It Would Take Way More Seagulls To Lift James' Peach      The
children's author, Roald Dahl's most famous stories may strain
belief, certainly, though some of us are hoping to find a golden
ticket in a bar of chocolate someday. But in his book, "James
and the Giant Peach," Dahl came up with a mostly plausible way
to move a giant piece of stone fruit: A flock of 501 seagulls.
But some physics students from England's Leicester University
weren't so sure.  Figuring the potential weight of the peach,
which Dahl wrote was about the size of a small house, they
multiplied its density by its volume and calculated that you'd
need more than 2.4 million seagulls to get that peach into the
air.  We're hoping the students next school project figures out
the scientific elements of the potion that actually grew that
giant peach in the first place.        Support comes from: