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
We just found a loophole in thermodynamics.
at takeoff i like to imagine that the plane is going into a massive underground subway network with really nice screens along the sides
I would be worried if the aeroplane goes down rather than up during takeoff.
Whatever the fuck that last part means, how is it gay?
It is a traditional slang on 4chan (and somme parts of r*ddit).
Years ago there where a few sincere jokes with it now it is just straight up homophobia and culture war shit.
I see now, I don’t know how I went through the 2000’s without realizing this phrase was a meme until now.
I don’t know how you got to “culture war and homophobia”? It’s literally a meme phrase that’s used (often sarcastically) in response to stories on the internet. Saying something is “fake and gay” is literally shitposting, I think interpreting any deeper meaning into it is a bit of a stretch.
Edit: I just realised that this is a greentext community… half the comments here are either fake or gay, and OPs post is most definitely both.
You are in the greentext community, this is the standard phrase used by 4chan people to call stuff they dont like or think is fake.
Wokeness is what keeps them in the air, which is why they’re falling out of it now
Don’t forget about the screens they put in the windows
The dude writes ‘atleast’ like it’s a word. I’ve seen all I need to see.
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.
The funniest thing is that the aerospace engineers who made this possible are just as much hopeless dysfunctional wrecks as the rest of us.
I wouldn’t say being a furry automatically makes you a dysfunctional wreck.
No, but it took me ten minutes this morning to find where I’d randomly decided to put my keys on the floor next to the piano headphones, so that didn’t feel very functional.
With the low low down payment of lifelong burnout!
Be human.
Have billions of tons of atmosphere directly above you
Don’t explode
Make it make sense
Next time you see a plane imaging two hooks in the middle of the wings, a crane lifting up the plane with these two hooks and shaking it.
This give you a good approximation of what the forces in the plane are, and once you picture that you might think that there is no way the plane can hold up in this situation. Yet it does.
It’s more like putting the plane in a bowl of jello and then shaking the bowl.
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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Future economists are going to make so much fun of us for thinking $1000 was created here.
debt: am I am joke to you?
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Rich people never pay off debt.
They let the poor pay it off for them
I remember this classic philosophical quandary of our time, but in a different form.
Classic.
- A and B add 20 to Box. Both have -20 balance.
- A sells Box to B for 30. A has 10 balance and B has -50.
- A walks away with 10 Profit
- B takes cash out of box (40). Made 10 Loss.
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.
Those wings can take a lot of abuse
It’s so rough watching all of those competent professionals at work, knowing that there are VERY few adults left in the room in what used to be the most important organizations on earth.
In my mind nothing that big made of metal should be able to flex that much.
You can observe on a small scale that many things made of metal do, e.g. a saw or a spring.
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?
Wait till this guy find out that there are more planes in the ocean than there are submarines in the sky
Well, technically pregnant women can be submarines
I’ve read your comment and I’d like you to know that I don’t approve of it.
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?
