ok so i just finished watching blue planet and the extra space shuttle movie that it came with. and i was wondering what would happen if you put a bird in zero gravity? i looked on youtube and google'ed it but found nothing.
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Nothing would happen, it would just float. Unless there is some sort of atmosphere in this zero-gravity area (not possible, since air is pulled by gravity towards planets), the bird would have nothing to propel itself against.
if it was inside a spaceship with air pumped in for the astronauts it would propel itself.....birds dont fly because of gravity, it could still fly in a way...when they flap though the counterbalance that is normally there with gravity isnt there in space so it would most likely mean the bird would fly vertically instead of horizontally
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no i know that they wouldnt movie unless somehting acted upon it. i just want to see what it would look like
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As I understand, birds fly by creating lift in the form of a vacuum on top of their wings during the downstroke, and then gliding forward during the upstroke. Without gravity, the gliding wouldn't work,so in a zero-gravity atmosphere like inside a space station, a bird would probably just flap its wings like mad, flipping itself over and over in mid-air and bouncing off of things.
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