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Old 9th September 2002 | 21:29
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Troy McClure
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Mass cannot be created or destroyed. Basic rule of non-nuclear physics (negating nuclear reaction type e=mc2 effects, which I'm sure is beyond the average Norweigan Blue).

Lift on birds' wings has to equal their weight, or they'd accelerate in a vertical direction (which would make it a slightly different case - cf jumping in lift, where f=ma also comes into the equation), though if they were all flapping up and down, the accelerations would average out.

Mass constant, acceleration constant, w = mg, therefore weight constant.
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