Icarus

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Who is Icarus? Icarus is the son of the inventor Daedalus and a slave Naucrate. His father created wings made of wax and fave them to Icarus. He warned Icarus not to fly too close to the sun or the wax would melt. Icarus flew too close to the sun and fell in to the water and drowned. He fell through the sky and past his father Daedalus then drowned near the island called Samos. Daedalus buried his son on another island which became known as Icaria or land of Icarius. Why can't humans fly? Most people would answer this question with "because humans don't have wings" which is technically true but it needs to be explained in much more depth. Some people would say that it is because of evalusion.Evalusion took millions of years before the first creatures had wings and became better at flying. Evalusion didn't give us the ability to fly but it did give us more intellegence which should help to compensate for humans not being able to fly. Humans would need very large wings as we are alot heavier than birds and the other animals that fly. (Leigh-Ann Richards) This website helped me to get my information, http://sciencefactsandarticles.blogspot.com/2010/09/why-cant-humans-fly.html

Icarus is a charictar irgonating from roman and greek mitholgy. He was the boy who flew to close to the sun and drouned in the sea. Icarus had escaped from jail with his farther. Icarus's farther had was a crats man and he was good at it because all the time they had been in jail he had been makeing wings out of wax. A pair for him and a pair for Icarus so they could escape. He told his son not to fly on them to close to the sun but Icarus hadn't listened. He flew to high. His wings melted and he fell landing in the sea an d dround. __ **Why can't humans fly?** __ Athough we erigaly evolved from the same soure, all life forms have avolved to speshilise in differant things. As apes are our ansesters, witch in turn were desendants to rodants such as mice and rats,so we have evolved to walk on land. Birds on the outher hand were erigonaly desended from dinisoirs and there for share some of there featchers like flight. In my opintion it is highly unlikely for us to evolve to a point whare we have the right musels, hollow bones and sutibal limes to alow us to fly.(Megan Ricketts.)
 * __Who was Icarus__ ?**

Why can't humans fly? bird wings are covered in feathers to help catch wind and lift them while we have arms are round and heavy. Birds also have a special muscle that helps the flap their wings fast enough to keep them in the air but the we don't have that muscle so we can't wave our arms fast enough to get any elavation. We can't take in as much oxegen as birds because they have special lungs that take in more oxegen which helps them to keep the muscle working. We are also much heavier and much harder to lift as Birds are light weight and streamlined. So the closet to flying we can get is taking a trip on an areoplane or space shuttle. Who is Icarus? Icarus is from greek mythology and he is the son of the craftsman Deadalus who was exiled for giving the daughter of mino's a ball of string to help Thesues kill the minotaur in the laberrinth and to escape from is exile he built him and Icarus a pair of wings out of wax and feathers. Before the took flight he warned Icarus not to fly to close to the sun or sea and follow his path but overwhelmed of the abilitie to fly he went to explore the sky but he went to close to the sun and the wax melted he fell into the sea and drowned inthe now know Icarian sea south-west of Samos And he was buried on a near by island by Daedalus the island was know after that was Icarius.(Daniel Abbott) []

Why can't humans fly ? The reason we can't fly is because we are a lot heavier than birds who can fly. We have a different type of bones to them that's why they can stand on an electrical wire without getting electrocuted. We also can fly because we don't have feathers the feathers on birds catch the wind and they go in the way the bird is flying. On humans we have no feathers so humans don't have anything to fly with. Birds also have wings which catch the wind when they r taking of just like planes to. Humans can't fly because they have no wings all we have is arms but they r to heavy to fly with.

who is Icarus ? Icarus is the boy were his dad had been making wings out of wax when they were in jail and when they got out they decided to try them out. Icarus 's dad told him not to fly to close to the sun but he did and he fell and fell down into the sea.(Alexandra buchan )

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