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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

We just found a loophole in thermodynamics.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Don't forget about the screens they put in the windows

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago

The funniest thing is that the aerospace engineers who made this possible are just as much hopeless dysfunctional wrecks as the rest of us.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

The dude writes 'atleast' like it's a word. I've seen all I need to see.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait till this guy find out that there are more planes in the ocean than there are submarines in the sky

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, technically pregnant women can be submarines

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've read your comment and I'd like you to know that I don't approve of it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day 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?

[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Also weird how giant steel tankers float on the ocean. Especially when they're weighed down by all that cargo. It's practically unbelievable. I throw a tiny rock in the ocean, and it sinks...but not those giant steel boats? /s

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So we have rising sea levels because there's so many big ships in the ocean, got it.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

The bane of shipping is that a lot of money goes to shipping air around :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Nah, man...it's magic! Magic is the only explanation.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (4 children)

If you take 1kg of steel and 1kg of water, which is heavier? That's right, steel is heavier.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If she weighs more than a duck, then she’s made of wood.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Giant steel ship can transport the giant rock across the sea

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No, ocean water can't sink steel boats

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Glue, is how the wings stay on, really good glue

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

hot glue or super glue? I mean super glue has super in the name

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Welding is just extreme hot glue, the hottest glue

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You will trigger a lot of people if you say that welding is gluing

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The glue is the melted metal of the pieces being glued.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Almost never.

You can do it but usually you feed in wire or a rod.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 157 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 day ago (4 children)

>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 gay

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

debt: am I am joke to you?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Whatever the fuck that last part means, how is it gay?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fake-and-gay

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I see now, I don't know how I went through the 2000's without realizing this phrase was a meme until now.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

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.

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