4. Refusing a vote. One of the easiest methods to obstruct your opponentsâ legislation is also one of the most aggressive. If you are in the Senate majority party and want to kill a proposed law, you simply convince your leader to refuse to schedule a vote. The proposed law can be introduced, approved, and amended by the relevant committees, reported to the floor, and even put on the Senate legislative calendar.
The necessary lift that sustains the kite in flight is generated when air flows above the kite's surface, producing low pressure above and high pressure below the wings. The interaction with the wind also generates horizontal drag along the direction of the wind.
Kites eventually made their way from Asia to the rest of the world. Marco Polo is given credit for bringing the kite to Europe after his trips to China. Today, millions of people around the world, both young and old, fly kites just for the pure joy of it. But kites have served many purposes beyond entertainment. In ancient China, General Han Hsin flew a kite over an enemy compound and used the length of the kite string to estimate how far his soldiers would need to tunnel to get inside. Hundreds of years later, scientists used kites as tools for experimentation.