Why can even nasty mosquitos fly while a human being cannot?

Question

That's not fair, thatI insects can fly and people cannot. I also want to fly!

Answer 1

Tough question, really so you want to fly. Does that mean, to feel free, to have your own space, to be above all trouble, we can all fly, as young boy I lve next to a baseball stadium. I wanted to watch the games but I couldn't afford it.
So, on the weekends when the stadium was close, I began to practice balancing on a high rise fence. The fence was about 12 to 14 feet high and straddling was very difficult. I think it took me about a month, falling or puling myself to walk it like a balancing beam. But after I did, I could walk the whole fence,watch the game for free and at times it felt like I were flying. So, that feeling of having control is an adrenaline rush.
Years ago I took the same type of experience but jumping of bridges into rivers, ocean and so forth. I jump of the edge of a cliff on the banks of a Cuban ocean.What flying experience.
But yes there are many ways to feel the sense of flying, but I rather not be a mosquito, there's no future but a meal for another insect LOL

Answer 2

You may THINK you want to fly, but it's actually a lot less fun than it seems.

First of all, think about energy cost. If you think running top speed is hard, that's NOTHING compared to what it takes to fly through the air. Considering that there aren't a whole lot of humans who can run full-tilt for more than a few seconds, even if we had wings most of us wouldn't use them for more than getting stuff off the top shelf (if that).

Second, look at the sky. Go ahead. I'm not going anywhere. What's up there? Pretty much a whole lot of nothing. Everything that is REALLY interesting is on the ground. Where you already are. Even birds usually spend almost all their time not-flying (mostly because they have to spend most of their time getting enough food to have enough energy to fly!). Once again, the only thing of interest that's likely to be higher than you is that stuff on the top shelf.

Consider also that flying is DANGEROUS. There's a reason why many people have a fear of heights - it doesn't take a long fall to kill us. Can you imagine pulling a muscle in your wing while you're high up in the air? Splat. And it's not just dangerous for the airborne... what if some flyer dropped his suitcase on you from a mile up? More splat. We'd having to be looking up all the time for our own protection.

I'm sure there are some people who would enjoy it as an activity in spite of these handicaps, just as there are people who enjoy marathon running and swimming the English Channel. But like those activities, the exhiliration of flight is likely to quickly lose its luster in the difficulty and problems of the activity itself for all but the fanatic few.

Rather than flying, it seems to me that a far more practical solution would be to just stop having those high shelves. But that's me. Peace.

Answer 3

If that is a serious question...there is a serious answer.

If God had wanted you to fly...on your own...you would have.
God's creation is awesome and miraculous with all its varied
animals, birds, and yes even insects.

Some things though, also were not part of God's original creation, but came into the world with sin....such as weeds, and disease and death.

And God says that one day He will restore the earth to what it was originally supposed to be...until then, we have to live with it the way it is.

Don't know if you believe in God....but check it out in the bible....it is His message to us!

Answer 4

Try watching the reverse the world spinning scene in SUPERMAN with cCristopher Reed about seventy times before going to sleep.

Answer 5

Yes, it would be fun if we could fly, we however do not have wings. Wait until you are in heaven and who knows what you can do then.

Answer 6

its fair.... that was nature, as a human we are still the best. mosquito's could not fly if it was not in nature, still we can do that by inventing a plane..... we are the luckier one to have brain to think......

Answer 7

With potential advances in genetic and biological engineering, you may one day be able to grow wings. Until then, take up hang-gliding.

Answer 8

People can and do fly everyday, we're far more versatile than mosquitoes.Get a hang- glider.

Answer 9

some creatures are to fly and others to walk while still others can only swim.there are reptiles as well.
man belongs to the walking genes.

Answer 10

It all has to do with weight to lift ratio. A mosquitos is low and ours is high.