Old school I know, but how do they work ?

[asterix]

..or it understands the laws of flight better than we do?

 

[biggs682]

But wot about the crank bolts

how can we reply when they have bolted !

 

[User482]

I'm more inclined to believe the wiki version. Discovered by Abel Tasman , a Dutchman. New Zealand, named Nova Zeelandia by Dutch cartographers after the Dutch province of Zeeland, later anglicised to New Zealand by Captain Cook..

Speaking of Cook, he named Doubtful Sound because he wasn't sure if it was navigable. In any case, it's actually a fjord.

 

[tadpole]

Bees do not defy the laws of flight, we just had/have a poor understand of unsteady viscous fluid dynamics.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/March00/APS_Wang.hrs.html

 

[Norm]

I'm more inclined to believe the wiki version. Discovered by Abel Tasman , a Dutchman. New Zealand, named Nova Zeelandia by Dutch cartographers after the Dutch province of Zeeland, later anglicised to New Zealand by Captain Cook..

Whilst technically correct, it doesn't affect CoffeeJo's answer which was to the question "Where is Zealand" rather than "How did New Zealand get its name"

 

[coffeejo]

Quite right.

 

[Friz]

Dickinson tests flies in the lab with a flyswatter like device.

This line just keeps getting funnier the more I think about it.

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

One of lifes mysteries. Like :- how does a bee fly when by all the laws of flight, it cant

For many years, people tried to understand animal flight using the aerodynamics of airplanes and helicopters. Douglas L. Altshuler from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena found in a new study that honeybees compensate for short wingstrokes by beating their wings faster. This generates aerodynamic forces every time the wings change direction that create the requisite lift required for flight.

It was our understanding of the requirement for flight which was the issue, not that the bee could not fly