science and got stung as he did not get the nomination thank God 🙂

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Bees beat their wings about 200 times a second. Their thorax muscles do not contract on each nerve firing, but rather vibrate like a plucked rubber band. This is efficient, since it lets the system consisting of muscle and wing operate at its resonant frequency, leading to low energy consumption. Further, it is necessary, since insect motor nerves generally cannot fire 200 times per second.^[73] These types of muscles are called asynchronous muscles^[74] and are found in the insect wing systems in families such as Hymenoptera, Diptera, Coleoptera, and Hemiptera.^[73] Bumblebees must warm up their bodies considerably to get airborne at low ambient temperatures. Bumblebees have been known to reach an internal thoracic temperature of 30 °C (86 °F) using this method.

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Short and stubby, the bumblebee doesn’t look very flight-worthy. Indeed, in the 1930s, French entomologist August Magnan even noted that the insect’s flight is actually impossible, a notion that has stuck in popular consciousness since then.

Now, you don’t need to be a scientist to raise an eyebrow at this assertion, but it sure is easier to explain the bumblebee’s physics-defying aerodynamics if you’re Michael Dickinson, a professor of biology and insect flight expert at the University of Washington.

“The whole question of how these little wings generate enough force to keep the insect in the air is resolved,” Dickinson told Life’s Little Mysteries. “There are details remaining, but it’s just not an enigma anymore.”

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Dickinson published a 2005 study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on the flight of the bumblebee after gathering data using high-speed photography of actual flying bees and force sensors on a larger-than-life robotic bee wing flapping around in mineral oil. He says the big misconception about insect flight and perhaps what tripped up Magnan is the belief that bumblebees flap their wings up and down. “Actually, with rare exceptions, they flap their wings back and forth,” Magnan said.

Take your arm and put it out to your side, parallel to the ground with your palm facing down. Now sweep your arm forward. When you reach in front of you, pull your thumb up, so that you flip your arm over and your palm is upwards. Now, with your palm up, sweep your arm back. When you reach behind you, flip your hand over again, palm down for the forward stroke. Repeat. If you gave your hand a slight tilt (so that it’s not completely parallel to the ground), Dickinson said, you’d be doing something similar to a bug flap.

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 a “somewhat crappy” helicopter propeller, Dickinson said, but the angle to the wing also creates vortices in the airlike 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.

Other studies have confirmed that bees can flyin one of the more colorful projects, in 2001, a Chinese research team led by Lijang Zeng of Tsinghua University glued small pieces of glass to bees and then tracked reflected light as they flew around in a laser array. But now, Dickinson says, researchers are more interested in the finer points of how insects control themselves once they’re in the air. Those studies will be especially important for a fleet of robotic insects in development, including robobees created by a team at Harvard University.