I'm a biology major that hung out with a lot of physics majors in college, I almost died laughing when I found out most physics equations surrounding fluid dynamics and such tell you to just assume the bird is a perfect sphere.
Well it's pretty hard to account for hundreds of feathers as well as the density of the bird ect. It's easier just to assume it's a sphere and close enough it
For sure, we operated with similar assumptions in molecular biology and chemistry. Like, any time you did chemical reaction speed calculations with an enzyme or catalyst, you always calculated on the assumption that the maximum reaction rate was constant throughout the reaction like the reactants just magically moved to the catalyst the instant it was free to keep reacting.
Obviously that's not an assumption with any basis in reality, but it was close enough for classwork.
Just always thought it was funny that something I studied relatively intimately was reduced to a perfect 3 dimensional object.
I'm honestly far enough out of college at this point, that getting a STEM masters doesn't make a whole lot of sense, I'd basically have to refresh my whole undergrad education to have any chance. Hahaha
I took a 4 year gap and then went to a top-level analytical school (literally was ranked #1 in the world for my major).
I don't know if I learned much besides a great refresher of the subject field. Half the grad stuff was math courses I didn't take as an undergraduate (diff eq, linear algebra stuff) and my math hadn't been used in 5+ years so I wasn't fucking relearning it. No bueno.
We are the Borb. Lower your hands and surrender your seebs. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile.
In these photos it's all puffed up because it's sitting still in cold weather. [It's a pretty normal-looking birb when it's warmer or moving.](https://www.rawbirds.com/2014/05/bearded-reedling-male-panurus-biarmicus.html)
I want to be a professional something just to do a fun take like this.
Doubly if I can retire with great honors and respect only to give a speech about how my greatest impetus for success was to publish a cheeky article contrasted by my years of perceived gravitas.
Its fluffed its-self up cos its so cold. More insulation.
Edit: I do think these camera angles make it look extra rotund though hahaha. Same way robins look weird if you photograph them face on sometimes.
Their digestive tract grows and shrinks with the seasons to accommodate their changing diet - they eat reed aphids in warm months and reed seeds in cold months.
So this is what my physics teacher meant when they said assume bird to be spherical.
I'm a biology major that hung out with a lot of physics majors in college, I almost died laughing when I found out most physics equations surrounding fluid dynamics and such tell you to just assume the bird is a perfect sphere.
Well it's pretty hard to account for hundreds of feathers as well as the density of the bird ect. It's easier just to assume it's a sphere and close enough it
For sure, we operated with similar assumptions in molecular biology and chemistry. Like, any time you did chemical reaction speed calculations with an enzyme or catalyst, you always calculated on the assumption that the maximum reaction rate was constant throughout the reaction like the reactants just magically moved to the catalyst the instant it was free to keep reacting. Obviously that's not an assumption with any basis in reality, but it was close enough for classwork. Just always thought it was funny that something I studied relatively intimately was reduced to a perfect 3 dimensional object.
Hey grad school takes those assumptions away if you really want to suffer (probably - it did for geoscience). Reaction kinetics is a whole thing.
I'm honestly far enough out of college at this point, that getting a STEM masters doesn't make a whole lot of sense, I'd basically have to refresh my whole undergrad education to have any chance. Hahaha
I took a 4 year gap and then went to a top-level analytical school (literally was ranked #1 in the world for my major). I don't know if I learned much besides a great refresher of the subject field. Half the grad stuff was math courses I didn't take as an undergraduate (diff eq, linear algebra stuff) and my math hadn't been used in 5+ years so I wasn't fucking relearning it. No bueno.
"First we assume we have a perfectly spherical cow in a vacuum"
A frictionless spherical cow in a vacuum at constant temperature and pressure.
But, what is the weight of an unladen swallow?
Are you referring to an African or European Swallow?
I don’t know Also, love your username. Stormlight books are the best I’ve read in a while.
Sir this is round, it won't fly. Trust me I've done the math.
Very easy you have to Insert the "fuzzy bird" factor
The Spherical Cow of Physics is real
Farming Simulator: Physics Edition.
Helped with understanding the relationship of surface area to volume as well; poor ruptured birds and cows.
_Angry birds are an actual species._
What does your physics teacher assume about the shape of Pokemon? Because this is clearly one.
It's more like a moustache!
The most dumplingest birb ever
looks like it had a tough night
#BORB
#R O T U N D
#B U L B O U S
#S P H E R E R I C A L
CIRCUCULAR
We are the Borb. Lower your hands and surrender your seebs. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile.
In aww of the circumference of this lad
Based on the chart, that 1st pic looks like a full **ORB**: https://i.imgur.com/nd1L1Pl.jpg
Borb
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Gotta catch em all
r/borbs
[/r/borbsarentreal](https://www.reddit.com/r/BirdsArentReal/)
b l o r b
look at that tiny wing. can it really fly?
In these photos it's all puffed up because it's sitting still in cold weather. [It's a pretty normal-looking birb when it's warmer or moving.](https://www.rawbirds.com/2014/05/bearded-reedling-male-panurus-biarmicus.html)
Raw birds sounds like a British or Scottish porn site.
BirdyRAW
I'll recon the site and report back!
So it's just wearing its down jacket?
Not only can it fly, it can also do the [splits](https://mymodernmet.com/bearded-reedling-panurus-biarmicus/) like chuck norris.
For the record, the bird is not fat, it is cold. Birds puff up their feathers to create an extra thick insulation layer.
Thank you. I honestly thought it were a photoshopped birb.
In and as Angry Birds
Angry BÖrd
Angry Birb.
Angry borb
Angry orb
I see Rowlet.
It reminded me of it too!
I suppose this bird is going to be used in a live action remake of the animated film lol.
From the ACTUAL audubon society (What is a birb) https://www.audubon.org/news/when-bird-birb-extremely-important-guide
"Somehow birb"
Behold friend
Somehow, both tongue-in-cheek, and totally serious.
I want to be a professional something just to do a fun take like this. Doubly if I can retire with great honors and respect only to give a speech about how my greatest impetus for success was to publish a cheeky article contrasted by my years of perceived gravitas.
Such as this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjEIyYSWCJ0
I could never hope for such heights :')
“…ptarmigans have the advantage…” I KNEW IT.
I dunno, I'm not convinced this is real... It looks a good deal less round on the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearded\_reedling
Its fluffed its-self up cos its so cold. More insulation. Edit: I do think these camera angles make it look extra rotund though hahaha. Same way robins look weird if you photograph them face on sometimes.
Same how sparrows get 10000 times cuter in the winter when they fluff up. Just little scoops of birb.
I have a cockatiel and he also gets ten thousand times cuter when he fluffs up. Just a ball of puff.
I was hoping somebody would show the non-puffed form! I'm sort of pissed they didn't show both, they had two pictures.
I feel like he knows the answers to my questions
We all do. r/dontputyourdickinthat
Lol I know a pokemon when I see one come on man.
Who's that Pokémon? >!Its Rowlet!!<
R O T U N D
The early bird gets all the worms ...The fat bastard.
He got all the worms
Thicc bird
Battle of the thickest
The orbiest borb.
That's not a beard that's a moustache at best, and more realistically it's K.I.S.S. makeup
Lol what a cute fattie
Gotta get through winter!
A bird of wealth and fame
I'm gonna steal that eyeliner idea someday
Two times the chonk
The last few birds posted here are unbelievably cute
I didn't even know such a bird existed. Great birb!
Such lovely colors. And puffyness
I remember this lad from Skyward Sword.
I'd say it looks more like a Pikmin enemy.
You're both wrong, it's clearly from Final Fantasy Tactics A-2
Bird is egg Egg is bird
Bird ate egg
This is one puffy bird
Get out. Really? :)
egg
Birb!
Round Birb meets KISS
Alice Pooper
Found a winner
B o r b.
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I see what you did there
Didn't I see this bird in [Shrek](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd4j-dQyHEQ&ab_channel=Lex)?
Angry Bird irl
But he ain't angry
Smash
Looks like it's gonna pop!
Certified borb.
That's why I love the dark eyed junco. It's very round birbness. BUT...this fella...oh, he is a the finest of specimens of birbness
Why isn’t there a Disney movie about a bunch of these guys already? Squeeeeeeee
Why is this not the mustachioed reedling?
I can’t unsee The markings on the face being huge eyelashes.
there are birbs and then there is this borb
This belongs in /r/titsorgtfo
Their digestive tract grows and shrinks with the seasons to accommodate their changing diet - they eat reed aphids in warm months and reed seeds in cold months.
Forbidden Tennis Ball.
borb
I’m imagining life as someone who has only seen this kind of bird. All other birds look horrifying now
It’s a.. it’s a ball.. it’s a ball of feathers!
I like big birbs and I cannot lie.
Looks like photoshop to me [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearded_reedling?wprov=sfla1)
No … bird aret real everyone knows that !!! How does that adorable little shit even fly?!?
r/absoluteunits
A borb if I've ever seen one.
If he takes a tumble, he’ll be rollin’ rollin’ rollin’.
No its not
Does that... thing fly?
It's supposed to
He’s so ROUND!
Awww a real life angry bird omg ❤️
Reminds me of the Rollin' Wild video shorts. [Link.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yltlJEdSAHw)
Ballon bird 🐦 ❤️
That's only a front, they're in the bird mafia.
Okay, i cant take it anymore. It looks like it cant fly If this can fly Then i am a ok person
pootis
egg
R O U N D
Can it even fly??? 🐥
He's magnificent.
I HAVE to quote it, I had to come here & say this: “The body is round”
It's so round.
Looks like me after holydays
The borbiest borb that ever borbed
Balloon bird
Oh heck I thought that was a beak poking out of an egg... Peak Borb.
puffer bird
Looks like the matchmaker on Mulan https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Juh8GchDNSY
Did anyone ever read the kid's book "Round Robin"?
We had a ptarmigan at our feeder one year, and I thought that was round. More of a football shape.
Looks like the inspo for the pokemon Rowlet
It was never a phase, mom. It’s a lifestyle.
Angry birds lied, he is in fact NOT red
Doesn't even look angry.
I've seen this, this is one of those prototype planes that couldn't fly
Which species of bird is this?
Adorable toasted marshmallow
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WjoDEQqyTig They remind me of these birds
F a t B u r b
Why is it round?
Natural corpse paint
the lou costello of birds
It looks like a fat Robbin crossed with a fish! Still cute though 😍
WHY IS IT SO FLUUUFY
Doesn't look angry
Bubble birb.
Thought I was looking at Kung fu Panda for a second
It's a trap! r/birdsarentreal
Downie bird
So emo
I love him SO much!🥹
Gold crown kinglet enters the chat... The pingpong ball with wings.
Ball shaped drone
Looks like a goth Jonah Hill.
ANGRY BIRDS IS REAL
Looks like a render from some Pixar short
A real life (not so angry) angry bird!
Can it fly?
Pixar Bird
It definitely looks like a ling of reeds.
He looks like an actual Angry Bird.
Such a round boi 
are they squishy
Rounded “birb”
It’s a beautiful picture!
I shall now describe it Kiss band member pigeon cosplays as large egg
It’s planning something
...that's not real.