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Could a Horse Fly? Might a Snake Talk?

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A regular reader, who I have been debating about scientific and philosophical issues, threw out an interesting question. Honestly, I don't know where he was going with the question itself, but I had fun answering it.  "Just a question for you; are talking snakes, and flying horses impossible? If so, why?" I am sorry to say, both are scientifically impossible. A flying horse is not possible. Neither is a talking snake. An average full size E. ferus, or common horse, weighs anywhere from 840 to 1,200 lbs. (380 to 550 kilograms). The largest flying dinosaur ever recorded is called a Quetzalcoatlus , which weighed around 100 kilograms and needed a 15 meter wingspan just to keep it in the air. As such a flying horse would need a wingspan larger than a modern jumbo jet to keep it up in the air. Where, exactly, those mighty wings would fold up to is beyond me. This is assuming we are talking about terrestrial horses who live on earth or a planet with similar atmospheric...