We have two kinds of ducks on the farm: egg layers and meat ducks. Somehow when we got a shipment of day-old ducklings (from an Amish farmer in Pennsylvania) we got one 'flying' duck, breed unknown. She's a white female (I think) I named Amelia Airduck. She spends her time with one or another of the groups of older meat ducks (never the egg layers) and often flies out of the pen she's in, makes a wide circle or two of a large part of the farm, and then returns to just about where she started. Some of the other ducks inevitably waddle up to her, envious, I suppose. She further sets herself apart by resting atop the portable hut that is in each pen or occasionally in a tree branch therein. I think she's just a showoff but most of the other ducks pretend she's nothing special. She'll never get 'processed', as the other meat ducks do (at 12 weeks of age), she's just too lovely to watch fly.
Birds have got lungs and other body parts that can put us mammals to shame
Those aren't birds.
That's what they want you to think…
Also, fun fact, the air pressure at that altitude is about 30% that at sea level, and water boils at 70C
The high-altitude instructions on Tibetan cake mixes just say, "Fuck it, it ain't gonna rise."
Brownies are good when you're high, or getting you there.
Ambient temperature at that altitude is about 120°C shy of that.
Geese are warm blooded
They would need to be. I wouldn't send a paleopython on such a mission.
That's true- you're absolutely right. I hear down is a good insulating material, too.
Also, snakes have a poor lift-to-drag ratio, and an unstable yaw of repose.
Snakes on a Plane?
Let's see Sully deal with a bird-strike flame-out over the Himalayas at 30,000 feet AMSL!
I'm not so sherpa about this.
That's some stone Col logic right there.
I'd be willing Tibet it's true.
Cwm as you are- or down cwm at all!
Also: Yes we cairn!
We have two kinds of ducks on the farm: egg layers and meat ducks. Somehow when we got a shipment of day-old ducklings (from an Amish farmer in Pennsylvania) we got one 'flying' duck, breed unknown. She's a white female (I think) I named Amelia Airduck. She spends her time with one or another of the groups of older meat ducks (never the egg layers) and often flies out of the pen she's in, makes a wide circle or two of a large part of the farm, and then returns to just about where she started. Some of the other ducks inevitably waddle up to her, envious, I suppose. She further sets herself apart by resting atop the portable hut that is in each pen or occasionally in a tree branch therein. I think she's just a showoff but most of the other ducks pretend she's nothing special. She'll never get 'processed', as the other meat ducks do (at 12 weeks of age), she's just too lovely to watch fly.