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Old 2012-05-13, 09:14   Link #95
Upscaled
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Sorry to get into an unnecessarily technical detail that's largely irrelevant to the thrust of the story, but I have some questions for those more knowledgeable than I am about aviation &/or the nature of these magical bees. Would the shooting down of a large airliner at low altitude, with most of its fuel spent, with a single, shoulder-mounted missile, guarantee the elimination of all the bees? In the anime, the plane exploded and disintegrated in mid-air. Would that really have happened with the amount of fuel left in the plane after a trans-Atlantic flight? Given that bees are much smaller than humans, thus less affected by sudden acceleration and less likely to be struck by debris, what is the likelihood that some bees might have survived the mid-air disintegration? Or were the bees already "spent," after having infected the passengers?
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