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[–] [email protected] 110 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I mean, anything can become airborne for a substantial period of time if you have a large enough trebuchet.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Well that's a terrifying concept. Flung hippos

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Flung Hippo.

New band name. I called it!!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That would make for a terrible board game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It's not their necks that extend this time!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm going for flung hung hippos

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

hip hip flippos

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Didn't copyright it. That's mine now.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Or if its thrown out an airplane

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

What's a substantial period of time? Like a gallop?

Edit: they only gallop when babies but they generally trot which by definition includes short periods were nothing is touching the ground.

The key finding here is that they trot which includes a suspension phase. Elephants for example trot generally only as babies and reportedly sometimes downhill as adults.

Rhinos, by comparison, even gallop.

Fucking trots. Even tankies hate them. Goddamn trot hippos.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/04/science/hippo-airborne-study-scli-intl-scn#%3A%7E%3Atext=The+team+also+found+that+hippos+almost%2Cto+a+gallop+depending+on+their+speed.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

It's from Sky News, so it checks out. They know what's happening above us.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Sir, a second skyhippo has hit the tower"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

“And a 3rd skyhippo has crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I knew they just copied a regular hippo for Elden Ring DLC