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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Relativistic_sex_meme.elf

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

at 1:48 they're in Agrabah, a place that doesn't exist

at 1:59 they're in Agrabah, a place that doesn't exist

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Maybe they were just in Vegas the whole time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I just assume that it was time dilation due to editing. The actual journey was much longer. Don't think about it too much cause then you'll start to wonder how long that song actually is, and then you'll start to question why anyone randomly breaks out into song to begin with, and how everyone seems to know the lyrics despite being complete strangers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Uhm, and where does he store his shaving utensils on that carpet? Or is he still too young to grow a beard?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

You didn't get the message about 5pm singing practice?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Shhhh, don't tell Truman!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Well, Egypt isn't "the world", is it?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I was going to rip on taking a cartoon too seriously, but then I remembered getting annoyed at superwhy, which is an ABCs show for toddlers. They had an episode where they landed on Saturn, and it was sandy. I had a to give my then 2 year old an impromptu lesson on what a gas giant was and that her favorite show was fucking wrong. I was so irritated that an education show would do that lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Just land on a moon of Saturn at that point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Good parent. You can show her this instead: (mostly accurate) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MM1-lbwNJ3c

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

They didn’t leave the atmosphere for reentry to affect them

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

They didn’t leave the atmosphere

That just makes the aerodynamic heating effects worse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

(which does not protect from atmospheric reentry)

I know, I was mainly referencing this part, which I now realize I forgot to quote

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Also to make him a prince wouldn't there have to be a lineage with wars won and lost families created and torn apart.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Aladdin's exact words were "Genie, I wish for you to make me a prince." I always assumed that that meant that the wish merely caused a compulsion in the Genie to use his "standard," non-wish-granting powers to make Aladdin as prince-like as possible. If he'd instead phrased it as "I wish to be a prince" then it would have caused reality to alter to give him a genuine royal lineage.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

The most interesting part is...what constitutes "him"? What if he became a prince by having his DNA from his father replaced?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Reminds me of Spy magazine's analysis of our good friend Santa Claus: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-physics-of-santa-and-his-reindeer/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

It's a magic carpet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Ptolemy: 'Am I a joke to you?'

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

In The Pick of Destiny they're 50 miles from Los Angeles when the cops try to pull them over and the song Car Chase City begins.

They arrive in LA less than one minute into the song, making their average speed over 3000 miles per hour.

Given the aerodynamic properties of a Cutlass Supreme, they are both cooked, and countless windows in LA have been shattered by the sonic boom.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If Neil degrassi Tyson was like this maybe he'd be a bit more tolerable

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I dislike that guy so much.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I like that I wasn't the only person to think of Tyson.

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