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?
Be human.
Have billions of tons of atmosphere directly above you
Don’t explode
Make it make sense
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) 😉
Not fake or gay? Sounds fake and gay
Sorry. It’s real but gay. Nothing as phallic as an airliner can be straight.
“A little knowledge” has never been more dangerous.
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.
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Well… When you put one of those huge tankers in the water, it will move a LOT of water out of the way.
As long as the tanker weights less than the weight of all that water it displaced, it will float.
As you keep loading up the tanker with more cargo, it will go deeper into the water right? But this means that it is pushing more water out of the way (the water that used to be where the boat now is), which balances out the weight because that creates more buoyancy.
A rock, on the other hand, is heavier than the water that it displaces, so it sinks like a tanker whose front fell off.
Metal is heavier than water. Virtually every containber is fille to the brim with products, now I don’t know you but most everything we buy is heavier than water.
It’s clear they have some kind of extra propulsion in those, most likely magnetic anti gravitation.
The bane of shipping is that a lot of money goes to shipping air around :)
As long as the tanker weights less than the weight of all that water it displaced, it will float.
But steel is heavier than water
If you take 1kg of steel and 1kg of water, which is heavier? That’s right, steel is heavier.
A steelogram of kilo is feather than heaviers
Since we are pedantic, what you say isn’t true.
The tanker weights exactly as much as the weight of the water that it displaces. They are in balance. You describe it yourself. The tanker sinks deeper if it becomes heavier and swims more up as it becomes lighter.
The measure of “boat swims” is not the weight of the displaced water. It is wether there is some boat wall left sticking out of the water to keep more water from entering and displacing the air that keeps the submerged volume in weight balance with the water.
So we have rising sea levels because there’s so many big ships in the ocean, got it.
Xkcd did this one.
No, ocean water can’t sink steel boats
But it melt steel beams?
Regardless of how it happened, (the plane hijackings Orchestrated by “ex” CIA operative Osama Bin Laden duh) 9-11 was used as an excuse to dissolve civil liberties at home and wage war abroad.
It’s a well known fact that steel weighs the same as feathers
A common misunderstanding. Boats (made of rock) float due to gravity pushing the water up (as it bounces off the earth). Boats made of feathers (ducks) harness the same principle, as they are also filled with water.
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.
hot glue or super glue? I mean super glue has super in the name
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.
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.
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?
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.
Wokeness is what keeps them in the air, which is why they’re falling out of it now
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.
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 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.
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.
It’s not pressure under the wings, it’s fucking Bernoulli sucking on top of them.
(So, yes, sure, it is gay, but it’s not fake.)
The absolute maximum that Bernoulli can suck is 14.7PSI at sea level. Not even your mother can generate a greater vacuum.
There is no fundamental limit to the pressure that can be generated under the wing.
With sufficient thrust and proper angle of attack, a brick can produce sufficient pressure underneath it to generate lift.
Fair enough, yet unless I’m mistaken most planes don’t rely on people throwing bricks at them (which would be quite risky anyway, for unless they throw them faster than escape velocity they’re bound to come back down eventually).
Actually, I studied aviation in university. It’s literally just magic.
When you nut, but Bernoulli keep sucking…
I’m 100% convinced this was never a battle of airframes and manufacturers and simply was down to: “No, sir/ma’am, I will not fly the derpy plane into combat. Can’t do it. YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND THE REST OF THE PILOTS WILL LAUGH AT ME”
But then how can they fly upside down?
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Flaps. (As in, the hinged bits at the back edge of the wings, that essentially change the shape of the wing as required, not by flapping the wings; that’d be an ornithopter, as in Dune, not a plane.)
But… right-side-up, the plane fights gravity, has upward lift, according to Bernoulli principle. And even if we angle the flaps to decrease altitude, it’s still not dropping like a rock, the wings still generate lots of upward lift.
400 ton plane, wings w 400 ton lift = flight
Now (before engaging flaps) those same wings upside down would be generating downward “lift” PLUS pull of gravity. So now the 400 ton plane is like an 800 ton plane. Can the flaps alone lift that? Or, said another way, if we gave the plane flat wings, no Bernoulli, and stacked another plane on top of it (to make 800 tons), could it fly right-side-up just using flaps?
I’m not a geologist, but I think the planes that typically fly upside down, are significantly lighter than 400 tons.
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.
We just found a loophole in thermodynamics.
