Robin Ince Meets Richard Dawkins
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The Angels, the Wings of an Angel
If you're as big as a human then flying is a really difficult problem. Leonardo tried it, designed it wouldn't have worked. The only time anybody succeeded in using human muscle power to get off the ground was paul m Cready. But birds do it so effortlessly, it's something to envy and atand one of the reasons is that too big. So an angel would be too big to do flapping flight. You could glide. There've been flying animals as big as humans, as heavy as humans, but they probably only glide. I blame the popes.
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