Be human.
Have billions of tons of atmosphere directly above you
Don't explode
Make it make sense
The funniest thing is that the aerospace engineers who made this possible are just as much hopeless dysfunctional wrecks as the rest of us.
With the low low down payment of lifelong burnout!
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 Iâd randomly decided to put my keys on the floor next to the piano headphones, so that didnât feel very functional.
Glue, is how the wings stay on, really good glue
And they WOULD break, eventually, if they weren't engineered to a statistically determined inspection interval and replaced/repaired at the determined overhaul time.
This person's grasp of physics is like halfway there. Like one more module and they'd calm the fuck down.
âflying for no reasonâ
âignoring gravityâ
âsomehow joints donât breakâ
Halfway might be overstating it
"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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Don't forget about the screens they put in the windows
...fake and gay
Hey now. Let's not blame gay people for the common-sense-defying demon-wizard sorcery that engineers get up to when someone threatens to take away their calculators and caffeine.
Bruh some of the earliest planes were literally called biplanes. The gay has been complicit in aviation demon magic since the very beginning.
G.I.N.A.S.F.S.
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?
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.
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 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.
I see now, I don't know how I went through the 2000's without realizing this phrase was a meme until now.
We just found a loophole in thermodynamics.
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?
