Flying Buffalo Wings

Have you ever been eating wings and suddenly had the epiphany of how awesome flying buffalo would be? That happened with me and some friends back in college. But we quickly figured out that it was an impractical, although awesome, pipe dream.

Flying buffalo would need large, ungainly wings to achieve flight; genetically designing such features would be a challenge, at best. But it could possibly be done, although it would require a radical redesign of the buffalo's musculature, bone structure, and circulatory system. All of that, though, is a potentially surmountable barrier.

The real problem is when you tried to integrate the flying buffalo into practical society. Oh, sure, at first everybody would want one and it would be heralded as the invention of the century. But soon you'd have to deal with the aftermath.

Have you ever seen a buffalo shit? Neither have I, but assuming it's something like a cow ... it would be impressive. Now imagine that hitting your windshield while driving down the freeway.

Then imagine one dying in midair and falling. Or one getting sucked up into a plane's jet engine. And the less said about "Flying Buffalo Suicide Bombers" the better.

Still though, a part of me wants to say "Practicality Be Damned" and try to create a flying buffalo purely so I could ride around on it and mock all the sad, ground bound pedestrians.

Hmm; maybe it's not that there shouldn't be flying buffalo. Maybe there just shouldn't be flying buffalo for other people =).