Someone's flying, Lord, kumbaya
Against the wind, Lord, kumbaya
Butterflies are like tissue, Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, how'd they do it?
Oh Lord, how'd they do it?

I can believe the butterflies can fly (unlike bumblebees -- which everyone into aviation knows, cannot possibly fly). The reason it seems feasible that butterflies can fly is that they seem like two sheets of paper and very light -- like it'd take almost nothing to keep them aloft.

Like, if you drop a piece of paper from an airplane you don't expect that the paper is going to stay edge-side down and plummet to earth like a razor slicing deeply into the earth, or whatever got in its way -- like a person's upturned head -- A person who just happened to have that sensation of something above them falling and they either look up or duck -- depending on what their spidey-sense is telling them to do.

But if it was a piece of paper, I'd volunteer to stand under it. Even if it had fallen from 10,000 feet above (maybe a careless airline passenger dropped a piece of paper out their window because the airline stewardess forgot to tell everyone NOT to roll down their windows at 10,000 feet).

But I'd throw all caution to the wind -- even that 25 mile an hour wind that the butterfly seemed capable of defying -- and stand underneath that paper and even let it hit me in the head. I don't think it would hurt me.

Sure, I could get a paper cut. Big whup.

And if I dropped a butterfly from a plane at 10,000 feet, I bet that it would fall to earth about like that piece of paper. Even if it was dead before it was dropped from an airplane.

It would not fall like Les Nessman's turkeys.

And I still can't see how a butterfly can hold it's position in a 25 mile an hour wind. Butterflies are all surface and no engine.