can birds fly in outer space like in the space shuttle?
461940
Yes. They could fly inside a space shuttle. Birds would have a hard time adjusting to the lack of gravity though, and would look funny trying to fly. Assuming there would be the normal amount of air inside the shuttle, the wings would be effective as they would push some air around.
465272
Long ago the ancestors of penguins were birds that could fly.  However, they evolved to become superb divers, and in the process lost the power of flight.  A flying bird has to minimise its weight.  For example, all flying birds have hollow bones.  In contrast, to be a successful diver a penguin wants to keep it's weight high, so they have solid bones. Penguins are excellent divers, they can dive to depths of 300m and remain down for up to 20 minutes.  While penguins cannot fly in the air, they do seem to fly through the water - if you ever get the chance to see penguins swimming in a large and deep pool you will never again say they can't fly!
779454
Wild turkeys can fly.  However, they don't typically fly more than a quarter mile or higher than fifty feet up.  In fact, wild turkeys can fly up to 50mph.  \n\nDomesticated turkeys cannot fly though.  Due to husbandry techniques that enhance muscle volume, they are simply too heavy to fly.
65882
Humming bird  flies in both the directions -- backwards as well forward
11721
First of all, it depends on the bird size. The bird has an initial advantage of flying away. If the bird is big like a hawk, it would be a winner without any questions. But if it is small, it would fly away. And you know, The winner never runs away from the battlefield.
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you could flap your arms all day long a (BMPH) Billion Miles Per hour.heheh And you never get lift. See to under stand how birds fly you have to understand a birds body. First off a birds bones are hollow. Meaning less weight. Secondly the birds wings are shaped like a windfoil which gives lift. to explan how a wing works we will go into alittle physics of flight. To understand flight you have to understand how the wing is designed. \n\nfirst take a peice of postit note from one of the 5x3 inch pads. you need a pensile. bring the bottom side of the post it note to the top side where it is sticky. stick it together. Now you have a piece of paper simular to a tear drop. what you going to do is run the pencle between the opening to the other side. let the pice of paper float freely. hold the pencile with both hands one on one side of the paper and the other on the other side of the paper. Not put the not about 5 inches in front of your mouth and blow. Notice what happens the paper lifts. This is what is called lift. This is how birds fly. basicly when you blow on the paper the under side high presure goes under and low presure goes over the top. We will call it a win for now. But pending on how the wind is hitting it will depend on what direction the wing will go. If the tail end is faced up then the wing will go down it it's faced down the wing will go up. When it goes up that is called lift. and thats how birds fly.
746359
Why does a bird fly?  A fish swim?
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http://www.astronautix.com/craft/buran.htlm\nhttp://www.astronautix.com/lvs/energia.htlm\nhttp://www.hightechscience.org/buran_space\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle\nhope it will help.\nThe only working, flight-ready,and worthy space shuttle is NASA's space shuttle fleet.
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It depends on the species of bird. Some it may take months, some weeks, some a week, and others just a few days. It also depends on the health of the parents and baby. If the parents are healthier they can take better care of the baby so it will be healthier and can fly sooner. Also a healthier parent will teach the baby sooner and quicker. But some bird such as the ostrich, emu, and South American rhea do not fly. Sorry I was unable to be more specfic as it would have been impossible to give you an exact time period. After originally answering this question you e-mailed me saying that the birds were sparrows. Sparrows are small birds and as such, will learn to fly quickly. It may be anywhere around 6-14 days.
846551
Adaptation of flight.
1014429
They do fly.\n\nWhere are you getting your misinformation?
454243
Your bones are too dense. \n\nNo joke, the reason birds are capable of flight is due to having hollow bones, making them far lighter.
242203
air plane is not design for outerspace. From the word itself AIRPLANE, it need air and we all know there no air out in space.
801824
Typically birds fly to the southern most part of their range.  Depending on species it can be a slightly different direction.  Many species migrate: waterfowl, songbirds, hummingbirds, etc.  Many birds do not migrate....mostly birds found in areas where is does not get very cold (California, Florida, S. America etc.) and where there is food available year round.
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Hummingbirds can fly right, left, up, down, backwards, even upside down due to their special wings. Hummingbirds are also able to hover by flapping their wings in a figure - 8 pattern.   http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/hummingbirds.html
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No, but people flying them can depending on the circumstances....
147635
Sound does not travel in space. \n\nSound is created when a vibrating object (your vocal cords, a guitar string, etc.) causes the air around it to vibrate. This vibration continues to expand outwards through the air (or water if you happen to be under water) until it reaches your ear drum, which in turn vibrates. Your brain interprets these vibrations as sound.\n\nSound does not travel in space because space is a vacuum. There is nothing to vibrate. So, when the vibrations (sound) reaches the upper levels of our atmosphere, it stops.\n\nSound does travel in the space shuttle because the space shuttle is pressurized and contains air that the astronauts breath. The air provides the medium to transfer the vibrations from the source object to the astronaut's ears.