• BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    This perfectly encapsulates how anti vaxxers and others think. “Ive thought it through and it cantnbebright”. Its incredible how we can have access to vast amounts of information and yet live in an age of gleeful ignorance.

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        4 months ago

        Any type of glue is fine. Just stay away from the cardboard derivatives.

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          4 months ago

          And if the wings should fail, unlikely as that may be, do be a dear and try to steer it away from the environment.

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            4 months ago

            It is gluing, but it helps that the glue is hot enough to also melt the glued materials a little bit.

            Soldering and brazing really are pretty much gluing, though. Fancy hot glue metal with fine tuned properties for penetration and beading.

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      4 months ago

      And they WOULD break, eventually, if they weren’t engineered to a statistically determined inspection interval and replaced/repaired at the determined overhaul time.

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    4 months ago

    I remember a quote from an A380 pilot saying the plane doesn’t look like it should be able to fly.

    Even the people that fly them know they don’t look like a flying object.

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      I get it. The plane is so disgusting the earth tries to keep it as far as possible from the ground.

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        4 months ago

        No, thats the helicopter. It’s said that it does not fly, but is repulsed by the earth because it is the hubris of man manifest.

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          4 months ago

          Planes fly because aerodynamics.

          Helicopters fly because money.

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            Helicopters leave the ground because God has gazed upon them, and became angered when He saw them among His beasts, on the lands of His creation. God then decided to expel the helicopters from His earthly kingdom to flutter helplessly in His skies. God did this to punish Man, whose hubris led him to climb into the unholy creation. The Lord would then strike down the abomination fluttering in His skies, condemning the heretics that had climbed aboard in the belief that they could fool Him.

            Thus the name “Jesus nut”.

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          4 months ago

          Well, I could’ve said male seahorses if that makes you feel better? Are they still submarines if you put them in an aquarium on a plane, but the plane crashes into the ocean?

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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.

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    4 months ago

    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…).

    • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 months ago

      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 mstrong winds

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      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.

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    4 months ago

    Well I must admit, when the plane is resting on the ground, the wings droop down a lot. Then when airborne it’s the other way around, the wings curve upwards as the fuselage hangs from them. In my mind nothing that big made of metal should be able to flex that much.

    But since I’m not a conspiracy theorist, I have learned about material science, airplane design and engineering. And I have found out that it does indeed flex that much. It also isn’t that thick, since it’s only a skeleton wrapped with a very thin layer of metal. In fact if it didn’t flex as much, it would be weaker and not stronger.

    So the thing I really learnt is never to trust intuition when it comes to things like this.

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    My faith in humanity is so low that I 100% believe there are planes are not real truthers that’s out there.

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      4 months ago

      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?

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        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?

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          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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    4 months ago

    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.

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      4 months ago

      Aye, good sir, I do most heartily concur; for 'tis a truth well settled that the tongue of man is fixed, unyielding, and shall ne’er be altered.

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    4 months ago

    at takeoff i like to imagine that the plane is going into a massive underground subway network with really nice screens along the sides

    • Leon@pawb.social
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      4 months ago

      I would be worried if the aeroplane goes down rather than up during takeoff.

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    4 months ago

    Be human.

    Have billions of tons of atmosphere directly above you

    Don’t explode

    Make it make sense