Re: Underwater questions [ot]

At 9:30 PM -0500 11/2/99, Laserlight wrote:
>  >Since I'm totally ignorant of the avian world, you'll have
>to excuse
>>this question: Do seabirds dive through the water?
>>
>>Of course, they've got foldable wings, which is tricky to
>copy for
>>vehicles (for various reasons - the cube/squared law and
>the speeds at
>>which airplanes move, for example).  I'm not saying it's
>impossible -
>>and certainly there are some jets with limited wing-folding
>ability -
>>but it's tricky.
>
>Be interesting to watch a plane try to fold its wings _while
>in flight_ diving for the water.

That gets back to the whole transforming mecha thing again, which I'm 
for come to think of it.

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