If a fly didn't have wings would it still be called a fly or would it be called a walk?
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Yes, it would be called a walk.  And if you removed the legs also it would be called a roll.
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ok, it would freeze quickly (not explode-it is made of solids and liquids, which don't expand in vacuum). But for fun, assume it doesn't freeze or die of hypoxia.  Since there isn't any air, there is nothing for the wings to beat against, so it would flap it's wings and just stay in the same place- The motion of the wings might cause it to start rotating, though-so I would imagine the fly (which is a magic fly that doesn't dry up, freeze, or need oxygen) would just spin around in a tiny circle right where it is.
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walk=no\nsac fly=yes\nyou can have an RBI if you walk with the bases loaded.\nhit by pitch=no\nobstruction or interference=no
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No, we couldn't fly if we had wings. We're much to heavy for one thing. Flying birds have hollow bones and many other adaptations for flight (like a "keel" on their breastbone that the flight muscles attach to and specialized respiratory systems). It's a good thing we're smart enough to make things like planes, because that's the only way we're getting in the air.
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BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE WINGS!!!
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I think haysoos2 gave the most appropriate answer that could possibly be given\ngood one, you beat me to it!\n\nI think what you might have meant are actually hangflies, they are not actually flies at all, they belong to the order Mecoptera, with the scorpion flies. These flies look very similar to Tipulidae, and other Nematocera, but they are actually predatory, they have 4 wings and the long cone-like mouthparts that give them away. These impressive little hunters hang from vegetation and capture flying prey as it passes, pretty interesting group of insects!\n\nhere is an image of one\nhttp://bugguide.net/node/view/55252\n\n\nHope this helps!
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Normally, "time flies" is a phrase where 'time' is the noun, and 'flies' is the verb - meaning that time moves quickly.\n\nHere, however, 'time' is the verb (like what you use a watch for during a race) and 'flies' is the noun (like the pesky insect).  Thus, it's saying: we can't say how fast flies are flying - they're going too fast.\n\nMildly funny at best, but there you go.
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so if a butterfly flaps its wings it creates a tiny bit of wind, right? the theory is that if that butterfly creates that bit of wind, it changes the strength of the wind overall, and so alters the weather, and the weather alters peoples' plans and the survival of species and a million other things... \n\nit's one way of saying that nothing is so insignifigant that it doesn't make a difference, and the smallest things can still have huge impacts. it's a metaphor for chaos theory.\n\ni reccommend the second link, it's more fun. wikipedia is more informative, though.
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Ostriches can't fly because they have tiny (vestigial) wings. Ostriches are large birds, and weigh quite a bit - and therefore would need HUGE wings in order to fly. We're talking a wingspan of over 30 feet! There is a point where the weight of the body and the need for longer/bigger wings is not advantageous for a species. The ostrich is way beyond that metaphorical cut-off point. \n\nI hope this helps!
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insects have an ectoskeleton, it's on the outside.  It's like armour.  Now imagine if they were the size of humans, it would be very easy for them to take over the world.  They'd be unstoppable!
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Its called Ecdysis.Ecdysis is the moulting of the cuticle or the exoskeleton.Higher insects have only 4-5 moultings whereas lower insects have till 15.As the exoskeleton is hard its difficult for the insect to grow so it moults periodically to grow.They grow a new exoskeleton later.
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FLY! And effortlessly... I've gotten used to walking, being in thee city...but flying around instead of walking is something I've wanted to do since I was a cub, lol...so unbearlike, right? It'd be cool and for some reason less energy-burning if there are wings for gliding..
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moon\ncheese\njeans\nlagoon\nbird\narsed fly\nrinse\ncollar
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IT IS CALLED A LACEWING
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Nope, it's still a fly.  But at least it would get the good parking places.....since it would be handicapped.
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The phrase as a crow flies means basically a straight line.\n\nA road between two cities has to take into account the geograhy between the two cities.\n There may be hills , a water course a valley none of which will affect a flying crow
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For a while, humans had a firm grip on the aerodynamics of fixed wing flight, and found that those rules didn't correctly explain the aerodynamics of moving bumblebee wings.\n\nNone of which menas that our understanding of flixed wing flight was hopelessly flawed, or that bumblebees fly with the help of tiny angels, or anything like that.  It just means that you can't accurataly understand a phenomena by applying inapplicable theories to it.  \n\nNow , we know the aerodynamics of bumblebees better; specifically, we know the aerodynamics of the small vortices created by insect wings better, so that I believe we do now have accurate hypotheses to apply to bumblebees flight.