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.
>Town of 100 people
>Everyone has $50
>Everyone stores Money In Town Bank
>Total bank balance of everyone: $5000
>Bank lends $1000 to a farmer to buy new equipment
>Merchant who sold the equipment deposits $1000 into bank.
>There is now $6000 total deposited in the bank
>1000 just came out of thin air
Money is fake and gayI 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.
debt: am I am joke to you?
Rich people never pay off debt.
They let the poor pay it off for them
Balance:
Each of 98 Townspeople: $50
The Merchant: $1050
The Farmer: -$950
So, the 98 towns people and the merchant all wants to withdraw.
???
Now you have a riot outside of a bank.
Congrats, you destroyed a Town with #Banking 🫠
Or alternatively.
The Banker just gaslight the town to mob-lynch the Farmer the good ol’ capitalism way.
Future economists are going to make so much fun of us for thinking $1000 was created here.
Be human.
Have billions of tons of atmosphere directly above you
Don’t explode
Make it make sense
Glue, is how the wings stay on, really good glue
hot glue or super glue? I mean super glue has super in the name
Welding is just extreme hot glue, the hottest glue
You will trigger a lot of people if you say that welding is gluing
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.
The glue is the melted metal of the pieces being glued.
Almost never.
You can do it but usually you feed in wire or a rod.
it helps that the glue is hot enough to also melt the glued materials a little bit
Which is why most glues are really agressive towards the surfaces they adhere. Better bonding if it melts a littke into each other and then hardens together.
Any type of glue is fine. Just stay away from the cardboard derivatives.
And if the wings should fail, unlikely as that may be, do be a dear and try to steer it away from the environment.
And they WOULD break, eventually, if they weren’t engineered to a statistically determined inspection interval and replaced/repaired at the determined overhaul time.
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 I’d randomly decided to put my keys on the floor next to the piano headphones, so that didn’t feel very functional.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
I get it. That plane is so disgusting the earth tries to keep it as far as possible from the ground.
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.
Planes fly because aerodynamics.
Helicopters fly because money.
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”.
No, it’s called the Jesus nut because if it fails, only Jesus can save you now.
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.
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?
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.
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?
Don’t forget about the screens they put in the windows
