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Sometimes things work even when they should not.

We had a teacher in University that proved to us how bees could not fly, making the assumption of laminar flow of course, that is what we use for flying airplanes.

Ever flying over terrain or water at small heights the physics are completely different than general flight (ground effect).

So If a guy is fool and young enough to actually make a prototype(stay foolish, stay hungry) he could discover specific "special cases" that could make this invention useful enough for something.

For example, probably when you put your telephone over a small 1 millimeter distance of the charger you could get some time of resonance and you could increase the frequency, making the amplitude necessary smaller. I don't know, some times our assumptions(generalizations) are just wrong.




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