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It might be possible, but it would require absolute control over your diaphragm muscle, and that would require a stupid amount of training.

That's why I don't like it when people call it that, I can just pull with one side of my ribs, while keeping the other side closed. I haven't been able to find a decent term for it.
I use asynchronous rib articulation.

Right....

Anyway, there's evidence that Archaeopteryx might have been colored black. Pretty interesting.

The word you're looking for is physiology. Can't really help you with your question though, maybe ask your doctor on your next visit or something.

cool

Looking at the article where they bring up if it could fly. I read somewhere that most people believe Archaeopteryx didn't actually fly, but was more of a glider that could climb trees and things. They were too large and didn't have some of the weight-lessening adaptations of modern birds, so they couldn't attain full flight. They could get a running start and propel themselves through the air a short distance, or jump from a height and control themselves in the air. Would be pretty cool if the examination of feathers lead to new discoveries about the extent of their flight abilities.

The whole point of the article is that if they were black, they may have had some sort of particular melanosomes that would strengthen the wings and allow for actual flight. It's speculation for the most part, but it's still hella interesting.

Our Science teacher claimed that when there is a moon eclipse, the shadow made by the Earth can hide the stars
On a scale from 1 to infinity, how bullshit is that?

Well mr. Dedivax. When there's night, the sun is behind the earth, i.e. you're in the shadow of earth. When there's a moon eclipse it's still the same shadow, the only difference is that it exactly hits the moons surface.
Soooo, saying that is pretty bullshit.

We tried telling her that.
She angrily replied that we weren't paying attention, and that it depended on "where those stars are"

Also... how is a shadow supposed to block out a light?

I don't know, maybe she thinks it's a magical beam of darkening?

I think she means that the shadow projected by the sun of the Earth, can block out stars as well as the moon. But it doesn't work that way since stars are a light source, unlike the moon.

Yeah she's pretty much totally wrong about that.