Be human.
Have billions of tons of atmosphere directly above you
Don't explode
Make it make sense
this post was submitted on 23 May 2025
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This person's grasp of physics is like halfway there. Like one more module and they'd calm the fuck down.
‘flying for no reason’
‘ignoring gravity’
‘somehow joints don’t break’
Halfway might be overstating it
Nono they're right about basically all but the no reason and ignoring gravity part. The fact that we can design an airframe that stays together under those kinds of forces is indeed absolutely crazy.
Crazy, but not fake (or gay lol) 😉
Sorry. It's real but gay. Nothing as phallic as an airliner can be straight.
Not fake or gay? Sounds fake and gay
"A little knowledge" has never been more dangerous.
Wokeness is what keeps them in the air, which is why they're falling out of it now
Anon, it took one hundred years of trial and errors in design and mechanical failures, resulting in hundreds of deaths, to perfect the dark arts of aviation.
I think large planes "look" like they can't work because their "relative speed" is really low
that is, their speed relative to their length. We're used to seeing birds cover tens of lengths per second, whereas a large airliner covers ~1ish per second at takeoff.
Or not, but this always seemed like a plausible explanation as to why planes look impossible. (Though given that hovering birds don't look funny, maybe this is a silly observation...).
That's a really thoughtful take, I'm glad you shared. I think it has merit. I think proximity is a factor too. The public rarely gets up close to a jet, but I can attest from personal experience they seem much faster when you're closer during takeoff and landing.
Though given that hovering birds don't look funny, maybe this is a silly observation...
Birds flying against the wind and staying in the same spot as a result do look kinda weird though. Especially if you are not aware/don't notice there is strong winds
i remember when i thought these jokes were funny. now i know tons of people actually think like this and it's depressing rather than funny.
My faith in humanity is so low that I 100% believe there are planes are not real truthers that's out there.
Well, I mean, those flat earth idiots clearly have never flown, so I wouldn't be surprised if their digging down attitude would include planes. They already think the moon landing is fake, don't they?
Actually that's something I don't understand, they think the moon is a sphere about 100 miles across about 1000 miles above the flat Earth. Why couldn't humans have flown that short distance?
it depends on your flavor of flat-earther. for the religious types, the firmament is supposed to be in the way. for secular flat-earthers, I think they just like being contrary?
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