I find the old "according to the laws of aviation, bees shouldn't be able to fly" thing tiny-pebble-in-your-shoe irritating
It's such a perfect microcosm of how science is supposed to fucking work, sometimes does, and the fact people then...Just Fucking Won't let go of old shit!
We knew the "laws of aviation" as we understood them couldn't be complete; we knew that because the bee flies and we couldn't describe how. So we did research, and consequently, we have for very many fucking years actually understood perfectly fucking welll how bee flight works! We know! We have a scientific account of it! We updated the so-called "laws of aviation"!
But people! Won't! Let! Go! Of old shit! So more people know that "we don't know how bees fly hahalol" than know anything that's actually true about bees, flight, science, or the actual state of human knowledge!
