Robin Becker <ro...@reportlab.com> wrote: > On 16/03/2017 14:03, D'Arcy Cain wrote: > > On 2017-03-16 09:45 AM, Robin Becker wrote: > >> On 15/03/2017 13:53, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > >>> You probably can't make a whale fly just by changing the class to > >>> bird. It > >>> will need wings, and feathers, at the very least. > >> > >> the whale in the Hitchhiker's Guide found itself flying without feathers > >> or wings > > > > Falling is not the same as flying unless you accidentally miss the ground. > > > well in English an arrow flies as well as time, the whale was very interested > in > the approaching ground and perhaps forgot to conjure up virtual wings or > rockets. In any case satellites miss the ground, but even their motion cannot > be > classed as flying with wings so I think this discussion has become irrelevant.
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